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Causes of death in a cohort of 50 465 young men – Validity of recorded suicide as underlying cause of death

Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine, 1991
We studied causes of death in a cohort of all young males (n = 50 465) conscripted for military service in 1969–70. Six hundred eighty three deaths occurred in the cohort during the follow-up through 1983. Injury-related deaths accounted for 75% of all deaths.
P, Allebeck   +3 more
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A validation of underlying cause of death, as recorded by clinicians on stillbirth and neonatal death certificates

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 1986
Summary. Clinical case notes and necropsy reports were used to validate underlying causes of death as recorded and coded on 590 stillbirth and neonatal death certificates. There were 55 cases ascribed to respiratory distress syndrome, in 45 this was validated, three cases were not assigned to respiratory distress syndrome which should have been.
L. Duley
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Improved life expectancy for Indigenous and non‐Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, 1999–2018: overall and by underlying cause of death

Medical Journal of Australia, 2022
To provide updated estimates of life expectancy at birth for Indigenous and non‐Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, 1999–2018; to quantify the contributions of changes in life years lost to disease‐specific causes of death to overall changes in ...
Yuejen Zhao   +3 more
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Undiagnosed acromegaly as an underlying cause of sudden death

Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology, 2021
We report a case of sudden death in a 31-year-old male diagnosed at autopsy with clinical undiagnosed acromegaly. The purpose of this report is to underline the importance of health professionals reacting to phenotypic acromegaly, such as acral enlargement and/or unexplained hypertension, including a range of severe comorbidities, to avoid a fatal ...
Anna Elisabet Borgen   +3 more
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Underlying Causes of Death of 1000 Patients with Diabetes

New England Journal of Medicine, 1958
STUDIES of long-term trends of death rates were made more difficult by the adoption, in 1948, of the sixth revision of the Manual of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuri...
H L, LOMBARD, E P, JOSLIN
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Current state of cause of death determinations in Japan and the need to list the precise underlying cause of death

Medicine, Science and the Law, 2022
When death is caused by a disease, the precise cause of the death must be determined to promote health and contribute to prevention efforts. The circumstances of death should also be clarified so that measures can be taken to prevent the recurrence.
Ken Inoue   +2 more
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Unsuitable Underlying Causes of Death for Assessing the Quality of Cause-of-death Reporting.

National vital statistics reports : from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, 2021
Objectives-This report expands the measures used to evaluate cause-of-death data quality by presenting a novel list of unsuitable underlying causes of death (UCOD). This list is intended to facilitate the measurement of the quality of cause-of-death reporting by medical certifiers in terms of completeness, as assessed by a UCOD that is sufficiently ...
Lee A, Flagg, Robert N, Anderson
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Diseases of the nervous system as the underlying cause of death

S.S. Korsakov Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry
Objective. To identify the leading causes of death in the adult population from the class of diseases of the nervous system (DNS, class G) according to medical death certificates (MDC) and to discuss the problems of their assessment. Material and methods. The source of information was the electronic database of the Main Department of the Civil Registry
I.V. Samorodskaya   +3 more
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Quality of death certification based on the documented underlying cause of death: A retrospective study

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 2023
The underlying cause of death (UCOD) documented in the death certificate is a cornerstone in the mortality data that has significant impact on national policies, health system, and socioeconomics. However, a wide range of inaccuracies have been reported worldwide and were linked to multiple factors, including sociodemographic development and lack of ...
Salim Al Busaidi   +4 more
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