Death certificates.

Use of Electronic Death Certificates for Influenza Death Surveillance1

Surveillance for influenza deaths has been used to gauge the severity of influenza seasons. Traditional surveillance, which relies on medical records review and laboratory testing, might not be sustainable during a pandemic. We examined whether electronic death certificates might provide a surveillance alternative. We compared information retrieved from electronic death certificates that listed...

Cause of Death Affects Racial Classification on Death Certificates

Recent research suggests racial classification is responsive to social stereotypes, but how this affects racial classification in national vital statistics is unknown. This study examines whether cause of death influences racial classification on death certificates. We analyze the racial classifications from a nationally representative sample of death certificates and subsequent interviews with...

Automatic Classification of Cancer Notifiable Death Certificates

The timely notification of cancer cases is crucial for cancer monitoring and prevention. However, the abstraction and classification of cancer from the free-text of pathology reports and other relevant documents, such as death certificates, are complex and time-consuming activities. In this paper we investigate approaches for the automatic detection of cases where the cause of death is a notifi...

Insights on dying, dementia and death certificates

For our master thesis in medicine, we aimed to determine how many deaths were caused by and with dementia in 2014 and we compared our results with figures from abroad. The mortality rates of 2014 in Flanders were used to determine the amount of deaths related to dementia. These figures are collected by Vlaams Agentschap Zorg & Gezondheid (VAZG) and coded per ICD-10 classification. Of all deaths...

Validation of death certificates in asbestos workers.