BACKGROUND In Mexico, the vital registration system relies on information collected from death certificates to generate official mortality figures. Although the death certificate has high coverage across the country, there is little information regarding its validity. The objective of this study was to assess the concordance between the underlying cause of death in official statistics obtained ...

Introduction The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Australia’s national statistical agency, processes around 130,000 deaths annually, using an automated coding system (ACS). The Mortality Medical Data System (MMDS) allows the classification of multiple causes of death in accordance with the current version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). This results in the coding of...

We describe LIMSI experiments in ICD10 coding of death certificate statements with the CépiDc dataset of the CLEF eHealth 2016 Track 2. We tested a classifier with humanly-interpretable output, based on IR-style ranking of candidate ICD10 diagnoses. A tf.idf-weighted bagof-feature vector was built for each training set code by merging all the statements found for this code in the training data....

INTRODUCTION THIS STUDY was designed to determine the usefulness of mortality statistics in estimating the prevalence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) by analysing the death certificates of a series of patients in whom this diagnosis had been made during life. Most of the descriptive epidemiologic information of ALS has been based primarily on the analysis of death certificate data [1, 21...

The accuracy of cancer mortality data varies across different cancers. Mortality records and death certificates may not always reflect the true cause of death for various reasons (e.g., misdiagnosis, improper recording on the death certificate, miscoding of the cause of death recorded on the death certificate). Mesothelioma, a rare tumor which is caused by exposure to asbestos, is a special cas...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to investigate whether the winter increase in risk of sudden infant death was similar across social classes. DESIGN This was an unmatched case-control study using routine data. SETTING Cases and controls were selected from files holding routine birth and death certificate data for England and Wales for 1986. SUBJECTS Cases were deaths in the first year of life ...

This paper describes a multistage process to improve the completeness and time-/cost-effectiveness of ascertaining deaths in large employee cohorts. The process uses the vital status data service of the Social Security Administration (SSA) to identify people who can be confirmed as living, in order to reduce the number of records submitted for a National Death Index (NDI) search. The accuracy o...

International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Traumata and Causes of Death does not regulate the wording of diagnosis in the medical history, protocol of a post mortem examination, or even medical certificate of cause of death. The only thing that is required in the latter is putting the pathogenetic sequence in reverse order and indicating in point Ia the certificate of illness or comp...