To determine accuracy of measures of deaths attributable to Clostridium difficile infection, we compared 3 measures for 2007-2008 in Ontario, Canada: death certificate; death within 30 days of infection; and panel review. Data on death within 30 days were more feasible than panel review and more accurate than death certificate data.

In Saudi Arabia, family members, general practitioners, morticians, or police officer, who are eligible to request autopsies, refrain from doing so expedite the burial of deceased. Inaccurate entries into medical death certificate facilitate so. The reason for ignoring completion certificates is not fully explored. Yet, incompetence avoiding medicolegal allegations seem be causative factors. th...

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BACKGROUND There is current heightened public interest in issues surrounding death certification and necropsy. The present study was initiated to determine the accuracy of death certification in providing a correct diagnosis in a series of adult deaths occurring in hospital, all of which were followed by a necropsy. METHOD We examined a series of 440 consecutive adult hospital necropsies perf...

OBJECTIVE To measure the reliability of data collected by the Thames cancer registry and to identify factors in the registration process affecting reliability. DESIGN A retrospective study of data from the registry, including death certificate only registrations, and hospital case notes on cases of colorectal cancer diagnosed in 1983 or 1988. SETTING Four districts in South Thames region. ...