Assessing the quality of medical death certification: a case study of concordance between national statistics and results from a medical record review in a regional hospital in the Philippines

BACKGROUND: Medical certificates of cause of death (MCCOD) issued by hospital physicians are a key input to vital registration systems. Deaths certified by hospital physicians have been implicitly considered to be of high quality, but recent evidence suggests otherwise. We conducted a medical record...

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Autores principales: Lucero, Marilla, Riley, Ian Douglas, Hazard, Riley H., Sanvictores, Diozele, Tallo, Veronica, Dumaluan, Dorothy Gay Marmita, Ugpo, Juanita M., Lopez, Alan D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6311069/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30594186
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12963-018-0178-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6311069/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30594186
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12963-018-0178-0

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