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Older rationales and other challenges in handling causes of death in historical individual-level databases: the case of Copenhagen, 1880–1881

Large-scale historical databases featuring individual-level causes of death offer the potential for longitudinal studies of health and illnesses. There is, however, a risk that the transformation of the primary sources into ‘data’ may strip them of the very qualities required for proper medical hist...

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Autores principales: Revuelta-Eugercios, Barbara, Castenbrandt, Helene, Løkke, Anne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9949592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36844659
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkab037
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author Revuelta-Eugercios, Barbara
Castenbrandt, Helene
Løkke, Anne
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description Large-scale historical databases featuring individual-level causes of death offer the potential for longitudinal studies of health and illnesses. There is, however, a risk that the transformation of the primary sources into ‘data’ may strip them of the very qualities required for proper medical historical analysis. Based on a pilot study of all 11,100 deaths registered in Copenhagen in 1880–1881, we identify, analyse and discuss the challenges of transcribing and coding cause of death sources into a database. The results will guide us in building Link-Lives, a database featuring close to all nine million Danish deaths from 1787 to 1968. The main challenge is how to accommodate different older medical rationales in one classification system. Our key finding is multi-coding with more than one version of the ICD system (e.g. ICD-1893 and ICD-10) can be used as a novel method to systematically handle historical causes of death over time.
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spelling pubmed-99495922023-02-24 Older rationales and other challenges in handling causes of death in historical individual-level databases: the case of Copenhagen, 1880–1881 Revuelta-Eugercios, Barbara Castenbrandt, Helene Løkke, Anne Soc Hist Med Special Issue: Reinterpreting Mortality in Late 19th Century Europe using Cause of Death Data Large-scale historical databases featuring individual-level causes of death offer the potential for longitudinal studies of health and illnesses. There is, however, a risk that the transformation of the primary sources into ‘data’ may strip them of the very qualities required for proper medical historical analysis. Based on a pilot study of all 11,100 deaths registered in Copenhagen in 1880–1881, we identify, analyse and discuss the challenges of transcribing and coding cause of death sources into a database. The results will guide us in building Link-Lives, a database featuring close to all nine million Danish deaths from 1787 to 1968. The main challenge is how to accommodate different older medical rationales in one classification system. Our key finding is multi-coding with more than one version of the ICD system (e.g. ICD-1893 and ICD-10) can be used as a novel method to systematically handle historical causes of death over time. Oxford University Press 2021-10-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9949592/ /pubmed/36844659 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkab037 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for the Social History of Medicine. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
spellingShingle Special Issue: Reinterpreting Mortality in Late 19th Century Europe using Cause of Death Data
Revuelta-Eugercios, Barbara
Castenbrandt, Helene
Løkke, Anne
Older rationales and other challenges in handling causes of death in historical individual-level databases: the case of Copenhagen, 1880–1881
title Older rationales and other challenges in handling causes of death in historical individual-level databases: the case of Copenhagen, 1880–1881
title_full Older rationales and other challenges in handling causes of death in historical individual-level databases: the case of Copenhagen, 1880–1881
title_fullStr Older rationales and other challenges in handling causes of death in historical individual-level databases: the case of Copenhagen, 1880–1881
title_full_unstemmed Older rationales and other challenges in handling causes of death in historical individual-level databases: the case of Copenhagen, 1880–1881
title_short Older rationales and other challenges in handling causes of death in historical individual-level databases: the case of Copenhagen, 1880–1881
title_sort older rationales and other challenges in handling causes of death in historical individual-level databases: the case of copenhagen, 1880–1881
topic Special Issue: Reinterpreting Mortality in Late 19th Century Europe using Cause of Death Data
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9949592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36844659
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkab037
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