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

• Main Authors: Marilla Lucero (Author), Ian Douglas Riley (Author), Riley H. Hazard (Author), Diozele Sanvictores (Author), Veronica Tallo (Author), Dorothy Gay Marmita Dumaluan (Author), Juanita M. Ugpo (Author), Alan D. Lopez (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract 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 medica...