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

• Asıl Yazarlar: Marilla Lucero (Yazar), Ian Douglas Riley (Yazar), Riley H. Hazard (Yazar), Diozele Sanvictores (Yazar), Veronica Tallo (Yazar), Dorothy Gay Marmita Dumaluan (Yazar), Juanita M. Ugpo (Yazar), Alan D. Lopez (Yazar)
• Materyal Türü: Kitap
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: BMC, 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Konular: 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...