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

• Hoofdauteurs: Marilla Lucero (Auteur), Ian Douglas Riley (Auteur), Riley H. Hazard (Auteur), Diozele Sanvictores (Auteur), Veronica Tallo (Auteur), Dorothy Gay Marmita Dumaluan (Auteur), Juanita M. Ugpo (Auteur), Alan D. Lopez (Auteur)
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• Gepubliceerd in: BMC, 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...