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

• Главные авторы: Marilla Lucero (Автор), Ian Douglas Riley (Автор), Riley H. Hazard (Автор), Diozele Sanvictores (Автор), Veronica Tallo (Автор), Dorothy Gay Marmita Dumaluan (Автор), Juanita M. Ugpo (Автор), Alan D. Lopez (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: 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...