Automated mortality coding for improved health policy in the Philippines

• Main Authors: U. S. H. Gamage (Author), Carmina Sarmiento (Author), Aurora G. Talan-Reolalas (Author), Marjorie B. Villaver (Author), Nerissa E. Palangyos (Author), Karen Joyce T. Baraoidan (Author), Nicola Richards (Author), Rohina Joshi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract In 2016, the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health initiative assisted the Philippine Statistical Authority in implementing Iris, an automated coding software program that enables medical death certificates to be coded according to international standards. Iris was implemented to improve...