We report on all-cause and CVD mortality because the accuracy of death certificate codes is a concern in this analysis [25], whereas using all-cause mortality could not have induced any bias in the results. Some evidence that coding of CVD deaths is accurate comes from a Canadian study in...
The physician preparation procedure was compared with a procedure wherein a panel of three nosologist coded the original death certificate for the underlying cause of death. The procedures agreed on the three-digit International Classification of Disease, Adapted code in 60.1% of the cases. The ...
Death certificate data were obtained from Ohio’s Department of Vital Statistics to identify number of deaths based on International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision (ICD-10), codes for cause of death.12 Juvenile incarceration, Medicaid, and death certificate data...
Suicide (ICD-10 codes: X60 to X84 and Y87.0) was defined from the underlying causes of death, as suicide meets Rule 3 criteria: wherever "suicide" is mentioned on the death certificate, it is almost always selected as the underlying cause of death, even if the certifier indicated that ...
Estimators used to measure ambiguity included the number of multiple causes of death, the place of death, and ICD-10 diagnostic Chapter codes.ResultsA total of 2278 US death certificates from 2004 included a cause of death code for mental retardation. Of these death certificates, 20% erroneously...
Table 9. Autopsy number by the cause of death in the Chiba Prefecture. ICD-10 chapterICD-10 codesDeath no.Autopsy no.Autopsy rate Certain infectious and parasitic diseases A00-B99 43 3 (7.0) Neoplasms C00-C99 131 7 (5.3) Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorder...
Three specific quality indicators were considered: (i) amount of information, measured by the number of causes of death coded on the death certificate; (ii) intrinsic consistency, explored by application of the International Classification of Disease (ICD) General Principle, using an international ...
For these two specific codes, it may be related to the introduction of post-coordinated codes in ICD-11. Post coordinated codes is a new feature of ICD-11, which requires information on the sequence of disease from the COD certificate. This allows the provision of multiple values, for the ...
12 The effect of the changes in ICD rules on the 6 leading causes of death described herein have been studied by calculating the comparability ratio based on the classification of 1 year’s mortality data by both the new ICD codes and the previous ICD codes. All comparability ratios (the ...
Pregnancy-related deaths after a live birth ( n = 118) were identified after review of pregnancy-associated deaths ( n = 400) ascertained from death certificate codes and linkage of birth and death files. Controls ( n = 3697) were randomly selected from all registered live births for the ...