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
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...
Main Authors: | Marilla Lucero, Ian Douglas Riley, Riley H. Hazard, Diozele Sanvictores, Veronica Tallo, Dorothy Gay Marmita Dumaluan, Juanita M. Ugpo, Alan D. Lopez |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-12-01
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Series: | Population Health Metrics |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12963-018-0178-0 |
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