Keyword

death certification

Description: The process of documenting and officially certifying a person's death and its cause, typically performed by medical professionals.

Primary topic: Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes (32%)

OpenAlex ID: keywords/death-certification

Mortality in relation to smoking: 20 years' observations on male British doctors.

1976 · R Doll, R Peto · BMJ · 1,314

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Global trends in mortality from intrahepatic and extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma

2019 · Paola Bertuccio, Matteo Malvezzi, et al. · Journal of Hepatology · 648

Cystic fibrosis mortality and survival in the UK: 1947–2003

2006 · J. A. Dodge, P. A. Lewis, et al. · European Respiratory Journal · 627

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Test of the National Death Index and Equifax Nationwide Death Search

1994 · Janet W. Rich-Edwards, Karen A. Corsano, et al. · American Journal of Epidemiology · 530

Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy: Terminology and Definitions

1997 · L. Nashef · Epilepsia · 485

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Patterns and trends in prostate cancer incidence, survival, prevalence and mortality. Part I: international comparisons

2002 · M. Quinn, P. Babb · British Journal of Urology · 446

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Clinical, educational, and epidemiological value of autopsy

2007 · Julian L Burton, James Underwood · The Lancet · 441

Dying with SARS-CoV-2 infection—an autopsy study of the first consecutive 80 cases in Hamburg, Germany

2020 · Carolin Edler, Ann Sophie Schröder, et al. · International Journal of Legal Medicine · 425

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Discrepancies between clinical and autopsy diagnosis and the value of post mortem histology; a meta‐analysis and review

2005 · J Roulson, E W Benbow, et al. · Histopathology · 373

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Decreasing mortality and changing patterns of causes of death in the S wiss HIV C ohort S tudy

2012 · R Weber, M Ruppik, et al. · HIV Medicine · 357

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Mortality registration and surveillance in China: History, current situation and challenges

2005 · Gonghuan Yang, Jianping Hu, et al. · Population Health Metrics · 341

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A prospective study of mortality among drug misusers during a 4‐year period after seeking treatment

2002 · Michael Gossop, Duncan Stewart, et al. · Addiction · 311

A prospective study of 1152 hospital autopsies: I. Inaccuracies in death certification

1981 · H. M. Cameron, E. McGoogan · The Journal of Pathology · 303

Varicella Mortality: Trends before Vaccine Licensure in the United States, 1970–1994

2000 · Pamela A. Meyer, Jane F. Seward, et al. · The Journal of Infectious Diseases · 280

Risk of Suicide After Cancer Diagnosis in England

2018 · Katherine E. Henson, Rachael Brock, et al. · JAMA Psychiatry · 246

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Operational Criteria for the Determination of Suicide

1988 · ML Rosenberg, LE Davidson, et al. · Journal of Forensic Sciences · 233

COVID-19: a need for real-time monitoring of weekly excess deaths

2020 · David A Leon, Vladimir M Shkolnikov, et al. · The Lancet · 231

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Death Certification Errors and the Effect on Mortality Statistics

2017 · Lauri McGivern, Leanne Shulman, et al. · Public Health Reports · 230

Brain Death: Reconciling Definitions, Criteria, and Tests

1993 · Amir Halevy, Baruch Brody · Annals of Internal Medicine · 230

An evaluation of the Social Security Administration master beneficiary record file and the National Death Index in the ascertainment of vital status.

1983 · D N Wentworth, J D Neaton, et al. · American Journal of Public Health · 222

Strengthening standardised interpretation of verbal autopsy data: the new InterVA-4 tool

2012 · Peter Byass, Daniel Chandramohan, et al. · Global Health Action · 221

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Coronary heart disease in black populations I. Mortality and morbidity

1982 · Richard F. Gillum · American Heart Journal · 219

Increasing Global Mortality from Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis in the Twenty-First Century

2014 · John P. Hutchinson, Tricia M. McKeever, et al. · Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 214

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Ascertainment of Vital Status Through the National Death Index and the Social Security Administration

1985 · J. D. CURB, C. E. FORD, et al. · American Journal of Epidemiology · 204

Diabetes mortality: New light on an underestimated public health problem

1983 · J.H. Fuller, J. Elford, et al. · Diabetologia · 189

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