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Quality of death certificates in Valencia, Spain.

Author(s) -

Fernando G. Benavides,

Francisco Bolúmar,

R Peris

Publication year - 1989

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.79.10.1352

Subject(s) - coroner , death certificate , medicine , cause of death , family medicine , place of death , environmental health , medical record , demography , medical emergency , disease , gerontology , injury prevention , poison control , nursing , palliative care , sociology , pathology , radiology

Certificates of 1,454 deaths occurring over 11 months were retrieved from the Civil Register in Valencia, Spain. Relevant medical information was systematically gathered from hospital records, questionnaires, and Coroner reports. We compared the underlying cause of death (UCD) from the original death certificate, and a reference cause of death (RCD) determined by a panel of experts based on all available information. Overall, 80.2 percent of the certificates were concordant for disease category, but there was a great disparity among some specific disease categories.

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