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Published in Edward M. Rafalski, Ross M. Mullner, Healthcare Analytics, 2022
Zachary Pruitt, Jason L. Salemi
However, the FDOH was not engaging in chicanery. A closer examination of the data revealed that the revised reporting process actually enabled Florida to more accurately reflect the daily deaths based on when they occurred. The old procedure was problematic because of the time lag associated with reporting deaths. As described above, when a person dies from COVID-19, it can take from days to months for the death certificate to be certified and reported in the official numbers. Skilled data analysts should always sufficiently explore data to understand the different ways in which data, even on the same metric, may be reported, and provide the necessary context so that various stakeholder groups are capable of deriving meaningful and actionable evidence from what is being reported.
The Medicolegal Autopsy
Published in Kevin L. Erskine, Erica J. Armstrong, Water-Related Death Investigation, 2021
The death certificate is a legal document that declares that a person is deceased and serves a multitude of important purposes, including provision of cause and manner of death, provision of a degree of closure for the family, settlement of estates, obtaining of burial permits, making of life insurance claims, determination of the recipient(s) of pension funds, and obtaining of death benefits. Because of the many uses of the death certificate, it is important that the information contained within it is as accurate as possible, and this, in part, is ensured when a high-quality police investigation and medicolegal death investigation have taken place.
ASSESSING THE OCCURRENCE OF CANCER IN HUMAN POPULATIONS
Published in Richard G. Cornell, Statistical Methods for Cancer Studies, 2020
Finally, it should be noted that population based registry operations such as SEER and the mortality records of the U.S. Vital Statistics Systems and its individual state components, make the prospects for identifying all the cases of cancer or all deaths from or with cancer in a cohort or roster of named individuals in a given geographical area a potentially feasible undertaking. Computer matching programs have been developed that utilize a person’s first and last name and middle initial, plus limited identifiers such as sex, date of birth, and social security number to identify matches on the files. From 1979 deaths onward the National Death Index (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1981)) may be used this way to identify, e.g. persons in an industrial cohort, or in a particular union, who have died. Death certificates can be obtained for the identified deaths. Several of the SEER sites have the same capability for matching against the cancer incidence files for their areas. This resource may prove useful for the types of studies considered in this book.
Cohort profile – MSK radiation workers: a feasibility study to establish a deceased worker sub-cohort as part of a multicenter medical radiation worker component in the million person study of low-dose radiation health effects
Published in International Journal of Radiation Biology, 2022
Lawrence T. Dauer, Meghan Woods, Daniel Miodownik, Brian Serencsits, Brian Quinn, Michael Bellamy, Craig Yoder, Xiaolin Liang, John D. Boice, Jonine Bernstein
Sources of vital status and cause of death will be the Social Security Master Death File and other Social Security Administration (SSA) vital status files, Pension Benefit Information files, Comserv (a computer services firm specializing in mortality searches), state death indexes (e.g. New York) and the National Death Index, LexisNexis search, MicroBilt, credit bureaus and Comserv a computer services firm specializing in locating persons. In a few instances for deaths occurring prior to 1979 when the National Death Index began, death certificates would be requested from states and cause of death coded by a trained nosologist. For linkage with the SSA Master Death File of 83 million deaths, large-scale probabilistic matching programs will be applied to account for the possibility of potential errors in names, dates of birth or SSN.
Inpatient rehabilitation therapy among colorectal cancer patients – utilization and association with prognosis: a cohort study
Published in Acta Oncologica, 2021
Sophie Scherer-Trame, Lina Jansen, Volker Arndt, Jenny Chang-Claude, Michael Hoffmeister, Hermann Brenner
Sociodemographic data, lifestyle-related information and the medical history of the participants were obtained during a face-to-face interview by trained interviewer at baseline. Tumor and surgery-specific information were extracted from discharge letters and pathology reports. About three years after diagnosis, therapy-related information was collected from medical reports and physicians administered questionnaires. General practitioners and/or oncologists, who were involved in the treatment, filled out questionnaires based on patient medical records. Follow-up time started from CRC diagnosis. Population registries provided data on vital status and date of death if applicable. Death certificates from the local health authorities were obtained in order to verify the cause of death. Further details of the DACHS study have been published elsewhere [24,25].
Stimulant storm – state health department psychostimulant age-adjusted mortality rate correlates with psychostimulant-based Michigan Poison Center case exposures over time
Published in Clinical Toxicology, 2021
Varun Vohra, Andrew King, Sydney Daviskiba, Brian Reed, Sarah Rockhill, Perri Kern, Diana Dean
The MDHHS database (“Vital Statistics”) includes all death certificates of state residents and those who died in Michigan, whether they were state residents or not, from 1999 to 2018. A physician or medical examiner (ME) must provide a completed and signed certification of death within 48 h of death or taking charge of the case. For violent or unexpected deaths and deaths without medical attendance in the past 48 h, the ME must investigate the cause and manner of death. Failure of a physician to submit a signed death certificate within 48 h of a death that would not otherwise be investigated by an ME does not constitute an assigned ME case. Although the ME must submit a death certificate to the state registrar within 48 h of death or assuming charge of the case, the initial certificate does not have to include the final cause of death determination. In many cases, the initial death certificate lists the cause of death as “pending”, with an updated death certificate typically submitted within 120 days.