"certification of death" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the process of officially verifying and confirming a person's death. This phrase is commonly used in legal and medical contexts. Example: The doctor completed the certification of death, stating the cause of death as a heart attack.
The BEDTAR pilot program assessed changes in the quality of certification of death's causes after a training session for the primary care physicians in the Tarragona's Area of Catalonia, in the Northeast of the Iberian Peninsula.
Key problems related to certification of death were identified.
This will help to improve the accuracy of causes of death from systems without medical certification of death [ 2].
Recording of pneumonia as a cause of death has been problematic in the UK until very recently, when specific guidance was issued for certification of death.
PMCT imaging was performed very soon after the subject's death; that is, the interval time between certification of death and PMCT acquisition ranged from 0.3 h to 10.1 h (median interval time: 1.8 h).
We have endeavoured to capture the end of life contemporaneously and thus included not only the time of certification of death but also the time when death seemed apparent at the bedside in the absence of monitoring.
"We've always tried to be very careful with the certification of deaths because we want to have all the scientific proof and verifiable evidence that if a person dies as a consequence of the hurricane, that it can be proved," she continued.
In China, complete registration and medical certification of deaths is logistically and financially unattainable at present.
The World Health Organization recommends the use of VAs in order to improve the comparability of causes of death from systems without medical certification of deaths (6).
Data for the estimation of causes of death and the pattern of these deaths are scarce in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) (4) unlike the developed countries where vital registration systems are well-developed and medical certifications of death are available (5).
Both incidence and mortality rates may be biased, however, by under-registration of incident cases and an over-certification of deaths (Remontet et al, 2003).
