When you die, you have to have your death certified by a doctor and a death certificate or a cremation certificate issued.
The first count, done by emergency responders and deaths certified by a coroner or medical examiner's office, that's important.
From the 112 reviewed studies, 104 reported the number of deaths certified, totalling 159,316.
Viral encephalitis was given as the final underlying cause of 622 deaths certified from January 1 , 1993 to March 31 , 1998
All deaths certified as due to heart disease (ICD-10 I11–09, I13, I20 5120–51) were included in the analysis.
Table 1 summarizes the identified studies, data collection period, and number of deaths certified, by each VA instrument.
We used annual female population figures and individual records of deaths certified as cancer of cervix, reclassifying deaths recorded as unspecified uterine cancer to correct coding quality problems.
Therefore, deaths certified as due to lung cancer (ICD-10 C34) were included only if microscopically confirmed lung cancer was recorded in the SEER data set.
The 2200 deaths were classified hierarchically to identify (1) mesothelioma deaths, (2) deaths certified as lung cancer deaths or (3) deaths from unspecified cancer, and (4) deaths from other causes.
36 However, an investigation into deaths certified as SIDS and unascertained by the UK Office of National Statistics found that many of their characteristics were very similar, 37 and now ONS reports these deaths together as unexplained deaths in infancy.
Although heat stroke deaths are underreported [ 29], deaths certified as due to classical heat illness are unlikely to contribute significantly to the number of deaths from external causes in our three cities.
