The Texas and California collections and publications are not perfect, but together they provide a guide for other states to improve arrest-related and custodial death data collection.
Hence ensuring the actual cause of death data collection in the resource pool and increasing the quality of the data.
The database also includes the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Cause of Death Data Collection (14 ), which is less current than the registry data source.
Moreover, to carry out a validation study of cause-of-death data collection in hospitals, a gold standard framework is required, against which the hospital cause-of-death reports can be compared [ 29].
The observation period ended at the earliest of the following dates: turning 14 (Pedianet) or 18 years of age, transfer out of the practice or insurance system, death, or last data collection.
The cohort members were followed from 1 July 2005 until the earliest of: first code of IBD, migration out of practice, death, or last data collection up to 31 October 2008.
Follow-up was censored at the earliest of the outcome of interest, transfer out of the practice, last data collection or death.
Patients left the study at the earliest date of death, leaving the practice, last data collection from the practice, renal replacement therapy (dialysis or kidney transplantation), or March 31 , 2011
Patients were followed from the index date until the earliest of the respective outcome of interest, transfer out of the practice, last data collection or death, whichever date came first.
Person-time for untreated periods consisted of the sum of follow-up from the index date until the earliest of the start of a treatment of interest (minus 1 day), the outcome of interest, transfer out of the practice, last data collection or death.
