This search used SuperMICAR (Mortality Medical Indexing, Classification, and Retrieval system), a component of the Mortality Medical Data System, an automated data system for coding cause of death [22].
ICD-10 has been used by many countries throughout the world for coding cause of death and for hospital diagnoses since 1994 [ 15- 17].
In Europe, each national authority was responsible for coding the causes of death, and that the comparability of this practice has not been evaluated.
Since 1996, the country has used the 10th version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) for coding the causes of death.
The classification of injuries was consistent the International Classification of Diseases and the related schema for coding external causes of injury (ICECI) [10].
We chose to work with data for people who died in 2007 as this was the most recent year for which coded cause of death information was available from the ABS.
Appendix S1 shows the top 5 ranked CCS groups of major causes of admission in infectious and non-infectious groups and predominant most common ICD-10 coded cause for admission in each main category.
The Chinese Code for Death Causes and Population was used to categorize and code cause of death in 1973 1975 and 1990 1992, and the categories of the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases was used in 2004 2005.
Since the current mortality data in Taiwan only allowed for coding single underlying cause of death, it may further decrease the power of detection of occupational-related illnesses.
