Erin Grenier, director of operations at Legacy.com, the largest provider of paid death notices, told me via email that during her 11 years with the company she's seen a noticeable shift.
According to Ed Marcum, CEO of Recovery Specialist Insurance Group (provider of accidental death and dismemberment coverage, among other foreboding policies), insurance rates for repo agencies have shot up by about 70percentt over the last decade.
Common methods for identifying infectious cause related deaths include reports by health care providers and review of death certificates.
However, we were unable to formally test the role of health providers in the magnitude of death rate by cervical cancer since we had no access to information on the health insurance status of individual women.
This provides invaluable data on avoidable causes of death – at the provider interface, administratively, and in the community [ 122].
Supervisors also tried to conduct verbal autopsies with formal and informal care providers, present at the time of death, but these proved more difficult and only seventeen out of a possible 37 providers were interviewed.
The findings also suggest the need for oncology providers to elicit patients' preferred site of death to ensure that patients' end of life experiences are congruent with their values.
However, some options may be excluded because they are deemed infeasible to implement (e.g., due to insufficient endoscopy capacity) or unacceptable to the service providers (e.g., due to risk of death associated with the technology).
Furthermore, using verbal autopsies to assign the primary cause of death is difficult when no formal provider is present.
