Assessing the quality of medical death certification: a case study of concordance between national statistics and results from a medical record review in a regional hospital in the Philippines

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[2] Phillips DE(2007)Civil registration systems and vital statistics: successes and missed opportunities Lancet (London, England) 370 1653-1663

[3] AbouZahr C(2014)A composite metric for assessing data on mortality and causes of death: the vital statistics performance index Popul Health Metr 12 14-816

[4] Setel PW(2014)Systematic review of statistics on causes of deaths in hospitals: strengthening the evidence for policy-makers Bull World Health Organ 92 807-3A

[5] de Savigny D(2014)Hospital cause-of-death statistics: what should we make of them? Bull World Health Organ 92 3-63

[6] Lozano R(2017)The quality of medical death certification of cause of death in hospitals in rural Bangladesh: impact of introducing the international form of medical certificate of cause of death BMC Health Serv Res 17 688-undefined

[7] Mahapatra P(2000)Death certificates: completeness and acceptability of the cause of death, Cavite, 1984-1994 Filip Fam Physician 38 57-undefined

[8] Shibuya K(2011)Population health metrics research consortium gold standard verbal autopsy validation study: design, implementation, and development of analysis datasets Popul Health Metr 9 27-undefined

[9] Lopez AD(2015)Improving performance of the tariff method for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies BMC Med 13 291-undefined

[10] Coullare F(2011)Robust metrics for assessing the performance of different verbal autopsy cause assignment methods in validation studies Popul Health Metr 9 28-undefined

[1] Mikkelsen L(2015)A global assessment of civil registration and vital statistics systems: monitoring data quality and progress Lancet 386 1395-1406

[2] Phillips DE(2007)Civil registration systems and vital statistics: successes and missed opportunities Lancet (London, England) 370 1653-1663

[3] AbouZahr C(2014)A composite metric for assessing data on mortality and causes of death: the vital statistics performance index Popul Health Metr 12 14-816

[4] Setel PW(2014)Systematic review of statistics on causes of deaths in hospitals: strengthening the evidence for policy-makers Bull World Health Organ 92 807-3A

[5] de Savigny D(2014)Hospital cause-of-death statistics: what should we make of them? Bull World Health Organ 92 3-63

[6] Lozano R(2017)The quality of medical death certification of cause of death in hospitals in rural Bangladesh: impact of introducing the international form of medical certificate of cause of death BMC Health Serv Res 17 688-undefined

[7] Mahapatra P(2000)Death certificates: completeness and acceptability of the cause of death, Cavite, 1984-1994 Filip Fam Physician 38 57-undefined

[8] Shibuya K(2011)Population health metrics research consortium gold standard verbal autopsy validation study: design, implementation, and development of analysis datasets Popul Health Metr 9 27-undefined

[9] Lopez AD(2015)Improving performance of the tariff method for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies BMC Med 13 291-undefined

[10] Coullare F(2011)Robust metrics for assessing the performance of different verbal autopsy cause assignment methods in validation studies Popul Health Metr 9 28-undefined