Deaths by COVID-19 : Not all were registered and others should not be accounted for

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The death counts from COVID-19 have generated public controversy. The regional health councils' need for information regardind the cases, has generated a variety of formats and procedures, used to report this information. Consecuently, this data has not always been communicated in a comparable maner to the Ministry of Health. The compilation of mortality statistics is complex. Central and autonomous public administrations are involved, and not in the same way. The medical death certificate (DC) is the main source of information that allows to specify place of occurrence and causes of death. The on-line registration of the DC in the computerized civil registry and/or digital medical records, would allow to establish a statistical processing circuit, and to obtain a death count more quickly according to causes of death in the event of a health emergency. This requires a multi-level institutional agreement for a total telematics statistic process of death causes in Spain.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:35

Enthalten in:

Gaceta sanitaria - 35(2021), 6 vom: 07. Nov., Seite 590-593

Sprache:

Spanisch

Weiterer Titel:

Defunciones por COVID-19: no están todas las que son y no son todas las que están

Beteiligte Personen:

Cirera, Lluís [VerfasserIn]
Segura, Andreu [VerfasserIn]
Hernández, Ildefonso [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Case Reports
Causa de la muerte
Cause of death
Certificados de defunción
Covid-19
Death certificates
España
Estadisticas vitales
Informática medica
Medical informatics
Public health surveillance
Spain
Vigilancia en salud pública
Vital statistics

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Date Completed 27.10.2021

Date Revised 27.10.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.gaceta.2020.06.006

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM314346120