Information on Death Certificates : Comparison Between Inpatient and Outpatient Sectors
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The death of a person and the circumstances of death are documented on the death certificate in Germany. The path of the corpse to burial as well as the quality of the cause of death statistics are significantly influenced by the information in the official death certificate. The quality of the information in the death certificates has been repeatedly criticized. The aim of the present study was to identify typical sources of error in death certificates and to obtain information on whether qualitative differences exist between death certificates completed in the outpatient and inpatient sectors. A retrospective evaluation was performed of 218 death certificates of deaths examined by the Institute of Legal Medicine as part of a second postmortem examination prior to cremation. Of these, 118 death certificates were issued in the hospital and 100 death certificates were issued on an outpatient basis by the family physician or a physician on duty in the outpatient sector. All but one of the death certificates issued on an outpatient basis were legible. The information on the underlying disease was plausible. More than one-third of the epicrises had no significant findings or were not completed at all. The entry on the immediate causes of death in the designated field on the death certificate (Ia in the causal chain) were inadequate in one third of the cases. The error rate in the entries was higher in outpatient than in inpatient deaths. In the future, therefore, it will be necessary to prepare for the special situation of a post-mortem examination by means of further and advanced training events and to convey the importance of the diagnoses determined in the process, in order to eliminate these avoidable sources of error.
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2023 |
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2023 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:85 |
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Gesundheitswesen (Bundesverband der Arzte des Offentlichen Gesundheitsdienstes (Germany)) - 85(2023), 12 vom: 01. Dez., Seite 1200-1204 |
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Deutsch |
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Angaben auf Todesbescheinigungen – Vergleich des hospitalen und ambulanten Bereichs |
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Witte, Paul Jonathan [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Completed 16.12.2023 Date Revised 16.12.2023 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
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10.1055/a-2098-3164 |
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| 520 | |a The death of a person and the circumstances of death are documented on the death certificate in Germany. The path of the corpse to burial as well as the quality of the cause of death statistics are significantly influenced by the information in the official death certificate. The quality of the information in the death certificates has been repeatedly criticized. The aim of the present study was to identify typical sources of error in death certificates and to obtain information on whether qualitative differences exist between death certificates completed in the outpatient and inpatient sectors. A retrospective evaluation was performed of 218 death certificates of deaths examined by the Institute of Legal Medicine as part of a second postmortem examination prior to cremation. Of these, 118 death certificates were issued in the hospital and 100 death certificates were issued on an outpatient basis by the family physician or a physician on duty in the outpatient sector. All but one of the death certificates issued on an outpatient basis were legible. The information on the underlying disease was plausible. More than one-third of the epicrises had no significant findings or were not completed at all. The entry on the immediate causes of death in the designated field on the death certificate (Ia in the causal chain) were inadequate in one third of the cases. The error rate in the entries was higher in outpatient than in inpatient deaths. In the future, therefore, it will be necessary to prepare for the special situation of a post-mortem examination by means of further and advanced training events and to convey the importance of the diagnoses determined in the process, in order to eliminate these avoidable sources of error | ||
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