"Cause of Death" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Factors which produce cessation of all vital bodily functions. They can be analyzed from an epidemiologic viewpoint.
| Descriptor ID |
D002423
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.308.985.550.250 N01.224.935.698.100 N06.850.505.400.975.550.250 N06.850.520.308.985.550.250
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Cause of Death".
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cause of Death" by people in this website by year, and whether "Cause of Death" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2000 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2007 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2008 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2009 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2010 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2011 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2013 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2014 | 12 | 5 | 17 |
| 2015 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2016 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2018 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2019 | 6 | 10 | 16 |
| 2020 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2021 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2022 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2023 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2024 | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Cause of Death" by people in Profiles.
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Telephonic verbal autopsies among adults in South Africa: a feasibility and acceptability pilot study. BMJ Open. 2025 Feb 19; 15(2):e090708.
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Contribution of malnutrition to infant and child deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. BMJ Glob Health. 2024 Dec 05; 9(12).
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Etiologies and comorbidities of meningitis deaths in children under 5 years in high-mortality settings: Insights from the CHAMPS Network in the post-pneumococcal vaccine era. J Infect. 2024 Dec; 89(6):106341.
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Text mining of verbal autopsy narratives to extract mortality causes and most prevalent diseases using natural language processing. PLoS One. 2024; 19(9):e0308452.
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Can verbal autopsies be used on a national scale? Key findings and lessons from South Africa's national cause-of-death validation study. Glob Health Action. 2024 Dec 31; 17(1):2399413.
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Neurological Symptoms and Cause of Death Among Young Children in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 09 03; 7(9):e2431512.
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Temporal changes in cause of death among adolescents and adults in six countries in eastern and southern Africa in 1995-2019: a multi-country surveillance study of verbal autopsy data. Lancet Glob Health. 2024 Aug; 12(8):e1278-e1287.
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Gynaecological cancer-related deaths in a tertiary hospital: A four-year retrospective review. Afr J Reprod Health. 2024 Jul 31; 28(7):30-34.
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Clinicopathological discrepancies in the diagnoses of childhood causes of death in the CHAMPS network: An analysis of antemortem diagnostic inaccuracies. BMJ Paediatr Open. 2024 Jul 20; 8(1).
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Mortality variability and differentials by age and causes of death in rural South Africa, 1994-2018. BMJ Glob Health. 2024 Apr 08; 9(4).