"Death Certificates" 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.
Official records of individual deaths including the cause of death certified by a physician, and any other required identifying information.
| Descriptor ID |
D003644
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.308.940.350 L01.399.250.900.350 N04.452.859.264 N05.715.360.300.715.315 N06.850.520.308.940.350
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| Concept/Terms |
Death Certificates- Death Certificates
- Certificate, Death
- Certificates, Death
- Death Certificate
Death Records- Death Records
- Death Record
- Record, Death
- Records, Death
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Death Certificates" by people in Profiles.
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Engaging community health workers in maternal and infant death identification in Khayelitsha, South Africa: a pilot study. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2020 Nov 26; 20(1):736.
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Mapping and predicting mortality from systemic sclerosis. Ann Rheum Dis. 2017 11; 76(11):1897-1905.
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Improving completeness of birth and death registration in rural Africa. Lancet Glob Health. 2016 09; 4(9):e604-5.
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Naive Bayes classifiers for verbal autopsies: comparison to physician-based classification for 21,000 child and adult deaths. BMC Med. 2015 Nov 25; 13:286.
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The epidemiology of 'bewitchment' as a lay-reported cause of death in rural South Africa. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2012 Aug; 66(8):704-9.
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Trends in mortality from pulmonary tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS co-infection in rural South Africa (Agincourt). Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2007 Sep; 101(9):893-8.