Affiliation:
1. Connecticut Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
Abstract
Worldwide, an estimated 415 million people have diabetes mellitus, which results in extensive morbidity and mortality. In order to track the effect of diabetes on mortality statistics, deaths in which diabetes mellitus caused or contributed to death must be recognized, included on the death certificate, and then properly coded for vital statistic purposes. For public health policy, this will help determine the extent of the disease and follow whether deaths increase or decrease. There is variation among death certifiers for when and how diabetes is included on the death certificate and among vital records bureaus as how to code diabetes-related deaths. Case scenarios are presented to highlight the certification issues that arise with deaths related to diabetes mellitus. This area of death certification may benefit from a consensus effort to standardize and enhance certification and coding of deaths due to diabetes in order to improve the reliability of these mortality statistics.
Subject
Pathology and Forensic Medicine
Reference9 articles.
1. Diabetes and Hemochromatosis
2. Pancreatitis: A Forensic Perspective
3. HanzlickR., editor. The medical cause of death manual. Northfield (IL): College of American Pathologists; 1994. 109 p.
4. Diabetic Cardiomyopathy: A Forensic Perspective
Cited by
2 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献