The relevance of queries and coding procedures to the writing of cause- of-death statements

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 319-323

  Hanzlick, Randy ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cause of death statement; Death certificate; Medical examiner Coroner; Nosologic coding; Query

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CODING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONERS AND MEDICAL EXAMINERS; DEATH CERTIFICATES; MANUALS; VITAL STATISTICS; WRITING;

EID: 0029824874     PISSN: 01957910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000433-199612000-00009     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. National Center for Health Statistics. Instruction manual part 20: cause-of-death querying, 1985. Hyattsville, Maryland: 1985.
2. National Center for Health Statistics. Instruction manual part 2a: instructions for classifying the underlying cause of death, 1993. Hyattsville, Maryland: 1993.
3. National Center for Health Statistics. Medical examiners' and coroners' handbook on death registration and fetal death reporting. Hyattsville, Maryland: 1987.
4. Hanzlick R, ed, and the Autopsy Committee of the College of American Pathologists. The medical cause-of-death manual: instructions for writing cause-of-death statements for deaths due to natural causes. Northfield, Illinois: College of American Pathologists, 1994.