Assessing the reliability of causes of death reported by the vital registration system in Sri Lanka: Medical records review in Colombo

Health Information Management Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 20-28

  Rampatige, Rasika ^a   Gamage, Saman ^b   Peiris, Sharika ^c   Lopez, Alan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b National Institute of Health Sciences   (Sri Lanka)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Clinical coding; Death certificates; Hospital records; Medical records; Quality control; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REGISTER; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SRI LANKA;

CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATES; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SRI LANKA;

EID: 84885049572     PISSN: 18333583     EISSN: 18333575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12826/18333575.2013.0009     Document Type: Article

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