Annotated bibliography of cause-of-death validation studies.

This bibliography contains an annotated listing of 128 published and unpublished papers on the quality of cause-of-death statistics. Items selected for inclusion are limited to those available in English written or published since 1957 and based on substantive data. The geographical focus of the bibliography is worldwide. It is noted that "no country has a well-defined program for systematically assessing the quality of medical certifications being reported on death certificates or for measuring the error effects on the levels and trends of cause-of-death statistics." (EXCERPT)

[1]  A. Whitfield,et al.  Deaths from rhesus haemolytic disease in England and Wales in 1979 , 1983 .

[2]  G. Dean.  The need for accurate certification of the cause of death and for more autopsies. , 1969, Journal of the Irish Medical Association.

[3]  B. Barraclough.  Are the Scottish and English Suicide Rates Really Different? , 1972, British Journal of Psychiatry.

[4]  L. Chiazze,et al.  Accuracy of death certification in an autopsied population with specific attention to malignant neoplasms and vascular diseases. , 1980, American journal of epidemiology.

[5]  S. Robbins,et al.  An autopsy study of cancer patients. I. Accuracy of the clinical diagnoses (1955 to 1965) Boston City Hospital. , 1972, JAMA.

[6]  T. Barclay,et al.  The accuracy of cancer diagnosis on death certificates , 1962, Cancer.

[7]  M. Alderson,et al.  Accuracy of diagnosis on death certificates compared with that in hospital records. , 1967, British journal of preventive & social medicine.

[8]  H. Sprague,et al.  Mortality rates for rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease, 1940-65. , 1970, Public health reports.

[9]  M. Britton.  Diagnostic errors discovered at autopsy. , 2009, Acta medica Scandinavica.

[10]  C. Erhardt,et al.  Pathological reports for mortality statistics. , 1959, Journal of the American Medical Association.

[11]  S. Burrows.  The Postmortem Examination: Scientific Necessity or Folly? , 1975 .

[12]  R. Acheson,et al.  A study of the validity of the diagnosis of stroke in mortality data. II. Comparison by computer of autopsy and clinical records with death certificates. , 1969, American journal of epidemiology.

[13]  B. Barraclough.  Differences Between National Suicide Rates , 1973, British Journal of Psychiatry.