Quality of death certificate occupation information

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• Personal Author:
  Dubrow R ; Milham S Jr. ; Wegman, David H.
• Description:
  A letter to the editor was presented which takes exception to a statement offered in an earlier paper which was critical of the caliber of information regarding occupational data obtained from death certificates. The letter indicated that in a study of Washington state death certificates, 75% of the listed occupations were verified through interview. In another 10% of the cases, the death certificate listed a related occupation. In Bristol, England there was no discrepancy between the occupation of men recorded at death registration and the next of kin interview in 79% of the cases and there was only a negligible discrepancy in another 6% of the cases. In Detroit the agreement was 73.2%; in Massachusetts, 75%. In a study of 32,707 death certificates from every state in the United States gathered from the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, 93% indicated carpenter, cabinetmaker or some other occupation covered by the union. Another occupation was listed 6% of the time, and only 1% gave no occupation. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Epidemiology Mortality Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  Data-processing Information-processing Information-systems Mortality-data Mortality-surveys NIOSH-Author Risk-analysis Risk-factors
• ISSN:
  0027-8874
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  74
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00204895
• Citation:
  J Natl Cancer Inst 1985 Feb; 74(2):539
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1985
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of the National Cancer Institute
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:35e714e441cdbc761fda3b345c9aeb89426ba8b66ab5fdc28906b7191aa095cd8d9d56c6732304b5f61f6af0a791c729d51f610a68139c7598ecd30397a5130c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/205441/cdc_205441_DS1.pdf
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