Medical Examiners' and Coroners' Handbook on Death Registration and Fetal Death Reporting

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• Personal Author:
  Cottengim, Cari ; Anderson, Robert N. ; Flagg, Lee Anne ; Horon, Isabelle ; Hoyert, Donna L. ; Gregory, Elizabeth C. ; Martin, Joyce A. ; Sutton, Paul ; Nashelsky, Marcus
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  This handbook is an update to the previous edition of the handbook from 2003 and is designed to familiarize medical examiners, coroners and other medicolegal certifiers, as defined in state or local laws and rules, with the vital registration system in the United States (U.S.) and to provide instructions for completing and submitting death certificates and fetal death reports. It includes updated data; example certifications reflecting electronic death registration; specific guidance on the certification of deaths related to drugs, trauma, drowning and poisoning and fetal death case history and example certification.
• Keywords:
  • Mortality
  • Cause of death
  • Death certificate
  • Data quality
  • National Vital Statistics System
• Source:
  National Vital Statistics System
• DOI:
  https://dx.doi.org/10.15620/cdc/252482
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  84 pdf pages
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:58fab5b346e7fed0299589a7798ac77c05538624e98997f9a5e4f142ed62c2610789af7a6814f7643595a29253fd4923c9cc99bff7415ef2cf5e44c0a374d911