International journal of medical informatics
Apr 26, 2024
OBJECTIVE: For ICD-10 coding causes of death in France in 2018 and 2019, predictions by deep neural networks (DNNs) are employed in addition to fully automatic batch coding by a rule-based expert system and to interactive coding by the coding team fo...
International journal of medical informatics
Jul 6, 2019
BACKGROUND: Mortality surveillance is of fundamental importance to public health surveillance. The real-time recording of death certificates, thanks to Electronic Death Registration System (EDRS), provides valuable data for reactive mortality surveil...
OBJECTIVE: Death certificates are an invaluable source of cancer mortality statistics. However, this value can only be realised if accurate, quantitative data can be extracted from certificates-an aim hampered by both the volume and variable quality ...
We address the assignment of ICD-10 codes for causes of death by analyzing free-text descriptions in death certificates, together with the associated autopsy reports and clinical bulletins, from the Portuguese Ministry of Health. We leverage a deep n...
International journal of medical informatics
Aug 13, 2015
OBJECTIVE: Death certificates provide an invaluable source for cancer mortality statistics; however, this value can only be realised if accurate, quantitative data can be extracted from certificates--an aim hampered by both the volume and variable na...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Jul 15, 2015
BACKGROUND: Death certificates provide an invaluable source for mortality statistics which can be used for surveillance and early warnings of increases in disease activity and to support the development and monitoring of prevention or response strate...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jun 1, 2025
OBJECTIVE: To develop a continual process for linking more comprehensive external mortality data to electronic health records (EHRs) for a large healthcare system, which can serve as a template for other healthcare systems.
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
Identifying the Underlying Cause of Death accurately is crucial for effective healthcare policy and planning. The World Health Organization recommends using the ICD-10 system to standardize death certificate coding, a task often supported by semi-aut...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 21, 2019
Timely mortality surveillance in France is based on the monitoring of electronic death certificates to provide information to health authorities. This study aims to analyze the performance of a rule-based and a supervised machine learning method to c...
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