The author analyzed death certificate and U.S. census data to document trends in suicide rates among Alaskans 14-19 years of age. During 1979-1993, Alaskan teenagers had a suicide rate of 31.5 per 100,000 persons per year. Suicide rates varied up to sixfold by race, gender, and local census area of residence; in particular, Alaska Native males had one of the highest documented suicide rates in ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the validity of cause of death stated in death certificates in Tehran using outcome measures of the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study (TLGS), an ongoing prospective cohort study. METHODS The cohort was established in 1999 in a population of 15005 people, 3 years old and over, living in Tehran; 3551 individuals were added to this population three ye...

BACKGROUND Mortality data are affected by miscertification of the medical cause of death deaths and changes to cause of death classification systems. We present both mappings of ICD9 and ICD10 to a unified list of causes, and a new statistical model for reducing the impact of misclassification of cause of death. METHODS We propose a Bayesian mixed-effects multinomial logistic model that can b...

With more and more acceptance of Digital Certificates and Public Key Infrastructures (PKI), the mechanisms to revoke a certificate in a PKI have recently received increasing attention. The revocation mechanisms are commonly classified into Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs), trusted dictionaries and online mechanisms. The designer of a PKI should select an appropriate revocation method suiting...

Population-based cancer registries strive to cover all cases diagnosed within the population, but some will always be missed and no register is 100 % complete. Many use death certificates identify additional not captured through other routine sources, hopefully add a large proportion of cases. Cases notified this route, who would have been without certificate information, are referred as Death ...