Background: Verbal Autopsy Questionnaire (VA) is an important tool to estimate the cause of death among those populations lacking an appropriate death registration system. In this study, the validity and reliability of verbal autopsy were assessed.    Methods: The Persian version of the questionnaire was prepared using the translation and back- translation method. In the first and se...

BACKGROUND Education level is one indicator of socioeconomic position which, in several countries including South Korea, is provided though death certificate data. Its validity determines the usefulness of death certificate data for exploring the association between socioeconomic position and mortality. This study was to compare education recorded on the death certificate with that reported bef...

BACKGROUND Discordance between dialysis registry and death certificate reported death has been demonstrated. Since cause of death is measured using registry data in dialysis patients and death certificate data in the general population, comparisons of cause of death proportions between dialysis patients and the general population may be biased. Our aim was to compare the proportion of deaths at...

BACKGROUND Death certificates are widely used in epidemiologic and clinical investigations and for national statistics. OBJECTIVE To examine the accuracy of death certificates for coding coronary heart disease as the underlying cause of death. DESIGN Community-based inception cohort followed since 1948. SETTING Framingham, Massachusetts. PATIENTS 2683 deceased Framingham Heart Study par...

BACKGROUND Death certificates can be used to assess disease prevalence and incidence; however, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) often remains unreported in death certificates. We sought to determine to what extent RA is underreported and what demographic and clinical characteristics could predict mention of RA in the death certificate. METHODS We recruited 1328 patients with RA from private, public ...