Quality analysis of death case reports in the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University in recent five years / 公共卫生与预防医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To understand the report of death cases in the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University in the past five years, and to put forward measures to improve the quality of death case reports. Methods The death cases reported by the death registration information system of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University from January 1, 2014 to July 31, 2019 were analyzed, the timeliness of the report, the quality of the report of the root cause of death and the distribution of the root cause of death were evaluated. Results In the past five years, the main places of death were medical and health institutions. Males were significantly more than females. Ages were more concentrated in groups over 60 years old and under 80 years old. They were mostly retirees and those with junior high school or below education. Most of the diagnostic criteria were clinical + physical and physicochemical. The proportion of the time of death differ from the date of filling in the card and the proportion of the time of death differ from the date of filling in the card exceeding 7 days were gradually decreasing. The proportion of diseases directly leading to death differ from the underlying causes of death, and the proportion of diseases directly leading to death differ from ICD codes of underlying causes of death ranked first in 2017. The top three causes of death in the case of death are in turn: cause codes I, C, and J. Conclusions The timeliness of death case report in the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University has increased year by year in recent five years, but the error rate of death cause coding is high, and the work of determining the underlying cause of death needs to be improved.