[Deaths by COVID-19: Not all were registered and others should not be accounted for]. / Defunciones por COVID-19: no están todas las que son y no son todas las que están.
Gac Sanit
; 35(6): 590-593, 2021.
Article
in Spanish
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-764627
ABSTRACT
The death counts from COVID-19 have generated public controversy. The regional health councils' need for information regardind the cases, has generated a variety of formats and procedures, used to report this information. Consecuently, this data has not always been communicated in a comparable maner to the Ministry of Health. The compilation of mortality statistics is complex. Central and autonomous public administrations are involved, and not in the same way. The medical death certificate (DC) is the main source of information that allows to specify place of occurrence and causes of death. The on-line registration of the DC in the computerized civil registry and/or digital medical records, would allow to establish a statistical processing circuit, and to obtain a death count more quickly according to causes of death in the event of a health emergency. This requires a multi-level institutional agreement for a total telematics statistic process of death causes in Spain.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
COVID-19
Type of study:
Case report
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
Spanish
Journal:
Gac Sanit
Journal subject:
Public Health
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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