TY - JOUR AU - Lucero, Marilla AU - Riley, Ian Douglas AU - Hazard, Riley H. AU - Sanvictores, Diozele AU - Tallo, Veronica AU - Dumaluan, Dorothy Gay Marmita AU - Ugpo, Juanita M. AU - Lopez, Alan D. PY - 2018 DA - 2018/12/29 TI - Assessing the quality of medical death certification: a case study of concordance between national statistics and results from a medical record review in a regional hospital in the Philippines JO - Population Health Metrics SP - 23 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - Medical certificates of cause of death (MCCOD) issued by hospital physicians are a key input to vital registration systems. Deaths certified by hospital physicians have been implicitly considered to be of high quality, but recent evidence suggests otherwise. We conducted a medical record review (MRR) of hospital MCCOD in the Philippines and compared the cause of death concordance with certificates coded by the Philippines Statistics Authority (PSA). SN - 1478-7954 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12963-018-0178-0 DO - 10.1186/s12963-018-0178-0 ID - Lucero2018 ER -