Quality of death certification in Colombia

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Autor principal: Ricardo Cendales
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author Ricardo Cendales
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contents Quality of death certification in Colombia Ricardo Cendales Constanza Pardo Medicina data quality cause of death Data collection vital statistics developing countries Objective: To evaluate the quality of the certification of general death and cancer in Colombia.Methods: Validity indicators were described for each province and the cities of Bogotá, Cali, Manizales, Pasto and Bucaramanga. A factorial analysis of principal components was carried out in order to identify non-obvious relationships.Results: Were analyzed 984,159 deaths, among them there were 164,542 deaths due to cancer. 93.7% of the general mortality was well certified. The predominant errors were signs, symptoms and ill-defined conditions. 92.8% of cancer mortality was well certified. The predominant errors were due to poorly defined cancer sites.Conclusions: Certification of quality indicators in Colombia has improved. Given the good performance of the quality indicators for certificating general death and cancer, it is considered that this is a valid input for the estimation of cancer incidences. 2018 artículo científico 0120-8322 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=28355922015 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/283/28355922015/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/283/28355922015/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/283/28355922015/28355922015.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/283/28355922015/movil 10.25100/cm.v49i1.3155 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=283 Colombia Médica application/pdf Universidad del Valle Colombia Médica (Colombia) Num.1 Vol.49
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spellingShingle Quality of death certification in Colombia
Ricardo Cendales
Medicina
data quality
cause of death
Data collection
vital statistics
developing countries
Quality of death certification in Colombia Ricardo Cendales Constanza Pardo Medicina data quality cause of death Data collection vital statistics developing countries Objective: To evaluate the quality of the certification of general death and cancer in Colombia.Methods: Validity indicators were described for each province and the cities of Bogotá, Cali, Manizales, Pasto and Bucaramanga. A factorial analysis of principal components was carried out in order to identify non-obvious relationships.Results: Were analyzed 984,159 deaths, among them there were 164,542 deaths due to cancer. 93.7% of the general mortality was well certified. The predominant errors were signs, symptoms and ill-defined conditions. 92.8% of cancer mortality was well certified. The predominant errors were due to poorly defined cancer sites.Conclusions: Certification of quality indicators in Colombia has improved. Given the good performance of the quality indicators for certificating general death and cancer, it is considered that this is a valid input for the estimation of cancer incidences. 2018 artículo científico 0120-8322 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=28355922015 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/283/28355922015/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/283/28355922015/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/283/28355922015/28355922015.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/283/28355922015/movil 10.25100/cm.v49i1.3155 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=283 Colombia Médica application/pdf Universidad del Valle Colombia Médica (Colombia) Num.1 Vol.49
title Quality of death certification in Colombia
topic Medicina
data quality
cause of death
Data collection
vital statistics
developing countries
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=28355922015
https://www.redalyc.org/journal/283/28355922015/
https://www.redalyc.org/journal/283/28355922015/html/
https://www.redalyc.org/journal/283/28355922015/28355922015.epub
https://www.redalyc.org/journal/283/28355922015/movil