Quality of death certificates completion for COVID-19 cases in the southeast of Iran: A cross-sectional study.
Jahanpour AlipourAfsaneh KarimiGhasem Miri-AliabadFarzaneh Baloochzahei-ShahbakhshAbolfazl PayandehRoxana SharifianPublished in: Health science reports (2022)
The rate of both major and minor errors was high. Using automated tools for recording and selecting death cause(s), promoting certifiers' skills on DC completion, and applying quality control mechanisms in DC documentation can improve death data and statistics.