Public health utility of cause of death data: applying empirical algorithms to improve data quality.

Sarah Charlotte JohnsonMatthew CunninghamIlse N DippenaarFablina ShararaEve E WoolKareha M AgesaChieh HanMolly K Miller-PetrieShadrach WilsonJohn E FullerShelly BalassyanoGregory J BertolacciNicole Davis Weavernull nullAlan D LopezChristopher J L MurrayMohsen Naghavi

Published in: BMC medical informatics and decision making (2021)

We provide a detailed description of redistribution methods developed for CoD data in the GBD; these methods represent an overall improvement in empiricism compared to past reliance on a priori knowledge.

Keyphrases

public health
electronic health record
big data
machine learning
deep learning
quality improvement