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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ben Khelil, Mehdi
• Kamel, Majed
• Lahmar, Sana
• Mrabet, Ali
• Borsali Falfoul, Nabiha
• Hamdoun, Moncef

Titel

Death certificate accuracy in a Tunisian Emergency Department

Ist Teil von

• Tunisie Medicale, 2017-06, Vol.95 (6), p.422-428

Ort / Verlag

Tunisia

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Assess Death Certificates accuracy (DCs) issued by a teaching emergency department in Tunis. It is a descriptive study. We included all death certificates issued in the Emergency Department of a teaching Hospital in Tunis over 17 months period (October 2013 - March 2014). Twenty-one errors have been predefined and classified as "Editing errors" or "Medical analysis error" then as major or minor errors. 757 certificates were studied; all DCs had at least three errors with an average number of errors of 6.92±1.55.      The mechanism of death was inadequate in 20% of the DCs.  The cause of death was "unacceptable" in 21% of the DCs. The results are similar to those reported in international literature. Therefore, it is urgent to start working on further and regular training on how to fulfil a death certificate for undergraduate and postgraduate medical students.