Representativeness of Deaths Identified Through the Injury-at-work Item on the Death Certificate: Implications For Surveillance

  • Conroy, Carol S.;
  • Russell, Julie C.
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AUTHOR ABSTRACT

This research investigated the accuracy of the injury-at-work item on the death certificate for surveillance of occupations injury deaths in Oklahoma during 1985 and 1986.

Representativeness of occupational injury deaths identified by death certificates was assessed by comparing these deaths with all occupational injury deaths identified through death certificates, workers' compensation reports, medical examiner reports, and OSHA records for categories of occupation, industry, and external cause of death.

Certain external causes of death (e.g., motor vehicle traffic deaths) and certain occupations (e.g., farming) and industries (agriculture and services) are more often underidentified through death certificates.

The findings of this study support Baker's observation that no single data source contains all deaths or all the data elements necessary to describe occupational injury deaths. Data sources may be combined to improve representativeness through more complete case ascertainment.

JOURNAL AND NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE ID#

JOURNAL: Am J Public Health. 1991; 81(12): 1613- 1618. ISSN: 1.

Note: American Journal of Public Health.

NLOM ID#: 92081891 .

Publication #: 92081891

This document was extracted from the CDC-NIOSH Epidemiology of Farm Related Injuries: Bibliography With Abstracts, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

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