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Title: | Overview and Development of the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Determination of Cause of Death (DeCoDe) Process and DeCoDe Diagnosis Standards |
Author: | Blau, Dianna M. Caneer, J. Patrick Philipsborn, Rebecca P. Madhi, Shabir A. Bassat Orellana, Quique Varo, Rosauro Mandomando, Inácio Igunza, Kitiezo Aggrey Kotloff, Karen L. Tapia, Milagritos D. Johnstone, Siobhan Chawana, Richard Rahman, Richard El Arifeen, Shams Onyango, Dickens Kaiser, Reinhard Seale, Anna C. Assefa, Nega Morris, Timothy, 1953- Raghunathan, Pratima L. Breiman, Robert F. |
Keywords: | Infants Mortalitat infantil Children Infant mortality |
Issue Date: | 9-Oct-2019 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Abstract: | Mortality surveillance and cause of death data are instrumental in improving health, identifying diseases and conditions that cause a high burden of preventable deaths, and allocating resources to prevent these deaths. The Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) network uses a standardized process to define, assign, and code causes of stillbirth and child death (<5 years of age) across the CHAMPS network. A Determination of Cause of Death (DeCoDe) panel composed of experts from a local CHAMPS site analyzes all available individual information, including laboratory, histopathology, abstracted clinical records, and verbal autopsy findings for each case and, if applicable, also for the mother. Using this information, the site panel ascertains the underlying cause (event that precipitated the fatal sequence of events) and other antecedent, immediate, and maternal causes of death in accordance with the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision and the World Health Organization death certificate. Development and use of the CHAMPS diagnosis standards—a framework of required evidence to support cause of death determination—assures a homogenized procedure leading to a more consistent interpretation of complex data across the CHAMPS network. This and other standardizations ensures future comparability with other sources of mortality data produced externally to this project. Early lessons learned from implementation of DeCoDe in 5 CHAMPS sites in sub-Saharan Africa and Bangladesh have been incorporated into the DeCoDe process, and the implementation of DeCoDe has the potential to spur health systems improvements and local public health action. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz572 |
It is part of: | Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2019, vol. 69, supl. 4, p. S333–S341 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/143459 |
Related resource: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz572 |
ISSN: | 1058-4838 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (ISGlobal) |
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