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Colombia Médica
On-line version ISSN 1657-9534
Abstract
CENDALES, Ricardo and PARDO, Constanza. Quality of death certification in Colombia. Colomb. Med. [online]. 2018, vol.49, n.1, pp.121-127. ISSN 1657-9534. https://doi.org/10.25100/cm.v49i1.3155.
Objective:
To evaluate the quality of the certification of general death and cancer in Colombia.
Methods:
Validity indicators were described for each province and the cities of Bogotá, Cali, Manizales, Pasto and Bucaramanga. A factorial analysis of principal components was carried out in order to identify non-obvious relationships.
Results:
Were analyzed 984,159 deaths, among them there were 164,542 deaths due to cancer. 93.7% of the general mortality was well certified. The predominant errors were signs, symptoms and ill-defined conditions. 92.8% of cancer mortality was well certified. The predominant errors were due to poorly defined cancer sites.
Conclusions:
Certification of quality indicators in Colombia has improved. Given the good performance of the quality indicators for certificating general death and cancer, it is considered that this is a valid input for the estimation of cancer incidences.
Keywords : Data collection; vital statistics; cause of death; developing countries; data quality; health information systems..