"Death Certificates" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Official records of individual deaths including the cause of death certified by a physician, and any other required identifying information.
| Descriptor ID |
D003644
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.308.940.350 L01.399.250.900.350 N04.452.859.264 N05.715.360.300.715.315 N06.850.520.308.940.350
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| Concept/Terms |
Death Certificates- Death Certificates
- Certificate, Death
- Certificates, Death
- Death Certificate
Death Records- Death Records
- Death Record
- Record, Death
- Records, Death
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Death Certificates" by people in Profiles.
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Behavioral risk factors of mortality after spinal cord injury. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2009 Jan; 90(1):95-101.
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Suicides, homicides, and accidental death: a comparative risk assessment of police officers and municipal workers. Am J Ind Med. 1996 Jul; 30(1):99-104.
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Multiethnic variations in the pregnancy outcomes of military dependents. Am J Public Health. 1993 Dec; 83(12):1721-5.
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Applications of extraction mapping in environmental epidemiology. Stat Med. 1993 Jul 15; 12(13):1249-58.
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Influence of death certificate errors on cancer mortality trends. J Natl Cancer Inst. 1993 Jul 07; 85(13):1063-8.
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Years of potential life lost among a Native American population. Public Health Rep. 1989 May-Jun; 104(3):279-85.
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Mortality in a northeastern Native American cohort, 1955-1984. Am J Epidemiol. 1989 Apr; 129(4):816-26.
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Agricultural life-style: a mortality study among male farmers in South Carolina, 1983-1984. South Med J. 1987 Sep; 80(9):1137-40.