Aging Glossary Definition (English)
Cause of death Defined
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"For the purpose of national mortality statistics, every death is attributed to one underlying condition, based on information reported on the death certificate and using the international rules for selecting the underlying cause of death from the conditions stated on the death certificate. The conditions that are not selected as underlying cause of death constitute the nonunderlying cause of death, also known as multiple cause of death. Cause of death is coded according to the appropriate revision of the International Classifi cation of Diseases (ICD). Effective with deaths occurring in 1999, the United States began using the Tenth Revision of the ICD (ICD-10). Data from earlier time periods were coded using the appropriate revision of the ICD for that time period. Changes in classification of causes of death in successive revisions of the ICD may introduce discontinuities in cause-of-death statistics over time. These discontinuities are measured using comparability ratios. These measures of discontinuity are essential to the interpretation of mortality trends. For further discussion, see the “Mortality Technical Appendix” available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/ major/dvs/mortdata.htm.69 See also comparability ratio; International Classification of Diseases; Appendix I, National Vital Statistics System, Multiple Cause-of-Death File.70"
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