The sensitivity and positive predictive values and other measures of validity for underlying cause of death for the death certificates (major sub categories of ICD10).
Proportions (%) of leading garbage codes registered in the information mortality system SIM by states according to regions. Brazil, 2014. Table S1 shows the number and proportion (%) of the leading ga
Garbage codes, such as external causes with no specific information, indicate poor quality cause of death data. Investigation of garbage codes via an effective instrument is necessary to convert them
ABSTRACT CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Mortality measurements are traditionally used as health indicators and are useful in describing a population's health situation through reporting injuries that lead t