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Table 1 Four examples of possible ways of completion of death certificate for the same case scenario described in Figure 1. Only the example D is accurate.

From: Evaluating an educational intervention to improve the accuracy of death certification among trainees from various specialties

Example A

  

Examples

 

Type of errors

Part I

  

(a)

Respiratory (or cardiac) arrest

Listing mechanisms of death without an underlying cause of death

(b)

-

 

Part II

-

 

Example B

  

Part I

  

(a)

Emphysema

Improper sequencing of events

(b)

Pneumonia

 

Part II

Coronary artery disease

 

Example C

  

Part I

  

(a)

Coronary artery disease

Listing two causally unrelated diseases

(b)

COPD

Use of abbreviations

Part II

-

 

Example D

  

Part I

  

(a)

H. Influenza Pneumonia

None

(b)

Emphysema

 

Part II

Coronary artery disease