ArticleAnnals of epidemiology2017
Fetal death certificate data quality: a tale of two U.S. counties.
Article in Annals of epidemiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Vanishing twins, selectionEvolution, medicine, and public health · 2025Article
- Worth the paper it's written on? A cross-sectional study of Medical Certificate of Stillbirth accuracy in the UK.International journal of epidemiology · 2023Article
- Risk factors for late (28+ weeks' gestation) stillbirth in the United States, 2014-2015.PloS one · 2023Article
- Antepartum and intrapartum stillbirth rates across gestation: a cross-sectional study using the revised foetal death reporting system in the U.S.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Article
- Understanding and detecting defects in healthcare administration data: Toward higher data quality to better support healthcare operations and decisions.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2020Article
- Persistent inaccuracies in completion of medical certificates of stillbirth: A cross-sectional study.Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2018Article
- Design and Methodology of the Study of Associated Risks of Stillbirth (SOARS) in Utah.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)Article
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Abstract
purposeDescribe the relative frequency and joint effect of missing and misreported fetal death certificate (FDC) data and identify variations by key characteristics.
methodsStillbirths were prospectively identified during 2006-2008 for a multisite population-based case-control study. For this study, eligible mothers of stillbirths were not incarcerated residents of DeKalb County, Georgia, or Salt Lake County, Utah, aged ≥13 years, with an identifiable FDC. We identified the frequency of missing and misreported (any departure from the study value) FDC data by county, race/ethnicity, gestational age, and whether the stillbirth was antepartum or intrapartum.
resultsData quality varied by item and was highest in Salt Lake County. Reporting was generally not associated with maternal or delivery characteristics. Reasons for poor data quality varied by item in DeKalb County: some items were frequently missing and misreported; however, others were of poor quality due to either missing or misreported data.
conclusionsFDC data suffer from missing and inaccurate data, with variations by item and county. Salt Lake County data illustrate that high quality reporting is attainable. The overall quality of reporting must be improved to support consequential epidemiologic analyses for stillbirth, and improvement efforts should be tailored to the needs of each jurisdiction.
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