ArticleSociology of health & illness2021
The COVID-19 pandemic and cause of death.
Article in Sociology of health & illness, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05739305 (Death Certificate Analysis and Mortality at a Hospital From Colombian Orinoquia), which is not on this map. Cited by 10 papers.
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Death Certificate Analysis and Mortality at a Hospital From Colombian Orinoquia: A Retrospective Observational Trial.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Investigating Longitudinal Trajectories of COVID-19 Disruption: Methodological Challenges and Recommendations.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2026Article
- Accuracy of information on the underlying cause of death: An analysis in Colombia during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021.PloS one · 2025Article
- COVID-19 as cause of death: a bridge coding study.GMS infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Effectiveness of successive booster vaccine doses against SARS-CoV-2 related mortality in residents of long-term care facilities in the VIVALDI study.Age and ageing · 2023Article
- Clinical Effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 Booster Vaccine Against Omicron Infection in Residents and Staff of Long-term Care Facilities: A Prospective Cohort Study (VIVALDI).Open forum infectious diseases · 2023Article
- SARS-CoV-2-Infection (COVID-19): Clinical Course, Viral Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) and Cause(s) of Death.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube-Based On-Body Patch Antenna for Detecting COVID-19-Affected Lungs.ACS omega · 2022Article
- A Comparison of Germany and the United Kingdom Indicates That More SARS-CoV-2 Circulation and Less Restrictions in the Warm Season Might Reduce Overall COVID-19 Burden.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- What should be the baseline when calculating excess mortality? New approaches suggest that we have underestimated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and previous winter peaks.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- The COVID-19 pandemic and cause of death.Sociology of health & illness · 2021Article
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Abstract
This article explores the emergence and development of Death Certificates as a means of establishing the cause of death for individuals and populations. The difficulty in choosing which disease caused death when several are described on the Certificate explains why the number of COVID-19-related deaths has been difficult to determine. This problem also draws attention to the dominant biomedical explanation for the cause of death that both promote and circumscribe what can be recognised as a valid cause.
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