Publications by authors named "Kallis N"
Background: Despite South Africa's well-established Civil Registration and Vital Statistics system (CRVS) and good completeness of death registration, challenges persist in terms of the quality of cause of death information and the delayed availability of mortality statistics. The introduction of an electronic medical certification of cause of death (eMCCD) system may offer opportunities to improve both the quality and timeliness of this information.
Methods: This study used an exploratory mixed methods design to investigate perceptions surrounding an electronic solution for registering deaths in South Africa.
Article Synopsis
- Verbal autopsy (VA) helps find out causes of death where birth and death records are not kept well, but it's costly. Telephonic VAs can save money. Sometimes, doctors need to agree on the cause, which can take a lot of time and effort.
- The study looked at how often two doctors agreed on the cause of death using telephonic VAs in South Africa, checking if their agreement was very high (over 0.8).
- Results showed that doctors agreed on causes like COVID-19 and heart disease most of the time, but not as much on diabetes. This means they might still need more than one doctor to be sure about the causes
Background: Contrary to the World Health Organization's internationally recommended medical certificate of cause of death, the South African (SA) death notification form (DNF) does not allow for the reporting of the manner of death to permit accurate coding of external causes of injury deaths.
Objectives: To describe the injury cause-of-death profile from forensic pathology records collected for the National Cause-of-Death Validation (NCoDV) Project and compare it with profiles from other sources of injury mortality data. In particular, the recording of firearm use in homicides is compared between sources.