Objective: To develop, in a mortuary setting, a pilot programme for improving the accuracy of records of deaths caused by injury.
Methods: The recording of injury-related deaths was upgraded at the mortuary of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana, in 1996 through the creation of a prospectively gathered database.
Findings: There was an increase in the number of deaths reported annually as attributable to injury from 72 before 1995 to 633 in 1996-99.