SUMMARY OF UNIT 3:

 

Death Certificate: Parts, types and how to fill it

 

 

Summary

  • The format of a death certificate is Universal
  • Death certificate has 2 parts

1.Medical part: it is for the cause of death and manner of death. It also includes time intervals and ICD coding.

 

2.Non-medical part : it is for the identification and demographic particulars about the deceased at the top and the identification details     of the certifying physician at the bottom

Summary

  • There are 2 main types of death certificate

a. Institutional deaths to be filled in Form No. 4

b. Non-Institutional deaths to be filled in Form No. 4(A)

  • Filling a death certificate includes filling Part 1 and Part 2

Filling a Death Certificate

 

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Each event in the sequence should be recorded on a separate line

  • the immediate cause of death is entered on the first line, written in l(a)

 

  • any intervening causes on the lines between the first and the lowest used line, written in l(b)

 

  • the underlying cause of death is entered on the lowest used line, written in l(c)

A. Part 1                    

Filling a Death Certificate

 

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This is used for co-morbid conditions which have no direct connection with the events leading to death but which, by their nature, contributed to death

B. Part 2

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