e-MCCD M1U3 Summary

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

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

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

Your next Unit is

‘Practical exercises’

on filling up a death certificate