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      Defunciones por COVID-19: no están todas las que son y no son todas las que están Translated title: Deaths by COVID-19: Not all were registered and others should not be accounted for

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          Resumen La exactitud en el número de defunciones por COVID-19 ha generado polémica pública. La urgencia en disponer de esta información conjuntamente con otros datos para valorar la pandemia, ha inducido una variedad de procedimientos y formatos de modo que los datos no siempre se han tramitado de forma comparable al Ministerio de Sanidad. La elaboración de las estadísticas de mortalidad es compleja. Intervienen varias administraciones centrales y autonómicas, y no de la misma manera. La principal fuente de información es el certificado médico de defunción (CD) que permite distinguir por lugar de ocurrencia y causas de muerte. La inscripción telemática del CD en el ya informatizado registro civil y/o en la historia clínica digital, permitiría disponer de un circuito de procesamiento estadístico, y obtener con celeridad del recuento de fallecidos según causa ante una emergencia sanitaria. Para ello, se requiere un acuerdo institucional multilateral en España.

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          Abstract The death counts from COVID-19 have generated public controversy. The regional health councils' need for information regarding the cases, has generated a variety of formats and procedures, used to report this information. Consequently, this data has not always been communicated in a comparable manner to the Ministry of Health. The compilation of mortality statistics is complex. Central and autonomous public administrations are involved, and not in the same way. The medical death certificate (DC) is the main source of information that allows to specify place of occurrence and causes of death. The on-line registration of the DC in the computerized civil registry and/or digital medical records, would allow to establish a statistical processing circuit, and to obtain a death count more quickly according to causes of death in the event of a health emergency. This requires a multi-level institutional agreement for a total telematics statistic process of death causes in Spain.

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                Journal
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                Gaceta Sanitaria
                Gac Sanit
                Sociedad Española de Salud Pública y Administración Sanitaria (SESPAS) (Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain )
                0213-9111
                December 2021
                : 35
                : 6
                : 590-593
                Affiliations
                [4] Alicante Valencia orgnameUniversidad Miguel Hernández de Elche Spain
                [3] Barcelona orgnameConsorci de Salut i Social de Catalunya Spain
                [1] orgnameSociedad Española de Epidemiología orgdiv1Grupo de trabajo Mortalidad España
                [2] orgnameCIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP) España
                Article
                S0213-91112021000600590 S0213-9111(21)03500600590
                10.1016/j.gaceta.2020.06.006
                094beccd-2aa5-4288-b6e2-dcd24b0949bb

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 10 June 2020
                : 09 June 2020
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                Vigilancia en salud pública,Spain,Cause of death,Medical informatics,Death certificates,Vital statistics,Public health surveillance,España,Causa de la muerte Covid-19,Informática medica,Certificados de defunción,Estadísticas vitales

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