State Differences in the Reporting of ‘Unspecified Stroke’ on Death Certificates

News Friday, October 5th, 2012

Stroke.ahajournals.org: October 2, 2012

Little is known about the comparability of stroke subtype mortality across states. We conducted a cross- sectional descriptive study to examine state differences in the reporting of “unspecified stroke” on death certificates in the United States.

Methods—The number of deaths from different subtypes of stroke in each state for the years 2007 to 2009 were obtained from the CDC WONDER online databases. We calculated the percentage of stroke deaths classified as unspecified stroke (International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision [ICD-10] code I64) among all stroke deaths (ICD-10 codes I60–I69) for each state. Read more

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