Mortality statistics: deaths registered in 2008

This publication presents mortality statistics on deaths registered in 2008 in England and Wales, classified by sex and age and by other selected information collected at the time of registration. It replaces the annual reference volumes DH1, DH2 and DH4. INDICE: Introduction Page - Tables in this publication - Data analysed in this publication - Associated publications and the National Statistics website- Historic data and figures for UK countries - Other ONS annual volumes - Population Trends and Health Statistics Quarterly publications - Notes and definitions - Base populations - Occurrences and registrations - Outputs review - Areal coverage - Usual residence of deceased, and place of occurrence - Usual residence of deceased - Place of occurrence - Deaths in hospices - Stillbirths -Infant deaths - Death rates, ratios and standardisation - Standardised mortality ratios - Years of life lost - Certification of cause of death - Referral to the coroner - Coroners' inquests - Legally uncertified deaths - Registrationof deaths by declaration - Coding the underlying cause of death - Selection and modification rules - Note on coding of acute rheumatic fever - Causes of death listed in this publication - ONS short list - Two codes for certain conditions xxi - The 'dagger and asterisk' system - Secondary causes - Final cause of death - Accelerated registrations - Assault and intentional self-harm - Numbers of deaths from assault (homicide) - Numbers of deaths from intentional self-harm (suicide) - Neonatal deaths - Further information - Contents - Background to mortality data Page - Redevelopment of mortality statistics xxiv - Registration practice - The deaths databases - Automated cause coding - Use of WHO Rule 3 - ICD-9 - ICD-10 implementation - Using cause of death data from 1993 to 2000 - Legislation - Historical changes in mortality data - Quality of mortality data - Completing medical certificates of cause of death - Registration of the death - Entry of data into Registration Service Software (RSS) - Other checks made by the Registration Service - At the time of registration - By superintendent Registrars and Inspectors of Registration - Receipt of death registration data at ONS Titchfield - Validation processes - Routine checks in Titchfield - Automated Cause Coding System (ACCS) - Checks before and after extraction of data for analysis - Checks on routine outputs - Text tables - A Presentation of main tables by age - B Deaths at ages 110 and over, 2005b 08 - C Deaths of non-residents, 2003b 08 - D Distribution of the European Standard Population - E Deaths by method of certification and registration, 2004b 08 - F ONS short list of cause of death codes, using ICD-10 - Figure A Certification and registration of deaths registered in 2008 - References - Glossary

• ISBN: 978-0-230-25288-2
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Fecha Publicación: 18/11/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés