Official Statistics

Measuring pre-existing health conditions in death certification

Method for deciding which of a number of health conditions mentioned on the death certificate are pre-existing conditions, and which one of those is the "main pre-existing condition", for use in certain mortality analyses, for example deaths involving COVID-19.

• From: Office for National Statistics
• Published: 16 April 2020

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Measuring pre-existing health conditions in death certification

https://www.ons.gov.uk/releases/measuringpreexistinghealthconditionsindeathcertification

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Published 16 April 2020