Annelene Wengler1, Heike Gruhl2, Dietrich Plaß2, Janko Leddin3, Alexander Rommel3, Elena von der Lippe3. 1. Department of Epidemiology and Health Monitoring, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany. wenglera@rki.de. 2. Department of Environmental Hygiene, German Environment Agency, Berlin, Germany. 3. Department of Epidemiology and Health Monitoring, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The cause of death statistics in Germany include a relatively high share (26% in 2017) of ill-defined deaths (IDD). To make use of the cause of death statistics for Burden of Disease calculations we redistribute those IDD to valid causes of death. METHODS: The process of proportional redistribution is described in detail. It makes use of the distribution of the valid ICD-codes in the cause of death data. We use examples of stroke, diabetes, and heart failure to illustrate how IDD are reallocated. RESULTS: The largest increases in the number of deaths for both women and men were found for lower respiratory infections, diabetes mellitus, and stroke. The numbers of deaths for these causes more than doubled after redistribution. CONCLUSION: This is the first comprehensive redistribution of IDD using the German cause of death statistics. Performing a redistribution is necessary for burden of disease analyses, otherwise there would be an underreporting of certain causes of death or large numbers of deaths coded to residual or unspecific codes.
BACKGROUND: The cause of death statistics in Germany include a relatively high share (26% in 2017) of ill-defined deaths (IDD). To make use of the cause of death statistics for Burden of Disease calculations we redistribute those IDD to valid causes of death. METHODS: The process of proportional redistribution is described in detail. It makes use of the distribution of the valid ICD-codes in the cause of death data. We use examples of stroke, diabetes, and heart failure to illustrate how IDD are reallocated. RESULTS: The largest increases in the number of deaths for both women and men were found for lower respiratory infections, diabetes mellitus, and stroke. The numbers of deaths for these causes more than doubled after redistribution. CONCLUSION: This is the first comprehensive redistribution of IDD using the German cause of death statistics. Performing a redistribution is necessary for burden of disease analyses, otherwise there would be an underreporting of certain causes of death or large numbers of deaths coded to residual or unspecific codes.
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Burden of disease; Cause of death; Ill-defined death; Mortality; Redistribution
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