Query Criteria for the Leading Causes of Death by Crude Rate, Deaths Per 100,000 Population Measure
Single Years Filter:
2010
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Data Notes
ICD Stands for International Classification of Diseases. It is a coding system maintained by the World Health Organization
and the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics used to classify causes of death on death certificates and diagnoses, injury
causes, and medical procedures for hospital and emergency department visits. These codes are updated every decade or so to
account for advances in medical technology. The U.S. is currently using the 10th revision (ICD-10) to code causes of death.
The 9th revision (ICD-9) is still used for hospital and emergency department visits.
Leading causes of death are generated from NCHS 50 leading causes.
Data Sources
Utah Death Certificate Database, Office of Vital Records and Statistics, Utah Department of Health;
The Utah Population Estimates Committee (UPEC) and the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget (GOPB), Estimates for
Counties by Sex and Single Year of Age. For more information, go to http://www.governor.utah.gov/dea/demographics.html.
Data Issues
Death certificates in Utah are required to be filed by funeral directors. Funeral directors obtain demographic information
from an informant, a close family member of the decedent. The cause of death is certified by the decedent's physician or the
physician that attended the death. Accidental and suspicious deaths are certified by the Medical Examiner. Death certificate
data go through extensive edits for completeness and consistency. The Office of Vital Records and Statistics (OVRS) does annual
trainings for funeral directors and local registrars.
When death certificates are received the cause of death literals are keyed into software locally by Office of Vital Records
and Statistics (OVRS), then shipped to NCHS where they are machine coded into ICD-10 codes. NCHS returns the ICD-10 codes
to OVRS where the death records are updated.
Office of Vital Records and Statistics, Center for Health Data, Utah Department of Health, Salt Lake City, UT 84114-1012, Telephone: 801-538-6843, Website: http://health.utah.gov/vitalrecords/,
Email: vrequest@utah.gov
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