title: A comparison of death certificate out-of-hospital coronary heart disease death with physician-adjudicated sudden cardiac death.
abstract: The number of deaths due to out-of-hospital coronary heart disease as determined by death certificates was compared with the number physician-adjudicated sudden cardiac deaths in the Framingham Heart Study from 1950 to 1999. Out-of-hospital coronary heart disease deaths overestimated sudden cardiac death by 47%, suggesting that out-of-hospital coronary heart disease death rates derived from death certificates should be interpreted with caution.
authors.affiliation: National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA. foxca@nhlbi.nih.gov
authors.forename: Caroline S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Fox
authors.forename: Jane C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Evans
authors.forename: Martin G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Larson
authors.forename: Donald M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Lloyd-Jones
authors.forename: Christopher J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: O'Donnell
authors.forename: Paul D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Sorlie
authors.forename: Teri A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Manolio
authors.forename: William B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Kannel
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Levy
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000401:mortality*; D003644:Death Certificates; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010820:Physicians