title: Cause-of-death certification in Africa: analysis of a model implemented at the teaching hospital of Souro Sanou of Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso).
abstract: BACKGROUND
  In Africa, mortality statistics are not reliable due to the low performance of the death registering systems. Our aim is to implement an efficient system. In this article we make a comparison between the existing system model and the new system that will be set up.
  
  
  METHODS
  UML has been used as the modeling language based on the 2TUP analysis methods.
  
  
  RESULTS
  the new system for registering deaths and their causes was conceived and represented through activities, utilization cases and data model diagrams.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We have developed a tool for death registration taking into account African hospitals characteristics. The progressive deployment of this system at the CHUSS of Bobo-Dioulasso enables users and actors to appropriate it.
authors.affiliation: Aix-Marseille University, UMR912 SESSTIM Inserm, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: Seydou Golo
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Barro
authors.affiliation: Aix-Marseille University, UMR912 SESSTIM Inserm, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: Jean Charles
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Dufour
authors.affiliation: Computer science Higher School, University of Bobo-Dioulasso.
authors.forename: Modeste
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Somda
authors.affiliation: Computer science Higher School, University of Bobo-Dioulasso.
authors.forename: Sadouanouan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Malo
authors.affiliation: Aix-Marseille University, UMR912 SESSTIM Inserm, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: Pascal
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Staccini
mesh_terms: D002050:Burkina Faso; D002423:Cause of Death; D003644:Death Certificates; D004282:Documentation / Q000592:standards*; D005568:Forms and Records Control; D019983:Guideline Adherence / Q000592:standards; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000592:standards*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000592:standards; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000592:standards*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled