title: [Correcting for misclassified HIV/aids deaths in Mexico: Retrospective analysis, 1983-2012].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify and reassign misclassified AIDS deaths in Mexico, reconstructing the time series of mortality from 1983 to 2012, by state, sex, age, and affiliation to social security.
  
  
  METHODS
  15.5 million deaths from 1979 to 2012 were analyzed. The HIV-AIDS mortality correction was done in three phases: a) those causes directly related to AIDS; b) by miscoded deaths, and c) AIDS deaths hidden in other underlying causes of death. Age-standardized rates of mortality (SMR) were calculated by sex, affiliation to social security, and state.
  
  
  RESULTS
  107 981 AIDS deaths from 1983 to 2012 were accumulated, representing 11% of total deaths observed for the period. The SMR in men for all age groups begins to decline since 1996, while for women the decline started in 2008. A similar picture is observed for the population with / without social security. Heterogeneity is a feature for SMR by state.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  An easily replicable methodology for the correction of mortality from AIDS, which generates relevant information for decision making based on the evidence is presented.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.
authors.forename: Lucero
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cahuana-Hurtado
authors.affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.
authors.forename: Olivia
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Chilian-Herrera
authors.affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bautista-Arredondo
authors.affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Contreras-Loya
authors.affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, México, Distrito Federal, México.
authors.forename: Francisco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Franco-Marina
authors.affiliation: Dirección General de Información en Salud, Secretaría de Salud, México, Distrito Federal, México.
authors.forename: Juan José
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: González-Vilchis
authors.affiliation: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, Estados Unidos de América.
authors.forename: Rafael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lozano
mesh_terms: D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000401:mortality; D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000401:mortality; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D002423:Cause of Death; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015897:Comorbidity; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000401:mortality*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D038801:International Classification of Diseases; D008297:Male; D017057:Medically Uninsured; D008800:Mexico / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009026:Mortality / Q000639:trends; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012943:Social Security; D055815:Young Adult