{"id":8305,"date":"2021-04-01T14:59:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T21:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8305"},"modified":"2021-04-02T15:00:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T22:00:20","slug":"death-certificate-based-icd-10-diagnosis-codes-for-covid-19-mortality-surveillance-united-states-january-december-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/01\/death-certificate-based-icd-10-diagnosis-codes-for-covid-19-mortality-surveillance-united-states-january-december-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Certificate\u2013Based ICD-10 Diagnosis Codes for COVID-19 Mortality Surveillance \u2014 United States, January\u2013December 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The number of US death certificates from 2020 listing COVID-19 and at least one other co-occurring diagnosis were consistent with the number of deaths attributable to COVID-19 in 2020 (approximately 375,000) reported to the CDC&#8217;s National Vital Statistics System (NVSS). Among 378,048 death certificates including the ICD-10 code for COVID-19, 5.5% (20,915) only listed that code. Of the 357,133 (92% of total) death certificates with at least one other code, 97% had a co-occurring diagnosis that was a plausible chain-of-event condition (such as pneumonia), a significant contributing condition (such as hypertension), or both.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Deaths reported from inpatient settings accounted for 64% (240,770) of all death certificates, 86% of which had co-occurring diagnoses identified as chain-of-event and significant contributing conditions. 2.5% (9,638) of death certificates had co-occurring diagnosis codes not categorized as chain-of-event or contributing conditions, which were noted more frequently among those who died at home, were declared dead on arrival, and whose manner of death was not natural. 35% and 10% of deaths from individuals aged &lt;18 years and 18-29 years, respectively, belonged in this small proportion of deaths.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gundlapalli et al.\u00a0(Mar 31, 2021). Death Certificate\u2013Based ICD-10 Diagnosis Codes for COVID-19 Mortality Surveillance \u2014 United States, January\u2013December 2020. MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7014e2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7014e2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of US death certificates from 2020 listing COVID-19 and at least one other co-occurring diagnosis were consistent with the number of deaths attributable to COVID-19 in 2020 (approximately 375,000) reported to the CDC&#8217;s National Vital Statistics System (NVSS). Among 378,048 death certificates including the ICD-10 code for COVID-19, 5.5% (20,915) only listed that&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/01\/death-certificate-based-icd-10-diagnosis-codes-for-covid-19-mortality-surveillance-united-states-january-december-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[149,63,29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-8305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-mmwr","tag-mortality","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8306,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions\/8306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8305"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}