A comparison of death recording by health centres and civil registration in South Africans receiving antiretroviral treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

There is uncertainty regarding the completeness of death recording by civil registration and by health centres in South Africa. This paper aims to compare death recording by the two systems, in cohorts of South African patients receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART).

Methods

Completeness of death recording was estimated using a capture-recapture approach. Six ART programmes linked their patient record systems to the vital registration system using civil identity document (ID) numbers and provided data comparing the outcomes recorded in patient files and in the vital registration. Patients were excluded if they had missing/invalid IDs or had transferred to other ART programmes.

Results

After exclusions, 91,548 patient records were included. Of deaths rec

SUBMITTER: Johnson LF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4684576 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature