Obscuring effect of coding developmental disability as the underlying cause of death on mortality trends for adults with developmental disability: a cross-sectional study using US Mortality Data from 2012 to 2016.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether coding a developmental disability as the underlying cause of death obscures mortality trends of adults with developmental disability.

Design

National Vital Statistics System 2012-2016 US Multiple Cause-of-Death Mortality files.

Setting

USA.

Participants

Adults with a developmental disability indicated on their death certificate aged 18 through 103 at the time of death. The study population included 33 154 adults who died between 1 January 2012 and 31 December 2016.

Primary outcome and measures

Decedents with a developmental disability coded as the underlying cause of death on the death certificate were identified using the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision code

SUBMITTER: Landes SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6443053 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature