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Newest firstBackgroundMortality is a critical variable in healthcare research, especially for evaluating medical product safety and effectiveness. However, inconsistencies in the availability and timeliness of death date and cause of death (CoD) information present significant challenges. Conventional sources such as the National Death Index (NDI) and electronic health records (EHRs) often suffer from data lags, missing field…
Open article record in new tab ↗ObjectiveTo evaluate the validity of death ascertainment from publicly available internet media (IM) sources by benchmarking against state and Federal vital statics data for patients in two large healthcare systems from the US. MethodsWe extracted names and dates of birth and death from publicly available data--including obituaries and memorial websites--using previously developed natural language processing model…
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