Vital Statistics

Known as: Statistics, Vital, statistics vitals 
Government records of live births, fetal deaths, marriages, divorces, and deaths that occur within that jurisdiction.
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2018
Highly Cited
2018
Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, part I: National cancer statistics
BACKGROUND The American Cancer Society (ACS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Cancer Institute… (More)
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2015
Review
2015
A global assessment of civil registration and vital statistics systems: monitoring data quality and progress
Increasing demand for better quality data and more investment to strengthen civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS… (More)
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Sample registration of vital events with verbal autopsy: a renewed commitment to measuring and monitoring vital statistics.
Registration of births, recording deaths by age, sex and cause, and calculating mortality levels and differentials are… (More)
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Births: preliminary data for 2002.
OBJECTIVES This report presents preliminary data for 2002 on births in the United States. U.S. data on births are shown by age… (More)
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
National Vital Statistics Reports
Objectives—This report presents complete period life tables for the United States by race, Hispanic origin, and sex based on age… (More)
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Diabetes in Ontario: determination of prevalence and incidence using a validated administrative data algorithm.
OBJECTIVE Accurate information about the magnitude and distribution of diabetes can inform policy and support health care… (More)
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Sudden cardiac death in the United States, 1989 to 1998.
BACKGROUND Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a major clinical and public health problem. METHODS AND RESULTS United States (US… (More)
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Implementation Brief: Use of Commercial Record Linkage Software and Vital Statistics to Identify Patient Deaths
We evaluate the ability of a microcomputer program (Automatch) to link patient records in our hospital's database (N = 253,836… (More)
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Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Mortality from tobacco in developed countries: indirect estimation from national vital statistics
Prolonged cigarette smoking causes even more deaths from other diseases than from lung cancer. In developed countries, the… (More)
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Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
The nationwide nosocomial infection rate. A new need for vital statistics.
From a random sample of patients and hospitals and extrapolation ratios derived from the best available sources of data, the… (More)
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