Abstract

SOTO-CACERES, Víctor Alberto. Level of knowledge about death certificates in recently graduated physicians. Rev. Cuerpo Med. HNAAA [online]. 2021, vol.14, n.2, pp.180-183. ISSN 2225-5109.  http://dx.doi.org/10.35434/rcmhnaaa.2021.142.1054.

Objetive: specify the level of knowledge about the correct completion of death certificates in doctors who start the rural urban marginal health service (SERUMS). The study: descriptive cross-sectional design. Population: attending the SERUMS induction course: 86 recent graduates. Instrument: questionnaire with questions based on the "Technical Guide for the correct completion of death certificates 2018" Ministry of Health. Findings: 23% of the total have a terrible level, 41% bad, 34% fair and 2% good; the majority do not know how to specify the basic cause of death and 98% do not consider the accident circumstance as the basic cause and 85% do not know about SINADEF. Conclusions: The level of knowledge about the correct completion of the death certificate is very low with great ignorance to locate the basic cause of death.

Keywords : Death certificates; basic cause of death; information systems; mortality; quality.

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