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cord-268761-yr0n5g7i	Rao, Chalapati	Medical certification of cause of death for COVID-19	2020-05-01		.txt	text/plain	875	55	39	To guide data recording, compilation and analysis, the World Health Organization (WHO) has published protocols for countries to notify COVID-19 individual case reports as well as aggregated data of newly confirmed cases and deaths. In practice, WHO's International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems (ICD) includes a form for medical certification of cause of death. For COVID-19 cases, the complete sequence, along with all other conditions co-existent with COVID-19 infection at death, would be required for detailed descriptive and analytical epidemiology. Analysis of clinical sequences from the medical certification of cause of death forms with chronology can be useful to guide priorities and resource allocation for critical care management, as well as enhance our understanding of epidemiological patterns and causal pathways to mortality from COVID-19. All current epicentres of the pandemic routinely use WHO's form for medical certification of cause of death. For better epidemic surveillance, strengthening medical certification of cause of death is needed across most countries in the world.	./cache/cord-268761-yr0n5g7i.txt	./txt/cord-268761-yr0n5g7i.txt