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Descriptor English: Death Certificates
Descriptor Spanish: Certificado de Defunción
Descriptor certificados de defunción
Entry term(s) registros de defunción
Scope note: Registros oficiales de la muerte de un individuo, en el que se incluye la causa del fallecimiento, establecida por un medico, y cualquier información identificativa adicional que se requiera.
Descriptor Portuguese: Atestado de Óbito
Descriptor French: Certificats de décès
Entry term(s): Certificate, Death
Certificates, Death
Death Certificate
Death Record
Death Records
Record, Death
Records, Death
Tree number(s): E05.318.308.940.350
L01.399.250.900.350
N04.452.859.264
N05.715.360.300.715.315
N06.850.520.308.940.350
SP3.311.300.627.102
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003644
Scope note: Official records of individual deaths including the cause of death certified by a physician, and any other required identifying information.
Annotation: IM
Allowable Qualifiers: HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
DeCS ID: 28029
Unique ID: D003644
NLM Classification: WA 54
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2017/06/30
Death Certificates - Preferred
Concept UI M0005705
Scope note Official records of individual deaths including the cause of death certified by a physician, and any other required identifying information.
Preferred term Death Certificates
Entry term(s) Certificate, Death
Certificates, Death
Death Certificate
Death Records - Broader
Concept UI M0005706
Preferred term Death Records
Entry term(s) Death Record
Record, Death
Records, Death



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