Table 1 Number of garbage-coded deaths (and percentage of all garbage-coded deaths) by ICD revision and method of determining redistribution parameters for cause of death data from 1980 to 2019
From: Public health utility of cause of death data: applying empirical algorithms to improve data quality
Method | ICD-9 | ICD-10 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
Multiple cause | 18,266,079 (35.1%) | 35,096,700 (30.8%) | 53,362,779 (32.2%) |
Negative correlation | 11,711,386 (22.5%) | 34,410,369 (30.2%) | 46,121,755 (27.8%) |
Impairment | 209,513 (0.4%) | 449,294 (0.4%) | 658,807 (0.4%) |
Proportional redistribution | 21,796,259 (41.9%) | 43,851,463 (38.5%) | 65,647,722 (39.6%) |