Autopsy report diagnoses for motor vehicle-related deaths: how much more can they add to death certificate information?

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Acknowledgements

We thank Jen Stipanovic for designing the data entry forms and both Jen and Cara Spencer for entering autopsy report data at the Allegheny County ME Office. We thank Jan Weiser and nosologist Greg Wolfe of Weiser Consulting for the ICD-10 coding. Craig Edelman provided the death certificate data from the PA DOH. We thank Lois Fingerhut for her review of the manuscript and helpful comments. Melvin Barna of the Epidemiology Data Center at the University of Pittsburgh provided assistance with SAS programming. This study was supported by a small grant from the Center for Injury Research and Control at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Harold B. Weiss

1Dr. Weiss's affiliation at the time of the study was University of Pittsburgh, Center for Injury Research and Control.