An 80-year old dies. Official cause of death recorded should be:
- 60 years of smoking24.1%
- 1 year of lung cancer14.2%
- 2 weeks of pneumonia16.2%
- See results45.5%
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Official cause of death is usually the last thing that happened that killed them. not the root cause.
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see the form for an example: cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/
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my fathers DC listed cancer, but it was in fact the chemo that killed him [ way before the cancer would have]
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Why can't we have multiple causes!! smoking shouldn't be considered the cause on the certificate, but Cancer + Pneumonia should both be on there.
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