Summary

Impact of changes to the software used for ICD-10 cause of death coding in mortality statistics in England and Wales.

Publications

• Cause of death coding in mortality statistics, software changes: January 2020

  The differences in mortality data for England and Wales coded to ICD-10, produced by changing from cause of death coding using the software IRIS 4.2.3 to the updated version MUSE 5.5.

Data

• All causes of death recorded on the death certificate coded in IRIS 4.2.3 and MUSE 5.5

  An anonymised dataset of underlying cause of death and other causes of death mentioned on the death certificate coded in IRIS 4.2.3 and MUSE 5.5.

• Underlying cause of death by ICD-10 chapter in IRIS 4.2.3 and MUSE 5.5

  A cross tabulation of numbers of deaths coded to each ICD-10 chapter using the different cause of death coding software versions IRIS 4.2.3 and MUSE 5.5, including percentage net gain or loss, comparability ratios and their accompanying 95% confidence limits.

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