Guidance for Certifying Deaths Due to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Center for Preparedness and Response (CDC CPR). Published: 4/16/2020. This one-hour, four-minute Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) call provides an overview of the importance of mortality data, discusses the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) publication and the guidance it provides to clinicians who may need to certify a death involving COVID-19, and presents a summary of COVID-19 surveillance through the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS). (Video or Multimedia)
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