Lene Mikkelsen

Improving cause of death certification in the Philippines: implementation of an electronic verbal autopsy decision support tool (SmartVA auto-analyse) to aid physician diagnoses of out-of-facility deaths.

Rohina Joshi, RH Hazard, Pasyodun Koralage Buddhika Mahesh, L Mikkelsen, F Avelino, Carmina Sarmiento, A Segarra, T Timbang, F Sinson, Patrick Diango, I Riley, H Chowdhury, Irma L Asuncion, G Khanom, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2021  |  BMC Public Health

BACKGROUND: The majority of deaths in the Philippines occur out-of-facility and require a medical certificate of cause of death by..

Effectiveness of training interventions to improve quality of medical certification of cause of death: systematic review and meta-analysis

USH Gamage, Pasyodun Koralage Buddhika Mahesh, Jesse Schnall, Lene Mikkelsen, John D Hart, Hafiz Chowdhury, Hang Li, Deirdre McLaughlin, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC Medicine

BACKGROUND: Valid cause of death data are essential for health policy formation. The quality of medical certification of cause of ..

Are cause of death data fit for purpose? evidence from 20 countries at different levels of socio-economic development

Kim Moesgaard Iburg, Lene Mikkelsen, Tim Adair, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLoS One

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Many countries have used the new ANACONDA (Analysis of Causes of National Death for Action) tool to asse..

Improving medical certification of cause of death: effective strategies and approaches based on experiences from the Data for Health Initiative

John D Hart, Renee Sorchik, Khin Sandar Bo, Hafizur R Chowdhury, Saman Gamage, Rohina Joshi, Viola Kwa, Hang Li, Buddhika PK Mahesh, Deirdre Mclaughlin, Lene Mikkelsen, Janet Miki, Roderick Napulan, Rasika Rampatige, Matthew Reeve, Carmina Sarmiento, Nang Su War, Nicola Richards, Ian D Riley, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC Medicine

BACKGROUND: Accurate and timely cause of death (COD) data are essential for informed public health policymaking. Medical certifica..

Improving the quality of cause of death data for public health policy: are all 'garbage' codes equally problematic?

Mohsen Naghavi, Nicola Richards, Hafiz Chowdhury, James Eynstone-Hinkins, Elisabeth Franca, Michael Hegnauer, Ardeshir Khosravi, Lauren Moran, Lene Mikkelsen, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC Medicine

ANACONDA: a new tool to improve mortality and cause of death data

Lene Mikkelsen, Kim Moesgaard, Michael Hegnauer, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC Medicine

BACKGROUND: The need to monitor the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to have access to reliable and timely mortality data ..

Assessing the quality of cause of death data in six high-income countries: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Japan and Switzerland

Lene Mikkelsen, Kim Moesgaard Iburg, Tim Adair, Thomas Furst, Michael Hegnauer, Elena von der Lippe, Lauren Moran, Shuhei Nomura, Haruka Sakamoto, Kenji Shibuya, Annelene Wengler, Stephanie Willbond, Patricia Wood, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Public Health

OBJECTIVES: To assess the policy utility of national cause of death (COD) data of six high-income countries with highly developed ..

Assessment of the quality of cause-of-death data in Greenland, 2006-2015

Kim Moesgaard Iburg, Lene Mikkelsen, Nicola Richards

Journal article  |  2019  |  Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Civil registration and vital statistics: progress in the data revolution for counting and accountability

Carla AbouZahr, Don De Savigny, Lene Mikkelsen, Philip W Setel, Rafael Lozano, Erin Nichols, Francis Notzon, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2015  |  LANCET

Are well functioning civil registration and vital statistics systems associated with better health outcomes?

David E Phillips, Carla AbouZahr, Alan D Lopez, Lene Mikkelsen, Don de Savigny, Rafael Lozano, John Wilmoth, Philip W Setel

Journal article  |  2015  |  LANCET