Deirdre McLaughlin

Estimating causes of out-of-hospital deaths in China: application of SmartVA methods

Jinlei Qi, Tim Adair, Hafizur R Chowdhury, Hang Li, Deirdre McLaughlin, Yunning Liu, Jiangmei Liu, Xinying Zeng, Jinling You, Sonja Firth, Renee Sorchik, Peng Yin, Lijun Wang, Maigeng Zhou, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2021  |  Population Health Metrics

BACKGROUND: Most deaths in China occur at home, making it difficult to collect reliable cause of death (CoD) information. Verbal a..

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 ..

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..

Reducing ignorance about who dies of what: research and innovation to strengthen CRVS systems

Alan D Lopez, Deirdre McLaughlin, Nicola Richards

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC Medicine

The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) agenda offers a major impetus to consolidate and accelerate development in civil registrati..

Addressing critical knowledge and capacity gaps to sustain CRVS system development

Tim Adair, Nicola Richards, Avita Streatfield, Megha Rajasekhar, Deirdre McLaughlin, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC Medicine

BACKGROUND: Improving civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems requires strengthening the capacity of the CRVS workf..

Mortality surveillance and verbal autopsy strategies: experiences, challenges and lessons learnt in Papua New Guinea

John D Hart, Viola Kwa, Paison Dakulala, Paulus Ripa, Dale Frank, Theresa Lei, Ninkama Moiya, William Lagani, Tim Adair, Deirdre McLaughlin, Ian D Riley, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMJ Global Health

Full notification of deaths and compilation of good quality cause of death data are core, sequential and essential components of a..

Consent to data linkage in a large online epidemiological survey of 18-23 year old Australian women in 2012-13

Anna Graves, Deirdre McLaughlin, Janni Leung, Jennifer Powers

Journal article  |  2019  |  BMC Medical Research Methodology

BACKGROUND: Consent to link survey data with health-related administrative datasets is increasingly being sought but little is kno..

Strengthening mortality data for health policy and planning: the Bloomberg Data for Health Initiative in Latin America.

Deirdre McLaughlin, Alan D Lopez

Journal article  |  2019  |  Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia

Changes in housing among older women: Latent class analysis of housing patterns in older Australian women

J Byles, C Curryer, K Vo, P Forder, D Loxton, D McLaughlin

Journal article  |  2018  |  Urban Studies

Scant research exists on the patterns of changes in older women’s housing, and whether and when women transition into residential ..

"Everybody Knows Everybody Else's Business"-Privacy in Rural Communities.

Janni Leung, Annetta Smith, Iain Atherton, Deirdre McLaughlin

Journal article  |  2016  |  Journal of Cancer Education

Patients have a right to privacy in a health care setting. This involves conversational discretion, security of medical records an..