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Mortality Ascertainment
Pages 44-48

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... and correctness as determined by corroboration from other sources. In this chapter we first describe this study's mortality ascertainment procedure, as planned given various constraints, and as adapted due to unforeseen and insurmountable obstacles.
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From page 45...
... The BIRLS database fields include: name, claim number, claim folder location, Social Security Number, military service numbers, date of claim, claim folder location? and date of death.2' BIRLS can be searched by automated routines using a standard protocol or by "hand," using whatever criteria the analyst seated at the terminal chooses.
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From page 46...
... State vital records offices provided the death certificates of 908 veterans identified through NDI searches. SUMMARY OF MORTALITY ASCERTAINMENT QUALITY AND ITS POTENTIAL EFFECTS ON VALID INTERPRETATION OF THE FINDINGS VA databases were the primary sources of vital status information in this study.
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From page 47...
... Both HCFA and NDI validation samples indicate that MFUA's reliance on VA data sources yields only a small number of missed alleged deaths. HCFA and NDI, in turn, miss some VA-alleged deaths.
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From page 48...
... If we were to take NDI and HCFA results as reliable indicators of missing deaths, the impact on our crude mortality would be either to increase participant mortality about 1.2 percent (using HCFA data) or to decrease it by 0.4 percent (using NDI data)
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