Level of knowledge about death certificates in recently graduated physicians

• Autor: Soto-Cáceres, Víctor Alberto
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2021
• Institución: Cuerpo Médico Hospital Nacional Almanzor Aguinaga Asenjo
• Repositorio: Revista del Cuerpo Médico Hospital Nacional Almanzor Aguinaga Asenjo
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:cmhnaaa_ojs_cmhnaaa.cmhnaaa.org.pe:article/1054
• Enlace del recurso: https://cmhnaaa.org.pe/ojs/index.php/rcmhnaaa/article/view/1054
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Certificado de defunción; causa básica de muerte; sistemas de información; mortalidad; calidad; Death certificates; basic cause of death; information systems; mortality; quality

Objetive: specify the level of knowledge about the correct completion of death certificates in doctors who start the rural urban marginal health service (SERUMS). The study: descriptive cross-sectional design. Population: attending the SERUMS induction course: 86 recent graduates. Instrument: questionnaire with questions based on the "Technical Guide for the correct completion of death certificates 2018" Ministry of Health. Findings: 23% of the total have a terrible level, 41% bad, 34% fair and 2% good; the majority do not know how to specify the basic cause of death and 98% do not consider the accident circumstance as the basic cause and 85% do not know about SINADEF. Conclusions: The level of knowledge about the correct completion of the death certificate is very low with great ignorance to locate the basic cause of death.