Headlines - Electronic Death Certification in France

Since 2007, a new method of electronically certifying deaths has been available to physicians. In its first issue of the year, the BEH publishes the first epidemiological analysis of the data collected by this system.This study assessed the progress of the rollout of electronic certification from January 2007 to September 2011, compared mortality data by certification medium (paper/electronic), and evaluated the use of these data in the context of real-time health surveillance. [...]