Anne Gro Pedersen

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Anne Gro Pedersen er cand.mag. i statsvitenskap og seniorrådgiver.

Articles by Anne Gro Pedersen

The quality of medical autopsy reports

Hanna Maria Eng,
Rolf Bruun Bie,
Anne Jarstein Skjulsvik,
Anne Gro Pedersen,
Glenny Cecilie Alfsen

16.08.2021: The declining frequency of autopsies is an internationally known trend (1). In the 1980 s, approximately 6 000 medical autopsies were performed in Norway annually, corresponding to nearly 15 % of all deaths (2). In 2018, this figure had fallen to 1 397, or 3 % of all deaths (3, 4). In a survey on...

Comparison of data from the Cause of Death Registry and the Norwegian Patient Register

Inger Johanne Landsjøåsen Bakken,
Christian Lycke Ellingsen,
Anne Gro Pedersen,
Lilian Leistad,
Jonas Minet Kinge,
Marta Ebbing,
Stein Emil Vollset

17.11.2015: The data quality in the Cause of Death Registry has been questioned (1). Many death certificates include logical or content errors (2, 3), and the Cause of Death Registry has been criticised for containing a large proportion of non-specific codes or codes that cannot represent the underlying cause...

Data quality in the Causes of Death Registry

Anne Gro Pedersen,
Christian Lycke Ellingsen

05.05.2015: The Causes of Death Registry is a key basis for health monitoring and preparedness, production of statistics and research. It is therefore crucial that death certificates are of adequate quality. The introduction of an electronic death certificate may hopefully improve the updating frequency as well...