Guidance for Certification of Deaths in the Event of a Natural, Human-Induced, or Radiological/Chemical Disaster | NLM

Disaster Information Management Research Center | NLM

Guidance for Certification of Deaths in the Event of a Natural, Human-Induced, or Radiological/Chemical Disaster

07/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Published: 7/2019. This course is geared toward death certifiers such as medical examiners, coroners, physicians, and justices of the peace, and covers the importance of including disaster-related data on the death certificate; the two types of disaster-related deaths, direct and indirect; how to determine if a death is disaster-related; and how to complete the death certificate for disaster-related deaths. (Video or Multimedia)