The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), tracks provisional coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mortality data. The CDC NCHS also provides mortality data related to pneumonia and influenza.
“Pneumonia and influenza deaths are included to provide context for understanding the completeness of COVID-19 mortality data and related trends. Deaths due to COVID-19 may be misclassified as pneumonia or influenza deaths in the absence of positive test results, and these conditions may appear on death certificates as a comorbid condition. Thus, increases in pneumonia or influenza deaths may be an indicator of excess COVID-19-related mortality. Additionally, estimates of completeness for influenza or pneumonia deaths may provide context for understanding the lag in reporting for COVID-19 deaths, as it is anticipated that these causes would have similar delays in reporting, processing, and coding.”
(Reference: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm)
COVID-19 Cause of Death Reference Set
The purpose of this reference set is to document the cause of death from or related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). References LOINC code 69453-9 Cause of death [US Standard Certificate of Death] and SNOMED CT observable entity concept 184305005 Cause of death (observable entity).
CDC NCHS reported causes of death:
COVID-19
Pneumonia
Influenza
Zero or more
The CDC NCHS causes of death should be represented with SNOMED CT concepts that are descendants of 419620001 |Death (event)|.
None at this time
None at this time