Implementing ICD mortality coding in the CRVS system

To allow for accurate cause of death data analysis, interpretation, and use, for deaths occurring in the presence of a physician, data collected on the international standard medical certificate of cause of death should be mortality coded according to the standard of the ICD. This guide provides perational best-practices for the improvement and maintenance of an ICD mortality coding system within the CRVS system. The efforts described in this guide will help to strengthen the quality and completeness of cause of death.