Identifying heat-related deaths by using medical examiner and vital statistics data: Surveillance analysis and descriptive epidemiology — Oklahoma, 1990-2011
More heat-related deaths have been documented in Oklahoma in recent years.
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Persons aged ≥65 years, male, black, or unmarried may be disproportionately represented.
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Surveillance can be unreliable if only searching for cases using ICD coding schemes.
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Linking medical examiner and vital statistics data may improve surveillance quality.
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