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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
Volume 152, Issue 2, Pages 107-111Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/aje/152.2.107
Keywords
computer systems; epidemiologic methods; Internet; mortality
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA-44854] Funding Source: Medline
- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL-34174, HL-07575] Funding Source: Medline
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The authors used the National Death Index and a World Wide Web Internet site that searches the Social Security Administration master files of deaths to determine the mortality status of 1,000 US subjects from the College Alumni Health Study. Subjects were classified as definitely dead, possibly dead, or presumed alive. Of 246 definite deaths pinpointed by the National Death Index, the World Wide Web identified 94.7% of them. Of 438 men presumed alive according to the National Death Index, the World Wide Web identified 97.5% of them. However, the World Wide Web was not useful for identifying deaths of women. This study demonstrated that the World Wide Web may provide an alternative, inexpensive method of determining the mortality status of subjects in relatively small epidemiologic studies.
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