2013 Studies

Below are curated studies from 2013.

National Death Index Users Guide

CDC; National Center for Health Statistics. National Death Index User’s Guide. Hyattsville, MD. 2013; https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ndi/ndi_users_guide.pdf (accessed 7/31/2024).

Summary

The Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 242m) provides in Section 308(d) that the data collected by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), may be used only for the purpose of health statistical reporting and analysis.
Furthermore, the applicant has assured NCHS that the identifying information:
- Will be used only for statistical purposes in medical and health research.