- Cause of death investigations often dead wrong
- Accurate death certificates challenged by poor training
- Poll: Doubts persist over accuracy of death certificates
- Survey results among different groups
- Death poll findings, by questions
- What to do if you distrust the death diagnosis
- Where to find death records
- Deaths by heart disease by state
- Editorial: We don't know what's really killing Americans
A seven-month investigation into federal mortality records reveals hundreds of thousands of death certificates filed every year in the United States are wrong, meaning we don't really know what's killing Americans. A first-of-its-kind study also found that younger, well-educated and wealthy people are more likely to be autopsied when they die. More men than women are autopsied. And blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Native Americans are more likely to be autopsied than whites.
