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An evaluation of the use of medical examiner data for epidemiologic surveillance.

P L Graitcer, W W Williams, R J Finton, R A Goodman, S B Thacker and R Hanzlick

To assess the value of medical examiner (ME) data bases for use in epidemiologic surveillance, we compared data from non-injury deaths that became ME cases to all non-injury deaths occurring in 1984 among Fulton County, Georgia residents. The decedents in the ME series were younger and included a large proportion of Black males. Although not representative of all deaths in a community, ME data bases include demographic and medical information that is often difficult to collect in community studies and in other surveillance systems.

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