LOCAL EXPERIENCES Innovation practices and experiences related to FIC development and implementation Luís Cirera Medical self-training in Death Certification – The Certifica website

WHO - Family of International Classifications Network Annual Meeting 2014, Barcelona Authors: Lluís Cirera *, et al. and the Certifica group**: Regional Health Council of Murcia, Spain ** Andalucia, Catalonia, Bask Country, Castilla-Leon, Galicia and Murcia, Spaniard Autonomous Communities. Institutional collaborations National Statistics Institute, Ministry of Health, and Medical Colleges Organization, of Spain. Medical self-training in Death Certification: The Certifica website

WHO - Family of International Classifications Network Annual Meeting 2014, Barcelona Late 80s, underlying death cause coding from Medical Death Certificate was transferred to regional administrations in Spain. Rgal’ Administrations promoted quality and comparability of mortality statistics, especially in medical certification of deaths. Necessity of common materials and methodology to standardize the doctors’ training. At the beginning, workshops targeted certifying physicians and latter on, medical students. Background

WHO - Family of International Classifications Network Annual Meeting 2014, Barcelona What is Certifica? > is the collaborative output of 4 regional administrations, with the support of the Ministry of Health, the National Institute of Statistics, and the Physicians’ Colleges Organization, in Spain. > is a free website self-training program addressed to physicians to learn didactically how to fill in properly a death certificate in 4 units: 1. Legal Issues; 2. Filling in a Death Certificate; 3. Utility of Mortality Statistics; 4. Exercises on Certification; besides materials to teach a face-to- face workshop.

WHO - Family of International Classifications Network Annual Meeting 2014, Barcelona

Unit 2. Filling in a Death Certificate  Spanish Certificate of Death (CD) has the same structure and items, as WHO CD has.  The unit describes and explains CD sections, and how to fill in them properly; WHO concepts, definitions and recommendations, as well. All of that, with real examples.

WHO - Family of International Classifications Network Annual Meeting 2014, Barcelona

More characteristics  25,996 accesses (1/January/2013 to 1/June/2014). Several from online-courses to physicians in their specialist training period.  Located at  At to date. In Spanish languaje. The program could be adapted and translated to other languages.  Contact: Lluís Cirera; +34 (9) /

WHO - Family of International Classifications Network Annual Meeting 2014, Barcelona Agreements ** To the Certifica group: Covadonga Audicana, Jesús Carrillo, Sara Cerdeira, Rosa Gispert, Beatriz González, Consuelo Martínez, Purificació Molina, Rosa Mª Pérez, Anna Puigdefàbregas, Agustín Roca, Miguel Ruiz, Luis-Alberto Sangrador, José Juan Rodríguez-Sendín, and their public institutions.