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Accurate and timely mortality reporting is essential for gathering this important public health data in order to formulate emergency response to epidemics and new disease threats, to prevent communicable diseases such as flu, and to determine vital statistics such as life expectancy, mortality trends, etc. However, accurate collection and aggregation of high-quality mortality data remains an ongoing challenge due to issues such as the average low frequency with which physicians perform death certification, inconsistent training in determining the causes of death, complex data flow between the funeral home, the certifying physician and the registrar, and non-standard practices of data acquisition and transmission. 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