Improving the usefulness of US mortality data: new methods for reclassification of underlying cause of death

Mortality data are affected by miscertification of the medical cause of death deaths and changes to cause of death classification systems. We present both mappings of ICD9 and ICD10 to a unified list of causes, and a new statistical model for reducing the impact of misclassification of cause of death. We propose a Bayesian mixed-effects multinomial logistic model that can be run on individual record level death certificates to reclassify...