Instruction Manual Part 20
ICD-10 Cause-of-Death Querying
1999 and 2006 versions

The 1999 Instruction manual is available in three forms: a Wordperfect
file (zipped or unzipped) and ASCII on the ftp server or in
pdf format on the htm page.  The 2006 version is available in two
forms: WORD on the ftp server and pdf.

This manual presents principles and procedures for cause-of-death
querying.  Cause-of-death querying is a process by which the State
health department contacts the medical certifier who completed the
cause-of-death statement and asks for clarification or further
information so that the resulting mortality statistics may be as
complete and accurate as possible.

The 1999 Instruction Manual is comprised of a single Wordperfect file
that has been compressed into the file 20MANUAL.ZIP (about 162 KB).
Uncompressed, the Wordperfect 7.0 file (20MANUAL.WPD) is about 1.1MB
in size.  The ASCII file, 20MANUAL.TXT, is 260 KB in size.  The 2006
WORD version (Instruction Manual revise 2) is 3.8MB in size.

Questions and comments regarding the format and content of these
files should be addressed to Mortality Statistics Branch, Room 7318,
3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782.

This material is provided by NCHS which is a subunit of CDC/ATSDR.
It has been cleared for public distribution by CDC/ATSDR and will
be authentic if gotten from ftp://ftp.cdc.gov.  CDC/ATSDR takes
all effort to assure the authenicity of electronically distributed
documents.  However, in all instances where the electronic and
official agency record differ, the authenicity of the official
agency record is controlling.