Table 2.

Comparison of death certification methods used, stratified by the frequency of deaths certified, for baseline (2007–2009) and post-intervention (2014) periods.

		Total Certifiers	Deaths Certified	% of all deaths	Paper	EDRS	EMR
<1 death/month	2007–2009	1790	4840	35.4%	72.0%	28.0%	–
	2014	1315	3901	29.4%	52.5%	37.5%	10.0%
1–2 deaths/month	2007–2009	34	1603	11.7%	10.2%	89.8%	–
	2014	105	1770	13.4%	26.3%	66.1%	7.6%
2–3 deaths/month	2007–2009	8	644	4.7%	1.4%	98.6%	–
	2014	42	1187	9.0%	10.5%	76.8%	12.8%
3–4 deaths/month	2007–2009	8	907	6.6%	0.4%	99.6%	–
	2014	20	821	6.2%	13.5%	79.1%	7.4%
4–5 deaths/month	2007–2009	1	148	1.1%	0.7%	99.3%	–
	2014	17	887	6.7%	19.1%	80.4%	0.6%
>5 deaths/month	2007–2009	13	5546	40.5%	0.1%	99.9%	–
	2014	38	4683	35.4%	2.8%	97.0%	0.2%
Cumulative totals	2007–2009	1854	13688	100%	26.8%	73.2%	–
	2014	1537	13249	100%	23.0%	71.3%	5.7%