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        <NAME>Mort</NAME>
        <TEXT>Death certificates in New Mexico are required to be filed by funeral directors. 
                Funeral directors obtain demographic information from an informant, a close family 
                member of the decedent. The cause of death is certified by the decedent's physician 
                or the physician that attended the death. Accidental and suspicious deaths are certified 
                by the Office of the Medical Investigator. Death certificate data go through extensive 
                edits for completeness and consistency. The DOH Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics 
                (BVRHS) does annual trainings for funeral directors and local registrars. 
        </TEXT>
        <TEXT>When death certificates are received the cause of death literals are keyed into software 
                locally by the BVRHS, then shipped to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) where 
                they are machine coded into ICD-10 cause-of-death codes. NCHS returns the ICD-10 codes to 
                BVRHS where the death records are updated. 
        </TEXT>
        <TEXT>For rates where the count is zero, a numerator of "3" was used to calculate the confidence
                interval (per Lilienfeld and Stolley, __Foundations of Epidemiology__, 1994, p. 303).
        </TEXT>
</DATA_ISSUE>