Please contact us if you have any questions about the case assignment process, data entry, how to answer a question on the National Center data collection website, or other general questions about the review process.
Helpful Documents for Case Review and Data Entry
National Center For Fatality Review and Prevention Resources:
- Case Reporting System PDF Form (version 6.0 with State Added Questions)
- Data Dictionary (version 6.0)
- Webinars
- What's New in Version 6.0 - passcode: NCFRP
- Reviewing Deaths Related to COVID-19 - passcode: NCFRP
- Quicklooks - data visualization tools
Data Entry Help:
- Death Certificate Cheat Sheet (version 5)
- Birth Certificate Cheat Sheet (version 5)
- Requesting Records
- Documenting Cause of Death in Section G
- Coding State Added Questions in sections A1, F and H5
- Case Summary Template
- Writing the Narrative
- Acronyms (for the narrative)
- By topic
- Firearm
- Motor Vehicle & Graduated Drivers License (GDL)
- LGBTQ+
- Child Abuse, Neglect, Poor Supervision And Exposure To Hazards and Person Responsible
- Sudden Unexpected Infant Death
- What is a Sudden Unexpected Infant Death?
- SUID Clean Case Definition (version 5): for any sudden unexpected infant death case you get, you must fill out these questions on the National Center Data Collection Website.
- SUID Categorization Guide (for question N10)
- SUID Categorization Checklist
- SUID Investigation Reporting Form: CDC form updated in 2020, our goal is to have all death scene investigators using this form for SUIDs.
- Open in Google Chrome, and go to the death certificate FTP website.
- Enter your State issued username followed by \secft2.dphe.state.co.us
- For example, username\secft2.dphe.state.co.us
- Enter your password (the long, crazy one). If you have access to other state applications, your password to this website will change when you change your password to them.