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Patterns of preventable death and government response compliance across Australian coronial jurisdictions: a natural language processing analysis of 9833 findings

2026-02-14 public and global health Title + abstract only
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ObjectivesTo quantify patterns of preventable death in Australian coronial findings, measure government compliance with coroner recommendations across jurisdictions, and identify case characteristics associated with recommendation issuance and acceptance. DesignCross-sectional computational text analysis of publicly available coronial findings using unsupervised topic modelling and rule-based classification. SettingAustralian coronial system, all eight state and territory jurisdictions, findin...

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