The National Mortality Followback Survey is a survey conducted multiple times in the United States as part of a program that was started by the

National Center for Health Statistics The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is a U.S. government agency that provides statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve the public health of the American people. It is a unit of the Centers for Disease Control ...

in the 1960s. The survey gathers information on Americans who died in a given year from their death certificates and family members (or others who are familiar with the decedent's life history.) The first NMFS was conducted in 1961, and focused on, among other topics, institutional and hospital care people received in the last year of their life. Subsequent surveys were conducted in 1962-3, 1964-5, 1966-8, 1986, and 1993. As of 2009, it is conducted by the

National Vital Statistics System The National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) is an inter-governmental system of sharing data on the vital statistics of the population of the United States. It involves coordination between the different state health departments of the US states and ...

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