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RESPONSES/COMMENTS NON-CLINICAL) - PART 1

08/06/2012     




RE: Source for Looking up Deceased Patients? (J Ressler, DPM)
From: Lori Preece

We have a paid subscription to Ancestry.com to use their Social Security Death Index to identify deceased patients, but if you go to Wikipedia and type in Social Security Death Index, there is a link to a free site for the Death Master File under the heading “Criticisms”. This file has deaths listed which occurred before November 30, 2011. We have found the Ancestry.com SSDI file to be current and reliable.

Lori Preece, Office Manager for  Dr. Jeffrey H. Katz, jeffreykdpm@sbcglobal.net