Study of the Usability of an Automated Coding Software for Causes of Death in an African Context.

IRIS is an automated coding software for the causes of death. It is used in many European countries for the production of death statistics. The purpose of our work was to study the usability of this software in Africa where the quality of statistics is insufficient. For this, we have developed a device consisting of two software: "collector" and "encoder" cooperating via the same database.