DEATH REPORTING

Dictionaries

Dictionary #1:  Reporter’s Area Office/Facility

•	Berkshire Office
•	Brockton Office
•	Cape Cod/Islands Office
•	Central Middlesex
•	Charles River West Office
•	Fall River Office
•	Franklin/Hampshire Office
•	Greater Boston Office
•	Holyoke/Chicopee Office
•	Lowell Office
•	Merrimack Valley Office
•	Metro North
•	Middlesex West Office
•	New Bedford Office
•	Newton/South Norfolk Office
•	North Central
•	North Shore
•	Plymouth Office
•	South Coastal Office
•	South Valley Office
•	Springfield/Westfield Office
•	Taunton/Attleboro Office
•	Worcester Office

•	Fernald Developmental Center
•	Hogan Regional Center
•	Templeton Developmental Center
•	Wrentham Developmental Center

Dictionary #2:  Waiver Program

•	ABI- Non-Residential-Habilitation
•	ABI- Residential Habilitation
•	Children's Autism Spectrum Disorder
•	DDS Intensive Supports
•	DDS Community Living
•	DDS Adult Supports
•	MFP- Community Living
•	MFP- Residential Supports
•	Non- Waiver

Dictionary #3:  Location of Death

•	Acute Care Hospital
•	Nursing Facility
•	DDS Residence
•	DDS Facility
•	ABI/MFP Residence
•	During transportation (funded or arranged by DDS or MRC)
•	Family home/private home
•	Adult Foster Care
•	DDS-funded Employment/Community based Day
•	Day Habilitation
•	Other

Dictionary #4:  Cause of Death

•	Cancer (malignant neoplasms)
•	Cancer of bladder
•	Cancer of cervix uteri
•	Caner of corpus uteri and uterus, part unspecified
•	Cancer of meninges, brain and other parts of the central nervous system
•	Cancer of the bone
•	Cancer of the colon, rectum and anus
•	Cancer of the esophagus
•	Cancer of the female breast
•	Cancer of the kidney and renal pelvis
•	Cancer of the liver
•	Cancer of the ovary
•	Cancer of the pancreas
•	Cancer of the prostate
•	Cancer of the stomach
•	Cancer of the trachea, bronchus and lung
•	Hodgkin’s Disease
•	Leukemia
•	Multiple myeloma and imunoproliferative neoplasms
•	Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

•	Alzheimer’s Disease
•	Aspiration pneumonia
•	Cardiopulmonary arrest
•	Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis
•	Chronic lower respiratory diseases
•	Congenital anomalies
•	Diabetes Mellitus
•	Heart disease
•	Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease (AIDS)
•	Infectious and Parasitic diseases
•	Influenza and pneumonia
•	Injuries (accident, homicide, suicide)
•	Nephritis and other Renal
•	Neurodegenerative disease (MS, ALS, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s)
•	Seizure
•	Septicemia
•	Stroke (Cerebra vascular disease)
•	Terrorism
•	Other
•	Unknown

Dictionary #5:  Underlying Cause of Death (Secondary)
•	Aspiration during seizure
•	Aspiration while eating
•	Anoxia during seizure
•	Asphyxiation due to choking on food/object 
•	Injury during seizure
•	Bowel obstruction due to fecal impaction
•	Bowel obstruction due to lesion or mass
•	Other

Dictionary #6:  Manner of Death
•	Natural
•	Accident
•	Homicide
•	Suicide
•	Could not be determined 
•	Pending investigation