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Avoidable Mortality Differences between Rural and Urban Residents During 2004–2011: A Case Study in Iran [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2013 BackgroundAvoidable mortality as an indicator for assessing the health system performance has caught the attention of researchers for a long time. In this study we aimed to compare the health system performance using this indicator in rural and urban ...
Habib Omranikhoo +4 more
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The 2003 Iraq War and avoidable death toll. [PDF]
PLoS Medicine, 2013 Salman Rawaf discusses the implications of the most recent estimate of excess deaths associated with the Iraq war and subsequent occupation in the context of the current situation in Iraq. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.
Salman Rawaf
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Years of Life Lost (YLL) in Colombia 1998-2011: Overall and Avoidable Causes of Death Analysis.
PLoS ONE, 2015 ObjectiveEstimate the Years of Life Lost (YLL) for overall and avoidable causes of death (CoD) in Colombia for the period 1998-2011.MethodsFrom the reported deaths to the Colombian mortality database during 1998-2011, we classified deaths from avoidable ...
Liliana Castillo-Rodríguez +3 more
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Avoidable cancer deaths globally [PDF]
Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2011 Otis W Brawley
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Is Avoidable Hospitalization Experienced Prior to Infection Associated With COVID-19-Related Deaths?
International Journal of Public Health, 2022 Objectives: This study aimed to determine the effect of the presence or absence of avoidable hospitalization before acquiring coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on COVID-19-related deaths.Methods: This study used the total NHIS-COVID-19 dataset comprising ...
Woo-Ri Lee +4 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 This study aimed to analyze the distribution of stillbirths by birth weight, type of death, the trend of Stillbirth Rate (SBR), and avoidable causes of death, according to social vulnerability clusters in São Paulo Municipality, 2007–2017.
Lays Janaina Prazeres Marques +4 more
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BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Avoidable mortality is considered as a potential indicator of the influences of public health policies and healthcare quality on population health.
Ali Kiadaliri
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Avoiding deaths on Everest [PDF]
BMJ, 2006 EDITOR—Sutherland attributes prolonged exposure to high altitude through protracted rates of ascent as a fundamental cause of deaths on Everest,1 but the success of most expeditions emphasises that death at high altitude is avoidable. The Everest West Ridge expedition (http://www.armyoneverest.mod.uk/) highlights the importance of a collective ...
Stephen P, Cobley +2 more
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Investigating avoidable patient deaths [PDF]
BMJ, 2017 Families must come first, not corporate damage limitation The Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) review of the way in which NHS trusts review and investigate the deaths of patients in England makes for sobering reading.1 It emphasises that learning from deaths needs to be given much greater priority within the NHS to avoid missing opportunities to ...
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BMJ Open, 2022 Objectives To investigate mortality rates and associated factors, and avoidable mortality in children/young people with intellectual disabilities.Design Retrospective cohort; individual record-linked data between Scotland’s 2011 Census and 9.5 years of ...
Daniel Mackay +16 more
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