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Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2021 Background: The presently used perinatal death certificate devised by the World Health Organization is incomplete and does not help in identifying “preventability.” Objective: To develop tools that can help identify (1) preventable perinatal death and (2)
H N Harsha Kumar +4 more
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Avoiding death by feigning death [PDF]
Current Biology, 2018 Thanatosis is a common phenomenon in which prey appear to feign death when attacked by predators. It was once widely believed that thanatosis exploited predators' tendencies to avoid dead prey. However, this hypothesis has never been tested, and its feasibility has been questioned to the point that it has been largely abandoned [1,2]. Here, I show that
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Differences in avoidable mortality between migrants and the native Dutch in the Netherlands
BMC Public Health, 2006 Background The quality of the healthcare system and its role in influencing mortality of migrant groups can be explored by examining ethnic variations in 'avoidable' mortality.
Bos V, Kunst AE, Stirbu I, Mackenbach JP
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Population Health Metrics, 2021 Background In many high-income countries, life expectancy (LE) has increased, with women outliving men. This gender gap in LE (GGLE) has been explained with biological factors, healthy behaviours, health status, and sociodemographic characteristics, but ...
Kasim Allel +3 more
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Avoidable mortality from circulatory system diseases in Moldova [PDF]
Население и экономика, 2021 Mortality from avoidable circulatory system diseases causes one of the major losses in life expectancy, especially in males and population of working ages. The main contributors are the deaths caused by ischaemic heart diseases, cerebrovascular diseases,
Vitalie V. Stirba
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Avoidability of hospital deaths and association with hospital-wide mortality ratios: retrospective case record review and regression analysis. [PDF]
, 2015 OBJECTIVES: To determine the proportion of avoidable deaths (due to acts of omission and commission) in acute hospital trusts in England and to determine the association with the trust's hospital-wide standardised mortality ratio assessed using the two ...
Black, Nick +5 more
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Avoidable malignant neoplasm mortality in Turkey between 2009 and 2018 [PDF]
World Cancer Research Journal, 2019 Objective: Policies being implemented to fight against noncommunicable diseases such as managing avoidable mortality and profiling avoidable mortality are commonly used as a performance outcome of the health care system. The objective of this study is to
S. Çinaroğlu, Z. Çalişkan
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Inequalities in pediatric avoidable hospitalizations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children in Australia: a population data linkage study [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Australian Aboriginal children experience a disproportionate burden of social and health disadvantage. Avoidable hospitalizations present a potentially modifiable health gap that can be targeted and monitored using population data.
Banks, Emily +8 more
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Avoidable mortality in the Russian regions [PDF]
Stanovništvo, 2011 The current trends of avoidable mortality, which is an integral indicator of health system performance, were analyzed. The paper discusses the regional heterogeneity of levels and trends in avoidable mortality in the Russian Federation.
Sabgajda T.P. +3 more
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Rate of avoidable deaths in a Norwegian hospital trust as judged by retrospective chart review. [PDF]
, 2018 BACKGROUND: The proportion of avoidable hospital deaths is challenging to estimate, but has great implications for quality improvement and health policy.
Berg, Einar Marcus +9 more
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