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Danger in the jungle:sensible care to reduce avoidable acute kidney injury in hospitalized children [PDF]
, 2020 When children require hospital admission, many receive medications with nephrotoxic potential. As such, this can translate into an increased risk of acute kidney injury.
Bagshaw, Sean M. +2 more
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Methodological analysis about the potential avoidability of motor vehicles colliding against pedestrians in urban areas [PDF]
, 2016 The main motivation of the authors of this article is to establish a rigorous definition of the potential capacity that a motor vehicle driver has to avoid a collision against a pedestrian. Henceforth we will call this capacity avoidability. To calculate
Cabrerizo Sinca, Julià +2 more
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Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2018 : The objective of this study was to analyze the level and trend of avoidable deaths and non-avoidable deaths and their contribution to the change in life expectancy in Latin America by studying the situations in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Mexico ...
Claudio Dávila-Cervantes +1 more
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Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 1995 Cuando se conciben las causas de muerte como el resultado de procesos mórbidos que pudieron haber sido evitados con distintos tipos de medidas económicas, sociales, de servicios de salud y los avances en el conocimiento científico y tecnológico, queda ...
Carlos Antonio G. Molina +1 more
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BMJ Open, 2019 ObjectiveInjury burden is highest in low-income and middle-income countries. To reduce avoidable deaths, it is necessary to identify health system deficiencies preventing timely, quality care.
Justine Davies +3 more
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Contributions of avoidable mortality to the sex gap in life expectancy and life disparity in Iran
Archives of Public Health, 2023 Background Public health policies and healthcare quality play a pivotal role on the health outcome level and disparities across sociodemographic groups.
Mohsen Bayati, Ali Kiadaliri
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Rethinking Responsibility for Patient Injury: Accelerated-Compensation Events, a Malpractice and Quality Reform Ripe for a Test [PDF]
, 1991 The accelerated-compensation events (ACE) approach in medical malpractice reform was studied. Reforms based on ACE best address the twin goals of making compensation more equitable and avoiding bad outcomes in medical ...
Bovbjerg, Randall R. +1 more
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Indirect economic costs of avoidable mortality in Moldova
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Geographica, 2021 In this article, we carry out the cost-analysis of the total premature mortality and avoidable causes of death for Moldova by applying the human capital approach. The results show that the indirect costs of avoidable mortality represent slightly over 85%
Irina Pahomii
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Identifying critically important vascular access outcomes for trials in haemodialysis : an international survey with patients, caregivers and health professionals [PDF]
, 2020 BACKGROUND: Vascular access outcomes reported across haemodialysis (HD) trials are numerous, heterogeneous and not always relevant to patients and clinicians. This study aimed to identify critically important vascular access outcomes.
Craig, JC +24 more
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STUDY OF MATERNAL DEATH IN A MATERNITY HOSPITAL [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 1976 During a period of five years (1971-75) 29 maternal deaths occurred in 15794 deliveries at the Amin Maternity Hospital in Isfahan (18.36 per 10.000). Death was considered to be due to direct obstetrical cause in 18 cases (62.0%), indirect obstetrical ...
P.Ghanai +3 more
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