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Avoidable mortality among psychiatric patients
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 1998Avoidable mortality is a selection of causes of death considered to be amenable to health care and thereby used as an indicator of the quality of health care. In this study avoidable mortality for more than 30,000 psychiatric patients discharged from any hospital of Stockholm County between 1981 and 1985 has been followed up in the Cause of Death ...
G, Ringbäck Weitoft +2 more
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Avoidable maternal mortality in Enugu, Nigeria
Public Health, 2008The aim of this study was to identify avoidable factors in maternal mortality in Enugu, Nigeria.A hospital-based descriptive study.The case records of maternal deaths in the Obstetric Unit of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu, Nigeria, between January 2003 and December 2005, were studied to identify maternal characteristics and ...
B C, Ozumba, E E, Nwogu-Ikojo
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Journal of Management in Medicine, 1989
Standard Mortality Ratios (SMR) for certain diseases from which death is considered avoidable can be used as outcome indicators, measuring the effectiveness of health service intervention. The interpretation of SMRs for diseases such as stroke, asthma and cancer of the bladder will be discussed.
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Standard Mortality Ratios (SMR) for certain diseases from which death is considered avoidable can be used as outcome indicators, measuring the effectiveness of health service intervention. The interpretation of SMRs for diseases such as stroke, asthma and cancer of the bladder will be discussed.
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Avoidable mortality in New Zealand, 1981–97
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2001To describe avoidable mortality in New Zealand, including trends and variations between groups by age, gender, ethnicity and degree of deprivation.New Zealand Health Information Service mortality unit records, 1981 to 1997, were classified as 'avoidable' or 'unavoidable' based on a reassessment of ICD9 codes and an upper age limit of 75 years ...
M, Tobias, G, Jackson
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Avoidable mortality in Québec and its regions
Social Science and Medicine, 1993Avoidable mortality has been proposed as an outcome measure of health services and our aim, in this study, is to trace its general features and regional variations in Québec. For that purpose, comparisons are established between two time periods (1969-73 and 1982-90) and with several countries.
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[Avoidable mortality in Belgium].
Social science & medicine (1982), 1987The concept of avoidable mortality leads to an attempt at using specific mortality rates as output measures of health services. The analysis covered 43 Belgian districts between the years 1974 and 1978. Two Belgian areas were compared along a dimension defined by two axes of a correspondence factor analysis: Flanders which is associated with low SMR of
P C, Humblet +4 more
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Pediatric mortality: an avoidable tragedy.
Le Journal medical libanais. The Lebanese medical journal, 1991The article analyzes the causes of pediatric mortality. One thousand deaths secondary to medical diseases and conditions that occurred at the American University of Beirut Medical Center during 8 years are reviewed. Many deaths could have been avoided. Recommendations are made.
N A, Mounla, A A, Khudr
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The economic value of reducing avoidable mortality
Nature MedicineLiving longer and healthier boosts individual and family welfare. As part of the World Bank's Healthy Longevity Initiative, we quantified the economic value of achieving the highest possible life span. We estimated the economic value of reducing avoidable mortality, defined as the difference between observed (or projected) mortality and lowest achieved
Angela Y. Chang +4 more
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