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Deaths Caused by Bedrails

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1997
OBJECTIVES: To determine how bedrails cause death in order to suggest clinical and ergonomic changes to prevent such deaths and to promote research to improve the use and design of bed systems. DESIGN: A review of reports of adult ...
K, Parker, S H, Miles
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Causes of Death of Alcoholics

Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 1972
The ratio of observed to expected deaths from all causes was 2.02 for men and 3.19 for women alcoholics in a Toronto sample.
W, Schmidt, J, De Lint
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Causes of Death in Autism

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2001
The objective of this study was to determine which causes of death are more frequent in persons with autism, and by how much, compared with the general population. Subjects were 13,111 ambulatory Californians with autism, followed between 1983 and 1997.
R M, Shavelle, D J, Strauss, J, Pickett
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Schizophrenia as a Cause of Death

Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2003
Abstract Schizophrenia is a chronic disorder that is associated with increased mortality. Although traumatic deaths account for most of this increase, there is also an increased rate of natural deaths in this population. Altered autonomic physiology in this group might contribute to death. To determine if there are schizophrenics in whom,
Adam, Rosh   +2 more
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Cause of death: suicide

Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, 2006
In the last decade, apoptosis has gained recognition as an important event determining the structure and function of the myocardium. The purpose of this review is to provide insights into the mechanisms controlling programmed cell death of myocytes.
Jan, Kajstura   +4 more
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Prosperity as a Cause of Death

International Journal of Health Services, 1977
The general death rate rises during business booms and falls during depressions. The causes of death involved in this variation range from infectious diseases through accidents to heart disease, cancer, and cirrhosis of the liver, and include the great majority of all causes of death.
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Changing the Cause of Death

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1983
"Patients don't die of their disease," William Osler once wrote, "they die of the physiologic abnormalities of their disease." 1 Advances in medical care now make it necessary to reexamine Osler's observation. In this issue ofThe Journal(p 1055), Hook and co-workers give us such an opportunity, by indicating that despite sophisticated physiological ...
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Deaths Caused by Lightning

Journal of Forensic Sciences, 1993
Abstract Though a rare cause of death, lightning is reported to be responsible for more fatalities each year in this country than any other type of natural disaster. Lightning injuries differ significantly from other high voltage electrical injuries because of the high current flow, but extremely short duration, of the lightning stroke ...
B D, Lifschultz, E R, Donoghue
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THE ENIGMA OF CAUSE OF DEATH

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1956
† The causation of a given death is always multiple, so that the necessity of selecting a single cause for purposes of tabulation has become a distressing problem. The solution depends on the purpose for which the information is to be used. For the purposes of preventive medicine the single cause of death hitherto given has been very useful, but it ...
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Causes of Death in Hemophilia

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1970
To the Editor.— The causes of death in 28 hemophiliac patients are shown in the Table. During the past 15 years, 310 hemophiliacs were seen in this laboratory and follow-up information was obtained about all except eight. Half of the 28 deaths were clearly disease related, six possibly disease related, and in the remaining eight, hemorrhage played no ...
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