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Definition of pulmonary embolism‐related death and classification of the cause of death in venous thromboembolism studies: Communication from the SSC of the ISTH

open access: yesJournal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2020
Pulmonary embolism (PE)‐related death is often a component of the primary outcome in venous thromboembolism (VTE) clinical studies. Definitions for PE‐related death vary widely, which may lead to biased risk estimates of clinical outcomes, thereby ...
T. Tritschler   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Cause of death in adults with intellectual disability in the United States.

open access: yesJournal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2020
BACKGROUND Prior studies report that adults with intellectual disability (ID) have cause of death patterns distinct from adults in the general population but do not provide comparative analysis by specific causes of death.
S. Landes, J. D. Stevens, M. Turk
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Neonatal deaths in rural Karnataka, India 2014–2018: a prospective population-based observational study in a low-resource setting

open access: yesReproductive Health, 2020
Background Neonatal mortality causes a substantial proportion of the under-5 mortality in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). Methods We undertook a prospective, population-based research study of pregnant women residing in defined geographic areas ...
Sangappa M. Dhaded   +11 more
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Medical certification of cause of death for COVID-19

open access: yesBulletin of the World Health Organization, 2020
298 Reliable measurement of cause-specific mortality, analyses of morbid conditions and assessment of available health resources and services are among the first principles of epidemiology and evidence-based population health policy.
C. Rao
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Swedish cause of death register

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Epidemiology, 2017
Sweden has a long tradition of recording cause of death data. The Swedish cause of death register is a high quality virtually complete register of all deaths in Sweden since 1952.
H. Brooke   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Cardiovascular disease as a leading cause of death: how are pharmacists getting involved?

open access: yesIntegrated Pharmacy Research and Practice, 2019
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are a leading cause of death globally. This article explores the evidence surrounding community pharmacist interventions to reduce cardiovascular events and related mortality and to improve the management of CVD risk ...
Kevin Mc Namara   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Causes of death in Brazil

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Oral Sciences, 2020
Aim: In this study we described the causes of mortality in Brazil, its 5 geographic regions, and in the most populated cities of Sao Paulo State in order to contribute for development of prevention and intervention strategies.
Matheus Ferreira Linares   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Avoidable mortality among long-stay patients with schizophrenia under different smoking-restriction settings

open access: yesTaiwanese Journal of Psychiatry, 2019
Objective: Patients with schizophrenia are at a greater risk of avoidable death. Although smoking is a modifiable factor to reduce the mortality gap, the rate of quitting smoking in these inpatients is still lower than that in the general population.
Kan- Yuan Cheng, Shu- Yuan Chen
doaj   +1 more source

Improving cause of death certification in the Philippines: implementation of an electronic verbal autopsy decision support tool (SmartVA auto-analyse) to aid physician diagnoses of out-of-facility deaths

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2021
Background The majority of deaths in the Philippines occur out-of-facility and require a medical certificate of cause of death by Municipal Health Officers (MHOs) for burial.
Rohina Joshi   +14 more
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Brief Report: Lupus—An Unrecognized Leading Cause of Death in Young Females: A Population‐Based Study Using Nationwide Death Certificates, 2000–2015

open access: yesArthritis & Rheumatology, 2018
Mortality statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are used for planning health care policy and allocating resources. The CDC uses these data to compile its annual ranking of leading causes of death based on a selected list of
E. Yen, Rambeer Singh
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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