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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

Causes of sudden death

open access: yesEuropean Heart Journal Supplements, 2023
Abstract Sudden cardiac death (SCD) pathophysiological point of view can be either mechanical or electrical. In case of mechanical SCD, the most frequent causes are pulmonary thromboembolism and cardiac tamponade due to intrapericardial rupture (aortic dissection, heart rupture).
De Gaspari, Monica   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Spontaneous hemothorax in Neurofibromatosis type 1 with a giant intrathoracic meningocele and intracystic hematoma: Diagnostic value of postmortem CT

open access: yesRadiology Case Reports
We report a case of spontaneous hemothorax in a 48-year-old woman with Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), presumed to result from rupture of an intrathoracic meningocele. She had been hospitalized for treatment of an intracranial carotid artery aneurysm and
Yohei Ikebe, MD, PhD   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘A confession of ignorance’ : deaths from old age and deciphering cause-of-death statistics in Scotland, 1855–1949

open access: yes, 2015
A large amount of the research undertaken in an attempt to discover the reasons underlying the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century mortality decline in Britain has relied on the statistics published by the Registrars General.
Reid, A   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Investigating the Challenges of Death Registration and Classification Program and Providing a Solution: A Qualitative Study

open access: yesمجله اپیدمیولوژی ایران, 2022
Background and Objectives: The distribution of causes of death indicates the distribution of risk factors for death, and is a basis of planning and intervention to reduce risk factors.
M Gholamhoseinzadeh   +3 more
doaj  

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
doaj   +1 more source

Performance of four computer-coded verbal autopsy methods for cause of death assignment compared with physician coding on 24,000 deaths in low- and middle-income countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
BACKGROUND: Physician-coded verbal autopsy (PCVA) is the most widely used method to determine causes of death (CODs) in countries where medical certification of death is uncommon.
Leitao, Jordana   +33 more
core   +1 more source

Carcinomas and Carcinoid Tumors of the Lungs and Bronchi in Children and Adolescents: The EXPeRT Recommendations

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Primary lung carcinomas and bronchial carcinoid tumors (BC) are very rare malignancies in childhood. While typical BC and mucoepidermoid carcinomas are mostly low‐grade, localized tumors with a more favorable prognosis than in adults, necessitating avoidance of overtreatment, adenocarcinomas of the lung are often diagnosed at advanced disease ...
Michael Abele   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Isolation of Streptococcus mutans in the gastrointestinal tract of corpses

open access: yesJournal of Oral Microbiology
Objective The oral–gut axis, the pathway by which oral bacteria reach the intestine, has recently attracted attention. However, no recent studies have isolated live Streptococcus mutans, a major pathogen of dental caries, in the gastrointestinal tract ...
Ami Kaneki   +17 more
doaj   +1 more source

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