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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

Bayesian Active Questionnaire Design for Cause-of-Death Assignment Using Verbal Autopsies [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
Only about one-third of the deaths worldwide are assigned a medically-certified cause, and understanding the causes of deaths occurring outside of medical facilities is logistically and financially challenging. Verbal autopsy (VA) is a routinely used tool to collect information on cause of death in such settings.
arxiv  

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

Cause-specific mortality in Korea during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]

open access: yesEpidemiology and Health, 2022
OBJECTIVES This study aimed to examine the trends in total mortality between 1998 and 2020 and to compare the changes in a wide range of detailed causes of death between 2020 (i.e., during the coronavirus disease 2019 [COVID-19] pandemic) and the ...
Jinwook Bahk, Kyunghee Jung-Choi
doaj   +1 more source

Deep neural networks for fine-grained surveillance of overdose mortality [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2022
Surveillance of drug overdose deaths relies on death certificates for identification of the substances that caused death. Drugs and drug classes can be identified through the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) codes present on death certificates.
arxiv  

Cultivating research interest among undergraduate students: Becoming a career physician-scientist

open access: yesJournal of the Pakistan Medical Association
Although the importance of scientific research is self-evident, there need to be more physician-scientists1. There is a concern regarding how research interest can be cultivated among undergraduate students.
Shigeki Jin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Survival and cause of death in multiple sclerosis: a 60-year longitudinal population study

open access: yesJournal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 2017
Objective Survival and causes of death (COD) in multiple sclerosis (MS) provide ultimate endpoints. We aimed to investigate survival and COD in a 60-year population-based MS cohort compared with the general population.
Hanne Marie Bøe Lunde   +4 more
semanticscholar   +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  

Cause of Death and Predictors of All‐Cause Mortality in Anticoagulated Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation: Data From ROCKET AF

open access: yesJournal of the American Heart Association : Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2016
Background Atrial fibrillation is associated with higher mortality. Identification of causes of death and contemporary risk factors for all‐cause mortality may guide interventions.
S. Pokorney   +499 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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