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Half a million excess deaths in the Iraq war:Terms and conditions may apply [PDF]

, 2017
Hagopian et al. (2013) published a headline-grabbing estimate for the Iraq war of half a million excess deaths , i.e. deaths that would not have happened without the war.
Gelman A, Human Security Report Project, Lohr S   +2 more
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Reforming death certification [PDF]

BMJ, 2006
EDITOR—The government has cited cost and bureaucracy as reasons for not reforming death certification, as recommended by the Luce report and by Dame Janet Smith's report into the Shipman affair. …
openaire   +2 more sources

Underreporting of diabetes mellitus as the cause of death in Bauru, State of São Paulo, Brazil over 40 years: a documental study [PDF]

Archives of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Objective To evaluate, characterize and search for trends in the underreporting of diabetes mellitus (DM) as the cause of death in Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil, over 40 years. Subjects and methods This was a documental study.
Lucas Casagrande Passoni Lopes, Gabriel Araújo Medeiros, Mauro Wieczorek, Marina dos Santos de Carvalho Pinto, Carlos Antonio Negrato   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Characteristics of Belgian 'life-ending acts without explicit patient request' : a large-scale death certificate survey revisited [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: “Life-ending acts without explicit patient request,” as identified in robust international studies, are central in current debates on physician-assisted dying.
Bernheim, Jan L, Chambaere, Kenneth, Deliens, Luc, Downar, James   +3 more
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A reproducible approach with R markdown to automatic classification of medical certificates in French [PDF]

, 2017
In this paper, we report the ongoing developments of our first participation to the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) eHealth Task 1: “Multilingual Information Extraction - ICD10 coding” (Névéol et al., 2017).
Beghini, Federica, Di Nunzio, Giorgio Maria, Henrot, Genevi\ue8ve, Vezzani, Federica   +3 more
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Using death certificate data to study place of death in 9 European countries: opportunities and weaknesses

BMC Public Health, 2007
Background Systematic and reliable epidemiological information at population level, preferably cross-national, is needed for an adequate planning of (end-of-life) health care policies, e.g. concerning place of death, but is currently lacking.
Kaasa Stein, Addington-Hall Julia, Miccinesi Guido, Löfmark Rurik, Bilsen Johan, Cohen Joachim, Norup Michael, van der Wal Gerrit, Deliens Luc   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evidence-based planning and costing palliative care services for children : novel multi-method epidemiological and economic exemplar [PDF]

, 2013
Background: Children’s palliative care is a relatively new clinical specialty. Its nature is multi-dimensional and its delivery necessarily multi-professional.
A Craft, Audit Scotland, C Feudtner, C Knapp, Ciarán Humphreys, D Bainbridge, Department of Health, Department of Health Western Australia, F Finlay, Gareth R Davies, J Noyes, J Noyes, Jane Noyes, K Lowson, K McNamara-Goodger, L Brook, L Fraser, Llinos Haf Spencer, Lucie Hobson, M Doug, Mary Devins, Mary Lewis, NPC, Public Health Wales, R Hain, R Hain, R Hain, R Hain, Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Richard Hain, Richard P Hastings, Scottish Children and Young People's Palliative Care Executive Group (SCYPPEx), T Hughes-Hallet, Together for Short Lives, V Sugar, Vasiliki Totsika, Virginia Bennett, World Health Organisation   +37 more
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Group Life Insurance: Its Legal Aspects [PDF]

, 1935
Background: Female representation on boards is an ongoing debate. The European Parliament voted in November 2013 in favour of a proposal that it should be at least 40 percent women on company boards by 2020.
Gustavsson, Jenny, Skeppstedt, Maria
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Evaluation of Mexico’s low cancer mortality using two national death registries

Salud Pública de México, 2020
Objective. To compare cancer mortality rates in Mexico from two national death registries that independently code and attribute cause of death. Materials and methods.
Susana Lozano-Esparza, Dalia Stern, Juan Eugenio Hernandez-Avila, Evangelina Morales-Carmona, Alejandro Mohar, Martin Lajous   +5 more
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Place of death of people living with Parkinson's disease : a population-level study in 11 countries [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Most people prefer to receive end-of-life care in familiar surroundings rather than in hospital. This study examines variation in place of death for people dying from Parkinson's disease (PD) across 11 European and non-European countries ...
Cardenas-Turanzas, Marylou, Cohen, Joachim, Csikos, Agnes, Deliens, Luc, Garcia-Leon, Francisco Javier, Harding, Richard, Houttekier, Dirk, Loucka, Martin, Marchetti, Stefano, Moens, Katrien, Morin, Lucas, Naylor, Wayne A, Rhee, YongJoo, Teno, Joan, Van den Block, Lieve, Wilson, Donna M   +15 more
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