Systemic amyloidosis in England: an epidemiological study. [PDF]
, 2013 Epidemiological studies of systemic amyloidosis are scarce and the burden of disease in England has not previously been estimated. In 1999, the National Health Service commissioned the National Amyloidosis Centre (NAC) to provide a national clinical ...
Banypersad, SM +11 more
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Factors associated with the goal of treatment in the last week of life in old compared to very old patients: a population-based death certificate survey [PDF]
, 2014 Background: Little is known about the type of care older people of different ages receive at the end of life. The goal of treatment is an important parameter of the quality of end-of-life care. This study aims to provide an evaluation of the main goal of
Cohen, Joachim +4 more
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Temporal trends in recording of diabetes on death certificates: results from Translating Research Into Action for Diabetes (TRIAD) [PDF]
, 2011 OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency that diabetes is reported on death certificates of decedents with known diabetes and describe trends in reporting over 8 years.
Crosson, Jesse C. +5 more
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BMC Public Health, 2018 Background Mortality statistics derived from cause of death data are an important source of information for population health monitoring, priority setting and planning.
Janet Miki +5 more
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Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, 2020 The identification of the underlying cause of death is a matter of primary importance and one of the most challenging issues in the setting of healthcare policy making. The World Health Organisation provides guidelines for death certificates coding using
Vincenzo Della Mea +2 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 +3 more
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Trachoma-associated morbidity and mortality in Brazil: an ecological study focusing on hospitalization and mortality data, 2000−2022 [PDF]
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina TropicalBackground: Trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide. It is a neglected tropical disease caused by Chlamydia trachomatis. The objective of this study was to analyze the trachoma-associated morbidity and mortality in Brazil from ...
Adjoane Maurício Silva Maciel +7 more
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Cystic fibrosis-related mortality trends in Brazil for the 1999-2017 period: a multiple-cause-of-death study [PDF]
Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, 2021 Objective: To describe causes of death and mortality data related to cystic fibrosis (CF) using a multiple-cause-of-death methodology. Methods: Annual mortality data for the 1999-2017 period were extracted from the Brazilian National Ministry of Health ...
Augusto Hasiak Santo +1 more
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Use of Electronic Death Certificates for Influenza Death Surveillance
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014 Surveillance for influenza deaths has been used to gauge the severity of influenza seasons. Traditional surveillance, which relies on medical records review and laboratory testing, might not be sustainable during a pandemic.
Elizabeth A. Bancroft, Sun Lee
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