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Saving lives through certifying deaths: assessing the impact of two interventions to improve cause of death data in Perú

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, Rasika Rampatige, Nicola Richards, Tim Adair, Juan Cortez-Escalante, Javier Vargas-Herrera   +5 more
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Underlying cause of death identification from death certificates using reverse coding to text and a NLP based deep learning approach

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, Mihai Horia Popescu, Kevin Roitero   +2 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 Tropical
Background: 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, Anderson Fuentes Ferreira, Nádia Maria Girão Saraiva de Almeida, Manuella Maurício Silva Maciel, Taynara Lais Silva, Mirele Coelho Araújo, Roberto da Justa Pires Neto, Alberto Novaes Ramos Jr   +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, Luiz Vicente Ribeiro Ferreira da Silva-Filho   +1 more
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Autopsy and medical death certificates in deaths related to COVID-19

Revista Cubana de Medicina Militar, 2021
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has been the largest in the current century and the reason for numerous scientific works. In Cuba, the Temporary Group of Pathological Anatomy has been established to study the autopsies of those who died from COVID-19
José Domingo Hurtado de Mendoza Amat, Teresita Montero González, Miguel Ángel Martínez Morales, Israel Borrajero Martínez, Virginia Capó de Paz, Laura López Marín, Carlos Domínguez Álvarez, Isisis Alonso Expósito, Vanessa Mazorra Ramos   +8 more
doaj  

Comparing strategies for United States veterans' mortality ascertainment

Population Health Metrics, 2005
Background We aimed to determine optimal strategies for complete mortality ascertainment comparing death certificates and United States (US) Veterans Administration (VA) records.
Asch Steven M, Lorenz Karl A, Yano Elizabeth M, Wang Mingming, Rubenstein Lisa V   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Incidence of individual organ dysfunction in fatal acute pancreatitis: analysis of 1024 death records [PDF]

, 2009
Background: Extrapancreatic organ dysfunction is the key determinant of mortality in acute pancreatitis (AP). This study aimed to document the frequency and duration of individual organ dysfunction in all fatalities caused by AP in a large, population ...
Parks, Rowan W.; id_orcid, Bayanne Olabi, Garden, O. James, Parks, Rowan W., O. James Garden, Mole, DJ, Robinson, Victoria, Damian J. Mole, Olabi, Bayanne, Victoria Robinson, Mole, Damian J., Parks, RW, Garden, OJ, Olabi, B, Robinson, V, Rowan W. Parks   +15 more
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Circulating microRNA signatures of cachexia and cancer in Canis familiaris as a comparative oncology model for human disease

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Circulating microRNAs as biomarkers of cachexia and sex‐specific cancer in senior dogs. In 25 client‐owned dogs, four circulating miRNAs (miR‐15a, miR‐15b, miR‐16, miR‐140) were downregulated in cachexia, with miR‐16 the strongest individual biomarker (AUC = 0.899).
Soon‐Seok Park, Kyongman An, Gyeonghwa Kim, Soo‐Nyun Choi, Hong‐Ki Lee, Keun Hur, Kyu‐Shik Jeong   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preoperative circulating tumor cells integrated with imaging analysis for prognostic evaluation in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Detecting circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in blood before surgery may help predict outcomes in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). Here, we show when combined with tumor size and lymph node involvement from routine imaging, CTC status identifies high‐risk patients with poorer survival—offering a simple, minimally invasive tool ...
Susanne Flach, Gizem Abaci, Tom Huberty, Axel Lechner, Lukas Käsmann, Jens Ricke, Sophia Stöcklein, Martin Canis, Philipp Baumeister, Marianna Alunni‐Fabbroni   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Longitudinal Assessment of Biomarkers in ALS: Discriminative Biomarkers for Disease Progression and Survival

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To assess the association and discriminative performance of serum biomarkers with clinical disease progression and survival in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Methods This retrospective study, conducted at Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, used longitudinal serum samples collected between January 2018 and ...
David R. Beers, Yueh‐Yun Lin, Jason R. Thonhoff, Aaron D. Thome, Alireza Faridar, Weihua Zhao, Shixiang Wen, Stanley H. Appel   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source