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Maternal deaths databases analysis: Ecuador 2003-2013

Journal of Public Health Research, 2016
Background: Maternal mortality ratio in Ecuador is the only millennium goal on which national agencies are still making strong efforts to reach 2015 target.
Antonio Pino, María Albán, Alejandra Rivas, Erika Rodríguez   +3 more
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Prognostic Value of Neurofilament Light Chain and Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein in ALD‐Related Myelopathy

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background X‐linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X‐ALD) is a neurometabolic disorder caused by pathogenic variants in ABCD1, leading to slowly progressive spinal cord disease in nearly all affected men. Sensitive biomarkers to quantify disease severity and predict progression are needed for clinical care and trial design.
Eda G. Kabak, Marije M. C. Voermans, Hans Heijst, Charlotte E. Teunissen, Marc Engelen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identification of pneumonia and influenza deaths using the death certificate pipeline

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2012
Background Death records are a rich source of data, which can be used to assist with public surveillance and/or decision support. However, to use this type of data for such purposes it has to be transformed into a coded format to make it computable ...
Davis Kailah, Staes Catherine, Duncan Jeff, Igo Sean, Facelli Julio C   +4 more
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Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Inebilizumab Versus Rituximab in AQP4‐IgG‐Positive NMOSD

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Rituximab (anti‐CD20, RTX) and inebilizumab (anti‐CD19, INE) represent B‐cell‐depleting therapies used for aquaporin‐4 antibody‐positive (AQP4‐IgG+) neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD); however, direct comparative evidence remains limited.
Jie Lin, Binbin Xue, Dewei Xie, Jia Li, Juyuan Pan, Lanbing Zhu, Qiaowen Tong, Jing Lin, Ruofan Zhu, Xu Zhang, Junhui Xia, Xiang Li   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Limitations in the recording of maternal mortality in Germany: An analysis of statistical challenges [PDF]

Journal of Health Monitoring
Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) defines maternal mortality as the death of a woman during pregnancy or up to 42 days after delivery. The maternal mortality ratio (MMR) serves as an indicator of the quality of health care.
Safiya Fatima Zaloum, Julia Callaghan, Amira Goepfrich, Joachim Dudenhausen, Lars Paulson, Lars Hellmeyer, Klaus Vetter, Martina Ziegert, Thorsten Braun, Josefine Theresia Koenigbauer   +9 more
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Spatial and Volumetric Characteristics of Glioblastoma: Associations With Clinical Presentation and Survival

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective We aim to comprehensively analyze how regional tumor and edema characteristics are associated with clinical presentations and survival outcomes in a large cohort of glioblastoma patients. Methods Patients with IDH‐wildtype glioblastoma who received brain MRI from 2010 to 2023 were included.
Daniel J. Zhou, Marc Jaskir, Julian Gal, Yombe Fonkeu, Christos Davatzikos, MacLean P. Nasrallah, Jose Garcia, Rubo Xing, Stephen J. Bagley, Arati Desai, Richard E. Phillips, Steven Tobochnik, Colin A. Ellis, James J. Gugger, Nishant Sinha, Joel M. Stein, Kathryn A. Davis   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of Errors on Death Certificates

Journal of Nepal Health Research Council
Background: Death certificates provide vital data for disease surveillance and health policy. However, errors are common globally, undermining data reliability.
Alok Atreya, Bina Acharya, Purushottam Prasad Yadav, Ritesh G Menezes, Samata Nepal   +4 more
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Sex‐Stratified Association of Regional Dopamine Transporter Binding With Disease Progression in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To clarify the clinical relevance of dopamine transporter single‐photon emission computed tomography (DAT‐SPECT) abnormalities in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), with a prespecified focus on sex‐stratified associations with disease progression and short‐term prognosis.
Tomoya Kawazoe, Keizo Sugaya, Kentaro Hayashi, Keiko Hino, Yasuhiro Nakata, Kota Bokuda, Toshio Shimizu, Kazushi Takahashi   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inadequacies of death certification in Beirut: who is responsible?

Bulletin of the World Health Organization
OBJECTIVE: To assess the completeness of data on death certificates over the past 25 years in Beirut, Lebanon, and to examine factors associated with the absence of certifiers' signatures and the non-reporting of the underlying cause of death. METHODS: A
Abla M. Sibai, Iman Nuwayhid, May Beydoun, Monique Chaaya   +3 more
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Insights on dying, dementia and death certificates

Archives of Public Health, 2018
For our master thesis in medicine, we aimed to determine how many deaths were caused by and with dementia in 2014 and we compared our results with figures from abroad.
Sofie Vandormael, Alexander Meirschaert, Jan Steyaert, Jan De Lepeleire   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source