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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, Dungu, J, Gibbs, SD, Gillmore, JD, Hawkins, PN, Lachmann, HJ, Pinney, JH, Smith, CJ, Taube, JB, Venner, CP, Wechalekar, AD, Whelan, CJ   +11 more
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Standard Death Certificates Versus Enhanced Surveillance to Identify Heroin Overdose-Related Deaths.

American Journal of Public Health, 2018
OBJECTIVES To compare 2 approaches to identifying heroin-related deaths in cases of overdose: standard death certificates and enhanced surveillance. METHODS We reviewed Maryland death certificates from 2012 to 2015 in cases of overdose to determine ...
Isabelle L. Horon, Pooja Singal, D. Fowler, J. Sharfstein   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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The Effect of Incomplete Death Certificates on Estimates of Unintentional Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths in the United States, 1999-2015

Public health reports (1974), 2018
Objectives: A complete and accurate count of the number of opioid-related overdose deaths is essential to properly allocate resources. We determined the rate of unintentional overdose deaths (non–opioid-related, opioid-related, or unspecified) in the ...
J. Buchanich, Lauren C. Balmert, Karl E. Williams, D. Burke   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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Causes of death and comorbidities in hospitalized patients with COVID-19

Scientific Reports, 2021
Infection by the new corona virus strain SARS-CoV-2 and its related syndrome COVID-19 has been associated with more than two million deaths worldwide. Patients of higher age and with preexisting chronic health conditions are at an increased risk of fatal
S. Elezkurtaj, Selina Greuel, J. Ihlow, E. Michaelis, P. Bischoff, C. A. Kunze, B. Sinn, M. Gerhold, K. Hauptmann, B. Ingold‐Heppner, Florian Miller, H. Herbst, V. Corman, H. Martin, H. Radbruch, F. Heppner, D. Horst   +16 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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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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Reporting of clinically diagnosed dementia on death certificates: retrospective cohort study

Age and Ageing, 2016
Background: mortality statistics are a frequently used source of information on deaths in dementia but are limited by concerns over accuracy. Objective: to investigate the frequency with which clinically diagnosed dementia is recorded on death ...
G. Perera, R. Stewart, I. Higginson, K. Sleeman   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source