National Audit of Hospital Mortality summary report 2017 [PDF]
The National Audit of Hospital Mortality (NAHM) is an audit which looks at the patterns and trends of patients who die (mortality) in hospital. NAHM uses a standardised mortality ratio (SMR) to calculate mortality trends in Irish hospitals.
The National Office of Clinical Audit (NOCA) (11202798) +1 more
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BackgroundCoexistence of cancer and COVID-19 is associated with worse outcomes. However, the studies on cancer-related characteristics associated with worse COVID-19 outcomes have shown controversial results.
Pedro Caruso +19 more
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The operative risk stratification models in cardiac surgery: EuroSCORE II model - risk groups categorization [PDF]
Background/Aim. The treshold that defines a low, moderate or high-risk patients is not uniformly determined for the European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE II) by literature at present.
Nežić Duško +4 more
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Reappraisal of sepsis-3 and CLIF-SOFA as predictors of mortality in patients with cirrhosis and infection presenting to the emergency department: A multicenter study [PDF]
Background/Aims Sepsis-3 criteria and quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) have been advocated to be used in defining sepsis in the general population.
Ji Hyun Kim +14 more
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The Use of Protective Ventilation in Post-COVID Respiratory Failure
Implementation of the principles of protective ventilation in the intensive care of respiratory failure in patients after COVID-19 can improve the results of treatment of patients with cardiosurgical abnormalities, namely the implementation of surgical ...
Hanna B. Koltunova +2 more
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Joint Model for Mortality and Hospitalization [PDF]
Abstract: Modeling hospitalization is complicated because the follow-up time can be censored due to death. In this paper, we propose a shared frailty joint model for survival time and hospitalization. A random effect semi-parametric proportional hazard model is assumed for the survival time and conditional on the follow-up time ...
Chen, Yuqi +4 more
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Lower Mortality in Magnet Hospitals [PDF]
Although there is evidence that hospitals recognized for nursing excellence--Magnet hospitals--are successful in attracting and retaining nurses, it is uncertain whether Magnet recognition is associated with better patient outcomes than non-Magnets, and if so why.To determine whether Magnet hospitals have lower risk-adjusted mortality and failure-to ...
Matthew, McHugh +5 more
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Human immunodeficiency virus and AIDS and other important predictors of maternal mortality in Mulago Hospital Complex Kampala Uganda. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Women with severe maternal morbidity are at high risk of dying. Quality and prompt management and sometimes luck have been suggested to reduce on the risk of dying.
Othieno, Emmanuel +20 more
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Limitations in the recording of maternal mortality in Germany: An analysis of statistical challenges [PDF]
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 +9 more
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Impact of introducing an electronic physiological surveillance system on hospital mortality [PDF]
YesAvoidable hospital mortality is often attributable to inadequate patient vital signs monitoring, and failure to recognise or respond to clinical deterioration.
Prytherch, David +19 more
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