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Human immunodeficiency virus and AIDS and other important predictors of maternal mortality in Mulago Hospital Complex Kampala Uganda. [PDF]

, 2011
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, Othieno Emmanuel, Doyle Pat, Maconichie Noreen, Kiondo Paul, Julius N Wandabwa, Paul Kiondo, Betty Khainza, Wandabwa Julius N, Benjamin Longo-Mbenza, Khainza Betty, Noreen Maconichie, Maconichie, Noreen, Emmanuel Othieno, Doyle, Pat, Wandabwa, Julius N, Kiondo, Paul, Longo-Mbenza, Benjamin, Khainza, Betty, Longo-Mbenza Benjamin, Pat Doyle   +20 more
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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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Impact of introducing an electronic physiological surveillance system on hospital mortality [PDF]

, 2015
YesAvoidable hospital mortality is often attributable to inadequate patient vital signs monitoring, and failure to recognise or respond to clinical deterioration.
Prytherch, David, Watson, D., Prytherch, David R., Prytherch, D.R., Watson, Duncan, Watson, Valerie, Mohammed, Mohammed A., Smith, G.B., Meredith, Paul, Schmidt, P.E., Killen, R.M., Schmidt, Paul E., Killen, Roger M., Greengross, P., Watson, V., Killen, R. M., Greengross, Peter, Meredith, P., Smith, Gary B., Meredith, P. G.   +19 more
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Trends in road transport collision deaths in the Irish paediatric population: a retrospective review of mortality data, 1991–2015

BMJ Paediatrics Open, 2019
Objective To establish the incidence of road transport collision (RTC) fatalities in the Irish paediatric population, examining trends in fatality rates over a period of 25 years, during which several national road safety interventions were implemented ...
Cliona McGarvey, Karina Hamilton, Jean Donnelly, Alf J Nicholson   +3 more
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Prognostic Accuracy of the qSOFA Score for In-Hospital Mortality in Elderly Patients with Obstructive Acute Pyelonephritis: A Multi-Institutional Study

Diagnostics, 2021
Prognostic accuracy of the quick sequential organ failure assessment (qSOFA) score for mortality may be limited in elderly patients. Using our multi-institutional database, we classified obstructive acute pyelonephritis (OAPN) patients into young and ...
Yudai Ishikawa, Hiroshi Fukushima, Hajime Tanaka, Soichiro Yoshida, Minato Yokoyama, Yoh Matsuoka, Yasuyuki Sakai, Yukihiro Otsuka, Ryoji Takazawa, Masataka Yano, Tetsuro Tsukamoto, Tetsuo Okuno, Akira Noro, Katsushi Nagahama, Shigeyoshi Kamata, Yasuhisa Fujii   +15 more
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Identifying which septic patients have increased mortality risk using severity scores: a cohort study [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Early aggressive therapy can reduce the mortality associated with severe sepsis but this relies on prompt recognition, which is hindered by variation among published severity criteria. Our aim was to test the performance of different severity
Marwick, Charis A; id_orcid, Evans, Josie, Peter G Davey, Pringle, Jan E C, Pringle, Jan Ec, Guthrie, Bruce, Josie MM Evans, McLeod, Shaun R, Shaun R McLeod, Marwick, Charis, Bruce Guthrie, Charis A Marwick, Davey, Peter G, Jan EC Pringle, Evans, Josie Mm   +14 more
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The Prognostic Value of Serum Soluble TREM-1 on Outcome in Adult Patients with Sepsis

Diagnostics, 2021
Increased soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 1 (sTREM-1) levels have been reported in patients with sepsis. We tested the hypotheses that serum sTREM-1 levels increase in the early phase of sepsis and decrease after sepsis under ...
Chia-Te Kung, Chih-Min Su, Sheng-Yuan Hsiao, Fu-Cheng Chen, Yun-Ru Lai, Chih-Cheng Huang, Cheng-Hsien Lu   +6 more
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Hospital-acquired, laboratory-confirmed bloodstream infection: increased hospital stay and direct costs. [PDF]

, 2002
OBJECTIVES: To determine increased hospital stay and direct costs attributable to hospital-acquired, laboratory-confirmed bloodstream infection (BSI), and to evaluate the matching variable length of stay (LOS).
NOAH N., Noah, Norman, Orsi, Giovanni Battista, DI STEFANO L., Di Stefano, Lidia   +4 more
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How participation in surgical mortality audit impacts surgical practice

BMC Surgery, 2017
Background Surgical mortality audit is an important tool for quality assurance and professional development but little is known about the impact of such activity on professional practice at the individual surgeon level. This paper reports the findings of
Chi-Wai Lui, Frances M. Boyle, Arkadiusz Peter Wysocki, Peter Baker, Alisha D’Souza, Sonya Faint, Therese Rey-Conde, John B. North   +7 more
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Comparison of Hospital Mortality, Length of Stay, Renal Recovery, and Needs for Hemodialysis in Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) Patients due to Septic and Non-septic, and Factors Affecting Patients’ Mortality

Jurnal Penyakit Dalam Indonesia, 2022
Introduction. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a major complication in critically ill patients that affects mortality. Sepsis is a major predisposing factor for AKI and provides a poor prognosis and high mortality rate.
Mochammad Jalalul Marzuki, Nursamsu, Achmad Rifai   +2 more
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