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Contribution of hospital mortality variations to socioeconomic disparities in in-hospital mortality

BMJ Quality & Safety, 2014
Background While disparities in hospital care outcomes based on ethnicity or socioeconomic status have been documented in some nations, it is unclear to what extent this phenomenon occurs in high-income countries like Korea with relatively low income inequality ...
Yoon, Kim, Juhwan, Oh, Ashish, Jha
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In-hospital mortality in the pickwickian syndrome

The American Journal of Medicine, 1974
Abstract Ten patients were observed during 11 episodes of progressive ventilatory failure secondary to gross obesity in a 5 year interval in one hospital. In-hospital mortality was high; seven patients died. Three deaths were related to hypoventilation.
A, Miller, M, Granada
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In-hospital mortality for toxic megacolon

Internal and Emergency Medicine, 2018
In-hospital mortality for toxic megacolon.
Ciccocioppo, Rachele, Corazza, Gino Roberto   +1 more
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Post-hospitalization mortality in the elderly

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 2003
The level of disability and polypathology in hospitalized elderly is usually high. Multidimensional and functional assessment allows to identify risk factors for clinical and functional failure of patients. Many studies point out that identifying predictors of high-risk patients is a necessary step in accurate targeting.
Maria, Ponzetto, Mauro, Zanocchi, Barbara, Maero, Erica, Giona, Federica, Francisetti, Elena, Nicola, Fabrizio, Fabris   +6 more
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BREASTFEEDING AND HOSPITAL MORTALITY IN CHILDREN IN RWANDA [PDF]

The Lancet, 1981
Abstract The relation between breastfeeding and mortality among 2339 children under two years old and admitted to hospital with measles, diarrhoeal disease, or acute lower respiratory disease was analysed over a two-year period in Kigali, Rwanda. Case fatality rates were significantly lower in the breastfed than in the completely weaned children for ...
Lepage, Philippe, Munyakazi, Christophe, Hennart, Philippe   +2 more
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Mortality After Hospitalization for COPD

Chest, 2002
To identify variables associated with mortality in patients admitted to the hospital for acute exacerbation of COPD.Prospective cohort study.Acute-care hospital in Barcelona (Spain).One hundred thirty-five consecutive patients hospitalized for acute exacerbation of COPD, between October 1996 and May 1997.Clinical, spirometric, and gasometric variables ...
Pedro, Almagro, Esther, Calbo, Anna, Ochoa de Echagüen, Bienvenido, Barreiro, Salvador, Quintana, José L, Heredia, Javier, Garau   +6 more
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Hospital Characteristics and Mortality Rates

New England Journal of Medicine, 1989
The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) publishes hospital mortality rates each year. We undertook a study to identify characteristics of hospitals associated with variations in these rates. To do so, we obtained data on 3100 hospitals from the 1986 HCFA mortality study and the American Hospital Association's 1986 annual survey of hospitals ...
A J, Hartz, H, Krakauer, E M, Kuhn, M, Young, S J, Jacobsen, G, Gay, L, Muenz, M, Katzoff, R C, Bailey, A A, Rimm   +9 more
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Infant mortality in a voluntary hospital

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1952
A review was made of 22,158 deliveries during the ten-year period from Jan. 1! 1941, to Dec. 31, 1950. Neonatal deaths during this period numbered 339, while there were 334 stillbirths. This represented a neonatal death rate of 1.5 per cent and a stillbirth rate of 1.5 per cent.
F J, HOFMEISTER, H, PAEGEL
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Effect of hospital volume on in-hospital mortality with pancreaticoduodenectomy

Surgery, 1999
Reports of better results at national referral centers than at low-volume community hospitals have prompted calls for regionalizing pancreaticoduodenectomy (the Whipple procedure). We examined the relationship between hospital volume and mortality with this procedure across all US hospitals.Using information from the Medicare claims database, we ...
J D, Birkmeyer, S R, Finlayson, A N, Tosteson, S M, Sharp, A L, Warshaw, E S, Fisher   +5 more
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HOSPITALS AND PREVENTION OF NEONATAL MORTALITY

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1953
Survival of the newborn is a matter of national importance. The discrepancy between our birth rate and that of some other nations makes it so. It is imperative that we make every effort to compensate for our low birth rate by keeping infant mortality at a minimum.
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