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Findings From Severe Maternal Morbidity Surveillance and Review in Maryland.

JAMA Netw Open, 2022
ImportanceIn the US, more than 50 000 women experience severe maternal morbidity (SMM) each year, and the SMM rate more than doubled during the past 25 years. In response, professional organizations called for birthing facilities to routinely identify and review SMM events and identify prevention opportunities.ObjectiveTo examine SMM levels, primary ...
Wolfson C, Qian J, Chin P, Downey C, Mattingly KJ, Jones-Beatty K, Olaku J, Qureshi S, Rhule J, Silldorff D, Atlas R, Banfield A, Johnson CT, Neale D, Sheffield JS, Silverman D, McLaughlin K, Koru G, Creanga AA.   +18 more
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Validation study of obstetric hospitalization data held on the Brazilian National Health System Hospital Information System for maternal morbidity surveillance: Brazil, 2021-2022 [PDF]

Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde
Objective To validate the Brazilian National Health System Hospital Information System (SIH/SUS) for maternal morbidity surveillance. Methods This was a cross-sectional study conducted in 2021/2022, taking as its reference a national study on maternal ...
Rosa Maria Soares Madeira Domingues, Lana dos Santos Meijinhos, Luis Carlos Torres Guillen, Marcos Augusto Bastos Dias, Valéria Saraceni, Rejane Sobrinho Pinheiro, Natália Santana Paiva, Cláudia Medina Coeli   +7 more
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Validation of routine lymphatic filariasis morbidity surveillance in the Upper West Region, Ghana. [PDF]

PLOS Global Public Health
In Ghana and other countries pursuing elimination of lymphatic filariasis (LF), suspect cases of lymphoedema and hydrocele are routinely enumerated by community health workers (CHWs) during mass drug administration (MDA). These data, in addition to cases
Hope Simpson, Kofi Agyabeng, Bright Alomatu, Ernest Mensah, Solomon Atinbire, Melissa Edmiston, Kofi Asemanyi-Mensah, Joseph Opare, Rachel L Pullan   +8 more
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A computational approach to predicting principal discharge diagnoses for enhanced morbidity surveillance [PDF]

PeerJ Computer Science
Accurate principal discharge diagnoses are fundamental for effective morbidity surveillance, yet healthcare systems worldwide are plagued by imprecise and non-specific coding, hindering public health analysis and resource allocation.
Daniel Arias-Garzón, Oscar Jaramillo Robledo, Andrés Paolo Castaño Vélez, Reinel Tabares-Soto   +3 more
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Morbidity surveillance and treatment of MDR-TB with the support of NGOs in Ukraine [PDF]

Online J Public Health Inform, 2018
ObjectiveDescribe the common work of Donetsk State Phthisiological Service and non-governmental organizations that has been conducted since 2014 in order to achieve the global goal for tuberculosis elimination.IntroductionThe global strategy for eliminating tuberculosis (TB) epidemic "End TB" has been implemented in the world since 2016.
Pozharova I, Daragan G, Stepanskiy D, Kolesnikova I.   +3 more
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Using NC DETECT for Comprehensive Morbidity Surveillance on Poisoning and Overdose [PDF]

Online J Public Health Inform, 2015
Twelve new locally defined case definitions were added to NC DETECT in May and June 2014 to facilitate timely surveillance for poisoning and overdose in North Carolina. The case definitions cover acute alcohol poisoning, poisoning, unintentional poisoning, heroin overdose, medication or drug overdose, methadone overdose, opioid overdose, prescription ...
Ising A, Harmon K, Waller A, Proescholdbell S, Deyneka L.   +4 more
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Surveillance of seroepidemiology and morbidity of Chagas disease in the Negro River, Brazilian Amazon [PDF]

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2018
BACKGROUND Chagas disease in the Brazilian Amazon Region was previously regarded as an enzootic disease of wild animals. More recently, in situations where humans have penetrated the wild ecotope or where triatomines and/or wild animals (marsupials) have
José Rodrigues Coura, Angela CV Junqueira, João Marcos BB Ferreira   +2 more
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Severe maternal morbidity surveillance: Monitoring pregnant women at high risk for prolonged hospitalisation and death [PDF]

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 2020
Paromita Deb-Rinker, Laura Arbour, Elizabeth K Darling   +2 more
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Morbidity Surveillance in the British Army - the first 12 months [PDF]

Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 1998
This paper describes the data obtained during the first 12 months of the morbidity surveillance system used, world-wide, by the British Army in operational and non-operational settings and the economic impact of such morbidity in terms of estimated working days lost.
L A, Wright, V, Demicheli, W J, Gillespie, T O, Jefferson   +3 more
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Collaborative improvement project to decrease maternal mortality rate across five hospitals in Saudi Arabia

BMJ Open Quality, 2022
Maternal morbidities and mortalities remain high globally, yet are preventable events. Maternal haemorrhage is a primary cause of both maternal morbidity and mortality.
Ahmed Alzahrani, Noura Alnowaiser, Mohamed Nassif, Teresa Bissen, Yasser K Alotaibi, Mawahib Wang   +5 more
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