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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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Extent of and trends in inequalities in child stunting in Sierra-Leone from 2005 to 2013: evidence from demographic and health surveys and multiple indicator cluster surveys

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020
Background Comprehensive assessment of stunting disparity in Sierra-Leone has not been done so far. We aimed to document extent and over time dynamics of inequality in stunting in Sierra-Leone using approaches that facilitate implementation of ...
Gebretsadik Shibre, Betregiorigis Zegeye, Jemal Haidar   +2 more
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Persistence of Schistosomiasis-Related Morbidity in Northeast Brazil: An Integrated Spatio-Temporal Analysis

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2021
Objective: To analyze the temporal trend and spatial patterns of schistosomiasis-related morbidity in Northeast Brazil, 2001–2017. Methods: Ecological study, of time series and spatial analysis, based on case notifications and hospital admission data, as
Bárbara Morgana da Silva, Anderson Fuentes Ferreira, José Alexandre Menezes da Silva, Rebeca Gomes de Amorim, Ana Lúcia Coutinho Domingues, Marta Cristhiany Cunha Pinheiro, Fernando Schemelzer de Moraes Bezerra, Jorg Heukelbach, Alberto Novaes Ramos   +8 more
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Epidemiological trend of notifiable infectious diseases in Yangpu District of Shanghai during 1950‒2020

Shanghai yufang yixue, 2022
ObjectiveTo analyze the characteristics and trends of notifiable infectious diseases in Yangpu District of Shanghai， from 1950 to 2020， and to provide scientific basis for the formulation of control measures.MethodsDescriptive epidemiological method was ...
JI Lu, WANG Lin, MA Shumei, HAN Xue
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Surveillance of Morbidity During Wildfires--Central Florida, 1998 [PDF]

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1999
Several large wildfires occurred in Florida during June-July 1998, many involving both rural and urban areas in Brevard, Flagler, Orange, Putnam, Seminole, and Volusia counties. By July 22, a total of 2277 fires had burned 499,477 acres throughout the state (Florida Department of Community Affairs, unpublished data, 1998).
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Routine data for malaria morbidity estimation in Africa: challenges and prospects

BMC Medicine, 2020
Background The burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa remains challenging to measure relying on epidemiological modelling to evaluate the impact of investments and providing an in-depth analysis of progress and trends in malaria response globally.
Victor A. Alegana, Emelda A. Okiro, Robert W. Snow   +2 more
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The WHO maternal near-miss approach and the maternal severity index model (MSI): tools for assessing the management of severe maternal morbidity.

PLoS ONE, 2012
ObjectivesTo validate the WHO maternal near-miss criteria and develop a benchmark tool for severe maternal morbidity assessments.MethodsIn a multicenter cross-sectional study implemented in 27 referral maternity hospitals in Brazil, a one-year ...
Joao Paulo Souza, Jose Guilherme Cecatti, Samira M Haddad, Mary Angela Parpinelli, Maria Laura Costa, Leila Katz, Lale Say, Brazilian Network for Surveillance of Severe Maternal Morbidity Group, Brazilian Network for Surveillance of Severe Maternal Morbidity   +8 more
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Monitoring maternal near miss/severe maternal morbidity: A systematic review of global practices.

PLoS ONE, 2020
There is international interest in monitoring severe events in the obstetrical population, commonly referred to as maternal near miss or severe maternal morbidity.
Natalie England, Julia Madill, Amy Metcalfe, Laura Magee, Stephanie Cooper, Charleen Salmon, Kamala Adhikari   +6 more
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Prospective morbidity surveillance of Shell refinery and petrochemical employees. [PDF]

Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1991
Results for a prospective morbidity study of 14,170 refinery and chemical workers from 1981 through 1988 are presented. Illness/absence data for this study were extracted from the morbidity section of the Shell Health Surveillance System which includes records of all illness/absences in excess of five days. Age adjusted annual morbidity frequency rates
S P, Tsai, C M, Dowd, S R, Cowles, C E, Ross   +3 more
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Whole Genome Analysis of Selected Human Group A Rotavirus Strains Revealed Evolution of DS-1-Like Single- and Double-Gene Reassortant Rotavirus Strains in Pakistan During 2015–2016

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019
Acute gastroenteritis due to group A rotaviruses (RVAs) is the leading cause of infant and childhood morbidity and mortality particularly in developing countries including Pakistan.
Asma Sadiq, Nazish Bostan, Habib Bokhari, Kwe Claude Yinda, Jelle Matthijnssens   +4 more
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