Palliative Medicine, 2013 Background: Little is known about place of death in chronic neurological diseases. Mortality statistics are ideal for examining trends in place of death, but analyses are limited by coding rule changes.
K. Sleeman +6 more
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Verbal Autopsy Methods with Multiple Causes of Death [PDF]
, 2008 Verbal autopsy procedures are widely used for estimating cause-specific mortality in areas without medical death certification. Data on symptoms reported by caregivers along with the cause of death are collected from a medical facility, and the cause-of ...
King, Gary, Lu, Ying
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Fatality from COVID-19 does not affect palliative care duration among patients with advanced cancer: a retrospective cohort study [PDF]
Einstein (São Paulo)Objective: This study aimed at investigating the extent to which COVID-19-induced fatalities affect the duration of palliative care among patients with advanced cancer.
Rafael Tavares Jomar +5 more
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Population Health Metrics, 2011 BackgroundIn Mexico, the vital registration system relies on information collected from death certificates to generate official mortality figures. Although the death certificate has high coverage across the country, there is little information regarding ...
B. Hernandez +5 more
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Public health utility of cause of death data: applying empirical algorithms to improve data quality
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2021 Background Accurate, comprehensive, cause-specific mortality estimates are crucial for informing public health decision making worldwide. Incorrectly or vaguely assigned deaths, defined as garbage-coded deaths, mask the true cause distribution.
Sarah C Johnson +90 more
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Mortality information: the use of international rules for the selection of the underlying cause [PDF]
, 2009 A análise da mortalidade tem sido muito usada em saúde pública, e a causa básica da morte é uma variável bastante estudada. Na maioria dos países, há obrigatoriedade de o médico preencher a declaração de óbito (DO), informando às autoridades a ocorrência
GOTLIEB, Sabina Léa Davidson +2 more
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Cause of death and predictors of mortality in a community-based cohort of people with epilepsy. [PDF]
, 2016 OBJECTIVE: The risk of premature mortality is increased in people with epilepsy. The reasons for this and how it may relate to epilepsy etiology remain unclear.
Bell, G.S. +4 more
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Targeting apoptosis signaling in pancreatic cancer [PDF]
, 2011 The ability to escape apoptosis or programmed cell death is a hallmark of human cancers, for example pancreatic cancer. This can promote tumorigenesis, since too little cell death by apoptosis disturbs tissue homeostasis.
Fulda, Simone
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Angka Kematian Dan Faktor Risiko Stroke Sebagai Penyebab Dasar Kematian Di Kabupaten Padang Pariaman Provinsi Sumatera Barat [PDF]
, 2016 Mortality data are one of important indicators for the publich health The aim of this study is to know about the death rate, characteristics and risk factors of stroke as underlying cause of death in Padang Pariaman district.
Bisara, D. (Dina) +7 more
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Inhibition of NAADP signalling on reperfusion protects the heart by preventing lethal calcium oscillations via two-pore channel 1 and opening of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore [PDF]
, 2015 Aims In the heart, a period of ischaemia followed by reperfusion evokes powerful cytosolic Ca2+ oscillations that can cause lethal cell injury. These signals represent attractive cardioprotective targets, but the underlying mechanisms of genesis are ill ...
A. Ganesan +13 more
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