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Using community-based reporting of vital events to monitor child mortality: Lessons from rural Ghana. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
Reducing neonatal and child mortality is a key component of the health-related sustainable development goal (SDG), but most low and middle income countries lack data to monitor child mortality on an annual basis.
Stephane Helleringer   +9 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Surveillance Of Vital Events In Rural Areas

open access: yesIndian Journal of Community Medicine, 1998
Research question: Which system of registration of vital events is more efficient? Objective: To ascertain the efficiency and quality of vital events registration in the rural community. Study design: Population based cross-sectional.
Lal Sunder   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Strategies for improving the monitoring of vital events in Brazil [PDF]

open access: bronzeInternational Journal of Epidemiology, 2008
In view of the limitations of survey-based demographic techniques for infant mortality estimation, the current strategy of some developing countries is to improve vital information. This article presents recent progress in the improvement of national databases in Brazil.For the vital information analysis, the data sources are the Mortality Information ...
Célia Landmann Szwarcwald
openaire   +4 more sources

Detecting Specific Health-Related Events Using an Integrated Sensor System for Vital Sign Monitoring [PDF]

open access: goldSensors, 2009
In this paper, a new method for the detection of apnea/hypopnea periods in physiological data is presented. The method is based on the intelligent combination of an integrated sensor system for long-time cardiorespiratory signal monitoring and dedicated ...
Mourad Adnane   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Prediction of hypotension events with physiologic vital sign signatures in the intensive care unit [PDF]

open access: goldCritical Care, 2020
Abstract Background Even brief hypotension is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. We developed a machine learning model to predict the initial hypotension event among intensive care unit (ICU) patients and designed an alert system for bedside implementation.
Joo Heung Yoon   +5 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Use of a continuous single lead electrocardiogram analytic to predict patient deterioration requiring rapid response team activation. [PDF]

open access: yesPLOS Digital Health
Identifying the onset of patient deterioration is challenging despite the potential to respond to patients earlier with better vital sign monitoring and rapid response team (RRT) activation.
Sooin Lee   +8 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The role of vital exhaustion in predicting the recurrence of vascular events: A longitudinal study

open access: goldInternational Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 2019
The aim of this study was to examine the role of vital exhaustion in predicting the recurrence of vascular events.The sample comprised of 816 individuals (65.3% female, M age  = 43.2 years, SD = 14.7 years), 395 (48.4%) of whom reported treatment for the reoccurrence of a vascular event during the four-year follow-up period.
Barna Konkolÿ Thege   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

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