General paediatric inpatient deaths over a 15-year period

A retrospective review of general paediatric inpatient deaths over time

Methods Data was retrospectively collected for all patients who died on the General Paediatric Ward (the Ward) or in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at this tertiary hospital, in the years 1998, 2005, and 2012. Patients who died in the PICU were considered to have a “general paediatric diagnosis” if their underlying condition or acute diagnosis would have normally resulted in admissio...

Carcinoma of the lung: a review of the five-year survivals over a 15-year period.

ARCINOMA OF THE LUNG IS AN EVERC incre-g public health problem. h a general hospital such as Charity Hmpital of New Orleans, Louisiana, it is probably the most common carcinoma in men. It is &mated that one out of t h m deaths in men between 50 and 60 years of age is due to bmnchogenic carcinoma,' Tumor registry records have been kept at Charity Hospital in New Orleans since January 1, 1948. Fr...

Paediatric head injury admissions over a 10-year period in a regional neurosurgical unit.

Traumatic brain injury is a leading cause of death and disability in childhood. A retrospective study of all paediatric head injuries admitted to the neurosurgical unit for the West of Scotland over a 10-year period was performed to assess the impact of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence head injury guidelines on the admission rate and to determine the associated risk fac...

Trends in Belgian premature avoidable deaths over a 20 year period.

STUDY OBJECTIVES To analyse over a 20 year period the level and trends in the "EC avoidable death indicators". DESIGN The Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL) method applied to curative and preventive avoidable mortality indicators in Belgium for four successive five year periods, countrywide as well as by district, separately for women and men. Ratios of YPLL rates (age standardised) describe...

Susceptibility Trends of Urinary Tract Infections Over a 15 Year Period on a University Campus