Importance of Tabulating Multiple Causes of Death

[Nosocomial infection and multiple causes of death].

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the possibility for collecting data on nosocomial infections by means of death certificates. METHODS The medical charts of children who died after 48 hours of their admission to a pediatric hospital were revised to get information about the causes of death. Death certificates were also revised to verify whether they were properly filled out....

Sickness Assessment of Abbasid Caliphs and Their Causes of Death

Despite the peak of medical knowledge in the Abbasid period, the presence of famous medical families in the Abbasid court, translation and writing of medical works, attention to nutrition and health in the court of the Abbasid caliphs, the expectation of long life and quality was created for the Abbasid caliphs. However, all these possibilities were not used much by the caliphs, and if they had...

[Analysis of causes of death in subjects with multiple injuries].

Causes of Death in Chinese Patients with Multiple System Atrophy

The objective of this study was to explore the causes of death in Chinese patients with multiple system atrophy (MSA) as well as differences in the cause of death according to sex, subtype, disease onset, and whether the disease was accompanied by nocturnal stridor. A total of 131 MSA patients were enrolled and followed up once every year until their deaths. Clinical information was collected b...

Quantifying cause-related mortality by weighting multiple causes of death

OBJECTIVE To investigate a new approach to calculating cause-related standardized mortality rates that involves assigning weights to each cause of death reported on death certificates. METHODS We derived cause-related standardized mortality rates from death certificate data for France in 2010 using: (i) the classic method, which considered only the underlying cause of death; and (ii) three no...