Mortality and Morbidity Trends: Is There Compression of Morbidity?

Mortality and morbidity trends: is there compression of morbidity?

OBJECTIVE This paper reviews trends in mortality and morbidity to evaluate whether there has been a compression of morbidity. METHODS Review of recent research and analysis of recent data for the United States relating mortality change to the length of life without 1 of 4 major diseases or loss of mobility functioning. RESULTS Mortality declines have slowed down in the United States in rece...

Compression of Morbidity and Mortality: New Perspectives.

Compression of morbidity is a reduction over time in the total lifetime days of chronic disability, reflecting a balance between (1) morbidity incidence rates and (2) case-continuance rates-generated by case-fatality and case-recovery rates. Chronic disability includes limitations in activities of daily living and cognitive impairment, which can be covered by long-term care insurance. Morbidity...

Trends in Pulmonary Hypertension Mortality and Morbidity

CONTEXT Few reports have been published regarding surveillance data for pulmonary hypertension, a debilitating and often fatal condition. AIMS We report trends in pulmonary hypertension. SETTINGS AND DESIGN United States of America; vital statistics, hospital data. METHODS AND MATERIAL We used mortality data from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) for 1999-2008 and hospital disch...

Trends on tuberculosis morbidity and mortality.

Trauma-Related Morbidity and Mortality in Elderly Patients

Objectives: The purpose of this multi-center study was to investigate the probable predictive factors of mortality and morbidity in elderlypopulation. Methods & Materials: The descriptive prospective study was conducted based on the data gathered from trauma cases older than 65 years admitted to Sina, Shohada and Fayaz-Bakhsh trauma centers during years 1997-98. A pre-prepared questionnaire ...