Surgical deaths

Potentially preventable deaths in the Victorian Audit of Surgical Mortality.

BACKGROUND The Victorian Audit of Surgical Mortality (VASM) seeks to peer-review all deaths associated with surgical care. This study aimed to examine the mortalities that were determined by the assessor to be potentially preventable, and identify the clinical factors associated with these cases. The assessment of preventability of death and its relationship to management issues at different st...

Deaths

The Australian and New Zealand Audit of Surgical Mortality-birth, deaths, and carriage.

OBJECTIVE This article outlines the formation of the Australian and New Zealand Audit of Surgical Mortality (ANZASM) and describes its objectives, governance, functioning and challenges. BACKGROUND A nationwide audit of surgical mortality provides an overview of the leading causes of death in patients who require surgical care. It identifies system or process errors, trends in deficiency of c...

Deaths: Leading Causes for 2011-2012

Introduction: This report presents 2011-2012 data on leading causes of death in the Islamic Republic of Iran by Province. Methods: Data in this report are based on information from all death certificates filed in the 31 provinces in 2011-2012 . Causes of death classified by the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD–10) are ranked a...

Towards elimination of maternal deaths: maternal deaths surveillance and response

Current methods for estimating maternal mortality lack precision, and are not suitable for monitoring progress in the short run. In addition, national maternal mortality ratios (MMRs) alone do not provide useful information on where the greatest burden of mortality is located, who is concerned, what are the causes, and more importantly what sub-national variations occur. This paper discusses a ...