Sex, death, and the diagnosis gap.

بررسی علت فوت تعیین شده پس از انجام کالبد شکافی با علت فوت تعیین شده براساس پرونده بالینی

Introduction:Accurate medical diagnosis is an important issue for an appropriate treatment.the aim of this study was to compare clinical diagnosis and autopsy findings in patinents who died in university hospital in thehran. Method:In this study, the data were collected in two part.medical records and autopsy findings od 4641 dead case,who were referd for postmortem examination to determ...

Modeling Leukemia in Children Using Phase-type Distribution

Background: In this study, with the aim of modeling Leukemia in children using Phase-type distribution, three transitional phases including diagnosis, brain metastasis and testis/ovary metastasis, and one absorotion phase of recovery/death have been considered. The distribution was fitted and the probabilities of death or recovery were determined based on the independent variab...

Modeling and Inferential Thoughts for Consecutive Gap Times Observed with Death and Censoring

In the perspective of biomedical applications, consider a re- current event situation with a relatively low degree of recurrence. In this setting, the focus is placed on successive inter-event gap times which are observed in the presence of both a terminal event like death and inde- pendent censoring. The terminal event is potentially related to recurrent events while the censoring process is a...

A Study of the Cause of Death Among Children Under 5 Years in Babol Amirkola Children Hospital During 1993-1997

The objective of this study was to determine the distribution of the cause of death among children under 5 years with respect to the age and sex in Amirkola Children Hospital. The data of 536 child death was obtained during l 993-1997 on the basis of ultimate diagnosis in the death certificate using disease classification. The results shows that the most common cause of death in the neonatal p...

The Health Policy and Management (HPAM) Gap- From Diagnosis to Prescription: A Response to Recent Commentaries