BACKGROUND In all 8353 women and 7058 men aged 45-64 took part in the Renfrew/Paisley survey in 1972-1976. They formed a prospective cohort study of a general population in the West of Scotland; an area with high ischaemic heart disease (IHD) mortality rates. The objective of this study was to investigate three indicators of pre-existing IHD and determine how they predicted subsequent IHD morta...

AIMS OF THE STUDY This study wants to examine the availability of Belgian healthcare data in the three main international health databases: the World Health Organization European Health for All Database (WHO-HFA), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Health Data 2009 and EUROSTAT. METHODS For the indicators present in the three databases, the availability of Belgian data...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to identify existing or potential quality of care indicators (ie, current indicators as well as process and outcome measures) in the acute or postacute period, or across the continuum of care for older adults with hip fracture. DESIGN Scoping review. SETTING All care settings. SEARCH STRATEGY English peer-reviewed studies published from January 2000 ...

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...

OBJECTIVE To describe the outcomes and the expected postoperative course for patients with do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders (DNR patients) who undergo emergency surgical management of bowel obstruction. DESIGN We retrospectively identified all patients who underwent emergency surgical management of intestinal obstruction and who were classified previously as DNR using the American College of S...

BACKGROUND The number of patients receiving renal replacement therapy (RRT) increases annually and worldwide. Differences in the RRT incidence, prevalence, and modality vary between regions and countries for reasons yet to be clarified. AIMS Gain a better understanding of the association between hemodialysis (HD)-related variables and general population global health indicators. METHODS The...

The Brazilian Ministry of Health has made important investments to improve the quality of information systems on mortality and live births. However, in most Brazilian States the infant mortality rate is still estimated by indirect methods, thus overlooking the progress in this area. The current article aimed to evaluate the adequacy of mortality and live birth data using indicators of coverage ...

BACKGROUND Although most of maternal deaths are preventable, maternal mortality reduction programs have not been completely successful. As targeting individuals alone does not seem to be an effective strategy to reduce maternal mortality (Millennium Development Goal 5), the present study sought to reveal the role of many distant macrostructural factors affecting maternal mortality at the global...

STUDY OBJECTIVE This study aimed to analyse the influence of social, economic, and health development on infant and perinatal mortality in Spain between 1975 and 1986, and to identify possible changes in these relationships over time. DESIGN Study of the association between mortality and a range of variables. SETTING 50 Spanish provinces. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Mean infant and peri...