abstract background: suicide is a major problem world-wide. the aim of this study was to determine the incidence of suicide in east azerbaijan province, iran. methods: a cross-sectional study conducted from 2010 to 2011. we analysed some characteristics of the cases of suicide based on the health system database. variables such as demographics, outcomes (fatal/nonfatal), and methods used were r...

Results: Based on 3,096,729 HIV-infected person-years, the overall HIV case-fatality rate was 20.6/1,000 person-years (95% confidence interval [CI], 20.3–20.9). Ageadjusted rates by state ranged from 9.6 (95% CI 6.8–12.4) in Idaho to 32.9 (95% CI 29.8–36.0) in Mississippi, demonstrating significant differences across states, even after adjusting for race/ethnicity (p<0.0001). Many states with l...

INTRODUCTION Malaria is a preventable and curable disease. Mazowe district had been experiencing a lower malaria transmission rate in comparison to other districts in the Mashonaland Central province but it experienced a huge outbreak in the 2013-2014 rainy seasons with a case fatality rate (CFR) of 0.21%. This CFR was the highest in the province and it was twice as much as the national CFR (0....

PURPOSE To assess the influence of age, disease severity at admission and therapeutic interventions on the higher in-hospital case-fatality rate of acute myocardial infarction (MI) in women. METHODS A retrospective cohort study involving a total of 388 acute MI patients (50 deaths). The following variables were treated as possible explanatory factors for the association between gender and cas...

This study evaluate the effects of the Stroke Unit (SU) in Croatia by comparing the in-hospital case fatality rate in the period before (1995-2000) and after (2001-2006) the implementation of SU and to compare the prevalence of risk factors, such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus (DM), atrial fibrillation (AF) and ischemic heart disease (IHD) among the patients who died. The study was conducte...

This study investigates the perceptions shaped by media towards trust, crisis management, healthcare system, and solidarity, as well willingness to support travel intention across two groups of countries with higher lower COVID-19 case fatality rates. The findings showed more positive solidarity in those rate. results also demonstrated effects trust on a destinations indirect for rate fatality....

Case-fatality rates in Ebola treatment centers (ETCs) varied widely during the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa. We assessed the influence of referral pathway on ETC case-fatality rates with a retrospective cohort of 126 patients treated at the Mathaska ETC in Port Loko, Sierra Leone. The patients consisted of persons who had confirmed EVD when transferred to the ETC or who had...