BACKGROUND The validity and reliability of suicide statistics have been questioned and few nationwide studies of deliberate self-harm have been presented. AIM To calculate rates of deliberate self-harm in Denmark in order to investigate trends and assess the reliability of hospital records. METHOD A register study based on all individuals recorded with an episode of deliberate self-harm or ...

Routine scrutiny of the occurrence of injury is an essential component of effective public health injury control. Much can be achieved using data which are collected mainly for reasons other than public health injury surveillance. Coroners' records, hospital admission data, and workers' compensation records are examples of such data sources. The special virtue of these sources is that they are ...

AIM To determine the risk of asthma among 7891 Finnish construction workers in the Pirkanmaa Region of southern Finland. METHOD Retrospective cohort study of hospital records of the Tampere University Hospital. A population of Pirkanmaa paper mill workers (n=2686) and the Pirkanmaa working age population (n=252,500) served as reference populations. RESULTS There were 147 new cases of asthma...

BACKGROUND Malaysia has been at the forefront of the development and scale up of One-Stop Crisis Centres (OSCC) - an integrated health sector model that provides comprehensive care to women and children experiencing physical, emotional and sexual abuse. This study explored the strengths and challenges faced during the scaling up of the OSCC model to two States in Malaysia in order to identify l...

Statistics are presented on the utilization of non-Federal short-stay hospitals based on data abstracted in the National Hospital Discharge Suwey from a national sample of hospital records of discharged inpatients. The number of discharges, discharge rates, and average length of stay are shown for the classes and categories of first-listed diagnoses, by demographic characteristics of inpatients...

OBJECTIVE The records of the emergency room of Landspitali University Hospital in Iceland provide important information on the prevalence and incidence of various problems. The objective of this research is to evaluate the reliability of data concerning the visits of adolescents under the influence of alcohol. DATA AND METHODS Records of visits to the Emergency Room of Landspitali University ...

Real-world data is that collected outside the constraints of controlled clinical trials and is increasingly informing decision-making in healthcare. The landscape of real-world data in the United Kingdom is set to evolve over the coming months as the government plans to build on databases currently in place by collecting patient data from all family practices and linking this information with h...

This historical cohort study was designed to clarify the association between air pollution and low birth weight (LBW) amongst women referred to Tehran hospitals in 2007. In total, 225 eligible pregnant women who lived within 5 km of an air pollution monitoring station during their pregnancy were selected for the study. Data were collected via interview and hospital records. Exposure to each pol...

OBJECTIVE To develop, in a mortuary setting, a pilot programme for improving the accuracy of records of deaths caused by injury. METHODS The recording of injury-related deaths was upgraded at the mortuary of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana, in 1996 through the creation of a prospectively gathered database. FINDINGS There was an increase in the number of deaths reported ann...

Medical audit of hospital records has been a major component of quality of care assessment, although physician judgment is known to have low reliability. We estimated interrater agreement of quality assessment in a sample of patients with cardiac conditions admitted to an American teaching hospital. Physician-reviewers used structured review methods designed to improve quality assessment based ...