AIM To identify features to help paediatricians differentiate between natural and unnatural infant deaths. METHOD Clinical features of 81 children judged by criminal and family courts to have been killed by their parents were studied. Health and social service records, court documents, and records from meetings with parents, relatives, and social workers were studied. RESULTS Initially, 42 ...

AIM To assess the causes of early death (ED) and late death (LD) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and determine the features of deceased SLE patients followed-up in a single Croatian tertiary hospital center, because little if any data on causes of death (CODs) in SLE patients are available for Croatia. METHOD We identified SLE patients regularly followed-up at the Division...

BACKGROUND Historically, counting influenza recorded in administrative health outcome databases has been considered insufficient to estimate influenza attributable morbidity and mortality in populations. We used database record linkage to evaluate whether modern databases have similar limitations. METHODS Person-level records were linked across databases of laboratory notified influenza, emer...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to compare the value of four sources of data in assessing morbidity in a population: (1) data from a screening programme including follow up records, (2) death certifications by attending physicians, (3) death certifications by doctor-coroners, and (4) necropsy reports. DESIGN The study was a cohort analysis of health and mortality in a sample of agricultural worke...

Introduction: The Texas Birth Defects Registry (TBDR) is an active surveillance system which covers all pregnancy outcomes and routinely links birth defects cases to in-state vital records. This study describes the value of using the National Death Index (NDI) data to supplement Texas state death certificates from vital records for a birth defects survival analysis. Methods: The cohort for this...

BACKGROUND Emergency medical dispatch systems are used to help categorize and prioritize emergency medical services (EMS) resources for requests for assistance. OBJECTIVE We examined whether a subset of Medical Priority Dispatch System (MPDS) codes could predict patient outcomes (emergency department [ED] discharge versus hospital admission/ED death). METHODS This retrospective observationa...

This study compares data regarding alcohol involvement from police records and from chemical analyses of body fluids taken prior to or after death of 121 traffic fatalities in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Differences regarding the choice of who will or will not be screened for alcohol were found. The police and emergency room personnel were more likely to focus on males and drivers, while medica...

background avoidable mortality as an indicator for assessing the health system performance has caught the attention of researchers for a long time. in this study we aimed to compare the health system performance using this indicator in rural and urban areas of one of iran’s southern provinces.   methods all deaths (29916) which happened during 2004–2011 in bushehr province were assessed. nolte ...