This paper reports on Task 2 of the 2016 CLEF eHealth evaluation lab which extended the previous information extraction tasks of ShARe/CLEF eHealth evaluation labs. The task continued with named entity recognition and normalization in French narratives, as offered in CLEF eHealth 2015. Named entity recognition involved ten types of entities including disorders that were defined according to Sem...

To study the incidence of fatal myocarditis in the general population, the authors retrospectively collected all death certificates recording myocarditis as the underlying cause of death in Finland in 1970–1998. The incidence of myocarditis and its proportion of all deaths were calculated from 141.4 million person-years and 1.35 million deaths. Myocarditis was recorded as the underlying cause o...

This study compared data from death certificates (DC), medical examiner (ME) reports, and Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for homicides among children age 5 years or younger in Jefferson County, Alabama between 1988 and 1998. Records from each source were matched independently to records from the other two sources. Kappa coefficients measured the chance-corrected agreement between sources...

To study the incidence of fatal myocarditis in the general population, the authors retrospectively collected all death certificates recording myocarditis as the underlying cause of death in Finland in 1970-1998. The incidence of myocarditis and its proportion of all deaths were calculated from 141.4 million person-years and 1.35 million deaths. Myocarditis was recorded as the underlying cause o...

BACKGROUND As part of the work of the Shipman Inquiry, five general practitioners (GPs) in West Sussex were identified as having excessively high mortality rates. The aim of this study was to identify reasons for the higher-than-expected mortality rates of these five GPs. METHODS A retrospective analysis was made of routine mortality and patient registration data from primary-care practices i...

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This bulletin presents the latest figures for deaths where Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection was mentioned on the death certificate by sex, age group and place of death, in England and Wales. Figures are presented for deaths registered in 2011, with previously released figures presented for 2001 to 2010 for comparison purposes. Information is also given about the context and use of...

OBJECTIVE To validate variables other than the basic cause of death on death certificates from external causes of residents younger than 20 years old living in Recife, Brazil, in 1995. METHODS A survey of death records of the Institute of Forensic in Recife was carried out in order to validate death certificate variables included in official mortality registries. Agreement analysis was perfor...