STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to assess the differences in suicide data obtained from different database sources. DESIGN Death certificate based data on suicidal deaths were compared with the information obtained from the non-natural death investigation files at the Public Prosecutor's Office. SETTING The study was confined to the time period of 1981-1984 and to the residents of the district ...

PURPOSE We compared mortality rates among state prisoners and other state residents to identify prisoners' health care needs. METHODS We linked North Carolina prison records with state death records for 1995-2005 to estimate all-cause and cause-specific death rates among black and white male prisoners ages 20-79 years and used standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) to compare these observed dea...

This study was aimed at determining the median survival and most frequent causes of death in patients with the autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). A retrospective, observational analysis was made on patients registered with a diagnosis of ADPKD, in the computer records of the Sheffield Kidney Institute (SKI), United Kingdom, during the years 1981 to 1999. Data on 363 patients ...

The cause of death shown on 191 death certificates was compared with the cause indicated by the hospital case notes, the consultants' opinions, and the necropsy findings. All 191 deaths occurred among medical hospital patients aged under 50. In 39 cases there was a major discrepancy between the two sources over the cause of death and in another 54 ther was a minor but epidemiologically importan...

BACKGROUND Substance use disorders have repeatedly been found to lead to premature death, i.e. drug-related death by disease, fatal intoxications, or trauma (accidents, suicide, undetermined suicide, and homicide). The present study examined the relationship between multi-drug substance use and natural and unnatural death. METHODS All consecutive, autopsied patients who had been in contact wi...

BACKGROUND Obtaining population-level estimates of the incidence and prevalence of dementia is challenging due to under-diagnosis and under-reporting. We investigated the feasibility of using multiple linked datasets and capture-recapture techniques to estimate rates of dementia among women in Australia. METHODS This work is based on the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health. A rand...

primary immunodeficiencies (pid) are a group of disorders, characterized by an unusual susceptibility to infections. delay in diagnosis results in increased morbidity and mortality in affected patients. the purpose of this study was to determine the mortality rate of iranian immunodeficient patients referred to children medical center hospital affiliated to tehran university of medical sciences...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the viability of a probabilistic record linkage strategy to identify patients who underwent complex cardiology procedures among the total deceased population. METHODS The processing cost was estimated based on 1,672 records of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting that were compared with all death records in Brazil in 2005. The accuracy of the linkage strat...

thanatology is the academic study of dying, death and grief. it encompasses thoughts, feelings, attitudes, events and the psychological mechanisms of dealing with them. death obsession includes ruminations, repetitive, intrusive thoughts or images about death. death obsession in the nursing profession can occur on a daily basis, and communication with dying patients can be stressful for nurses....