BACKGROUND Interhospital transfer of patients admitted with an acute myocardial infarction for specialised care is common and costly. However, the long-term mortality of transferred patients compared with patients solely treated at the presenting hospital has not been evaluated. Here, we assess the long-term mortality of patients who undergo interhospital transfer during their acute myocardial ...

In official Norwegian government reports’ prison statistics, it is claimed that the prevalence of Dissocial Personality Disorder (DPD) or Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) among inmates in preventive detention is approximately 50%. Furthermore, previous findings have described a practice in which forensic examiners use the DSM SCID axis II for APD to confirm an ICD 10 diagnosis of DPD. Clin...

Objectives A descriptive analysis of suicide by burning in England and Wales in the general population and in people of South Asian origin. Design A cross-sectional secondary analysis of a national data set. Setting A population study of all those who died by suicide in England and Wales between 1993 and 2003 inclusive. Participants All cases of suicide and undetermined intent identified by ...

PURPOSE Medical free-text records enable to get rich information about the patients, but often need to be de-identified by removing the Protected Health Information (PHI), each time the identification of the patient is not mandatory. Pattern matching techniques require pre-defined dictionaries, and machine learning techniques require an extensive training set. Methods exist in French, but eithe...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to describe the principal reasons for admission, medical comorbidities, interventions and outcomes of patients admitted to New South Wales hospitals with alcohol-related cognitive impairment. METHODS We extracted data from the NSW Admitted Patient Care Database for nearly 410 000 multi-day hospital admissions from 222 public hospitals ending between July 2...

BACKGROUND Intervention-generated inequalities are unintended variations in outcome that result from the organisation and delivery of health interventions. Socioeconomic inequalities in treatment may occur for some common cancers. Although the incidence and outcome of lung cancer varies with socioeconomic position (SEP), it is not known whether socioeconomic inequalities in treatment occur and ...

Background There is a lack of epidemiological knowledge about whether individuals with dementia receive the same quality diagnostics and treatment. Method We explored ICD10 National Health Security Office (NHSO) in-patient record in Thailand. analyzed prevalence, etiologies, regional distribution, outcome Thailand during 2015-2019. reviewed cross-sectional cohort study based on data from NHSO. ...

Introduction: Stomach cancer is the fourth most common worldwide. Although there a lot of international evidence on survival stomach patients, data from Central Asia still scarce. Aims: To study one- and five-years patients its correlates in Western Kazakhstan. Methods: All histologically confirmed cases (ICD10 code: C16) registered 2015 to 2019 Aktobe region, Kazakhstan, were included registry...

To examine real-world treatment patterns, healthcare resource utilization and costs among third-line (3L) relapsed refractory (R/R) diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) patients in the United States. A retrospective claims analysis was carried out using IBM® MarketScan® Database (Jan 2015-Dec 2019) to assess patterns adult DLBCL receiving 3L treatment. diagnosis of (ICD10 C83.X), ≥ 12 months p...

In the UK it is estimated that 10–15% of lung cancer cases occur in never-smokers. This study demonstrates changes demographic characteristics, including smoking status, all patients referred to thoracic malignancy unit at Guy’s Cancer Centre, South East London, between 2010 and 2021. We included with a documented ICD10 diagnosis bronchus who were from until A total 6861 identified. collected b...