Abstract Background and objectives Even though the statistics have shown that patients with severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia bipolar disorder are most likely to die 10 20 years earlier than general population, information on mortality in Moroccan psychiatric setting is significantly limited. In course of this study, we aim describe clinical characteristics death-related data 18 who...

OBJECTIVE In-hospital mortality is an important performance measure for quality improvement, although it requires proper risk adjustment. We set out to develop in-hospital mortality prediction models for acute hospitalization using a nation-wide electronic administrative record system in Japan. METHODS Administrative records of 224,207 patients (patients discharged from 82 hospitals in Japan ...

Introduction / objectives In sub-Saharan Africa, 1 in 22 women is likely to experience infection or even death in child birth. Along with Nigeria and Ethiopia, the DRC is among the worse off. Hospital acquired infections(HAI) are a neglected and yet crucial factor in maternal mortality. Our objectives were to identify the role of HAI in the mortality observed in Lubumbashi maternal wards and to...

Roberts, D. F., Chavez, J., and Court, S. D. M. (1969). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 45, 33. The genetic component in child mortality. Analysis of the causes of death in 1041 children in all Newcastle hospitals admitting children in the period 1960 to 1966 shows that genetically determined disease makes a major contribution, 42% in this series, to the total of mortality in childhood. The f...