We have been working to develop a statewide injury surveillance system using not only hospital-based trauma registries but also other sources of data (including ambulance run reports, hospital discharge abstracts, and death certificates). For this purpose, a commercially available probabilistic matching program was compared to the deterministic program described previously. Using the same data ...

Regarding registration and publication of clinical trials, there are now three registry organizations in Japan; the University Hospital Medical Information Network (UMIN), the Japan Pharmaceutical Information Center (JAPIC) and the Japan Medical Association - Center for Clinical Trials (JMACCT). In addition, a portal site which supports searching for information on clinical trials in all three ...

Accurate and complete registries are an important source of knowledge about cancer. The concordance of the recording of neoplasms in the Saskatchewan cancer registry with that in hospital charts and death registrations was evaluated for 368 patients. The agreement between registry and hospital charts or death registrations was excellent (kappa: 0.93; 95% confidence interval: 0.89, 0.97), with 9...

Methods We conducted a historical cohort study at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Aarhus University Hospital. All adult patients admitted to the ICU with severe sepsis or septic shock from 2008-2010 were included. Transfers from other ICUs and patients with limited interventions (DNI/ DNR) were excluded. Data on patient SES (educational level and personal income), Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI...

Introduction: Hypertension and diabetes mellitus are currently the usual causes of morbidity and mortality among non-communicable diseases in both developed and developing countries. When occur together, the risk of death from cardiovascular diseases will double. Objective: This study was intended to assess the antihypertensive drug prescription pattern and blood pressure control among diabetic...