Dramatic Drop in AIDS Deaths

Mbewu ducks AIDS deaths.

Identifying deaths from AIDS in South Africa.

OBJECTIVE To quantify the HIV/AIDS deaths misclassified to AIDS-related conditions in South Africa. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of vital registration data. METHODS Cause-specific death rates for 1996 and 2000-2001 were calculated using vital registration cause-of-death profiles applied to a model (ASSA2000) estimate of total mortality rates by age and sex. The difference in the age-specif...

Exposing misclassified HIV/AIDS deaths in South Africa.

OBJECTIVE To quantify the deaths from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) that are misattributed to other causes in South Africa's death registration data and to adjust for this bias. METHODS Deaths in the World Health Organization's mortality database were distributed among 48 mutually exclusive causes. For each cause, age- and sex-specif...

Depression care effort brings dramatic drop in large HMO population's suicide rate.

atypical antipsychotic and 15 000 children taking albuterol but no antipsychotic drugs. Patients with diabetes were excluded from both groups. The study found that glucose screening was low in both groups, with 31.6% of the patients taking antipsychotics receiving such screening compared with 12.6% of controls. Only 13.4% of the patients treated with antipsychotic drugs received lipid testing c...

Original Research: An investigation into the dramatic increase in deaths from gastroenteritis

Introduction and background: Despite national guidelines and agreed upon admission and referral criteria for children in National District Hospital (NDH), Bloemfontein, the number of children admitted with gastroenteritis (GE) has increased dramatically since December 2007. From the previous year’s Child Healthcare Problem Identification Programme (Child PIP) data the increase in GE admissions ...