WOLVERHAMPTON AND STAFFORDSHIRE INFIRMARY.

Preventable childhood deaths in Wolverhampton.

A retrospective survey was undertaken of all deaths in children under 5 in the borough of Wolverhampton over the years 1976-82. Cause of death was classified in terms of preventability and possibly preventable deaths studied in more detail. Birth weight in the study group was significantly lower than that of the local population; there was no difference in ethnic origin, but there were signific...

University of Wolverhampton at CLEF 2008

This article presents the participation of University of Wolverhampton in the Romanian to English Question Answering task at CLEF-2008. This year we employed a modular framework which allows different modules to be easily plugged in and customised. The main components of our system deal with the three standard stages used in question answering: question processing, paragraph retrieval and answe...

Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust

Changing patterns of childhood mortality in Wolverhampton.

OBJECTIVES To review the incidence and characteristics of preventable childhood deaths in an urban population in the UK and to determine whether the excess of preventable deaths seen previously in Asian girls still exists. DESIGN A retrospective survey of childhood deaths from 1996-2002 classified in terms of preventability and compared with a previous study conducted 20 years earlier from 19...

Salisbury Infirmary and Contributory Organisations

such a misapprehension should exist, for we rather pride ourselves that we were probably the first to put forward a definite scheme of co-operation at a meeting held here on May 27, 1922. Unfortunately, we have not been able to get our neighbours to see that this suggested scheme is one that honestly makes an attempt to deal fairly with all the districts and hospitals in our area, and that it w...