ABSTRACT: Objective: To estimate trends of fetal (FMR) and neonatal (NMR) mortality rates due to avoidable causes maternal education in the city Rio de Janeiro (2000–2018). Methods: Ecological time series study. Mortality Live Birth Information System Data. The List Avoidable Causes Death Due Interventions Brazilian Health was used for deaths an adaptation deaths, according indicators (low <...

BACKGROUND Deaths attributed to lack of preventive health care or timely and effective medical care can be considered avoidable. In this report, avoidable causes of death are either preventable, as in preventing cardiovascular events by addressing risk factors, or treatable, as in treating conditions once they have occurred. Although various definitions for avoidable deaths exist, studies have ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate mortality and its causes in adults over the age of 20 years with intellectual disability (ID). DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Retrospective population-based standardised mortality of the ID and Comparison cohorts. The ID cohort comprised 42 204 individuals who registered for disability services with ID as a primary or secondary diagnosis from 2005 to 2011 in New So...

1. I am puzzled by the definition of amenable deaths used in the paper. In the title it seems like the main focus is mortality amenable to health care. However, premature death of COPD was classified as amenable to health care. This I find very strange. I would believe that smoking would be the main factor associated with COPD and not the health care? A reference was given to work from Australi...

To cite: Abel G, Lyratzopoulos G. BMJ Qual Saf Published Online First: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bmjqs2015-004366 Reducing the number of avoidable deaths in hospital is the focus of many quality improvement initiatives worldwide. Comparing indicators of avoidable mortality between different hospitals could help to target improvement efforts, but optimally defining and measurin...