BACKGROUND: We aimed to determine optimal strategies for complete mortality ascertainment comparing death certificates and United States (US) Veterans Administration (VA) records. METHODS: We constructed a cohort of California veterans who died in fiscal year (FY) 2000 and used VA services the year before death. We determined decedent status using California death certificates linked to VA util...

background : the word death has been brought in several verses of quran. the purpose of this study is to discuss and compare similarities and differences between quran’s and forensics’ perspective in terms of death. methods: the present study is carried out by library studies on multiple interpretations of quran, interpretation of juridical references and comparing them with current forensics k...

The objective of this study was to identify factors related death in patients diagnosed with ventilator-associated pneumonia admitted the intensive care unit University Hospital Brasília. Methodology: Retrospective study, based on analysis medical records 73 pneumonia, from March 2017 December 2020. Statistical analyzes were performed using unpaired Student's t test and Chi test. -Pearson squar...

CONTEXT A participant death is a serious event in a clinical trial and needs to be unambiguously and publicly reported. OBJECTIVE To examine (1) how often and how numbers of deaths are reported in ClinicalTrials.gov records; (2) how often total deaths can be determined per arm within a ClinicalTrials.gov results record and its corresponding publication and (3) whether counts may be discordant...

BACKGROUND Measuring the real burden of cardiovascular disease in Australian Aboriginals is complicated by under-identification of Aboriginality in administrative health data collections. Accurate data is essential to measure Australia's progress in its efforts to intervene to improve health outcomes of Australian Aboriginals. We estimated the under-ascertainment of Aboriginal status in linked ...

We have examined the death certificates from all patients aged 35-64 years who were recorded as dying from asthma in Greater London Council hospitals in 1971. Of the 47 death certificates studied, nine suggested that the primary cause of death was not asthma. From the remaining 38 deaths we have obtained 36 case records and found that 15 deaths occurred outside hospital and another two patients...

The article explores the civil and parish death records analyses circumstances of formation district Beija-Flor, which came to be called Bela Flor in 1895, gave rise vila de Guanambi, backland Bahia. In addition causes death, it investigates aspects related socioeconomic status, lack medical care, illiteracy, local politics, gender, ethnicity. It checks extent district, identifying 71 places de...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the quality of data on acute myocardial infarction deaths from mortality information systems. METHODS Data on in-hospital acute myocardial infarction mortality collected from database of the Mortality Information System (SIM) and Hospital Information System (SIH), in 2000, were analyzed. Then data collected from medical records from two hospitals affiliated to the Unifie...