Concerns about bioterrorism and influenza have focused attention on identifying novel data sources to enhance public health surveillance. The authors evaluated free Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Internet death notices for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, as a potentially timely source of mortality data. Data abstracted from Internet death notices for 1998-2001 were compared with mortality records from...

BACKGROUND Cardiac valvular diseases contribute to >42,000 deaths yearly in the United States, but the role of genetics in these deaths is unknown. This study evaluated the familiality of death resulting from aortic, mitral, and all valvular diseases using a population-based genealogy linked to death records. METHODS AND RESULTS The Utah Population Database contains >2 million individual reco...

OBJECTIVES We describe the burden of unintentional injury (UI) deaths among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations in the United States. METHODS National Death Index records for 1990 to 2009 were linked with Indian Health Service registration records to identify AI/AN deaths misclassified as non-AI/AN deaths. Most analyses were restricted to Contract Health Service Delivery Are...

BACKGROUND The suicide rate in Alberta is consistently above the Canadian average. Health care use profiles of those who die by suicide in Alberta are currently unknown. DATA AND METHODS Death records were selected for people aged 25 to 64 with suicide coded as the underlying cause of death from April 1, 2003 to March 31, 2006. The death records were linked to administrative records pertainin...

OBJECTIVE To examine the feasibility and effectiveness of community-based maternal mortality surveillance in rural Ghana, where most information on maternal deaths usually comes from retrospective surveys and hospital records. METHODS In 2013, community-based surveillance volunteers used a modified reproductive age mortality survey (RAMOS 4+2) to interview family members of women of reproduct...

this is a mortality study in internal medicine wards of amir-alam hospital, since the beginning of 1374 to end of 1376. here, we reviewed, prevalence of disease lead to death, the ward and invasive interventions and duration of admission of patients before death. in this study, records of 85 patients were reviewed. 68.2% of patients were men and 31.8% women. mean of age was 61.6% with minimum o...

Asian Americans (AAs) are heterogeneous, and aggregation of diverse AA populations in national reporting may mask high-risk groups. Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers constitute one-third global cancer mortality, an improved understanding GI mortality by disaggregated subgroups inform future primary secondary prevention strategies. Using records from the United States 2003 to 2017, we report age-sta...