Case presentation: Female, 8 years old, with onset of seizures at 2 months, evolving refractory epilepsy. The were characterized by behavioral arrest and vacant gaze, in addition to episodes loss tone head turn the right intense salivation. Patient has used topiramate, nitrazepam, carbamazepine valproate. On examination, he is moderately mentally retarded does not speak. Prolonged videoelectroe...

BACKGROUND Few studies have examined the effect of continuity of care on avoidable hospitalization, and the results have been inconclusive. This study aimed to examine the effects of continuity of care on avoidable hospitalization and hospital admission for any condition in a health care system with a high level of access to care. METHODS We used a longitudinal design to examine claims data t...

BACKGROUND This study analyses the association between rurality and local rate of avoidable hospitalizations in a Spanish region with high population dispersion. METHODS Ecological study using a municipality in the region of Castile and Leon (Spain) as the spatial unit of analysis. The variables used to operationalize rurality included the following: distance to hospital, population density, ...

BACKGROUND Recognizing mortality pattern and observing its trend will help us in determining health priorities, allocating health resources and priorities in health section, eliminating main factors of premature deaths and carrying out epidemiological research. OBJECTIVE The aim of this research was to determine avoidable mortality in Kerman province. MATERIALS AND METHODS The present study...

OBJECTIVE To identify avoidable factors contributing to neonatal morbidity and mortality due to "birth asphyxia" and to ascertain if hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) alone could act as a good marker for avoidable factors associated with "birth asphyxia". SETTING Kalafong Hospital, South Africa, a regional hospital unit that caters for mainly indigent urban population but also receives re...

The effect of avoidable mortality on the life expectancy of Maori and non-Maori New Zea-landers has been examined using a method similar to that of Benavides et al' for the Valencia region of Spain. Deaths that are avoidable by primary and secondary prevention are considered separately and the potential number of years of life gained by their prevention is compared. Methods: Sex specific abridg...

Conclusions Optimal cooperation between our tertiary facilities and non-teaching hospitals and clinics as well as the prehospital transport systems allows significant limitations in avoidable obstetric maternal morbidity and mortality. Cerebral hemorrhage and amniotic fluid embolism carry the heaviest toll in non-avoidable deaths. Authors’ details Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Anesthés...

A subset U of a set S with a binary operation is called avoidable if S can be partitioned into two subsets A and B such that no element of U can be written as a product of two distinct elements of A or as the product of two distinct elements of B. The avoidable sets of the bicyclic inverse semigroup are classified.

In 2013, Downie et al reported on results obtained from five acute UK Trusts (April 2012-March 2013) for all hospital-acquired category III–IV pressure ulcers (PUs) developed within these organisations. They described the reporting and validation methodology used by all five organisations to determine the avoidable or unavoidable status of their hospital-acquired category III–IV PUs. Prior to t...