Electrical burns are linked to a high rate of morbidity and mortality, usually avoidable with basic safety precautions. High voltage electrical injuries uncommon, yet they have death rate. Electrocution refers any caused by an shock the body. Although introduction electricity was hailed as gift civilization, its use in domestic households has continued increase fatalities, either because lack p...

The avoidability of binary patterns by binary cube-free words is investigated and the exact bound between unavoidable and avoidable patterns is found. All avoidable patterns are shown to be D0L-avoidable. For avoidable patterns, the growth rates of the avoiding languages are studied. All such languages, except for the overlap-free language, are proved to have exponential growth. The exact growt...

The decline in Avoidable Mortality (AM) and increase in life expectancy in Shanghai is impressive. Gusmano and colleagues suggested that Shanghai’s improved health system has contributed significantly to this decline in AM. However, when compared to other global cities, Shanghai’s life expectancy at birth is improving as London and New York City, but has yet to surpass that of Hong Kong, Tokyo,...

We analyse the trends in inequality mortality across poverty groups at different ages over period 1996–2016 Netherlands. In addition, we examine whether these are related to unequal changes avoidable mortality, separated by preventable and treatable causes of death. find that while inequalities have decreased up 65, increased for oldest age groups. The decline younger can, a large extent, be ex...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the incidence and characteristics of adverse events (AEs) and no-harm events (NHEs) in critically ill patients. DESIGN Observational, prospective, 24-h cross-sectional study with self-reporting. SETTING Seventy-nine intensive care units at 76 hospitals. MEASUREMENTS Number of events, risk of AEs and NHEs, types of incidents, severity and avoidability of incidents. ...

OBJECTIVE To study the incidence, outcome and potentially avoidable causes of inpatient cardiopulmonary arrests in a hospital with a "mature" rapid response system (RRS). DESIGN Retrospective observational study of all cardiopulmonary arrest events in 2005. SETTING University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian Hospital, a 730-bed academic, urban, tertiary care adult hospital in the U...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To assess avoidable hospitalisation as an indicator of quality of primary care by examining trends and gender and ethnic variations. DESIGN AND SETTING Aggregated nationwide data in Singapore from 1991 to1998 were analysed for hospitalisations for chronic diseases that are avoidable by timely, appropriate, and effective primary care: asthma, congestive heart failure, chronic ...

Avoidable mortality is a major public health concern but there has been little consensus among researchers on how it should be defined and reported. In this article two definitions of avoidable mortality are considered. These are used to present trends in avoidable deaths in England and Wales from 1993 to 2005, using two statistical indicators of mortality. Analysis of both definitions shows a ...

CONTEXT Little is known about the prevalence of maternal mortality in refugee camps for populations displaced by conflict, or about the factors contributing to such deaths. METHODS Maternal Death Review Reports were used to analyze maternal deaths that occurred in 2008-2010 in 25 refugee camps in 10 countries. Assessed outcomes included causes of death; delays in women seeking, reaching or re...

BACKGROUND Child mortality in the Netherlands declined gradually in the past decades. In total 1130 children and youth aged 0 to 19 years died in 2014 (i.e. 29.4 per 100,000 live births). A better understanding of the background and the circumstances surrounding the death of children as well as the manner and cause of death may lead to preventive measures. Child Death Review (CDR) is a method t...