BACKGROUND Spatial health inequalities have often been analysed in terms of deprivation. The aim of this study was to create an ecological deprivation index and evaluate its association with mortality over the entire mainland France territory. More specifically, the variations with the degree of urbanicity, spatial scale, age, gender and cause of death, which influence the association between m...

OBJECTIVE To assess overall and cause-specific mortality and the quality of somatic care among psychiatric patients. DESIGN A register-based cohort study. SETTING All individuals aged 20-79 years in Sweden in 2005. PARTICIPANTS In total 6 294 339 individuals. PRIMARY OUTCOME MEASURE The individuals were followed for mortality in 2006 and 2007, generating 72 187 deaths. Psychiatric patie...

BACKGROUND Perinatal audit and the three-delays model are increasingly being employed to analyse barriers to perinatal health, at both community and facility level. Using these approaches, our aim was to assess factors that could contribute to perinatal mortality and potentially avoidable deaths at Rwandan hospitals. METHODS Perinatal audits were carried out at two main urban hospitals, one a...

Safety and error reduction in medical care is crucial to the future of medicine. This study evaluates trauma patients dying at a level 1 trauma centre to determine the adequacy of care. All trauma deaths at a level 1 trauma centre between 1996 and 2003 were reviewed by an eight-member multidisciplinary death review panel. Errors in care were classified according to their location, nature, impac...

INTRODUCTION Adverse event (AE) rates in General Surgery vary, according to different authors and recording methods, between 2% and 30%. Six years ago we designed a prospective AE recording system to change patient safety culture in our Department. We present the results of this work after a 6 year follow-up. MATERIAL AND METHOD The AE, sequelae and health care errors in a University Hospital...

Abstract Objectives: to describe the trend of preventable neonatal mortality due interventions by Unified Health System in Brazil from 2000 2018, according groups causes death and maternal residence. Methods: mixed ecological study with data Mortality Information on Live Births. The analysis occurred based number rates avoidable mortality, polynomial regression models least squares method thema...

BACKGROUND The recently published monograph, Neonatal encephalopathy and neurologic outcome, from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists calls for a root cause analysis to identify components of care that contributed to cases of neonatal encephalopathy to design better practices, surveillance mechanisms, and systems. All cases of infants born in New Zealand with moderate and se...