نتایج جستجو برای: avoidable death

تعداد نتایج: 277328  

Journal: :Quality in health care : QHC 1996
R Westerling

OBJECTIVE To analyse studies evaluating cases of potentially "avoidable" death. DESIGN The definitions, sources of information, and methods were reviewed with a structured protocol. The different types of avoidable factors,--that is, deficiencies in medical care that may have contributed to death--were categorised. The presence of explicit classifications and standards was examined. basic cri...

Journal: :Archives of disease in childhood 2011
G A Pearson M Ward-Platt A Harnden D Kelly

AIM To describe the avoidable factors associated with child deaths identified by a confidential enquiry. METHOD In the Centre for Maternal and Child Enquiries confidential enquiry, a sample (13%) of cases was subjected to case note review by multidisciplinary panels attempting to identify avoidable factors associated with the deaths. Cases were selected blindly but in equal numbers from prede...

2013

BACKGROUND Deaths attributed to lack of preventive health care or timely and effective medical care can be considered avoidable. In this report, avoidable causes of death are either preventable, as in preventing cardiovascular events by addressing risk factors, or treatable, as in treating conditions once they have occurred. Although various definitions for avoidable deaths exist, studies have ...

Journal: :British journal of anaesthesia 2005
N B Foss H Kehlet

INTRODUCTION Patients with hip fractures are usually frail and elderly with a 30-day mortality in excess of 10% in European series. Perioperative morbidity is often multifactorial in nature, and unimodal interventions will not necessarily decrease mortality. The purpose of this prospective study was to analyse causes of mortality, and thereby the potential and limitations to decrease mortality ...

2015
Gary Abel Georgios Lyratzopoulos

To cite: Abel G, Lyratzopoulos G. BMJ Qual Saf Published Online First: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bmjqs2015-004366 Reducing the number of avoidable deaths in hospital is the focus of many quality improvement initiatives worldwide. Comparing indicators of avoidable mortality between different hospitals could help to target improvement efforts, but optimally defining and measurin...

Journal: :Journal of epidemiology and community health 1998
L Simonato T Ballard P Bellini R Winkelmann

OBJECTIVE To analyse trends of avoidable mortality in Europe, emphasising causes of death amenable to primary prevention through reduction of exposures, secondary prevention through early detection and treatment, and tertiary prevention through improved treatment and medical care. DESIGN Descriptive study of mortality from avoidable causes for the years 1955 through 1994, for ages 5-64 at tim...

2014
Rasmus Hoffmann Gerard Borsboom Marc Saez Marc Mari Dell’Olmo Bo Burström Diana Corman Claudia Costa Patrick Deboosere M Felicitas Domínguez-Berjón Dagmar Dzúrová Ana Gandarillas Mercè Gotsens Katalin Kovács Johan Mackenbach Pekka Martikainen Laia Maynou Joana Morrison Laia Palència Gloria Pérez Hynek Pikhart Maica Rodríguez-Sanz Paula Santana Carme Saurina Lasse Tarkiainen Carme Borrell

BACKGROUND Health and inequalities in health among inhabitants of European cities are of major importance for European public health and there is great interest in how different health care systems in Europe perform in the reduction of health inequalities. However, evidence on the spatial distribution of cause-specific mortality across neighbourhoods of European cities is scarce. This study pre...

Journal: :Journal of Korean Medical Science 2008

2015
Helen Hogan Rebecca Zipfel Jenny Neuburger Andrew Hutchings Ara Darzi Nick Black

OBJECTIVES To determine the proportion of avoidable deaths (due to acts of omission and commission) in acute hospital trusts in England and to determine the association with the trust's hospital-wide standardised mortality ratio assessed using the two commonly used methods--the hospital standardised mortality ratio (HSMR) and the summary hospital level mortality indicator (SHMI). DESIGN Retro...

Journal: :Journal of epidemiology and community health 2004
A Hjern B Vinnerljung F Lindblad

OBJECTIVE To compare rates of avoidable mortality in adolescence in child welfare recipients and intercountry adoptees with the general population. DESIGN A register study of the entire national cohort of 989 871 Swedish residents born 1973-82 in the national census of 1990. Multivariate Cox analyses of proportional hazards were used to analyse avoidable deaths between 13 to 27 years of age d...

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