Background: In this study, with the aim of modeling Leukemia in children using Phase-type distribution, three transitional phases including diagnosis, brain metastasis and testis/ovary metastasis, and one absorotion phase of recovery/death have been considered. The distribution was fitted and the probabilities of death or recovery were determined based on the independent variab...

The most useful explanation of a phenomenon is often a description of the underlying causal processes (Salmon 1998). This is particularly true in the domain of medicine where identification of the causal factors of a disease influence treatment planning and development of intervention strategies for disease prevention and control. The study described here focuses on causal discovery from observ...

BACKGROUND With the growing use of electronic health record systems, there is a demand for an electronic version of the leading American pediatric preventive care guideline, Bright Futures. As computer implementation requires actionable recommendations, it is important to assess to what degree Bright Futures meets criteria for actionability. OBJECTIVES We aimed to 1) determine the number of a...

Objective To review the direct causes of death from breast cancer in Colombia according to data from death certificates in 2008. Material and Methods We reviewed the direct causes of death in patients whose code of underlying cause of death was malignant tumor of the breast according to the National Statistics Department of Colombia's (DANE from Spanish initials) records of death in 2008. Distr...

ABSTRACT: Objectives: To propose a methodological path to investigate the coverage and information filling of maternal-infant deaths recorded in Ministry Health's Mortality Information System for regional spaces. Methods: Four steps were proposed: 1) Assessment completeness maternal child variables, which was measured using deterministic linkage technique between (Sistema de Informações sobre M...

War history of the Second World War (WW2), humankind’s largest disaster, is of great interest to both laymen and researchers. Most of us have ancestors and relatives who participated in the war, and in the worst case got killed. Researchers are eager to find out what actually happened then, and even more importantly why, so that future wars could perhaps be prevented. The darkest data of war hi...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the quality of information registered on fetal death certificates. METHODS Records were reviewed from 710 fetal deaths registered in the consolidated database of deaths from the State System for Data Analysis and the São Paulo State Secretary of Health, for deaths in São Paulo municipality (Southeastern Brazil) during the first semester of 2008. Completeness was analyzed...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the accuracy of pediatric patients' death records of a tertiary care center, comparing these records with data from a previous study. METHODS Death records entered on the medical charts of non-resuscitated patients between 1999 and 2001 were compared with the medical procedure during cardiac arrest, which was described based on the Utstein-style guidelines. Our results w...