INTRODUCTION While influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 usually causes mild illness in the majority of people, there have been reports of severe cases and deaths. As there is no documented evidence on fatal outcomes from influenza in Mongolia previously, we aimed to describe the epidemiology of fatal influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 cases to provide recommendations to assist the national influenza prevention and contr...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance of a continuous quality improvement collaboration at Ridge Regional Hospital, Accra, Ghana, that aimed to halve maternal and neonatal deaths. METHODS In a quasi-experimental, pre- and post-intervention analysis, system deficiencies were analyzed and 97 improvement activities were implemented from January 2007 to December 2011. Data were collected on outco...

INTRODUCTION Though measles is a vaccine preventable disease, outbreaks still continue to occur because of poor immunization coverage rate at the national level. OBJECTIVE To report the survey results of an outbreak of measles in Puraini village of Madhepura district in Bihar, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional survey was conducted among children aged 6 months to 12 years dur...

OBJECTIVE This paper describes the package of interventions undertaken by the CARE/AMDD program collaboration to increase the availability and quality of emergency obstetric care for 3 high maternal mortality countries in Africa. METHODS Project implementation over 4 years focused on enhancing the capacity of 10 district hospitals in 3 countries - Tanzania, Rwanda and Ethiopia. Interventions ...

We review the records of 79 tetanus patients in two hospitals (one tertiary and one secondary level) in Owo, Ondo state, Nigeria from 1997 to 2006. The male: female ratio was 3:1. Ages were 14-70 years (mean 33.25 years, SD ±16.76). The overall case fatality rate (CFR), 32.91%, did was not significantly different in the two hospitals. CFR for men was 32.10% and for women 35.29%. The main factor...

BACKGROUND Data on hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism (HA-VTE) incidence, case fatality rate and variation amongst patient groups and health providers is lacking. We aim to explore HA-VTE incidences, associated mortality, trends and variations across all acute hospitals in New South Wales (NSW)-Australia. METHODS A population-based study using all admitted patients (aged 18-90 with a le...

The case fatality rate (CFR) for the 2014 Ebola outbreak in west Africa has been widely reported to be much lower than for most previous outbreaks. However, this low rate is not necessarily a feature of the infection itself. Rather, it is likely to be the result of a failure to account for delays between disease onset and fi nal outcome. The low reported CFR values were generated from a so-call...

One hundred and fourty episodes of septicemic children seen at Songklanagarind Hospital during a period of two years were reviewed to determine factors related to mortality. One hundred episodes (70.4%) of septicemia were hospital-acquired in which 98 (69%) were caused by gram negative bacilli, with Pseudomonas being the most common agent. Thirty episodes were from gram-positive cocci and eight...