INTRODUCTION Death rates in the accident and emergency department may be a reflection of the quality of care in the hospital. Trauma related mortality is a significant cause of preventable death. METHOD A retrospective study was conducted in the accident and emergency department of the University College Hospital Ibadan (Nigeria) using the hospital records to determine the pattern of mortalit...

Introduction: International travel is increasing, yet few studies have reported on country-level death rates among international travelers. The data regarding the death profiles of overseas Irish travelers is insufficient. The current study examined data obtained from the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to profile these deaths. Methods: Data...

In his 1842 Report on the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain, Edwin Chadwick demonstrated the existence of a mass of preventable illness and premature death in the community caused, he argued, by insanitary physical circumstances.' Although much of the evidence for the existence of this preventable mortality was anecdotal, Chadwick included a chapter of differential...

Health care workers (HCWs) who have contact with patients have an increased risk of exposure to vaccinepreventable diseases and of spreading those diseases to vulnerable patients. Maintenance of immunity against vaccine-preventable diseases is an essential part of disease-prevention and infection-control programs [1]. Influenza is the most common vaccine-preventable disease, and nosocomial tran...

BACKGROUND In Austria, mortality from diseases of the circulatory system and malignant neoplasms is high and varies among the federal states. Lower mortality in some states indicates a preventive potential in those states with higher mortality. METHODS We computed the number of premature deaths, for women and men separately, from the two leading causes of death, diseases of the circulatory sy...

In this study, the relation between fruit and vegetable consumption and mortality was investigated within the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition. Survival analyses were performed, including 451,151 participants from 10 European countries, recruited between 1992 and 2000 and followed until 2010. Hazard ratios, rate advancement periods, and preventable proportions to res...

Objective: To estimate the impact of potentially preventable adverse events on health care costs and outcomes. Methods: We used inpatient, outpatient, and drug claims data for elderly Medicare enrollees with secondary employer coverage from 41 large firms located throughout the Nation in 1999 and 2000. These enrollees underwent 22,477 major surgeries in 1,725 hospitals. The Patient Safety Indic...

The 50th anniversary of the first US Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health[1] provides an opportunity for the oncology community to take stock of whether meaningful progress has been made in tobacco prevention and control. Knowing what we know about the devastation of tobacco use, the leading cause of both preventable death and cancer death, what more can we do to confront this scourge...

Background and aims: Recent studies on mortality in Iran, in recent years clearly emphasize that unintentional injuries are the main cause of reducing Iranian life expectancy in Iran. This article aimed to assess the role of major causes of death for mortality patterns in the country by sex in 2010. Methods: Experimental results of this study are based on...

Fatal Adverse Events (FADEs) are a major public health problem, and some FADEs could be preventable. The aim of the present study is to describe frequency, drugs involved preventability in collected through MEREAFaPS Study between 2012 2018. All cases including outcome “death” have been examined. We excluded with vaccine-related ADEs, overdose or suicide, ADEs occurred during hospitalisation. T...