... increasingly important role in the survey as a means of enhancing topic coverage in the Core section The unintended result was an increasingly unwieldy survey instrument and longer interviewing ... adults and children with asthma, including those with severe asthma.3 Influenza causes substantial morbidity in adults and children with asthma, and vaccination can prevent influenza and its ... noted Asthma Mortality Beginning with 1999 mortality data, the population standard used for calculating age-adjusted death rates was changed from the 1940 population to the 2000 population This...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:20
... collecting data, analyzing and preparing the manuscript AS participated in collecting data and preparing the manuscript PB participated in collecting data and analyzing data MP participated in analyzing ... available and was dosed at 600 mg per day, and rifampin was continued Prophylactic regimens against opportunistic infections were provided in accordance with national guidelines during both time ... time to death The baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of subjects in Groups I and II are provided in Table The mean age in Group I and Group II was 33.3 ± 7.9 and 37.8 ± 6.3 respectively...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Keeping health staff healthy: evaluation of a workplace initiative to reduce morbidity and mortality from HIV/AIDS in Malawi" pot
... reasons for not attending were distance between the workplace and the clinic (especially for those working in the periphery) and inconvenient opening hours (i.e., during working time) These reasons ... general healthcare such that the clinic is not perceived as an HIV clinic; the establishment of satellite/mobile clinics in hard-to-reach peripheral areas; and flexible opening hours, including ... the increase in working hours resulting from a reduction in illness and death among health staff In this way, dedicated HIV services for health staff Page of is an important approach to minimizing...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Application of Portsmouth modification of physiological and operative severity scoring system for enumeration of morbidity and mortality (P-POSSUM) in pancreatic surgery" pot
... haemoglobin, white cell count and electrocardiogram Post-operative morbidity was subdivided into minor (delaying discharge), intermediate (requiring non-invasive intervention, such as starting on ... (Physiological and Operative Severity Scoring System for Enumeration of Morbidity and Mortality) and its Portsmouth modification (P-POSSUM) are in place to assess the risks involved for patients in various ... fold increase in morbidity and 3.5 fold increase in mortality, in comparison to those who underwent PD without any venous or additional visceral resection The observed to predicted ratio (O:P) in...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:21
Báo cáo y học: "Severe burn injury in europe: a systematic review of the incidence, etiology, morbidity, and mortality" potx
... decline is mainly due to a decrease in number of accidents at work [26] Only two (Icelandic and Czech) studies reported an increasing incidence of pediatric burns [59,75], which was, in Iceland, ... Sunderland R: Ethnic differences in incidence of severe burns and scalds to children in Birmingham BMJ 1989, 298:1493-1494 70 Zeitlin R, Somppi E, Jarnberg J: Paediatric burns in central Finland ... reported in the following five groups: flames/explosion (also including fireworks, and so on), scalds/steam (also including burns caused by warm food and oil), contact burns, chemical burns, and electrical...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21
Tài liệu MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT ppt
... despite the continued decline in U.S TB cases and rates Initiatives to improve awareness, testing, and treatment of latent infection and TB disease in minorities and foreign-born populations might ... occurring in 2009 However, transmission persisted during 2009–2011 in areas of Kenya and Uganda, indicating gaps in field surveillance quality and population immunity; these gaps currently are being ... ROC, Angola, and neighboring Bandundu Province, and the outbreak at the Bas-Congo/Bandundu provincial border (May–September 2011) was related to virus circulating in Kinshasa earlier in 2011 From...
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20
Tài liệu Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Imported Plague — New York City, 2002 pdf
... country and that the supply of properly maintained vaccine and immunoglobulin had been disrupted Despite the brief duration of the war in Iraq and the intent to spare hospitals and clinics from ... schedules in Iraq include BCG (TB vaccine) at birth; DTP vaccine at age 2, 4, 6, and 18 months, and 4–6 years; OPV at birth, age 2, 4, 6, and 18 months, and 4–6 years; HepB vaccine at birth and age and ... preliminary data suggesting an increased risk for pneumococcal meningitis in persons with cochlear implants Findings of a recent investigation by CDC, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 03:20
Socioeconomic position and health in a population of Brazilian elderly: the Bambuí Health and Aging Study (BHAS) pdf
... visit, in making a medical appointment because of existing lines, and in obtaining medicines because of financial problems or any other problem (Table 4) ple, in China and India, higher income ... health was assessed in terms of two characteristics, insomnia and psychiatric symptoms Insomnia was defined as a complaint, for the preceding 30 days, concerning difficulty in initiating sleep, frequency ... (self-rated health in the preceding months, being unable to perform routine activities because of a health problem in the preceding weeks, and staying in bed in the preceding weeks because of...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20
Disease and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa pot
... improvements in literacy and formal education, fluctuating but generally rising standards of living, rapid population growth and urbanization, widespread political instability and civil strife, and since ... lowest infant mortality rates For example, in 1960 the rate was 42 percent lower than in other subregions, and even with increasing overall mortality in the 1990s, the infant mortality rate in Southern ... Chamberlain, D McCoy, A Ntuli, M Rowson, and R Loewenson 2003 “Health Personnel in Southern Africa: Confronting Maldistribution and Brain Drain.” Discussion paper 3, Equinet Africa, Training and Research...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20
Cancer Incidence and Mortality in New Jersey 1999 - 2003 docx
... Only invasive cancers were included in the incidence data, except in situ bladder cancers were included Incidence and Mortality Coding Beginning with the year 2001, the coding scheme for incident ... federal and state agencies calculated disease rates using different U.S population standards, including the 1940 and 1970 standard populations Our report Cancer Incidence and Mortality in New ... 100,000 population and age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S population standard * Increase in Ill-Defined & Unspecified rates is due to newly reportable ill-defined cases beginning in 2001 - Counts and rates...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20
death before birth fetal health and mortality in historical perspective oct 2009
... an infant in arms (1377) bearing of offspring; bringing forth; nativity; beginning of individual existence; coming into the world; fruit of the womb chrisom-child (in full) originally a child in ... of postneonatal mortality, which followed an earlier decline in early-childhood mortality (ages 1–4) In general, the timing of decline in infant and maternal mortality did not coincide, therefore; ... late-fetal mortality in England during earlier centuries in ways that parallel our current understanding of long-term trends in maternal and infant mortality The demographic rates shown in Tables 4.5 and...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:33
Báo cáo khoa hoc:" Genetic analysis and management in small populations: the Asturcon pony as an example" docx
... typing (finding nearly 10 % incorrect paternities which result in a lowering of the inbreeding level - FI 5.3 % CONA = table !, the rate of inbreeding still remains relatively high Inbreeding increases ... McKay [4] and is the inverse of twice the increase in inbreeding All inbreeding values [27] were computed (starting from zero in generation 0), assuming an ideal state of the population at generation ... values show above), and is a result of the mating ST of animals within subpopulations producing an increase in the inbreeding coefficients which can be lowered using a particular mating policy For...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21
Báo cáo y học: "Early and late morbidity and mortality and life expectancy following thoracoscopic talc insufflation for control of malignant pleural effusions: a review of 400 cases" potx
... days Morbidity included all complications occurring during hospitalization only In- hospital mortality included both those patients who died within first 30 days and those who died later but during ... hospitalization Three-month mortality included those patients who died within 90 days after surgery Follow up was obtained by periodical clinical examination combined with chest radiography and/ or thoracic ... occurred during hospitalization The cause of death was pneumonia in patients, pulmonary embolism in patients, myocardial infarction in patients and septic shock in patient The death rate within months...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22
Báo cáo y học: " Early lactate clearance is associated with biomarkers of inflammation, coagulation, apoptosis, organ dysfunction and mortality in severe sepsis and septic shock" docx
... sorting the study population by increasing lactate clearance and separating into four groups with equivalent number of patients IL-1ra - interleukin-1 receptor antagonist; IL-6 - interleukin-6; ... clearance and biomarkers of pro- and anti-inflammation, coagulation, apoptosis; and further with multiorgan dysfunction and mortality in severe sepsis and septic shock These findings support a growing ... box-1 (HMGB-1) Anti-inflammatory biomarkers included interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra) and interleukin-10 (IL-10) Coagulation and apoptosis biomarkers included D-Dimer and caspase-8, respectively...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:22
Báo cáo y học: " Role of pulmonary intravascular macrophages in endotoxin-induced lung inflammation and mortality in a rat model" pot
... microscopy were processed and embedded in paraffin Sections (five micron) were cut onto the polyL-Lysine coated slides and used for hematoxylin and eosin staining and immunostaining Pieces of the left ... recruited PIMs in endotoxin-induced mortality in a BDL rats It is striking that depletion of a single inflammatory cell results in remarkable reduction in key inflammatory 11 Competing interests The ... response in BDL rats in the absence or presence of PIMs PIM reduction protects against LPS-induced mortality in BDL rats We delineated role of PIMs by comparing LPS-induced lung inflammation and mortality...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20
Báo cáo y học: "Incidence of asthma and mortality in a cohort of young adults: a 7-year prospective study" ppt
... Subjects, reporting in the first study, having had 'wheezing or whistling in their chest at any time' and/ or having 'woken up with a feeling of tightness in the chest' and/ or having 'woken up with ... smokers and peaked in subjects who reported asthma-like symptoms (wheezing and/ or nocturnal dyspnoea and/ or nocturnal tightness in the chest) and allergic rhinitis at baseline After adjusting for ... (National Institute of statistics) 1998 for this group of subjects was mainly due to a statistically significant increase in mortality from accidents and a moderate increase in mortality from cancer and...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22
Báo cáo y học: " Pro/con clinical debate: Pulmonary artery catheters increase the morbidity and mortality of intensive care unit patients" potx
... benefit In conclusion, in the present scenario a PAC inserted by an intensivist trained in its use and utilizing protocol-directed responses would not increase mortality and morbidity, and probably ... not showing benefit, have not shown an increase in mortality or morbidity [15,16]; although some have found an increase in length of stay and costs Those studies that suggest an increased mortality ... Stephen E Lapinsky As Guy Richards points out, both clinical assessment and PAC measurement are associated with errors in evaluation and management Clinical assessment is sometimes inaccurate in the...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22
Báo cáo khoa học: "Pneumothorax and mortality in the mechanically ventilated SARS patients: a prospective clinical study" ppsx
... Oxygen-diffusing impairment and ventilation-perfusion maldistribution may play a role in developing hypoxemia in the mechanically ventilated SARS patient A decrease in PaO2/ FiO2 and increase in PaCO2 ... PaCO2 during hospitalization Gattinoni et al also observed a similar finding in ARDS patients with pneumothorax [11] Increased dead space and cystic changes of lung parenchyma due to worsening underlying ... decreased mortality without influencing the incidence of barotraumas [19] In patients with sepsis-induced ARDS, there were no significant correlations between the ventilatory parameters and the...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22
Báo cáo khoa học: "Plasma neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin predicts acute kidney injury, morbidity and mortality after pediatric cardiac surgery: a prospective uncontrolled cohort study" pps
... find an effective treatment in patients is the paucity of early biomarkers for AKI, akin to troponins in acute myocardial disease, and hence a delay in initiating therapy [16] In current clinical ... time points after CPB obtained using Triage® NGAL device at various time points after CPB AKI was defined as a 50% increase in serum creatinine from baseline Values are expressed as means ± standard ... outcomes included percentage change in serum creatinine, days in AKI, dialysis requirement, length of hospital stay, and mortality Other variables we obtained included age, sex, ethnic origin, CPB...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo y học: "Association between administered oxygen, arterial partial oxygen pressure and mortality in mechanically ventilated intensive care unit patients" doc
... study, interpreting the results and writing the manuscript JJ, DdL, PvdV, RB, RdW and RW were involved in interpreting the results and writing the manuscript All authors read and approved the final ... manuscript LP and NdK were involved in the set-up of the study, performed the statistical analyses and helped in interpreting the results and writing the manuscript PK was involved in the set-up ... predicted mortality using the logistic regression equation in which the PaO2 value was incorporated using a spline function Standardisedmortality ratio (SMR) byby partial oxygen pressure 2) (kPa) Standardised...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23