PLoS medicine
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The nursing literature has yet to pay much attention to the expansive reach of the pharmaceutical industry into the nursing profession.
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Review
Should data from demographic surveillance systems be made more widely available to researchers?
Demographic surveillance--the process of monitoring births, deaths, causes of deaths, and migration in a population over time--is one of the cornerstones of public health research, particularly in investigating and tackling health disparities. An international network of demographic surveillance systems (DSS) now operates, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. ⋯ Basia Zaba and colleagues argue that the major obstacles to DSS sites sharing data are technical, managerial, and financial rather than proprietorial concerns about analysis and publication. This debate is further discussed in this month's Editorial.
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Comment Review
Maternal death, autopsy studies, and lessons from pathology.
The author discusses the implications of a new autopsy study of maternal deaths in Mozambique.