Articles: mortality.
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Comparative Study
[Mortality-morbidity conferences: evaluation of an intervention to expand their practice in a university hospital].
Mortality-morbidity conferences (M&MC) are a recognized technique for evaluating and improving medical practices as well as improving patient safety. ⋯ Our survey of department heads allowed us both to collect information about the methods they used for managing and evaluating adverse events and to provide information to them. This intervention may have contributed to increasing and improving the use of M&MC.
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Rev Epidemiol Sante · Oct 2007
[Determination of vital status by linkage of anonymised hospital and national mortality data].
A subject's vital status is essential for epidemiological studies. This information may be obtained for large numbers of patients with different methods, but these are often expensive. This study was aimed at assessing the performance of patient vital status determination using a record linkage method between hospital data and national mortality data once the information was made anonymous in compliance with French legislation. ⋯ Probabilistic linkage on data rendered anonymous enables to obtain information on vital status for a great number of subjects at low cost, in compliance with French legislation.
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Croatian medical journal · Oct 2007
Comparative StudyMortality of Roma population in Serbia, 2002-2005.
To describe and compare mortality and population changes in the Roma and non-Roma population in Serbia in 2002 and 2005. ⋯ Our data show that mortality rates in the Roma population are significantly higher than in the general population, and morbidity structure of the most common causes of death significantly different from that of general population.
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Health is a universal human aspiration and a basic human need. The development of society, rich or poor, can be judged by the quality of its population's health, how fairly health is distributed across the social spectrum, and the degree of protection provided from disadvantage due to ill-health. Health equity is central to this premise and to the work of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health. ⋯ The outcry against inequity has been intensifying for many years from country to country around the world. These cries are forming a global movement. The Commission on Social Determinants of Health places action to ensure fair health at the head and the heart of that movement.