Articles: mortality.
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The objective of this paper is to investigate and to improve understanding of the causes and circumstances of flood disaster deaths. A standardised method of classifying flood deaths is proposed and the difficulties associated with comparing and assessing existing information on flood deaths are discussed. Thirteen flood cases from Europe and the United States, resulting in 247 flood disaster fatalities, were analysed and taken as indicative of flood disaster deaths. ⋯ Furthermore, males are highly vulnerable to dying in floods and unnecessary risk-taking behaviour contributes significantly to flood disaster deaths. Based on these results, recommendations are made to prevent loss of life in floods. To provide a more solid basis for the formulation of prevention strategies, better systematic recording of flood fatalities is suggested, especially those caused by different types of floods in all countries.
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Population health metrics · Feb 2005
Comparing strategies for United States veterans' mortality ascertainment.
We aimed to determine optimal strategies for complete mortality ascertainment comparing death certificates and United States (US) Veterans Administration (VA) records. ⋯ As single sources, VA decedent files and death certificates each provided an incomplete record, and death ascertainment was improved by using both source files. Potential bias may vary depending on analytic interest.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study Clinical Trial
The effects of a smoking cessation intervention on 14.5-year mortality: a randomized clinical trial.
Randomized clinical trials have not yet demonstrated the mortality benefit of smoking cessation. ⋯ Smoking cessation intervention programs can have a substantial effect on subsequent mortality, even when successful in a minority of participants.
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Frequent emergency department (ED) users are a nebulous group of patients. A high degree of psychiatric problems and higher than expected mortality from medical illness have been reported in this population. ⋯ These data show that there is a high incidence of medical problems in frequent ED users and a high incidence of mortality in patients with heavy ED use.