A simple safety checklist is being credited with reducing the risk of death after surgery in Scotland. A study published in the British Journal of Surgery analysed the outcomes of 6.8 million operations carried out during 2000-14.1 It found a 36.6% relative reduction in mortality (95% confidence...
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What do typos have to do with death? A lot. It’s crucial to double-check the spelling in the obituary and on other legal documents. In haste and anxiety, it’s easy to overlook the spelling of a maiden name or a date. However, when it comes to things like the death certificate —...
The third analysis considered the possible competing risks of other causes of death that might obscure a subsequent diagnosis of dementia.82 Each of the 3 statistical analyses was conducted before and after adjusting for measured baseline patient characteristics to check the robustness of relative risk...
Death, Kidney Failure, and Major Cardiovascular Events Death, kidney failure (persistent eGFR <15 mL/min/1.73 m2 or receipt of dialysis or a kidney transplant), and major cardiovascular events (myocardial infarction, stroke, or a major cardiovascular procedure) were assessed from the annual survey...
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or other basic necessities for a period of 3 months or longer; serious family problems involving spouse, child, or parent; took care of a close family member or friend with a serious or life-threatening illness; serious legal problem; and/or lost someone close due to accidental death, murder...
death of a patient. Any cases that needed medical intervention, such as renal replacement therapy, mechanical ventilator, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, during the ICU stay after surgery were recorded. In-hospital mortality was defined as the occurrence of death during the same hospitalization...
are the fear of death, occupational death exposure, the number of funerals and stressful incidents [28,29,30,31]. It is quite possible that these factors are present more than ever during this COVID-19 crisis. Furthermore, considering the nature of the questionnaire, it might be that people...