Standardized mortality ratesBayesian models are increasingly fit to large administrative datasets and then used to make individualized recommendations. In particular, Medicare's Hospital Compare webpage provides information to patients about specific hospital mortality rates for a heart attack or acute ...
Self rated health: Is it as good a predictor of subsequent mortality among adults in lower as well as in higher social classes? Design, setting, participants-Analysis of mortality rates and risk ratios of death during follow up among 170 223 respondents aged 16 years and above in ... BB ...
Age Standardization of Rates: A New WHO Standard A recent WHO analysis has revealed the need for a new world standard population (see attached table). This has become particularly pertinent given the rapid and continued declines in age-specific mortality rates among the oldest old, and... Omar...
It is well recognized that age-standardization of incidence and mortality rates are needed for comparison of cancer burden across different countries and across different time periods for the same country because this vital factor varies widely with time for different populations and sociohistorical indic...
(see attachedtable).Thishasbecomeparticularlypertinentgiventherapidandcontinued declinesinage-specificmortalityratesamongtheoldestold,andtheincreasing availabilityofepidemiologicaldataforhigheragegroups.Thereisclearlynoconceptual justificationforchoosingonestandardoveranother,hencethechoiceisarbitrary. However,choosinga...
This method yields an adjusted relative risk. The method is called “direct” because it uses the actual morbidity or mortality rates of the populations being compared.This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access. ...
Direct standardization has been used to take into account possible confounding factors such as age, degree of urbanization and cigarette sales. The area with high background radioactivity levels has higher lung cancer mortality rates in ... F Forastiere,S Valesini,M Arca,... - 《Science of ...
Global malaria mortality between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis. Lancet 379, 413–431 (2012). 3. World Health Organisation. World Malaria Report 2013. (Geneva, 2013). 4. Langhorne, J., Ndungu, F. M., Sponaas, A.-M. & Marsh, K. Immunity to malaria: more questions than ...
The potential danger of perioperative secondary adrenal insufficiency was first reported2,3 in the 1950s with 2 cases of postoperative mortality from presumed adrenal crisis in GC-dependent surgical patients in whom GCs were withheld at the time of the operation. Subsequently, high-dose perioperative...
10.1),which are monitored with crude death rates from other data systems. In addition,objectives that refer to speci,c age groups are tracked with age-speci,c rather than age-adjusted rates. Although the age-adjusted death rate(ADR) is one of the most frequently used indexes of mortality, ...