[Morbidity and mortality from the cholera epidemic of 1833-1835 in Andalusia]

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In this University of Washington program, Jens R. Chapman, orthopaedic surgeon from the University o...

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January 17, 2008 presentation by Hannah Valentine for the Stanford School of Medicine Medcast lectur...

Stanford School of Medicine Medcast lecture series. While more men have heart disease, each year mor...

January 17, 2008 presentation by Hannah Valentine for the Stanford School of Medicine Medcast lectur...

Medicine Medcast lecture series. While more men have heart disease, each year more women die from it...

series. While more men have heart disease, each year more women die from it--studies have shown that...

our management of ureterovaginal fistulas, with early stenting and repair in 4-6 weeks if no improve...

conferences (M&M) are traditional, recurring conferences hel...

The compression of morbidity in public health is a hypothesi...

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) is a weekly epi...

In preparation for a study on the effect of bed net use on malaria, this article describes febrile morbidity and malaria expenditures in a sub-Saharan area (Benin) of hyperendemic malaria. The 325 randomly selected households were visited weekly between April 1994 and March 1995 to determine febrile morbidity and household expenditures for prevention and treatment. The results indicate that rural children had two febrile episodes annually compared with 0.3 episodes among children living in the city. There was no difference in mean annual febril...

"This paper examines the prevalence of reported morbidity in Australia during the two time periods 1977-78 and 1989-90. It utilizes data from the National Health Surveys conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in the respective years.... The study found that the prevalence of morbidity increased in Australia between the survey years, which occurred, as in some other low-mortality countries, along with mortality reduction over this period. Females reported higher morbidity than males but the sex differential narrowed over time. The Abor...

OBJECTIVE--To collect a valid, complete, continuous, and representative database of morbidity presenting to primary care and to use the data to help commission services on the basis of local need and effectiveness. SETTING--Computerised general practices in Somerset. METHODS--Participating general practices were selected to be representative of the district health authority population for general practice and population characteristics. All conditions presented at face to face consultations were assigned a Read code and episode type and the dat...

OBJECTIVES: To describe the reliability and validity of the Postoperative Morbidity Survey (POMS). To describe the level and pattern of short-term postoperative morbidity after major elective surgery using the POMS. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: This was a prospective cohort study of 439 adults undergoing major elective surgery in a UK teaching hospital. The POMS, an 18-item survey that address nine domains of postoperative morbidity, was recorded on postoperative days 3, 5, 8, and 15. RESULTS: Inter-rater reliability was perfect for 11/18 items (K...

Research on occupational and occupationally-related morbidity is essential for setting up a system of measures designed to promote health and well-being in industrial workers. The right conclusions can only be drawn and the adequate decisions made after data on occupational and occupationally-related diseases have been accurately stored, processed, interpreted and evaluated. Starting from the vast amount of information collected in some branches of national economy and yielded by routine statistic procedures, the author attempts to assess syste...

The present work presents the study of morbidity due to acute respiratory infections (ARI) in areas of the town of Lisa in Ciudad Habana, and Isla Juventud (Cuba), to characterize different aspects of morbidity measured by health care attendance and to measure true morbidity. About 90% of consultations for ARI were first-time consultations, while their ratio to further consultations was 5.3. True morbidity rates (TMR), obtained trough active research, ranged from 110.4 to 163.4 cases per 1000 inhabitants, considerably higher than morbidity rate...

OBJECTIVE: To identify the impact of pregnancy and childbirth, and severe obstetric morbidity on outcome 6 to 12 months postpartum. DESIGN: Questionnaire assessment of postnatal outcome in a cohort study. SETTING: South East Thames, UK. POPULATION: All women resident in South East Thames and delivering between 1st March 1997 and 28th February 1998. METHODS: Questionnaire study of a cohort of women who experienced a severe obstetric morbidity during pregnancy or labour (cases), compared with a cohort of women who did not (controls). MAIN OUTCOME...

It has been established that mortality among US end-stage renal disease patients is higher than in many other developed countries. The explanation for this apparent difference in outcome results has caused considerable concern. The explanations for this difference are complex and could include differences in case mix as well as indices of severity of illness. To evaluate potential patient-based explanations for these discrepancies, we have evaluated existing reports as well as the available database at the Regional Kidney Disease Program at Hen...