Mortality

Journal Article

Patterns of Functional Decline at the End of Life — Jan 1, 2003

Clinicians have observed various patterns of functional decline at the end of life, but few empirical data have tested these patterns.

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Advance Care Planning for Fatal Chronic Illness: Avoiding Commonplace Errors and Unwarranted Suffering — Jan 1, 2003

The authors discuss serious, recurring, and generally unnoticed errors in planning for care near the end of life and possible steps toward improvement

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• Health and Health Care Research Area

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Efficacy of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors and Beta-Blockers in the Management of Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction According to Race, Gender and Diabetic Status: A Meta-Analysis of Major Clinical Trials — Jan 1, 2003

Women with asymptomatic LV systolic dysfunction may not achieve a mortality benefit when treated with ACE inhibitors.

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Quality-of-care Indicators for Early-Stage Prostate Cancer — Jan 1, 2003

This study establishes a foundation on which to build quality-of-care assessment tools to evaluate the treatment of early-stage prostate cancer.

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• Health and Health Care Research Area

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Why Is Poverty Unhealthy? Social and Physical Mediators — Jan 1, 2003

Socioeconomic status is associated with mortality, yet does not fully explain health disparities.

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• Health and Health Care Research Area

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The Link Between Public and Private Insurance and HIV-related Mortality — Jan 1, 2003

It is useful to ask whether insurance has any effect on health outcomes and whether public insurance is efficacious in preventing premature death.

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• Health and Health Care Research Area

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A Life Course Perspective on Childhood Cheerfulness and Its Relation to Mortality Risk — Jan 1, 2002

Follows up the inverse relation between childhood cheerfulness and longevity found among 1,215 men and women first assessed as children by Lewis Terman in 1922.

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Contribution of Major Diseases to Disparities in Mortality — Jan 1, 2002

Mortality is higher for persons with fewer years of education and for blacks, but it is unknown which diseases contribute most to these disparities.

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• Health and Health Care Research Area

Journal Article

Mortality and Sample Selection: Reply to Noymer — Jan 1, 2002

Mortality and Sample Selection: Reply to Noymer

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Forest Fires, Air Pollution, and Mortality in Southeast Asia — Jan 1, 2002

Forest Fires, Air Pollution, and Mortality in Southeast Asia

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Research Brief

Krizis smertnosti v rossii: alkogolism, zabolevacmost i ukhudshenie zdravookhraneiia: (Russia's Mortality Crisis: Drinking, Disease, and Deteriorating Health Care) — Jan 1, 2002

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The Dangers of Smoke Haze: Mortality in Malaysia from Indonesian Forest Fires — Jan 1, 2002

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Journal Article

Effect of Insurance on Mortality in an HIV-positive Population in Care — Jan 1, 2001

The results from this model indicate that insurance does have a beneficial effect on outcomes.

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• Health and Health Care Research Area

Research Brief

Russia's Mortality Crisis: Drinking, Disease, and Deteriorating Health Care — Jan 1, 2001

Authors conclude that many unfavorable current demographic trends are the continuation of long-term patterns, in some cases aggravated by economic stagnation and stress from recent social and political changes in Russian society.

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Journal Article

Ethnic and Racial Differences in Long-Term Survival from Hospitalization for HIV Infection — Jan 1, 2000

This prospective cohort study compares 200 hospitalized, HIV-infected patients from May 1992 to October 1998 to assess mortality (versus survival).

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• Health and Health Care Research Area

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Asthma Mortality in U.S. Hispanics of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban Heritage, 1990-1995 — Jan 1, 2000

Results support that Hispanics do not represent a uniform, discrete group in terms of health outcomes.

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• Health and Health Care Research Area

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Queuing for Surgery: Is the U.S. or Canada Worse Off? — Jan 1, 2000

Restricted government spending along with universal health insurance has led to longer queues for surgical procedures in Canada vs the United States.

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• Health and Health Care Research Area

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Prediction of Survival for Older Hospitalized Patients: The HELP Survival Model — Jan 1, 2000

To develop and validate a model estimating the survival time of hospitalized persons aged 80 years and older.

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• Population and Aging Research Area

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Dying with End Stage Liver Disease with Cirrhosis: Insights from SUPPORT — Jan 1, 2000

Patients with liver disease were young, likely to be male, and often had low incomes.

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• Health and Health Care Research Area

Journal Article

Infant Mortality and Early Postpartum Discharge — Jan 1, 2000

To assess additional risk of newborn death owing to early discharge.

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• Children and Families Research Area