Mortality

REPORT

Compensation for Combat Deaths: Policy Considerations — Mar 15, 2012

This briefing identifies policy questions related to compensating service members and their survivors for fatality risk. After comparing patterns in the characteristics of combat fatalities with those of fatalities occurring in other contexts, it discusses the Department of Defense's current compensation programs. Policymakers may benefit from both empirical studies and comparisons with compensation programs that exist in other contexts.

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• National Security Research Area

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Development of a Prognostic Model for Six-Month Mortality in Older Adults with Declining Health — Mar 1, 2012

This study seeks to develop a new prognostic model, the Patient-Reported Outcome Mortality Prediction Tool (PROMPT), for six-month mortality in community-dwelling elderly patients.

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PROJECT

Does Disability Insurance Save Lives? — Feb 1, 2012

Previous research has shown that changes in income and health insurance are associated with changes in health and/or mortality. An examination of administrative data may show whether receipt of Social Security Disability Insurance and participation in related programs causally affect survival rates among applicants.

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Variations in Amenable Mortality-Trends in 16 High-Income Nations — Oct 31, 2011

This study examines trends in amenable mortality, as one measure of health system performance, in sixteen high-income countries.

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Today's 'Meaningful Use' Standard for Medication Orders by Hospitals May Save Few Lives; Later Stages May Do More — Sep 30, 2011

Current federal standards for hospital "meaningful use" of health information technology--which requires electronic medication orders for 30 percent of eligible patients--are probably too low to reduce deaths from heart failure and heart attack among hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries.

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Measuring NHS performance 1990–2009 using amenable mortality: Interpret with Care — Aug 31, 2011

The new performance framework for the NHS in England will assess how well health services are preventing people from dying prematurely, based on the concept of mortality amenable to healthcare. This article examines how different parts of the UK would be assessed had this measure been in use over the past two decades—from 1990 to 2009.

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Increases in Mortality, Length of Stay, and Cost Associated with Hospital-Acquired Infections in Trauma Patients — Jun 30, 2011

Many hospital-acquired infections are preventable; reducing them would reduce in-hospital mortality, length of stay, and inpatient costs for trauma patients.

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The Protective Effect of Marriage for Survival: A Review and Update — May 1, 2011

Findings include a consistent survival advantage for married over unmarried men and women, and an additional survival "premium" for married men, and little evidence of mortality differences between never-married, divorced/separated, and widowed statuses.

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• Population and Aging Research Area

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Positive Income Shocks and Accidental Deaths Among Cherokee Indians: A Natural Experiment — Dec 31, 2010

This study of a Cherokee Indian population in North Carolina found that sudden increases in income were associated with short-term increases in risk-taking behavior and higher rates of accidental death.

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NEWS RELEASE

Older Americans Less Healthy Than English Counterparts, But They Live as Long or Longer — Nov 4, 2010

While Americans aged 55 to 64 have higher rates of chronic diseases than their peers in England, they die at about the same rate. And Americans age 65 and older—while still sicker than their English peers—have a lower death rate than similar people in England.

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Adolescents' Perceived Risk of Dying — Dec 31, 2009

Although adolescents' expectations are accurate or moderately optimistic for many significant life events, they greatly overestimate their chances of dying soon. The authors examine whether adolescents' mortality judgments are correlated with their perceptions of direct threats to their survival. Contrary to the folk wisdom that adolescents have a unique sense of invulnerability, the individuals studied here reported an exaggerated sense…

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The Role of Pregnancy Outcomes in the Maternal Mortality Rates of Two Areas in Matlab, Bangladesh — Dec 31, 2009

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How Perceptions of Mortality and HIV Morbidity Relate to Substance Abuse Problems and Risky Sexual Behaviors Among Former Juvenile Offenders — Dec 31, 2009

Youth who think they are likely to get HIV are at greater risk for later substance abuse problems and risky sexual behaviors, but this perception doesn?t cause them to reduce their substance use and change their behavior.

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Marital Trajectories and Mortality Among US Adults — Aug 31, 2009

This study demonstrates that traditional measures oversimplify the relation between marital status and mortality and that sex differences are related to a nexus of marital experiences and associated health risks.

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• Population and Aging Research Area

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Which Factors Explain the Decline in Infant and Child Mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh? — Dec 31, 2008

The authors use data from the Matlab Demographic Surveillance System on nearly 94,000 singleton live births that occurred between 1987 and 2002 to investigate the extent to which the change in mortality over this period can be explained by changes in repr

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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Pneumonia Treatment and Mortality — Dec 31, 2008

Examine within and between-hospital racial/ethnic disparities in quality indicators and mortality for patients hospitalized for pneumonia.

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Setting Research Priorities to Reduce Global Mortality from Childhood Diarrhoea By 2015 — Dec 31, 2008

Childhood diarrhoea still claims nearly 2 million lives each year and remains responsible for 18% of all child deaths. Regardless of this, research interest in this disease has been steadily decreasing after the development of cost-effective interventions in the 1980s.

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Seven-year Life Outcomes of Adolescent Offenders in Los Angeles — Dec 31, 2008

The authors examined important life outcomes for adolescent offenders to describe how they were faring in young adulthood.

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Incorporating Mortality Risk Into Estimates of 5-Year Glaucoma Risk — Dec 31, 2008

Considers the effects of incorporating mortality risk, a potentially important factor to consider when deciding whether to initiate therapy for ocular hypertensives, into estimates of 5-year glaucoma risk.

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Does Medicare Save Lives? — Dec 31, 2008

Health insurance characteristics shift at age 65 as most people become eligible for Medicare. The authors measure the impacts of these changes on patients who are admitted to hospitals through emergency departments for conditions with similar admission rates on weekdays and weekends.

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