Cause-specific mortality patterns among hospital deaths in Thailand: validating routine death certification [0.03%]
泰国医院死亡原因的模式：验证常规死亡证明文件
Junya Pattaraarchachai,Chalapati Rao,Warangkana Polprasert et al.
Junya Pattaraarchachai et al.
Background: In Thailand, 35% of all deaths occur in hospitals, and the cause of death is medically certified by attending physicians. About 15% of hospital deaths are registered with nonspecific diagnoses, despite the pot...
Verifying causes of death in Thailand: rationale and methods for empirical investigation [0.03%]
泰国死亡原因验证：经验调查的理论与方法
Chalapati Rao,Yawarat Porapakkham,Junya Pattaraarchachai et al.
Chalapati Rao et al.
Background: Cause-specific mortality statistics by age and sex are primary evidence for epidemiological research and health policy. Annual mortality statistics from vital registration systems in Thailand are of limited ut...
Peter Byass
Peter Byass
Estimates of mortality in Thailand during 2005 have been published, integrating multiple data sources including national vital registration and a national follow-up cluster sample, covering both deaths in health facilities (approximately on...
Algorithms for enhancing public health utility of national causes-of-death data [0.03%]
增强国家死亡原因数据公共健康效用的算法
Mohsen Naghavi,Susanna Makela,Kyle Foreman et al.
Mohsen Naghavi et al.
Background: Coverage and quality of cause-of-death (CoD) data varies across countries and time. Valid, reliable, and comparable assessments of trends in causes of death from even the best systems are limited by three prob...
David Feeny,Mark S Kaplan,Nathalie Huguet et al.
David Feeny et al.
Background: The objective of the paper is to compare population health in the United States (US) and Canada. Although the two countries are very similar in many ways, there are potentially important differences in the lev...
Analysis of five-year trends in self-reported language preference and issues of item non-response among Hispanic persons in a large cross-sectional health survey: implications for the measurement of an ethnic minority population [0.03%]
一次大规模横断面健康调查中Hispanic人群自我报告的语言偏好五年变化及未回应问题分析：测量少数族裔人口的启示
William S Pearson,William S Garvin,Earl S Ford et al.
William S Pearson et al.
Background: Significant differences in health outcomes have been documented among Hispanic persons, the fastest-growing demographic segment of the United States. The objective of this study was to examine trends in popula...
Deaths from heart failure: using coarsened exact matching to correct cause-of-death statistics [0.03%]
利用模糊精确匹配法校正死亡原因统计数据中的心脏病死亡数
Gretchen A Stevens,Gary King,Kenji Shibuya
Gretchen A Stevens
Background: Incomplete information on death certificates makes recorded cause-of-death data less useful for public health monitoring and planning. Certifying physicians sometimes list only the mode of death without indica...
Mohsen Naghavi,Farshad Pourmalek,Saeid Shahraz et al.
Mohsen Naghavi et al.
Background: Child injury is recognized as a global health problem. Injuries caused the highest burden of disease among the total population of Iran in 2003. We aimed to estimate the morbidity, mortality, and disease burde...
Statistical modeling of volume of alcohol exposure for epidemiological studies of population health: the US example [0.03%]
基于统计建模的饮酒量研究及其在美国的应用探讨
Jürgen Rehm,Tara Kehoe,Gerrit Gmel et al.
Jürgen Rehm et al.
Background: Alcohol consumption is a major risk factor in the global burden of disease, with overall volume of exposure as the principal underlying dimension. Two main sources of data on volume of alcohol exposure are ava...