Articles: mortality.
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Relaparotomy is sometimes required for complications that develop after abdominal surgery, but it is associated with high mortality. We aimed to investigate the independent risk factors related to mortality in patients that undergo relaparotomies. ⋯ Advanced age and APACHE II score ≥ 20 were found to be independent risk factors affecting relaparotomy-related mortality.
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despite the intensive services provided to residents of care homes, information on death rates is not routinely available for this population in the UK. ⋯ the high mortality in care homes indicates that places in care homes are reserved for the most severely ill and dependent. Death rates may not be an appropriate care quality measure for this population, but may serve as a useful adjunct for clinical staff and the planning of care home provision.
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Social science & medicine · Nov 2009
Inequality in individual mortality and economic conditions earlier in life.
We analyze the effect of being born in a recession on the mortality rate later in life in conjunction with social class. We use individual data records from Dutch registers of birth, marriage, and death certificates, covering the period 1815-2000, and we merge these with historical data on macro-economic outcomes and health indicators. We estimate duration models and inequality measures. ⋯ Lower social classes suffer disproportionally from being born in recessions. This exacerbates mortality inequality. Upward mobility does not vary much with the business cycle at birth.