Article: Patients aid quiz over death rates ; HEALTH: Relatives and staff also invited to help solve puzzle of high mortality

Article: Hospitals face deaths probe ; CANNOCK/STAFFORD: Mortality rates concern at health trust
Birmingham Mail;  March 20, 2008 ;     276 words ......Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust's mortality rates at Staffordshire General...systems for monitoring mortality rates. The commission carried...an accurate picture of mortality rates and identify potential...

Article: Crime and destiny: patterns in serious offenders' mortality rates.
Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......assumption is made that offenders' higher mortality rates are a consequence of unhealthy proximal...proposition, then, is that higher mortality rates among offenders are not a consequence...some of which will be lethal). Higher mortality rates among offenders would not require...

Article: Reconsidering mortality compression and deceleration: An alternative model of mortality rates
Demography;  February 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......DECELERATION: AN ALTERNATIVE MODEL OF MORTALITY RATES* In this research we develop a model of mortality rates that parameterizes mortality deceleration...It is well known that all-cause mortality rates are generally declining at all ages...

Article: A Bivariate bayes method for improving the estimates of mortality rates with a twofold conditional autoregressive model.
Journal of the American Statistical Association;  December 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......method is proposed for estimating the mortality rates of a single disease for a given population...sizes. The relationship between the mortality rates of the two different diseases if formulated...Carlo methods are used to estimate mortality rates. 1. INTRODUCTION During the past ...

Article: INDUSTRY CANADA: Mortality rates in census me metropolitan areas -- 1994-1996.
M2 Presswire;  August 19, 1999 ;     700+ words ......PRESSWIRE-19 August 1999-INDUSTRY CANADA: Mortality rates in census metropolitan areas -- 1994-19...metropolitan areas (CMAs) shows that mortality rates among residents in major urban centres...For the 1994-1996 period, overall mortality rates calculated for all causes of death...

Article: An analysis of infant mortality rates in the U.S.(Anthology)
Atlantic Economic Journal;  December 1, 2004 ;     469 words ......less important predictors of infant mortality rates (defined as the number of deaths in...regression of 50 statewide average infant mortality rates (IMR) [Health, United States, 2002...association between poverty rates and infant mortality rates (p = .056). The poor lack access to...

Article: Alcohol consumption, alcoholics anonymous membership, and suicide mortality rates, Ontario, 1968-1991 *.
Journal of Studies on Alcohol;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......population alcohol consumption levels and mortality rates from a large number of causes (Babor...relationship between alcohol consumption and mortality rates may be affected by beverage type and...al. (2000) reported that cirrhosis mortality rates were most strongly related to ...

Article: State variation in mortality rates due to later stage at presentation.
Clinical Oncology Week;  March 31, 2003 ;     425 words ......NewsRx.net) -- State variation in mortality rates was due to later stage at presentation...state variations in breast cancer mortality rates, the reasons for such differences...was to confirm whether breast cancer mortality rates are significantly different by state...

Article: State variation in mortality rates due to later stage at presentation.(breast cancer)
Cancer Weekly;  April 1, 2003 ;     424 words ......NewsRx.net) -- State variation in mortality rates was due to later stage at presentation...state variations in breast cancer mortality rates, the reasons for such differences...was to confirm whether breast cancer mortality rates are significantly different by state...

Article: State variation in mortality rates due to later stage at presentation.(breast cancer mortality)
Women's Health Weekly;  April 3, 2003 ;     425 words ......NewsRx.net) -- State variation in mortality rates was due to later stage at presentation...state variations in breast cancer mortality rates, the reasons for such differences...was to confirm whether breast cancer mortality rates are significantly different by state...

Article: VARYING MORTALITY RATES AFTER BYPASS SURGERY RAISES QUESTIONS
The Boston Globe;  November 23, 1989 ;     700+ words ......offered by heart surgeons for varying mortality rates. "Typically surgeons say, 'My patients...older and sicker' if they have higher mortality rates," noted the study's director, Dr...case mix indices did not explain why mortality rates varied more than twofold between 1987...

Article: Bayesian Analysis and Mapping of Mortality Rates for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.(white American males)(Statistical Data Included)(Technical)
Journal of the American Statistical Association;  December 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......estimation of age-specific and age-adjusted mortality rates for chronic obstructive pulmonary...geographic variation of the age-specific mortality rates for COPD, and investigation of the...between the geographic variation in mortality rates and the corresponding variation in...

Article: Rwanda's mother, infant mortality rates high: report
Xinhua News Agency;  May 15, 2005 ;     186 words ...Rwanda's mother, infant mortality rates high: report KIGALI, May 15...has high mother and infant mortality rates, according to the 2005 World...indicated that in Rwanda the mortality rates of both mothers and children...

Article: High mortality rates among women, children worry Zambian gov't
Xinhua News Agency;  October 19, 2006 ;     306 words ...High mortality rates among women, children worry Zambian...expressed concerns over the high mortality rates among women and children in the...here on Thursday that the high mortality rates were not health to the country...