DAILY MORTALITY
Relationships of daily mortality and hospital admissions to air pollution in Castilla-León, Spain
... with daily mortality or ...the mortality and morbidity series and that of the atmospheric and pollutants variables show cycles that must previously be filtered for correct application of the ...of ...
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Effects of apparent temperature on daily mortality in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal
... Being part of the Iberian Peninsula, Portugal has a mild Mediterranean climate. Observed climate trends in Portugal show that between 1970-2000 there was an increase in the average temperature at a rate of 0.5°C/ decade, ...
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Air pollution and daily mortality in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area
... significant mortality results regarding all three outcome measures in non-lagged ...for mortality due to cardiovascular events, whereas mortality due to respiratory complications was not significant ...
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Chronic air pollution and social deprivation as modifiers of the association between high temperature and daily mortality
... 1, daily death count ranged from 3 to 93 (mean, ...by daily NO2 ranged from 16 to 121 μg/m3 (mean: ...population), mortality was significantly associated with daily mean temperature (RR for ...
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Using a generalized additive model with autoregressive terms to study the effects of daily temperature on mortality
... model evaluation of time series data to quantify the association between temperature (or other weather/ environmental factors etc.) and daily mortality (or hospitalization etc.). These are a type of ...
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The short-term association of selected components of fine particulate matter and mortality in the Denver Aerosol Sources and Health (DASH) study
... Washington. Daily mortality counts for metropolitan Denver were computed from the Colorado Health Information Data- set compiled by the Colorado Department of Public Health and ...(IHD) mortality ...
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Calculate excess mortality during heatwaves using Hilbert-Huang transform algorithm
... The HHT algorithm provides a useful and novel ap- proach to analyse time series data in public health area. In this paper, we demonstrated how to use the HHT al- gorithm to calculate the excess mortality during ...
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Modelling distributed lag effects in epidemiological time series studies
... to daily mortality ...in daily mortality counts along with variations in meteorological conditions, day-of-the-week effects and one or two pollution ...
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An ecological time-series study of heat-related mortality in three European cities
... Each daily mortality series was examined in relation to daily temperature using Poisson generalised linear mod- els allowing for over-dispersion, following methods used in previous analyses for ...
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Ambient air pollution from the leather tanneries in Vellore district in reference to the Asthma
... between daily levels of air pollutants and daily mortality in a cohort of affected patients and diagnosed the mild, moderate and severe restriction and obstruction effects of affected patients in ...
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Assessment and prevention of acute health effects of weather conditions in Europe, the PHEWE project: background, objectives, design
... considered the most suitable one on the basis of data availability and quality. Several other indexes of thermal discomfort have been proposed in meteorological litera- ture [40-43]. Among these, apparent temperature has ...
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A daily tag return model for lobster fisheries
... The daily model enabled finer time scale estimates of parameters and this was explored in the estimate of within season catchability. Penalised spline smoothing was applied to estimate catchability, resulting in a ...
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<p>The Impact Of Pharmaceutical Interventions On The Use Of Carbapenems In A Chinese Hospital: A Pre–Post Study</p>
... per 100 occupied bed-days were adopted to indicate antibiotic utilization in our hospital. The DDD was obtained from the anatomical therapeutic chemical classi fi cation index from the WHO: 8 DDDs/per 100 occupied ...
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Mortality From Tuberculous Meningitis Reduced by Steroid Therapy
... Based on the finding that steroids are effective in reducing mortality in tuberculous meningitis patients, the authors recommend that steroids-i. mg/kg daily for 30 days-be used routinel[r] ...
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The Procalcitonin And Survival Study (PASS) – A Randomised multi center investigator initiated trial to investigate whether daily measurements biomarker Procalcitoninand pro active diagnostic and therapeutic responses to abnormal Procalcitonin levels, can improve survival in intensive care unit patients Calculated sample size (target population): 1000 patients
... a mortality-endpoint, large scale randomized controlled trial with a biomarker-guided strategy compared to the best standard of care, is conducted in an Intensive care ...
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Modifiers of short-term effects of ozone on mortality in eastern Massachusetts - A casecrossover analysis at individual level
... The study population consisted of 162,146 deceased subjects aged 35 years or older from 3 counties (Suffolk, Middlesex, and Norfolk) in the eastern Massachusetts, USA for the period between January 1, 1995 and December ...
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Short-term association between ambient temperature and homicide in South Africa: a case-crossover study
... A strength of our study is that it is one of the few to distinguish homicide from other types of violent crime, as the existing research on the topic is more limited. Re- searchers in Dallas, Texas reported a very small ...
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Daily temperature profiles in and around Western Kenyan larval habitats of Anopheles gambiae as related to egg mortality
... Similar daily temperature profiles were recorded in and around the three types of larval habitats on each of the three consecutive sunny days shown in Figure ...maximum daily temperature occurred between ...
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Dialysis Treatment: A Comprehensive Description
... Ghamez Moukehet al. (2006) conducted a study of Epidemiology of hemodialysis patients in Aleppo city to determine the characteristics of the hemodialysis (HD) patients, they surveyed the hospitals representing the main ...
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Reducing mortality from hip fractures: a systematic quality improvement programme
... in-hospital mortality.[6] In Spain, early multidisciplinary daily geriatric care reduces in-hospital mortality and medical complications in elderly patients with hip fracture, but there is not a ...
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