[PDF] Top 20 Iraq War mortality estimates: A systematic review

... accurate estimates of national rates by sampling only a small proportion of the population, this accuracy is criti- cally dependent on the representativeness of the ...for mortality information are likely ... See full document

... Examination of different sources of data during the study year, 2007 (prospective) and the previous two years, 2005 and 2006 (retrospective) to identify gaps in information and analyse[r] ... See full document

... a systematic review of the psychosocial impact of all forms of CL (including ...generate estimates of iCL prevalence for the first ...associated mortality rate is not known and therefore ... See full document

... point estimates of relative risk observed in this review are some- what inflated due to these limitations of the data, it is still clear that Gulf War veterans continue to suffer from poorly ... See full document

... One Nigerian study suggests 30 % of maternal deaths were due to “prolonged obstructed labour” [27] with a further 7 % due to ruptured uterus, while another [26] suggests a much lower estimate of 13 %. The Zambian study ... See full document

... early mortality, with HIV infec- tion a risk factor for worse outcomes ...short-term mortality risks as notified TB patients, routine management of adults with TB symptoms in health services remains ... See full document

... this systematic review is to provide estimates of transfusion prevalence and the effects of perioperative blood transfusion on postoperative mortality and morbidity and long-term cancer ... See full document

... The president and other officials claimed later that any inaccuracy resulted from bad intelligence. But there is much evidence that they knew that their case against Iraq was at best very shaky and quite possibly ... See full document

... and war- journalism ...criticized war journalism in that news media’s discourse rarely transcends the Washington elite’s policy ...to war journalism has been raised and developed in theory and method ... See full document

... One important factor relates to education. Contradicting much of the assimilation literature that suggests that the more immigrants are assimilated the less they will maintain homeland links (Portes and Rumbaut, 1996) ... See full document

... rapeutic hypothermia was defined as any inter- vention carried out with the intention of reduc- ing core body temperature to below the physio- logical norm (36.0°C). Poor neurological out- come at the end of the ... See full document

... This review provides evidence of the negative impacts of a previous history of CS on surgical complications follow- ing hysterectomy for gynecologic conditions performed in later ... See full document

... In 2005, Luc Delahaye was awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography prize for his ‘History’ series of monumental images, all vast eight by four metre prints. It included Taliban, an image of a dead soldier lying shoeless in ... See full document

... invaded Iraq in 2003 as the former claimed that the latter possess Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) and liberalizes Iraqis from the tyranny regime of Saddam Hussein (Mockaitis, ...whether Iraq War ... See full document

... and Iraq provides evidence of a decisive shift in the American role from the latter to the ...does Iraq tell us about this? There is relative agreement that US Empire is ...the war supports the claim ... See full document

... The internal validity of each non-randomized study in- cluded in this systematic review was critically evaluated for bias according to the Methodological Index for Non- randomized studies (MINORS) [11]. ... See full document

... See also Coalition forces; Gulf War Syndrome; Iraq; Kuwait; U.N.. Security Council Resolutions..[r] ... See full document

... Iran-Iraq war to then becoming the chief initiator of military action against the regime after it's invasion of Kuwait as well as imposing sanctions on the nation for over a decade highlights the ... See full document

... Security Council Resolution 1368 also reiterated the inherent right of individual and collective self-defense under the Charter of the United Nations 2 and stressed that "[r] ... See full document

... In order to assess possible sources of heterogeneity, we per- formed a meta-regression of the prevalence rates, including the subregions, the study setting (urban, rural, mixed), age, the diagnostic method including all ... See full document