The index was developed decades ago by life insurance companies, based on mortality data at the time.
Roughly half of the 58 victims killed in the Las Vegas mass shooting died before reaching a hospital, based on mortality counts released by local medical centers.
Understanding the role of comorbidity in patients with cGVHD is important both for prognostication and potentially for tailoring treatments based on mortality risks.
We performed principal component and cluster analysis to classify encounters based on mortality, length of stay, hospital cost and revenue into six classes.
Jonathan Esser Easton, Pa., Oct. 2, 2008 To the Editor: Roger Cohen writes that "the actuarial risk, based on mortality tables, of Palin becoming president if the Republican ticket wins the election is about 1 in 6 or 7".
Healthcare Access and Quality Index based on mortality from causes amenable to personal health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990 2015: a novel analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015.
Furthermore, we evaluated its construct (i.e., skewed distribution, correlation with age and sub-maximum score) and criterion validity (based on mortality risk).
Outcome, based on mortality at discharge, was analysed in two ways: alive or dead at discharge (mortality) and time to death or discharge (survival).
The main limitation of DALY calculations is that they are available for few environmental chemicals and primarily based on mortality and impact and duration of clinical morbidity, while less serious conditions are mostly disregarded.
I'm grateful to Bob Rice of Tangent Capital for pointing out that the actuarial risk, based on mortality tables, of Palin becoming president if the Republican ticket wins the election is about 1 in 6 or 7. That's the same odds as your birthday falling on a Wednesday, or being delayed on two consecutive flights into Newark airport.
Source: produced by Christopher J. Conover based on mortality data from OECD Data, Health at a Glance (2017).
