Sentence examples for contribution to death from inspiring English sources
Nosocomial acquisition of XDR- M.tb among HIV-1 infected patients with a very poor outcome has recently been described in South Africa [10]; the contribution to death by co-morbid HIV-1 associated illnesses, however, was not discussed in that report.
Sorensen and colleagues [ 9] found that the genetic contribution to death from infection is five times greater than the genetic contribution to cancer.
139 For the majority in Rodriguez, the late Justice Sopinka wrote: [t]he administration of drugs designed for pain control in dosages which the physician knows will hasten death constitutes active contribution to death by any standard.
Salmonella made a significant contribution to death in nine of the patients who died in hospital within 30 days of admission giving an attributable 30 day case fatality rate of 1.5%.
Favourable trends in the behavioural risk factors made a modest contribution to deaths prevented or postponed; the drop in smoking rates contributed to approximately 210 fewer deaths or 4% (table 4).
The OD4-methadone index enabled us to examine methadone's contribution to deaths due to opioid overdose while controlling for expansion of methadone treatment during the study period.
But ventilators are not available in many parts of the developing world so lack of access to ventilators makes a substantial contribution to deaths from pesticide ingestion.
We followed previous work in assuming that deaths caused by influenza will lag influenza cases by 1 2 weeks; the f term represents the proportional contribution to deaths of influenza cases 1 week previously (2).
The largest contribution to deaths prevented by increased uptake of treatment came from statin treatment for hyperlipidaemia (approximately 13% of the total mortality reduction), followed by secondary prevention after myocardial infarction (9%) and management of chronic stable coronary artery disease (7%) (table 2).
The bridges that fail, the water mains that break, the electrical grid that remains in a state of primitive dysfunction unable to serve our increasing need, the inadequately maintained roads and highways that result will all make their own contributions to deaths, but often indirectly, so we'll never be able to assign most of those deaths to the people and policies that led to them.
