The lowest child fatality rates were found in Spain, Greece, Italy and Ireland.
A high number of tuberculosis and bacterial infections and a high case fatality rate from sepsis were found in this cohort, underlining the importance of microbiological diagnostics and targeted antimicrobial treatment in the management of fever.
No significant differences were found in case fatality rates.
No significant differences were found in case fatality between acute geriatric units and conventional care units either in hospital or three months after discharge (fig 4).
No other significant differences were found in case fatality with respect to source of infection except for GU sepsis at 9% for those with DM vs. 12% in patients with no DM (p < 0.05).
In women, no clear SES gradients in case-fatality were found (Table 5).> -wrap-foot>> -wrASRfoot> age age standardized rates, standardized to the age distribution of the total study population aHighest income group aAdjusted for age, ethnic origin, marital status, degree of urbanization, Charlson Index.
This finding suggests that even for similar anatomic defects, there are additional manifestations and, most likely, other pathophysiological features in patients with the syndrome, which may contribute to higher fatalities than is found in cases of apparently isolated defects.
A recent overview of the topic of measuring the value of preventing a fatality can be found in Andersson and Treich [2], where various alternative approaches to estimate the social value of saving a life are presented (e.g. the human capital and annuities approach and the use of the marginal rate of substitution between risk and cost).
Furthermore, an investigation of the spatial distributions of accidents and fatalities in Greece can be found in Papadimitriou et al. [41].
