A SES gradient in case-fatality was found in men but not in women.
"Three of these eight fatalities were found in the helicopter and were our colleagues," House told reporters, visibly struggling with emotion.
It seems incredible a boy with learning difficulties could die like this in a supposed place of sanctuary; unsurprisingly, the fatality was found to be avoidable.
Among our patients, there is a significantly higher percentage of males presenting than females, although no difference was found in case fatality.
No significant difference was found in case-fatality rate for indigenous Fijians (32%) compared with that for persons of other races (30%; p = 0.9).
The lowest child fatality rates were found in Spain, Greece, Italy and Ireland.
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).
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 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.
Furthermore, an investigation of the spatial distributions of accidents and fatalities in Greece can be found in Papadimitriou et al. [41].
No significant differences were found in case fatality rates.
