In "Cigarettes Are Sublime" (1993), a cult classic of the literature of tobacco, Richard Klein connects the allure of cigarettes precisely to their dangers, which entice smokers "to the edge of the abyss, where, like travelers in a Swiss landscape, they can be thrilled by the subtle grandeur of the perspectives on mortality opened by the little terrors in every puff".
The use of expected mortality provides a useful perspective in mortality analysis of population-based cohorts of patients suffering from chronic disease such as cancer but also from other diseases.
Subsequently we put these results into the perspective of previous reports on mortality in RA associated CV disease to explore trends in RA associated CV case fatality over time.
Exploring the issue of the interaction between pneumonia and bloodstream infection from a different perspective, Turnidge et al. analyzed predictors of mortality in a cohort of nearly 2000 patients with S. aureus bacteremia, including both those with methicillin-susceptible S. aureus and MRSA infection [ 16].
A better understanding of mortality factor through a managerial perspective will allow academic and practitioners to better assess the SME.
Over the past year, the success of death-related books suggests that our engagement with mortality is booming, with Henry Marsh's Do No Harm and Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, each exploring mortality from the perspective of surgeons who face death's scythe every day, both becoming international bestsellers.
Over the past year, the success of death-related books suggests that our engagement with mortality is booming, with Henry Marsh's Do No Harm and Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, each exploring mortality from the perspective of surgeons who face death's scythe every day, both becoming international bestsellers.
The second goal of the analysis is to portray broad perspectives on understanding age patterns and cause-of-death distributions of mortality, and to determine whether a top down or bottom up perspective is more appropriate (Himes 1994).
In table 4 the results of mortality calculations are shown from the perspective of the admission view classes.
Second, from the public health perspective, long-term conditions are currently the leading cause of mortality worldwide [ 44].
