Twitter Google Share on Facebook crude mortality rate Acronyms Epidemiology The mortality rate from all causes of death for a population McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Want to thank TFD for its existence?Tell a friend about us, ...
According to the mortality rate definition, an index of the number of deaths in a given year or a specified time interval in a defined population is called mortality rate. It is typically expressed in population units, such as deaths per 1,000 people for a recall period (or specified time...
Mortality Rate – Definition and Types Death rate ormortality ratecan be defined as the number of deaths occurring in a population during a particular period of time. The three essential components for calculating any mortality rate include the total number of deaths (which forms the numerator), ...
Acute respiratory distress syndrome: the Berlin Definition. JAMA. 2012;307(23):2526-2533.PubMedGoogle Scholar 2. Brun-Buisson C, Minelli C, Bertolini G, et al; ALIVE Study Group. Epidemiology and outcome of acute lung injury in European intensive care units. Results from the ALIVE study. ...
Bloodstream infection Mortality Epidemiology Antimicrobial resistance Surveillance Bloodstream infections (BSIs) have high morbidity worldwide1, 2, 3, 4 and an estimated overall crude mortality rate of 15%-30%.1,5, 6, 7 Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a serious problem, particularly for extended-...
Compared to a 3.9% mortality for all admitted patients with ocular trauma, victims of firearms injuries had a mortality rate of 16.2% [17, 36]. In this study all 1409 patients admitted with firearms -related were documented to have TBI. Most firearms-related ocular injury reports have been ...
Participants completed five activities of daily living while wearing an indirect calorimetry unit (Cosmed K5) and Polar heart-rate monitor. The activities included: (1) walking on a flat surface at a self-selected ‘very fast’ pace; (2) walking on a flat surface while carrying shopping-like...
Nosocomial infections were defined according to the definition of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and nosocomial infection density was defined as the incidence density rate of nosocomial infections (expressed as events/per 1000 patient-days.) Quality indicators To evaluate the safety of...
The perinatal mortality rate is the number of stillbirths and early neonatal deaths per 1000 total births (live births and stillbirths) [33]. Differences in definition and classification of perinatal deaths impede international comparison of data [1,2,11,14,19,20,27,34]. A systematic review ...
Our results suggest that cystatin C and estimates of glomerular filtration rate based on cystatin C at admission are associated with mortality also in sepsis patients. The result differs from a previous study in which an association between cystatin C at admission and mortality was not detected in...