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The proportion of patients with a obesity during a given year per given unit of population. Basically death by obesity.
Morbid obesity is defined as a body mass index (BMI) greater than 40 kg/m2 or BMI greater than or equal to 35 kg/m2 with obesity-related co-morbidities at high risk of mortality and morbidity
Background: Children with severe neurological impairment may have significant oral motor dysfunction and are at increased risk of nutritional deficiencies, poor growth, and aspiration pneumonia. Gastrostomy tube feeding is increasingly bein...
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McCormack L, Capitanich P, Quiñonez E. Patient Saf Surg. 2008 Apr 25; 2:8. Epub 2008 Apr 25.
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Murkin JM , Boyd WD , Ganapathy S , Adams SJ , Peterson RC .
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10543553
The data tell a consistent story-antiretroviral treated patients remain at risk for premature morbidity and mortality compared with HIV uninfected patients. The mechanism for this risk is almost certainly multifactorial. For example, HIV in...
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The EUROCISS Project (European Cardiovascular Indicators Surveillance Set), as part of the Health Monitoring Programme financed by the European Commission, has been implemented to develop health indicators and recommendations for the monito...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14533750
Unnecessary delay of insertion of Port-A-Cath indwelling venous catheters in thrombocytopenic patients may result from fear of potential morbidity. This study sought to compare the morbidity of Port-A-Cath insertions in acute leukemic patie...
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With rotavirus and Norwalk-like viruses, astroviruses are now recognized as important etiologic agents of viral gastroenteritis in all age groups. However, astrovirus is neither routinely screened for in stool samples, nor in environmental ...
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No. In addition to birth weight the major drivers for the expanded neonate assignment logic are admit and discharge status and the presence of an OR procedure, excluding minor OR procedures and circumcisions.
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