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- Infant Mortality Statistics From the 2001 Period Linked Birth/Infant Death Data Set
- This paper presents 2001 period infant mortality statistics from the linked birth/infant death data set linked file by a variety of maternal and infant characteristics. This paper presents infant mortality data from the 2001 period linked file. In the linked file, the information from the death certificate is linked to...
- White papers 2003-09-15
- Infant Mortality Statistics From the 2000 Period Linked Birth/Infant Death Data Set
- This paper presents the 2000 period infant mortality statistics from the linked birth/infant death data set linked file by a variety of maternal and infant characteristics. This paper presents infant mortality data from the 2000 period linked file. In the linked file, the information from the death certificate is linked...
- White papers 2002-08-28
- Infant Mortality Statistics From the 1999 Period Linked Birth/Infant Death Data Set
- This paper presents 1999 period infant mortality statistics from the linked birth/infant death data set linked file by a variety of maternal and infant characteristics. This paper presents infant mortality data from the 1999 period linked file. In the linked file the information from the death certificate is linked to...
- White papers 2002-01-30
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- Infant Mortality Statistics From the 2002 Period Linked Birth/Infant Death Data Set
- This paper presents 2002 period infant mortality statistics from the linked birth/infant death data file by a variety of maternal and infant characteristics. The linked file differs from the mortality file, which is based entirely on death certificate data. This paper presents descriptive tabulations of infant mortality data by a...
- White papers 2004-11-24
- Factors Associated With Reporting Multiple Causes of Death
- This white paper examines relationships of multiple causes of death as a function of factors available on the death certificate (demographics of decedent, place of death, type of certifier, disposal method, whether an autopsy was performed, and year of death).It concludes that multiple cause of death data provide a potentially...
- White papers 2005-01-17
- JAMA analysis of obesity death data stirs debate
- CHICAGO -- Some industry members say they are hopeful that health officials reduced estimates of obesity-related deaths will alleviate the blame restaurateurs have shouldered for the widening girth of Americans. But others are less convinced that the data adjustments will stem the tide of pending nutrition-related legislation and regulation. ...
- Research articles 2005-05-09
- Michael Jackson's Death Worth $67 Million to the Magazine Biz
- Back in late June, several days after Michael Jackson's death, I figured that the demise of the "King of Pop" would be a shot in the arm for the magazine business. But I wasn't expecting it to be this big. MagNet, which follows these things, says that so far the...
- Blog posts 2009-08-29
- Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2001
- This paper presents preliminary data on deaths for the year 2001 in the United States. U.S. data on deaths are shown by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin. Death rates for 2001 are based on population estimates consistent with the April 1, 2000, census. Data on life expectancy, leading causes...
- White papers 2003-03-14
- Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2000
- This paper presents preliminary data on deaths for the year 2000 in the United States. U.S. data on deaths are shown by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin. Data on life expectancy, leading causes of death, and infant mortality are also presented. The age-adjusted death rate in 2000 for the...
- White papers 2001-10-09
- Deaths: Preliminary Data for 1999
- This paper presents preliminary data for 1999 on deaths in the United States. U.S. data on deaths are shown by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin. Data on life expectancy, leading causes of death, and infant mortality are also presented. In 1999 the age-adjusted death rate for the United States...
- White papers 2001-06-26
- The Life-or-Death Importance of Data Analysis
- So you’re having a heart-attack, and you’re sitting in the waiting room instead of the operating room because the hospital failed to analyze their performance data. They had tons of data on waiting time, to be sure—they just hadn’t looked at it. An article from today’s NYT gives a frightening...
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- Deaths: Final Data for 2001
- This paper presents final data on U.S. deaths and death rates according to demographic and medical characteristics such as age, sex, Hispanic origin, race, marital status, educational attainment, injury at work, State of residence, and cause of death. Generally, mortality patterns in 2001 were consistent with long-term trends. The age-adjusted...
- White papers 2003-09-18
- Deaths: Final Data for 2000
- This paper presents final 2000 data on U.S. deaths and death rates according to demographic and medical characteristics such as age, sex, Hispanic origin, race, marital status, educational attainment, injury at work, State of residence, and cause of death. Trends and patterns in general mortality, life expectancy, and infant and...
- White papers 2002-09-16
- Skip Mammograms Until 50, Says U.S. Panel: First Instance of Rationing of Care by Death Panels?
- "Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death." Hippocratic Oath, Modern Version [1] "Critical thinking always, or your patient's dead" - Victor P. Satinsky, M.D. [2] In reading an article today about the decision by a government task force that screening mammograms...
- News items 2009-11-17
- Night-time use of baby ‘dummies’ halves risk of cot death: research
- LONDON AFP — The night-time use of babies dummies halves the risk of cot death, the biggest cause of death among babies in Britain over one month old, according to research published Thursday. A study of recent data by the American Academy of Pediatrics showed that the risk of...
- Research articles 2007-06-21
- Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2002
- This paper presents preliminary data on deaths for the year 2002 in the United States. U.S. data on deaths are shown by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin. Death rates for 2002 are based on population estimates consistent with the April 1, 2000, census. Life expectancy at birth rose by...
- White papers 2004-02-11
- Deaths: Final Data for 1999
- This paper presents final data on U.S. deaths and death rates according to demographic and medical characteristics. Trends and patterns in general mortality, life expectancy, and infant and maternal mortality are also described. A previous paper presented preliminary mortality data for 1999. Generally, mortality continued long-term trends. Life expectancy in...
- White papers 2001-09-21
- Does Competition Between Hospitals Improve the Quality of Care? Hospital Death Rates and the NHS Internal Market
- Payer-driven competition has been widely advocated as a means of increasing efficiency in health care markets. The 1990s reforms to the UK health service followed this path. The paper examines whether competition led to better outcomes for patients, as measured by death rates after treatment following heart attacks. Using data...
- White papers 2002-02-01
- Dying to Save Taxes: Evidence From Estate Tax Returns on the Death Elasticity
- This paper examines data from U.S. federal tax returns to shed light on whether the timing of death is responsive to its tax consequences. The paper investigates the temporal pattern of deaths around the time of changes in the estate tax system periods when living longer, or dying sooner, could...
- White papers 2001-03-01
- Place of Death: U.S. Trends Since 1980
- Place of death is one indicator of the state of end-of-life care. This report examines trends in national death certificate data on place of death from 1980 to 1998. During these years the percentage of Americans dying as hospital inpatients decreased from approximately 54 percent to 41 percent. About 310,000...
- White papers 2004-06-01
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