• This study tests the impact of the TCL on cardiovascular disease (CVD) related health outcomes, including morbidity and mortality. (who.int)
  • Like cases of maternal mortality, cases of severe maternal morbidity merit quality review. (acog.org)
  • In the interval, however, using this recommended process to identify potential cases of severe maternal morbidity for further review, with a focus on outcomes and complications, is an important step toward promoting safe obstetric care. (acog.org)
  • U.S. cases of severe maternal morbidity are on the rise, and deep racial disparities persist. (whyy.org)
  • The lower rates of child morbidity and mortality with zinc treatment represent substantial benefits from a simple and inexpensive intervention that can be incorporated in existing efforts to control diarrhoeal disease. (bmj.com)
  • Justin is hopeful that upon completion, the research will generate base-line data for future research, improve practice in among health professionals and foster policy makers to design strategies and programs to promote, protect and support optimal breastfeeding practices and prevent child morbidity and mortality in South Sudan. (uib.no)
  • Furthermore, spatial location is a proxy of socioeconomic and environmental risk factors that affect childhood morbidity prevalence. (springer.com)
  • Background: The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence and morbidity of neck pain with or without cervical rhizopathy, upper extremity motor deficit and/or thoracolumbar pain in elderly men. (lu.se)
  • With a prevalence of 19%, malaria is the leading cause of morbidity accounting for 30-50% of out-patient visits at health facilities, 15-20% of all hospital admissions, and up to 20% of all hospital deaths. (peacecorps.gov)
  • Significant progress has been made in the scale-up of evidence-based malaria interventions in Uganda, leading to a substantial impact on malaria morbidity and mortality and as a result, malaria prevalence in children under five decreased from 45 % in 2009 to 9 % in 2018-2019. (peacecorps.gov)
  • Doctors and clinicians don't know why U.S. rates of severe maternal morbidity are increasing, Boland said, but she noted that they tend to study individual risk factors like obesity or heart disease to explore SMM's prevalence in the population. (whyy.org)
  • The association of malaria morbidity with linear growth, hemoglobin, iron status, and development in young Malawian children: a prospective cohort study. (bvsalud.org)
  • The objective of this study was to analyze the relationship between stressful events and psychiatric morbidity in the third trimester of pregnancy. (bvsalud.org)
  • Data collection was performed using the following instruments: one structured questionnaire, aiming at obtaining socio-demographic data, clinical history of the pregnancy and of the woman's health, a questionnaire on psychiatric morbidity (QMPA) and a semi-structured interview for recent life events (IRLE). (bvsalud.org)
  • Severe maternal morbidity is associated with a high rate of preventability, similar to that of maternal mortality. (acog.org)
  • Identifying severe morbidity is, therefore, important for preventing such injuries that lead to mortality and for highlighting opportunities to avoid repeat injuries. (acog.org)
  • The two-step screen and review process described in this document is intended to efficiently detect severe maternal morbidity in women and to ensure that each case undergoes a review to determine whether there were opportunities for improvement in care. (acog.org)
  • In the absence of consensus on a comprehensive list of conditions that represent severe maternal morbidity, institutions and systems should either adopt an existing screening criteria or create their own list of outcomes that merit review. (acog.org)
  • These definitions share the concept that severe maternal morbidity can be thought of as unintended outcomes of the process of labor and delivery that result in significant short-term or long-term consequences to a woman's health. (acog.org)
  • The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (the College) and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) have not yet created or endorsed a single, comprehensive definition of severe maternal morbidity. (acog.org)
  • Creating a consensus definition of severe maternal morbidity is beyond the scope of this document and may be the focus of future work. (acog.org)
  • What is severe maternal morbidity? (acog.org)
  • The goal of the challenge was to devise new ways of analyzing data from NICHD's Nulliparous Pregnancy Outcomes Study: Monitoring Mothers-to-be (nuMoM2b) to identify factors that impact maternal morbidity and severe maternal morbidity so that clinicians can more quickly and accurately identify and treat pregnancy-related conditions and prevent severe illness or death for a pregnant person. (nih.gov)
  • Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional questionnaire study of 3,000 community-dwelling older men with a mean age of 75.4 ± 3.2 years (range 69-81) to determine if they had experienced neck pain with or without cervical rhizopathy/upper extremity motor deficit/thoracolumbar pain (yes/no) during the preceding 12 months, and if so, morbidity with the condition (no/minor/moderate/severe). (lu.se)
  • For men who only have neck pain, 1/8 rated their morbidity as severe, while almost half who also had cervical rhizopathy and motor deficit and almost 1/3 of those who also had thoracolumbar pain reported severe morbidity. (lu.se)
  • For example, HIV infected patients often have several other chronic comorbid conditions that may contribute to the increased risk of severe non-AIDS morbidity. (natap.org)
  • Severe maternal morbidity - unexpected outcomes of labor and delivery such as heart attacks, obstructed labor, and hysterectomies - has been on the decline globally, but rates have steadily increased in the United States. (whyy.org)
  • In] a lot of the European countries, we've actually seen declines in severe maternal morbidity since the '80s, whereas in the U.S. it just keeps going up," said Mary Regina Boland, an assistant professor of informatics at the University of Pennsylvania who studies the connections between human health and environmental exposures. (whyy.org)
  • Boland and her colleagues at Penn Medicine wanted to explore how individual and neighborhood-level stressors might account for the severe morbidity rate among people giving birth in Philadelphia. (whyy.org)
  • Majority-Black neighborhoods had disproportionately higher rates of severe maternal morbidity. (whyy.org)
  • The rate of severe maternal morbidity within a neighborhood actually increased by 2.4% with every 10% increase in the percentage of individuals in a census tract who identified as Black or African American. (whyy.org)
  • Identifying as white was associated with lower odds of severe maternal morbidity at delivery. (whyy.org)
  • Violent crime and racial composition of neighborhoods seemed to have the most impact on the severe maternal morbidity rates reflected in a given area, which Boland said is most likely due to some kinds of underlying environmental exposure the census data doesn't capture. (whyy.org)
  • Boland said it's clear that severe maternal morbidity disparities are not the product of biological or genetic dispositions, but rather are reflective of structural inequality on the neighborhood level. (whyy.org)
  • And so when we see … neighborhoods where more individuals identify as African American have a higher rate of severe maternal morbidity, the way we're thinking about this is that these communities are historically disadvantaged communities and therefore the level of resources that they have [is related to] some aspect of housing or environment," said Boland. (whyy.org)
  • Estimated to affect more than 60,000 women each year, 123 severe maternal morbidity refers to the unexpected adverse outcomes of pregnancy, such as hemorrhage or hysterectomy, whereas maternal mortality refers to maternal deaths, which may occur up to one year after pregnancy ends. (qualityforum.org)
  • Reducing Disparities in Severe Maternal Morbidity and Mortality. (qualityforum.org)
  • Severe maternal morbidity among delivery and postpartum hospitalizations in the United States. (qualityforum.org)
  • The problem addressed in this paper is the difficulty of assessing across nations the impact of different policies on health outcomes without a reliable way of comparing routine hospital morbidity data. (ahima.org)
  • Nevertheless, the question remains whether hospital morbidity data can enhance the assessment of outcomes for health policy globally. (ahima.org)
  • Data assessed were patient demographics and postoperative outcomes at 30 and 90 days including rates and severity of wound infection, leak, marginal ulcer, stomal stenosis, bowel obstruction, internal hernia, incisional hernia, venous thromboembolism, readmission, and overall morbidity and mortality. (sages.org)
  • In a large single-institution series of LRYGB, short-term outcomes demonstrated low rates of overall morbidity and mortality. (sages.org)
  • Control of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) has been shown to substantially reduce cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality. (cdc.gov)
  • Among adults aged 45-64 years, musculoskeletal diseases accounted for the most morbidity and health care burdens, and among adults aged 65 years or older, cardiovascular diseases accounted for the most. (health.mil)
  • An interdisciplinary team of experts will explore why women die from certain conditions (e.g., postpartum hemorrhage, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, infection, etc.), what can be done to identify patients at risk, and what interventions are required to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality. (nih.gov)
  • The higher 90-day morbidity was due, in large part, to the increased incidence of marginal ulcer and stomal stenosis diagnosed between 31 and 90 days (Table 1). (sages.org)
  • The increased incidence of marginal ulcer and stomal stenosis from 30 to 90 days contributed to higher rates of readmission and overall morbidity. (sages.org)
  • LBW within a country largely influences perinatal, neonatal and infant morbidity and Low birth weight (LBW), birth weight mortality rates [ 2 ]. (who.int)
  • This includes in hospital morbidity rates and a comparison of 30 day, 1 year and 2 year mortality rates with those of the UK TAVI registry. (bmj.com)
  • Local auditing of TAVI is important to ensure acceptable morbidity and mortality rates when compared with national ranges and to provide our patients with contemporary information to make an informed decision. (bmj.com)
  • In response to increasing U.S. maternal mortality rates, workshop participants will develop a research agenda targeted at the clinical causes of maternal morbidity and mortality. (nih.gov)
  • Significant racial and ethnic disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality exist in the United States where Black women are 3 to 4 times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related death as compared with white women. (qualityforum.org)
  • To evaluate the impact of antenatal psychosocial assessment on perinatal mental health morbidity. (cochrane.org)
  • This rapid research brief synthesises the evidence on determinants of morbidity and mortality due to COVID-19, and sex-related differences. (science.org.au)
  • In 2020, mental health disorders accounted for the largest proportions of the morbidity and health care burdens that affected the pediatric and younger adult beneficiary age groups. (health.mil)
  • Several classification systems and morbidity measures have been developed to quantify the "public health burdens" that are attributable to various illnesses and injuries in defined populations and settings. (health.mil)
  • 1 Not surprisingly, different classification systems and morbidity measures lead to different rankings of illness- and injury-specific public health burdens. (health.mil)
  • 2 Thus, in a given population and setting, the classification system or measure used to quantify condition-specific morbidity burdens shapes to a large extent the conclusions that may be drawn regarding the relative importance of various conditions and, in turn, the resources that may be indicated to prevent or minimize their impacts. (health.mil)
  • In 2021, NICHD launched the Decoding Maternal Morbidity Data Challenge to help advance research on maternal health and promote healthy pregnancies. (nih.gov)
  • They are lished, primarily because of definition bias also vulnerable to the potential side-effects and lack of population-based morbidity of neonatal intensive care interventions. (who.int)
  • Ultimately, we aim to reverse malaria trends and support community-led interventions to malaria prevent morbidity and mortality. (peacecorps.gov)
  • This paper presents the findings of a study that evaluated the accessibility and comparability of hospital morbidity data from seven nations. (ahima.org)
  • We discuss the impact of differences in coding systems on hospitalisation rates and the number of codes included in the hospital morbidity data and demonstrate how these data can be used to compare clinical interest areas for the improvement and measurement of global healthcare. (ahima.org)
  • The purpose of this study was to ascertain the 30 and 90-day procedure-related morbidity and mortality of laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) at a single university hospital to facilitate consistent patient counseling and informed consent. (sages.org)
  • Hospital morbidity = La morbidité hospitalière. (who.int)
  • Hospital morbidity: Canadian diagnostic list, 1969. (who.int)
  • Continued by: Hospital morbidity (Health reports supplement no. 1). (who.int)
  • The compression of morbidity was prophetic in the sense that Jim looked at the reduction of morbidity and disability at a time when most gerontologists and epidemiologists thought we would see a pandemic of disability. (wikipedia.org)
  • Alongside a reduction in tobacco consumption, smoking-related CVD morbidity appears to benefit quite soon after implementation, whilst smoking-related deaths might need a longer post-intervention period to be detectable. (who.int)
  • The capacity for routine, universal antenatal psychosocial assessment, and thus the potential for reduction of morbidity, is very significant. (cochrane.org)
  • However, neither intensive care unit (ICU) admission or transfusion of 4 or more units of blood should be used as quality metrics because some cases of morbidity reflect the underlying health of a woman or her pregnancy and, thus, are unavoidable. (acog.org)
  • So in 2013, the WHO Maternal Morbidity Working Group redefined maternal morbidity as "any health condition attributed to or complicating pregnancy, childbirth, or following pregnancy that has a negative impact on the woman's wellbeing or functioning. (futurelearn.com)
  • This study assessed the morbidity and mortality of low-birth-weight (LBW) infants during the first 3 months. (who.int)
  • In addition, the study of LBW in Egypt, aims at assessing retina is easily damaged by high levels of morbidity and mortality of LBW infants oxygen and there is a risk of intracranial during the first 3 months of life. (who.int)
  • This study aims to account for nonlinear, spatial effect and to evaluate spatial variation in childhood co-morbidity at cluster level while controlling for important risk factors. (springer.com)
  • For instance, a study conducted in Egypt by [ 5 ] revealed that childhood morbidity has a geographically clustered pattern. (springer.com)
  • CONCLUSIONS--Diverging risk patterns for tumours with different localisations within the large bowel were found in the morbidity study. (bmj.com)
  • As a result, a feasibility study was undertaken to review the accessibility of morbidity data from several nations and to develop a generalisable model for comparing such data for clinical interest areas. (ahima.org)
  • The study focussed on nations with which the company shared a business interest, and thus, some nations or countries with robust morbidity systems were not included. (ahima.org)
  • The aim of this study was therefore to demonstrate the impact of psychological morbidity one month post-injury on subsequent quality of life in a general injury population in the UK to inform development of trauma care and rehabilitation services. (springer.com)
  • VANCOUVER (FRONTLINE MEDICAL NEWS) - More than two-thirds of patients with definite or probable misdiagnosis of multiple sclerosis took unnecessary disease-modifying therapy and nearly one-third experienced unnecessary morbidity in a prospective pilot study. (pm360online.com)
  • Impact of Work and Environment Neha Madhiwalla Amar jesani This paper reports a study of the morbidity of a small population in Mumbai city. (epw.in)
  • Obesity continues to be very costly, not only in morbidity and mortality, but also in health care dollars. (health.am)
  • Data were collected on weight, morbidity and mortality using a structured questionnaire. (who.int)
  • The data tell a consistent story-antiretroviral treated patients remain at risk for premature morbidity and mortality compared with HIV uninfected patients. (natap.org)
  • Cancer morbidity from tumour registry information (1958-86). (bmj.com)
  • Mitochondrial metabolism is regulated oppositely in Alzheimer's disease and lung cancer, indicating that it may be involved in the inverse co-morbidity between these diseases. (nature.com)
  • To evaluate the effect on morbidity and mortality of providing daily zinc for 14 days to children with diarrhoea. (bmj.com)
  • To demonstrate the impact of psychological morbidity 1 month post-injury on subsequent post-injury quality of life (HRQoL) in a general injury population in the UK to inform development of trauma care and rehabilitation services. (springer.com)
  • This implies a beneficial impact of the TCL on CVD related morbidity in the Russian population. (who.int)
  • We know that we have an infant fatality rate that is too high, and so if we're serious about addressing maternal morbidity, as well as the life of babies, then we need to invest more in women's health in rural communities. (regenstrief.org)
  • 4 Provision of zinc during diarrhoea may thus be a feasible strategy for both treatment of diarrhoea and prevention of subsequent morbidity and mortality. (bmj.com)
  • The compression of morbidity in public health is a hypothesis put forth by James Fries, professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. (wikipedia.org)
  • Vincent Mor's "The Compression of Morbidity Hypothesis: A Review of Research and Prospects for the Future" argues that "Cross-national evidence for the validity of the compression of morbidity hypothesis originally proposed by Fries is generally accepted. (wikipedia.org)
  • Washington, DC - The National Quality Forum (NQF) is announcing a new project, funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), to address maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States, key indicators of women's health and consequently of the quality of our nation's healthcare overall. (qualityforum.org)
  • Multi-morbidity may be more likely in vulnerable populations and older people 35 . (racgp.org.au)
  • Boland said those characteristics are helpful for understanding maternal morbidity because they stand in for potential stressors people may be exposed to within a given neighborhood. (whyy.org)
  • See also "Mortality and Morbidity Trends: Is There Compression of Morbidity? (wikipedia.org)
  • Children between 10 and 15 months old were at high risk of co-morbidity in Ethiopia. (springer.com)
  • This dataset contains Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) morbidity case reports reported to the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (cdc.gov)
  • The morbidity and quality of life considerations related to surgery vs bladder preservation are therefore important considerations in treatment selection. (cancernetwork.com)
  • In this context, a better understanding of the mechanisms that are common to several diseases, in particular of those leading to co-morbidities, constitutes an important challenge. (europa.eu)
  • Proposals should assess and validate the relevance of these common mechanisms and of their biomarkers (where relevant) on the development of disease-specific pathophysiology, as well as their role in the development of co-morbidities in both males and females. (europa.eu)
  • Direct co-morbidities are common for many diseases, representing a higher-than-expected joint occurrence of medical conditions in individuals. (nature.com)
  • Conclusion: Neck pain in elderly men is common but symptoms and morbidity vary. (lu.se)
  • Therefore, the factors that predict a higher risk of prolonged morbidity, and the nature of these long-term effects, remain to be defined. (science.org.au)
  • Various factors have been proposed to be involved in direct and inverse co-morbidities, such as the environment, lifestyle or drug treatments 11 , and we hypothesize that genetic and molecular factors could also play a role in these relationships. (nature.com)
  • Maternal morbidity and mortality are widely viewed as a health epidemic," said Elisa Munthali, Senior Vice President of Quality Measurement . (qualityforum.org)