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Cost-Effectiveness of Pneumococcal Vaccination of Older People: A Study in 5 Western European Countries
1999
Pneumococcal vaccination of older persons is thought to be cost-effective in preventing pneumococcal pneumonia, but evidence of clinical protection is uncertain. Because there is better evidence of vaccination effectiveness against invasive pneumococcal disease, we determined the cost-effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccination of persons agedor =65 years in preventing hospital admission for both invasive pneumococcal disease and pneumococcal pneumonia in 5 western European countries. In the base case analyses, the cost-effectiveness ratios for preventing invasive disease varied from approximately 11,000 to approximately 33,000 European currency units (ecu) per quality-adjusted life year (QAL…
The burden of norovirus disease in children in the European Union.
2015
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A mineralogical-petrographic analysis of samples of Sicilian archeological earthen mortars
2011
Pearson Syndrome: A Retrospective Cohort Study from the Marrow Failure Study Group of A.I.E.O.P. (Associazione Italiana Emato-Oncologia Pediatrica)
2015
Pearson syndrome (PS) is a very rare and often fatal multisystemic mitochondrial disorder involving the liver, kidney, pancreas, and hematopoietic and central nervous system. It is characterized principally by a transfusion-dependent anemia that usually improves over time, a tendency to develop severe infections, and a high mortality rate. We describe a group of 11 PS patients diagnosed in Italy in the period 1993-2014. The analysis of this reasonably sized cohort of patients contributes to the clinical profile of the disease and highlights a rough incidence of 1 case/million newborns. Furthermore, it seems that some biochemical parameters like increased serum alanine and urinary fumaric ac…
A human post-mortem brain model for the standardization of multi-centre MRI studies
2015
Multi-centre MRI studies of the brain are essential for enrolling large and diverse patient cohorts, as required for the investigation of heterogeneous neurological and psychiatric diseases. However, the multi-site comparison of standard MRI data sets that are weighted with respect to tissue parameters such as the relaxation times (T1, T2) and proton density (PD) may be problematic, as signal intensities and image contrasts depend on site-specific details such as the sequences used, imaging parameters, and sensitivity profiles of the radiofrequency (RF) coils. Water or gel phantoms are frequently used for long-term and/or inter-site quality assessment. However, these phantoms hardly mimic t…
Post-Mortem Investigations for the Diagnosis of Sepsis: A Review of Literature
2020
To date, sepsis is still one of the most important causes of death due to the difficulties concerning the achievement of a correct diagnosis. As well as in a clinical context, also in a medico-legal setting the diagnosis of sepsis can reveal challenging due to the unspecificity of the signs detected during autopsies, especially when no ante-mortem clinical data, laboratory, and cultural results are available. Thus, a systematic review of literature was performed to provide an overview of the main available and updated forensic tools for the post-mortem diagnosis of sepsis. Moreover, the aim of this review was to evaluate whether a marker or a combination of markers exist, specific enough to…
Profanación de los cuerpos muertos femeninos. Consideraciones, usos y prácticas sobre el cuerpo muerto femenino en el arte y la cultura visual
2021
En la historia del arte y de la cultura visual aparecen cuerpos muertos femeninos, habitualmente remarcando su belleza y juventud, sobre los que se ejerce una serie de consideraciones bien distintas a las que merecen los muertos masculinos. Entre ellas la curiosidad científica, el erotismo o la atracción convergen para justificar la exhibición y contemplación de las muertas femeninas. Paralelamente, el imaginario literario ha alimentado mitos sobre el poder que procesaban dichos cuerpos fenecidos en los varones, recalando con el tiempo en los medios de comunicación de masas, especialmente en el cine. Otra vertiente que considerar ha sido la proliferación de fotografías post mortem en donde …
Obtención de tablas de mortalidad por comparación con las de otros ámbitos en períodos pasados
2000
Se expone un procedimiento para la obtención de una tabla de mortalidad cuando no se dispone de suficiente información para su cálculo directo. Es de aplicación cuando pueden relacionarse el comportamiento seguido por una población con el de una población testigo o de referencia, en pasados momentos o referencias temporales, de forma que esta comparación permite estimar el comportamiento actual de la población de interés ante el hecho demográfico mortalidad. It is exposed a procedure for the obtainment of a mortality table when is not had sufficient information for their/its/your/his direct calculation. It is of application when they can be related the behavior followed by a population with…
Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980-2017: a systematic analysis …
2018
BACKGROUND: Global development goals increasingly rely on country-specific estimates for benchmarking a nation's progress. To meet this need, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2016 estimated global, regional, national, and, for selected locations, subnational cause-specific mortality beginning in the year 1980. Here we report an update to that study, making use of newly available data and improved methods. GBD 2017 provides a comprehensive assessment of cause-specific mortality for 282 causes in 195 countries and territories from 1980 to 2017. METHODS: The causes of death database is composed of vital registration (VR), verbal autopsy (VA), registry, surv…
Global, regional, and national levels of maternal mortality, 1990-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015.
2016
BACKGROUND: In transitioning from the Millennium Development Goal to the Sustainable Development Goal era, it is imperative to comprehensively assess progress toward reducing maternal mortality to identify areas of success, remaining challenges, and frame policy discussions. We aimed to quantify maternal mortality throughout the world by underlying cause and age from 1990 to 2015.