Sökning: "Death certificates"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 17 avhandlingar innehållade orden Death certificates.
1. Targeting Non-obvious Errors in Death Certificates
Sammanfattning : Mortality statistics are much used although their accuracy is often questioned. Producers of mortality statistics check for errors in death certification but current methods only capture obvious mistakes. This thesis investigates whether non-obvious errors can be found by linking death certificates to hospital discharge data. LÄS MER
2. Causes of death and metastatic patterns in Swedish cancer patients
Sammanfattning : This thesis aimed to investigate possibilities to utilize death certificates in cancer epidemiology by analyzing nationwide databases from Sweden. Excessive information is available when investigating causes of death in cancer patients, including comorbidities and metastatic patterns. LÄS MER
3. Maternal Mortality in Sweden : Classification, Country of Birth, and Quality of Care
Sammanfattning : After decades of decrease, maternal mortality rates have shown a slight increase in Europe. Immigrants, especially Africans, have shown to be at higher risk than native women. This could not be explained solely by well-known obstetric and socio-economic risk factors. LÄS MER
4. Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy, incidence, circumstances and risk factors
Sammanfattning : Although Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) has attracted increasing attention from the scientific community during the last 20 years, important gaps in knowledge still exist that hamper the development of methods aiming at prevention of this, the most devastating consequence of epilepsy. We are still missing large population-based studies on the incidence of SUDEP. LÄS MER
5. Prostate Cancer Screening - Aspects of Overdiagnosis
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis is to explore aspects of overdiagnosis, i.e. the diagnosis of a tumor that in the absence of screening would never have been diagnosed, in prostate cancer (PC) screening. LÄS MER