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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. Trends in Prostate Cancer Mortality
Sammanfattning : In the early 20th century, cancer of the prostate was considered a rare and deadly disease with little to no possibility of cure. Since then, prostate cancer management has improved substantially with earlier detection, hormonal therapy, surgery and radiotherapy of the prostate. LÄS MER
3. 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
4. Selection of the principal cause of death : studies on the basis of mortality statistics for rheumatoid arthritis
Sammanfattning : The official statistics of Sweden for 1971-75 show a 2.7-fold increase in mortality for men and a 3.0-fold increase for women attributed to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) as the underlying cause of death. In order to investigate the basis of this observed increase, all death certificates for 1971 and 1975 with a diagnosis of RA (N=1224) were studied. LÄS MER
5. Har den kliniska obduktionen spelat ut sin roll?
Sammanfattning : Background: The total number of autopsies has dropped during the last decades to less than a quarter of the number during the 1980-ies. We studied the consequences of a decrease in the autopsy frequency for the accuracy of the death certificates and the cause of death registry. LÄS MER
