When a person dies, clinicians often look at the cause of death to determine whether it could have been avoided, either by medical prevention such as vaccines or by treatments like antibiotics. These ...

Avoidable mortality has increased in all US states but decreased in most high-income countries, despite the US's high healthcare spending. Systemic national issues and state-level policy decisions ...

Methods to obtain valid confidence intervals (CIs) for numbers of avoidable deaths were developed. The excess mortality rates were estimated for patients diagnosed with colon cancer in five cancer ...

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A significant number of "avoidable" visits to US emergency departments (EDs) are for mental health and alcohol problems, as well as dental problems, which the ED is not fully equipped to treat, a new ...

Most emergency department (ED) visits may not be as preventable as once thought. A new study in the International Journal for Quality in Health Care pointed out that while some estimates of "avoidable ...

ONS study shows 23% of deaths in England and Wales in 2013 were amenable to treatment or could have been prevented through public health measures Nearly a quarter of deaths in England and Wales in ...

We enrolled patients with advanced cancer from September 2, 2014, to November 21, 2014, who had an unplanned hospitalization and assessed their patient-reported symptom burden (Edmonton Symptom ...