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  2. Hospital readmission - Wikipedia

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    It uses an "all-cause" definition, meaning that the cause of the readmission does not need to be related to the cause of the initial hospitalization. The time frame was set at 30 days because readmissions during this time can be influenced by the quality of care received at the hospital and how well discharges were coordinated.

  3. List of human disease case fatality rates - Wikipedia

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    Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.

  4. Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) is altered organ function in an acutely ill patient requiring immediate medical intervention. [1]There are different stages of organ dysfunction for certain different organs, both in acute and in chronic onset, whether or not there are one or more organs affected.

  5. Mood disorder - Wikipedia

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    Further, a study of 18 states found that mood disorders accounted for the highest number of hospital readmissions among Medicaid patients and the uninsured, with 41,600 Medicaid patients and 12,200 uninsured patients being readmitted within 30 days of their index stay—a readmission rate of 19.8 per 100 admissions and 12.7 per 100 admissions ...

  6. Sexually transmitted infection rates have risen sharply among ...

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    Sexually transmitted infections are becoming more common in older adults. Rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis in people ages 55 and up more than doubled in the U.S. over the 10-year period ...

  7. Case fatality rate - Wikipedia

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    A CFR, in contrast, is the number of deaths among the number of diagnosed cases only, regardless of time or total population. [ 3 ] From a mathematical point of view, by taking values between 0 and 1 or 0% and 100%, CFRs are actually a measure of risk ( case fatality risk ) – that is, they are a proportion of incidence , although they do not ...

  8. Epidemiology of schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    The highest rates of schizophrenia diagnosis come from those of Afro-Caribbean ethnicity and those with black African descent. [20] In the US, African Americans have been found to be three times more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia, and when taking socioeconomic status into account they are two times more likely than their white ...

  9. Terminal illness - Wikipedia

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    The cost of healthcare for end-of-life patients is 13% of annual healthcare spending in the U.S. However, of the group of patients with the highest healthcare spending, end-of-life patients only made up 11% of these people, meaning the most expensive spending is not made up mostly of terminal patients. [50]