Sentences with phrase «death rate then»

Semmelweis concocted a solution for cleansing hands after autopsies; the puerperal fever death rate then dropped dramatically.

Not exact matches

The authors asked hospitalized patients to rate conditions — which they were not then experiencing — on a sliding scale, ranging from «worse than death, neither better nor worse than death, a little better than death, somewhat better than death, or much better than death.»

The death of a spouse he assigned a stress score of 100; he then rated other crises in terms of the stresses they caused in the people he studied.

Dominic was about forty - five years old by then, and had only six more years to live, but all his life and experience up until then had been preparing him for this moment, and the six years before his death saw the Order increase at a phenomenal rate, a testimony to the divine inspiration behind it.

But if the cancer treatment reduces cancer mortality by six percent, but the increase in death from suicide and drug and alcohol poisoning stays the same, then the overall death rate increases by two percent.

To wit, if a new cancer treatment reduces cancer mortality for a group by ten percent, but death from suicide and drug and alcohol abuse increases, say, by eight percent, then the overall death rate for the group goes down by two percent.

If economic stagnation were the cause of the increase in death rates, then one would expect that self - destructive death rates for women should have continued to decline while the death rates for men increased.

If properly trained midwives exclude higher risk patients in advance, then why is their death rate acceptable only in a study that has much stricter criteria for inclusion than real life?

And I agree with you, that it would be completely inappropriate to say that homebirth has lower risk of death if the rate is say, 1 / 100 deaths, but 1/40, 000 in a hospital (obviously those are fictitious numbers used for illustration purposes)... but then you also have to account for the rate among individual OB's if you want a more accurate comparison, since there are multiple OBs typically in a hospital, being compared to only one midwife.

Clearly, while fit for evolutionary purpose, it wasn't physiologically consistently reliable and this led to the dreadful death rates amongst mothers and infants for so much of human existence — birth and then early infancy were incredibly risky.

Since then, Finland's infant mortality rate has decreased from 65 infant deaths per 10,000 to just 3 infant deaths per 10,000.

If the death rate for in - hospital births is 0.38 per 1,000, then you would expect something like 7.6 permanently injured babies born in hospital for a total of around 8 per 1,000 dead or permanently injured.

I had written that, then deleted because I don't know what the neonatal / perinatal death rate in hospitals are...

I searched the CDC wonder database myself for white women birth death rates, grouped by the Birthplace, then by Medical Attendant....

Even then, the MANA death rate is 4.2 X higher than hospital birth.

Even then, they acknowledge that their intrapartum death rate is much higher than reported by anyone else, anywhere else.

Overall neonatal death rates have also improved since the 30s, but homebirths appeared to be safer even then.

We can also be sure that the authors understood that their data showed that homebirth has a horrifically high death rate, because they try to hide the number of deaths for the past 5 years, released the data only under pressure, and then proceeded to draw a conclusion entirely at odds with what their own data showed.

In 1986, 2 years before these data were collected, the United States ranked 16th (3.6 / 1000) in postneonatal death, well below Finland (first; 1.8 / 1000) and Sweden (second; 2.0 / 1000).24 The US breastfeeding prevalence in 1986 was 57 % at birth and 22 % at 6 months, 25 whereas in Finland and Sweden, the prevalence at 6 months then was still ~ 60 % and 50 %, respectively.26 Although the United States still trails the Nordic countries both in breastfeeding and in postneonatal mortality, the US rate of postneonatal death has fallen steadily between the late 1980s and now, and breastfeeding has increased.

By the late 1970s, a woman arriving on the labor and delivery floor of a U.S. tertiary care hospital with a nonmalformed, living, singleton fetus at term had a risk of intrapartum fetal death of 1 in 1000.1 At that time the U.S. cesarean delivery rate was approaching 15 %.2 Since then, the rate of cesarean sections has more than doubled, 3 but the intrapartum fetal death rate in major U.S. centers remains unchanged.

Since then, human rights groups say the death rate has increased 50-fold.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he was «surprised» that Mr Burnham wanted to mention events at Tameside, as the hospital had «high death rates for eight years under Labour» and the then - Government «ignored warnings».

It went down for young people late in the 1990s and then went back up a little bit as a general population figure; so that you have a tremendously important contrast between steady rates of illegal drug use as measured by drug overdose death rates, as measured by urines of arrested people, emergency room mentions, all kinds of things.

Then in Lawrence Keeley's 1996 book War Before Civilization I read that modern states at their worst, such as Germany in the 20th century or France in the 19th century, had rates of death in warfare that were dwarfed by those of hunter - gatherer and hunter - horticultural societies.

In each analysis, we estimated the number of deaths attributable to smoking for each group we were comparing and then checked how much of the difference in total death rates could be explained by smoking.

In a collaboration with biodemographer James Vaupel, who was then at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Carey had recently begun tracking death rates in a group of 1.2 million medflies.

They then tested the model on 894 patients in the Wake Forest institutional trauma registry over a four - year period and found the model showed excellent discrimination in both independence at discharge and death rates, both of which decreased by decade of age: 80 percent and 6.5 percent, respectively, at age 50 - 59; 82 percent and 7 percent at 60 - 69; 76 percent and 8.9 percent at 70 - 79; and 67 percent and 13.4 percent at 80 - 89.

But then the death rate levelled off, and the risk of death remained the same from one day to the next.

If death rates are increasing at these pollution levels, he explains, then «these levels should be lowered.»

«We could then look at how exposure to particulates changed from year to year and to see if they were associated with higher death rates.

But then death rates began to go up in those who burnt more than 3000 calories per week.

The jokes are mostly of the simple - minded nature, focusing on sex and crude language simply for the sake of «earning» its R. Again, the film starts out with enough momentum to almost fool the viewer into thinking that they're watching a high quality R - rated flick, but then quickly the film nosedives into a slow death of flat jokes.

1408 (Dimension, July 13) Starring: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack, Tony Shalhoub Director: Mikael Håfström Rating: R The Pitch: A writer (Cusack) channels his grief over his daughter's death into a pursuit — and then rejection — of the supernatural.

The Condemned (Lionsgate, April 27) Starring: Stone Cold Steve Austin, Vinnie Jones Director: Scott Wiper Rating: NR The Pitch: Joe Conrad (Austin), a death row inmate in a Central American prison, has his freedom purchased by a television producer, who then drops Conrad on a remote island where he is forced to fight nine other killers to the death.

Then later, when I indie - published book # 2 of the series, it held a death grip on the top of the Amazon top - rated (best reader - reviewed) Mystery / Thriller list for 9 straight months.

The repayments that you then make to your life insurance policy will usually have a low rate of interest — and, if you do not end up paying back these funds, the amount of the unpaid balance will be deducted from the death benefit that your beneficiary receives.

Term life insurance premiums are calculated by multiplying the rates per thousand of death benefit, then adding the policy fee.

Morbidity (incidence rate or the prevalence rate of a disease) is higher then mortality (susceptible to death), meaning that almost all dogs; which come in contact with the virus are infected, but the flu has not been proven to be fatal as of yet.

If your rabbit has this disease and you don't spay her, then this disease has a 100 percent death rate.

I interviewed a former «no - kill» shelter worker at length and she told me that her coworkers would «adopt» dangerous / aggressive dogs (fill out paperwork and take the dogs into their private custody) and then have those dogs euthanized so that their deaths happened off of the record and weren't included in the shelter's save rates.

Every other player in the room gets to watch your dance of death and then gets to rate the match afterwards.

If you want to be a bit risky and don't have any decorations that boost the Dragon Attack skill, then you can wear the Death Stench Bowels which further makes you weak to dragon but boosts your dragon element attacks and has the Focus skill which increases the gauge fill rate of your long sword and other weapons as well as the charge rate of your hammer or other weapons.

It's a process called the «demographic transition» in which the death rate declines, then the birth rate declines, and population numbers decline.

If a similar fall in death rates happens in the 21st century then it won't matter if storms do increase or whatever.

Using the Linton Yield Method, these returns are found by imputing values to the death protection, using market term life rates, and then deriving estimated investment returns on the cash values.

Yes, if the insured passes away, then the company pays a death benefit, but this is a fairly rare occurrence due to the high lapse rates.

Term life insurance premiums are calculated by multiplying the rates per thousand of death benefit, then adding the policy fee.

If your job puts you at a higher risk — in other words there is a greater chance the insurance carrier may have to pay a death benefit claim — then your insurance rates may be higher or you may be declined altogether.

Then it figures out what rate of return you'd have to receive (after tax) in order to have accumulated the death benefit at your average life expectancy.

Of course, if Barbara still passes away in 10 years — which will bring her the same $ 500,000 death benefit regardless of whether she pays $ 13,500 / year or $ 17,000 / year — then her rate of return will be reduced from 11.8 % to «only» 10.1 %, and over 16 years her expected return with the higher premium contributions would fall from 5.1 % to 3.6 %.