Toimittaja Viljo Mäkipuro 1/11 1974

Kirje 1.11.1974

Tasavallan Presidentti Urho Kekkosen muistosanat kenraali de Gaullen kuoleman johdosta 10.11.1970

Puhe

Radiopuhe 11.1.1956

Puhe

Influenza and Other Respiratory Virus Weekly Activity Report, July 11, 2009, Week 27

Weekly report of the Iowa Influenza Surveillance Network produced by the Iowa Department of Public Health.

IV Col·loqui Internacional Problemes i Mètodes de Literatura Catalana Antiga. Història i llegenda al Renaixement (Universitat de Girona, 8-11 de juliol del 2002)

Crònica IV Col·loqui Internacional Problemes i Mètodes de Literatura Catalana Antiga. Història i llegenda al Renaixement (Universitat de Girona, 8-11 de juliol del 2002)

How many diagnosis fields are needed to capture safety events in administrative data? Findings and recommendations from the WHO ICD-11 Topic Advisory Group on Quality and Safety

OBJECTIVE: As part of the WHO ICD-11 development initiative, the Topic Advisory Group on Quality and Safety explores meta-features of morbidity data sets, such as the optimal number of secondary diagnosis fields. DESIGN: The Health Care Quality Indicators Project of the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development collected Patient Safety Indicator (PSI) information from administrative hospital data of 19-20 countries in 2009 and 2011. We investigated whether three countries that expanded their data systems to include more secondary diagnosis fields showed increased PSI rates compared with six countries that did not. Furthermore, administrative hospital data from six of these countries and two American states, California (2011) and Florida (2010), were analysed for distributions of coded patient safety events across diagnosis fields. RESULTS: Among the participating countries, increasing the number of diagnosis fields was not associated with any overall increase in PSI rates. However, high proportions of PSI-related diagnoses appeared beyond the sixth secondary diagnosis field. The distribution of three PSI-related ICD codes was similar in California and Florida: 89-90% of central venous catheter infections and 97-99% of retained foreign bodies and accidental punctures or lacerations were captured within 15 secondary diagnosis fields. CONCLUSIONS: Six to nine secondary diagnosis fields are inadequate for comparing complication rates using hospital administrative data; at least 15 (and perhaps more with ICD-11) are recommended to fully characterize clinical outcomes. Increasing the number of fields should improve the international and intra-national comparability of data for epidemiologic and health services research, utilization analyses and quality of care assessment.

Long-range transport of Saharan dust to northern Europe: The 11-16 October 2001 outbreak observed with EARLINET

The spread of mineral particles over southwestern, western, and central Europeresulting from a strong Saharan dust outbreak in October 2001 was observed at10 stations of the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network (EARLINET). For the firsttime, an optically dense desert dust plume over Europe was characterized coherentlywith high vertical resolution on a continental scale. The main layer was located abovethe boundary layer (above 1-km height above sea level (asl)) up to 3–5-km height, andtraces of dust particles reached heights of 7–8 km. The particle optical depth typicallyranged from 0.1 to 0.5 above 1-km height asl at the wavelength of 532 nm, andmaximum values close to 0.8 were found over northern Germany. The lidar observationsare in qualitative agreement with values of optical depth derived from Total OzoneMapping Spectrometer (TOMS) data. Ten-day backward trajectories clearly indicated theSahara as the source region of the particles and revealed that the dust layer observed,e.g., over Belsk, Poland, crossed the EARLINET site Aberystwyth, UK, and southernScandinavia 24–48 hours before. Lidar-derived particle depolarization ratios,backscatter- and extinction-related A ° ngstro¨m exponents, and extinction-to-backscatterratios mainly ranged from 15 to 25%, 0.5 to 0.5, and 40–80 sr, respectively, within thelofted dust plumes. A few atmospheric model calculations are presented showing the dustconcentration over Europe. The simulations were found to be consistent with thenetwork observations.

El fitoplancton en la primavera 2008. Crucero Oceanográfico BIC Olaya 0810-11

Los volúmenes de plancton fluctuaron entre 0,015 mL.m-3 (Pisco) y 4,648 mL.m-3 (Chimbote), promedio 0,838 mL.m-3, el 79% de estaciones tuvo volúmenes <1,0 mL.m-3. La predominancia del fitoplancton alcanzó 34%. El análisis de comunidades discriminó la formación de dos grupos: 1) estaciones con especies en fases iniciales de sucesión dentro de las 50 mn (Chaetoceros spp., Detonula pumila y Thalassiosira subtilis) y 2) con especies de fases intermedias y típicas de aguas cálidas (Planktoniella sol, Thalassiosira cf. parteneia y Thalassiothrix longissima) asociadas a dinoflagelados cosmopolitas, que se distribuyeron por fuera de las 50 mn. Indicadores biológicos: Protoperidinium obtusum (ACF) se registró hasta las 60 mn; Ceratium breve, indicador de AES se registró frente a Chimbote (75 mn) y Paita (190 mn); Ceratium praelongum, indicador de ASS, se registró a 60 mn, llegando hasta 30 mn frente a Paita.

EPI Update, September 11, 2009

Weekly newsletter for Center For Acute Disease Epidemiology of Iowa Department of Public Health.