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Uninsured Trauma Victims Face High Death Rate
Nov 16th 2009 – 4:00PM
AP
(Nov. 16) -- It's federal law: All seriously injured emergency and trauma patients must be given equal lifesaving care, whether or not they can pay for it. But that's not happening, according to a new report. The study, conducted by Children's Hospital Boston research fellow Dr. Heather Rosen and colleagues from three...
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- 12/12/11 Alzheimer's, Chronic Lung Disease Hit Harder Source: Life Insurance Selling The average life expectancy of all U.S. residents increased between 2007 and 2008, but the death rate for U.S. residents ages 55 to 64 and ages 75 and older increased.
- 09/27/10 Causes of Death Statistics in 2009 Source: Korea National Statistical Office The number of deaths was 246,942 persons in 2009, which rose by 829 persons (0.3 percent) from 2008.
- 08/05/10 QuickStats: Death Rates* for the Three Leading Causes... Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) In 2007, the three leading causes of injury deaths in the United States were motor vehicle traffic, poisoning, and firearms.
Background on death rate
Mortality rate is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time.
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