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  2. Survival rate - Wikipedia

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    Survival rate is a part of survival analysis. It is the proportion of people in a study or treatment group still alive at a given period of time after diagnosis. It is a method of describing prognosis in certain disease conditions, and can be used for the assessment of standards of therapy. The survival period is usually reckoned from date of ...

  3. Calciphylaxis: What Causes it and Is it Fatal? - WebMD

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    The chances of survival depend strongly on what stage the disease is in when it’s diagnosed. Another factor affecting survival rates is whether the calciphylaxis is uremic or non-uremic. Non ...

  4. Survival analysis - Wikipedia

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    Survival analysis is a branch of statistics for analyzing the expected duration of time until one event occurs, such as death in biological organisms and failure in mechanical systems. This topic is called reliability theory, reliability analysis or reliability engineering in engineering, duration analysis or duration modelling in economics ...

  5. Human Capital Index - Wikipedia

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    Survival. Percentage of children surviving past the age of 5; School. Quantity of education (Expected years of schooling by age 18) Quality of education (Harmonized test scores) Health. Adult survival rates (Percentage of 15-year-olds who survive until age 60) Healthy growth among children (Stunting rates of children under 5)

  6. Glioblastoma: Survival Rates, Treatments, and Causes - Healthline

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    Children up to the age of 14 with higher-grade tumors tend to survive longer than adults. About 19.4% of kids with this tumor live for five years or more. And about 26% of adolescents and young ...

  7. Whipple Procedure: What It Is, Why It's Done, and What to Expect

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    In a 2019 study, researchers found that the 30-day and 1-year survival rates of 29 people who underwent a Whipple procedure with vascular reconstruction were 92.4 and 52.7 percent respectively.

  8. Oligohydramnios Sequence | Definition and Patient Education

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    Survival rates most often depend upon a baby’s lung development. Babies may also experience renal failure. The baby may be able to receive dialysis to act as an artificial kidney and perhaps ...

  9. Child mortality - Wikipedia

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    Child survival is a field of public health concerned with reducing child mortality. Child survival interventions are designed to address the most common causes of child deaths that occur, which include diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria, and neonatal conditions. Out of the number of children under the age of 5 alone, an estimated 5.6 million children ...