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Clinical Chemistry 49: 1712-1714, 2003; 10.1373/49.10.1712
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(Clinical Chemistry. 2003;49:1712-1714.)
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Priority In Clinical Chemistry: Does It Match International Public Health Need?

Douglas Dix

Department of Biology, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT 06117

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To the Editor:

The World Health Organization reported mortality (number of deaths) and morbidity (number of disability-adjusted life-years) data for 1999 for each of 97 different causes of morbidity and mortality in a world composite population and 14 regional populations covering most of the world (1). The 14 regional populations are defined by geographic location and mortality rate as listed in Table 1 .


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  		Table 1. Correlation between the number of publications in Clinical Chemistry on, and the number of deaths (mortality) or disability-adjusted life-years (morbidity) from, 97 different causes in different populations.

I scanned each editorial, article, case report, technical brief, letter to the editor, and independent abstract published in four sources in Clinical Chemistry: volume 47, number S6; volume 47, numbers 1–12 excluding S6; volume 48, number S6; and volume 48, numbers 1–12 excluding S6. The S6, National Meeting, issue was treated separately because the criteria for publishing in S6 differ from those for publishing in the other issues. I assigned each publication to one of two categories according to whether it did or . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Jack H Ladenson

Department of Pathology, and Immunology, Division of Laboratory Medicine, Washington University, School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110






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