1.   It also has a higher actual mortality, because it looks after its patients less well, and so the SMR between the two ICUs will reveal little difference.

2.   The higher APACHE II scores of patients in the second ICU indicate that the patients were more severely ill, as confirmed by the higher mortality rate.

3.   In particular, are blood-sparing agents associated with a higher mortality or morbidity as a result of excess clot formation?

4.   Although depression is known to have some effect on the immune system, Mayne said the study controlled for physiological variables that would account for higher mortality.

5.   Black women are half as likely as white women to breast-feed their babies, a difference that may contribute to higher infant mortality among blacks, researchers reported Monday.

6.   A slower voyage meant a higher mortality rate and a smaller payout.

7.   Bradham favored the possibility that the higher mortality rates could be related to a lack of adequate preventive care as much as insurance status.

8.   But a review of all the cases years later found higher mortality rates among the men and women with abnormal or inconclusive results.

9.   Depression previously has been linked to higher mortality in the general population or in patients with other chronic diseases.

10.   For these patients, not operating carries a higher mortality risk.