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Douglas Dix, Priority In Clinical Chemistry: Does It Match International Public Health Need?, Clinical Chemistry, Volume 49, Issue 10, 1 October 2003, Pages 1712–1713, https://doi.org/10.1373/49.10.1712
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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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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 did not address 1 or more of the 97 causes of morbidity and mortality.
