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No reliable empirical information on Aboriginal mortality and LE exists for New South Wales (NSW), the most populous Australian state in which 29% of Aboriginal people reside.<\/jats:p>\n            <jats:p>This paper estimates mortality and LE in a large, mainly metropolitan cohort of Aboriginal clients from the Aboriginal Medical Service (AMS) Redfern, Sydney, NSW.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>Identifying information from patient records accrued by the AMS Redfern since 1980 of definitely Aboriginal clients, without distinction between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (n=24,035), was extracted and linked to the National Death Index (NDI) at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). Age-specific mortality rates and LEs for each sex were estimated using the AMS patient population as the denominator, discounted for deaths. Directly age-standardised mortality and LEs were estimated for 1995\u20131999, 2000\u20132004 and 2005\u20132009, along with 95% confidence intervals. Comparisons were made with other estimates of Aboriginal mortality and LE and with the total Australian population.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>Mortality declined in the AMS Redfern cohort over 1995\u20132009, and the decline occurred mostly in the \u226444\u00a0year age range. Male LE at birth was estimated to be 64.4\u00a0years (95%CI:62.6-66.1) in 1995\u20131999, 65.6\u00a0years (95%CI:64.1-67.1) in 2000\u20132004, and 67.6\u00a0years (95%CI:65.9-69.2) for 2005\u20132009. In females, these LE estimates were 69.6 (95%CI:68.0-71.2), 71.1 (95%CI:69.9-72.4), and 71.4 (95%CI:70.0-72.8) years. LE in the AMS cohort was 11\u00a0years lower for males and 12\u00a0years lower for females than corresponding all-Australia LEs for the same periods. These were similar to estimates for Australian Aboriginal people overall for the same period by the Aboriginal Burden of Disease for 2009, using the General Growth Balance (GGB) model approach, and by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) for 2005\u20132007. LE in the AMS cohort was somewhat lower than these estimates for NSW Aboriginal people, and higher than ABS 2005\u20132007 estimates for Aboriginal people from Northern Territory, South Australia, and Western Australia.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>The AMS Redfern cohort has provided the first empirically based estimates of mortality and LE trends in a large sample of Aboriginal people from NSW.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/1478-7954-11-2","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,2,7]],"date-time":"2013-02-07T17:14:25Z","timestamp":1360257265000},"update-policy":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Mortality in an Aboriginal Medical Service (Redfern) cohort"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Stephen","family":"Morrell","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Bronwen","family":"Phillips","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Richard","family":"Taylor","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"John","family":"Daniels","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Kate","family":"Burgess","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Naomi","family":"Mayers","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,2,7]]},"reference":[{"issue":"4","key":"208_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"180","DOI":"10.5694\/j.1326-5377.1969.tb92093.x","volume":"1","author":"P Moodie","year":"1969","unstructured":"Moodie P: Mortality and morbidity in Australian aboriginal children. 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