Epidemiology and Medical statistics

This book addresses current topics on pathogenic Vibrio spp.

Advances in Parasitology includes medical studies on parasites of major influence, such as Plasmodium falciparum and Trypanosomes.

This concise guide equips readers with the essential skills required to analyze and critically appraise health research evidence, an integral element to evidence-based practice and professional development.

Revenue cycle management (RCM) refers to an institution's financial management process that helps track, identify, collect, and manage incoming payments.

A large number of healthcare employees, whether they are on the frontlines or in management, work in complex, fluid environments.

This edited book includes new policy-relevant research on women's health issues in Africa.

Social differences in health and mortality constitute a persistent finding in epidemiological, demographic, and sociological research.

From the Nordic countries (Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland) comes an exciting source of theoretical approaches, epidemiological findings, and real-life examples regarding the therapeutic and health-enhancing effects of music.

This volume examines obesity disorders which can lead to diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidaemia.

Is adaptive randomization always better than traditional fixed-schedule randomization?

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the latest standard medical procedures and surgical techniques for biliary atresia (BA), as well as the perioperative care, long-term follow-up and transitions.

Zoonotic diseases - pathogens transmitted from animals to people - offer particularly challenging problems for global health institutions and actors, given the complex social-ecological dynamics at play.

Searching for the causes of mental disorders is as exciting as it it complex.

Applied Survival Analysis Using R covers the main principles of survival analysis, gives examples of how it is applied, and teaches how to put those principles to use to analyze data using R as a vehicle.

This book provides the readers with a series of complex cases that are organized by psychiatric disorder.

This text on smvival analysis methods contains the following chapters: 1 Introduction to Smvival Analysis 2 Kaplan-Meier Survival Curves and the Log-Rank Test 3 The Cox Proportional Hazards Model and Its Characteristics 4 Evaluating the Proportional Hazards Assumption 5 The Stratified Cox Procedure 6 Extension of the Cox Proportional Hazards Model for Time- Dependent Variables Each chapter contains a presentation of its topic in '1ecture-book"e; format together with objectives, an outline, key formulae, practice exercises, and a test.

Design and Analysis of Cross-Over Trials is concerned with a specific kind of comparative trial known as the cross-over trial, in which subjects receive different sequences of treatments.

This workbook is designed to teach the major fundamental concepts in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and clinical research design alongside the textbook "e;Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2nd Edition"e;.

As many medical and healthcare researchers have a love-hate relationship with statistics, the second edition of this practical reference book may make all the difference.

Interval-Censored Time-to-Event Data: Methods and Applications collects the most recent techniques, models, and computational tools for interval-censored time-to-event data.

With new statistical and scientific issues arising in adaptive clinical trial design, including the U.

Design Principles and Analysis Techniques for HRQoL Clinical TrialsSAS, R, and SPSS examples realistically show how to implement methods Focusing on longitudinal studies, Design and Analysis of Quality of Life Studies in Clinical Trials, Second Edition addresses design and analysis aspects in enough detail so that readers can apply statistical meth

This textbook offers a comprehensive analysis of medical decision-making under uncertainty by combining test information theory with expected utility theory.

This superb text gives a concise, systematic account of what is currently known about the epidemiology and primary prevention for most forms of human cancer.

This book begins with an introduction of pragmatic cluster randomized trials (PCTs) and reviews various pragmatic issues that need to be addressed by statisticians at the design stage.

Now that the health community is in a state of reflection, how do we put the lessons learned into practice?

The SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the associated COVID-19 pandemic, is perhaps the greatest threat to life, and lifestyles, the world has known in more than a century.

This book presents futuristic trends in computational intelligence including algorithms as applicable to different application domains in health informatics covering bio-medical, bioinformatics, and biological sciences.

Hospitals monitoring is becoming more complex and is increasing both because staff want their data analysed and because of increasing mandated surveillance.

The disability-adjusted life year (DALY) is a generic measure of health effect that can be used in cost-effectiveness analysis as an alternative to the quality-adjusted life year (QALY).

Practical Statistical Methods: A SAS Programming Approach presents a broad spectrum of statistical methods useful for researchers without an extensive statistical background.

This book focuses on the health impacts of air pollution in China, especially the epidemiology-based exposure-response functions for the mortality, morbidity, and hospital admissions for respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, lung cancer, and mental health related to pollution.

Real-life examples and exercises emphasize interpretation of statistical linear models and computer output using a minimum of mathematics.

Winner of the 2017 Jabuti Book PrizeThe Zika virus is devastating lives and communities.

A thoroughly updated new edition of the essential reference on the design, practice, and analysis of clinical trials Clinical Trials Dictionary: Terminology and Usage Recommendations, Second Edition presents clear, precise, meticulously detailed entries on all aspects of modern-day clinical trials.

Of the more than 40 million people around the world currently living with HIV/AIDS, two million live in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Updated companion volume to the ever popular Statistics at Square One (SS1) Statistics at Square Two, Second Edition, helps you evaluate the many statistical methods in current use.

This volume is based on a multidisciplinary approach towards biological and chemical threats that can, and have been previously used in bioterrorism attacks around the globe.

This stimulating volume uses multiple lenses to analyze the complex causes of health disparities affecting minorities, in particular African Americans, and explains how this knowledge can be used to reduce their destructive effects.

This book provides the latest comprehensive methods for isolation and other novel techniques for marine product development.

Statistical Methods in Healthcare In recent years the number of innovative medicinal products and devices submitted and approved by regulatory bodies has declined dramatically.

Recent critiques of air quality management approaches currently employed in developed and many developing countries have suggested that efficiencies could be achieved if air quality management practices shifted from pollutant-by-pollutant approaches to a comprehensive multipollutant approach in which emission reduction decisions are based on relative risk and evaluated on their effectiveness in meeting environmental and health goals.

Beginning with a survey of fundamental concepts associated with data integration, knowledge representation, and hypothesis generation from heterogeneous data sets, Methods in Biomedical Informatics provides a practical survey of methodologies used in biological, clinical, and public health contexts.

In the past, disease pattern mapping depended on census tracts based on political units, such as states and counties.

The increased use of non-inferiority analysis has been accompanied by a proliferation of research on the design and analysis of non-inferiority studies.

The discovery that nitrogen monoxide or nitric oxide (NO)is a biologically produced free radical has revolutionized our thinking about physiological and pathological processes.

Holistic approach to understanding medical statistics This hands-on guide is much more than a basic medical statistics introduction.

This book provides a thorough and comprehensive reference in the management of pruritus, designed to be a convenient resource for all physicians confronted with patients suffering from itch.

This book provides deep insights into the ecology of the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis in natural foci, its diversity, genetic variability and the function of the vector, thus painting a holistic picture of how plague pandemics have evolved and how the bacterium has adapted perfectly to its environment over such a long period of time.