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Bayesian Modeling of Epidemiologic Data under Complex Sampling Schemes.
(2011)
Case-control studies are dominant analytic tools in epidemiologic research
for identifying potential risk factors of a disease. We explore three atypical data situations under a case-control sampling framework.
We adopt ...
Fertility Change in Central Asia: How Marriage Timing & Contraceptive Use are Evolving in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan.
(2011)
Kyrgyzstan has undergone great societal change since gaining independence from the USSR in 1991. While government and economic shifts have affected many aspects of daily life, what effect have policy changes had on family ...
Genetic Diversity, Population Structure, and Virulence Gene Polymorphisms in Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae.
(2011)
Background: Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) colonize the human pharynx asymptomatically, and are an important cause of pediatric otitis media (OM). Previous research has identified genes more prevalent among ...
Enviromental Infection Transmission: Routes of Transmission for Influenza and Other Agents
(2011)
Most infections that are assumed to be $directly$ transmitted have some environmental component between excretion and exposure, in which pathogens exists in the environment before exposure, potentially initiating infection ...
Revenue Cycle Management in the U.S. Hospital Industry.
(2010)
Revenue cycle management — all clinical and administrative activities related to generating and collecting patient revenue — has gained in importance in today’s business environment, in which hospitals are confronted with ...
Stress, Influenza, and Health Behavior: Implications for Pandemic Influenza and Infection Control.
(2010)
The impact of 2009 pandemic influenza A H1N1 on morbidity and mortality among university-aged adults, and the noted disparities in attack rates in different populations, point to the need for research to identify novel ...
African Americans' Satisfaction with the Neighborhood Fruit and Vegetable Environment in Detroit, MI: Correlates, Modifiers, and Implications for Reducing Disparities in Diet-Related Disease.
(2012)
African Americans are more likely to suffer from diet-related diseases than other racial and ethnic groups. Dietary intake behaviors that place many African Americans at increased risk for diet-related disease have been ...
Performances of Comorbidity Measures in Healthcare related Behaviors and Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes.
(2010)
Background
Few research studies directly compare the predictive and discriminative performance of the commonly used comorbidity measures: the Charlson Comorbidity Index, Elixhauser Index (EI), Chronic Disease Score (CDS), ...
The Effects of Metabolic Disturbances on Prostate Cancer Risk and Detection.
(2010)
Prostate cancer is the most common non-cutaneous cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death among US men. Findings from previous studies suggest that metabolic conditions, including type 2 diabetes, hypertension ...
Models for Survival and Longitudinal Data in Cancer Research.
(2010)
In the field of survival analysis, we often encounter the situation where a fraction of the study subjects will never experience an event. Cure models have been formulated to address this issue. We developed a family of ...