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Estimating the Quality-of-Life-Adjusted Gap Time Distribution of Successive Events Subject to Censoring
(2006)
When treatment effects are studied in the context of successive or recurrent life
events, separate analyses of the quality-of-life scores and of the inter-event, gap, times
might lead to possibly contradictory conclusions. ...
Development and evaluation of an advanced training technology course within a union-based industrial emergency response training program
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2003-04)
Background The Health and Safety Department of the United Automobile Workers recently introduced the use of Advanced Training Technologies (ATTs) into a previously successful Industrial Emergency Response (IER) program. ...
A shared random effects model for censored medical costs and mortality
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2006)
In this paper, we propose a model for medical costs recorded at regular time intervals, e.g. every month, as repeated measures in the presence of a terminating event, such as death. Prior models have related monthly medical ...
Phospholipid compositional changes of five pseudomonad archetypes grown with and without toluene
(Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2000-09)
Bacterial physiological responses to toluene exposure were investigated in five reference pseudomonad strains that express different toluene degradation pathways: Pseudomonas putida mt-2, Pseudomonas putida F1, Burkholderia ...
Risk perception and concern among brothers of men with prostate carcinoma
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2004-04-01)
BACKGROUND It is important for clinicians, researchers, and others who shape public health policy to understand the demographic correlates and psychologic factors that drive health behaviors, such as screening for early ...
Semiparametric inferences for association with semi-competing risks data
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2005)
In many biomedical studies, it is of interest to assess dependence between bivariate failure time data. We focus here on a special type of such data, referred to as semi-competing risks data. In this article, we develop ...
Neighborhoods and Health: Where are we and where do we go from here?
(Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique, 2007-02)
In recent years there has been an explosion of interest in neighborhood health effects. Most existing
work has relied on secondary data analyses and has used administrative areas and aggregate census
data to characterize ...
Quality of pathologic response and surgery correlate with survival for patients with completely resected bladder cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2009-09-15)
BACKGROUND: In a retrospective study of Southwestern Oncology Group (SWOG)-S8710/INT-0080 (radical cystectomy [RC] alone vs 3 cycles of neoadjuvant chemotherapy [NC] with methotrexate, vinblastine, doxorubicin, and cisplatin ...
Can true papillary neoplasms of breast and their mimickers be accurately classified by cytology?
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2002-04-25)
BACKGROUND The cytologic accuracy in assessing malignancy in papillary breast neoplasms (PBNs) is controversial. This is further complicated by overlapping features observed in other breast lesions that produce papillary-like ...
The effects of social capital on health. What twin studies can tell us.
(Am J Prev Med, 2008-08)
The notion that group- or community-level factors may play an important causal role in the health of individuals has received increasing attention in recent years. This interest reflects growing recognition that health ...