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The personal financial burden of complications after colorectal cancer surgery
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014-10-01)
Vaccine Induced Protection Against Influenza: Persistence of Serum Antibodies, Vaccine Efficacy as a Function of Time, and Use of Transmission Models to Estimate Vaccine Effectiveness in Household Cohort Studies.
(2016)
Influenza vaccine is currently the best available means of preventing influenza infection, though vaccine effectiveness can vary year to year based on factors such as match between circulating viruses and those included ...
Beyond rescue: Implementation and evaluation of revised naloxone training for law enforcement officers
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2017-11)
ObjectiveThis study describes the implementation and evaluation of revised opioid overdose prevention and education of naloxone training for law enforcement officers (LEOs) that added: (1) a recovery testimony and (2) the ...
A prediction model for colon cancer surveillance data
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.CRC Press, Inc., 2015-08-15)
Decade-long bacterial community dynamics in cystic fibrosis airways
(2012-04-10)
The structure and dynamics of bacterial communities in the airways
of persons with cystic fibrosis (CF) remain largely unknown. We
characterized the bacterial communities in 126 sputum samples
representing serial ...
Statistical Issues in the Analysis of Correlated Data.
(2015)
We first extend the original classification and regression trees (CART) paradigm (Breiman et al. 1984) to clustered binary outcomes, where individuals within a cluster are correlated. We propose to generate tree models ...
Improving on analyses of self-reported data in a large-scale health survey by using information from an examination-based survey
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010-02-28)
Common data sources for assessing the health of a population of interest include large-scale surveys based on interviews that often pose questions requiring a self-report, such as, ‘Has a doctor or other health professional ...
Exposure to household air pollution from biomassâ burning cookstoves and HbA1c and diabetic status among Honduran women
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.WHO, 2018-09)
Household air pollution from biomass cookstoves is estimated to be responsible for more than two and a half million premature deaths annually, primarily in low and middleâ income countries where cardiometabolic disorders, ...
Improvements in Health Status after Massachusetts Health Care Reform
(Massachusetts Department of Public HealthWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2013-12)
Health policy and territorial politics: Disciplinary misunderstandings and directions for research
(2017-04-08)
The territorial politics of health is both underexploited by mainstream political scientists and the subject of a large and distinctive health policy literature that rarely connects with political science. This chapter ...