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Psychiatric Medication Use Among Manhattan Residents Following the World Trade Center Disaster
(Journal of Traumatic Stress, 2003)
A Comparison of HIV Seropositive and Seronegative Young Adult Heroin- and Cocaine- Using Men Who Have Sex with Men in New York City, 2000-2003
(2005)
The purpose of this analysis was to determine the prevalence and correlates
of HIV infection among a street-recruited sample of heroin- and cocaine-using men
who have sex with men (MSM). Injection (injecting â¤3 years) ...
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 ...
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 ...
Children's Attitudes Toward People With AIDS in Puerto Rico: Exploring Stigma Through Drawings and Stories
(Sage, 2007)
AIDS stigma refers to prejudice and discrimination directed at people or groups perceived to have HIV/AIDS (Herek, 1999). Although AIDS stigma has been found in adolescent and adult populations, few researchers have explored ...
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 ...
Resampling methods for variance estimation of singular value decomposition analyses from microarray experiments
(Springer-Verlag, 2002-08)
Microarray experiments offer the ability to generate gene expression measurements for thousands of genes simultaneously. Work has begun recently on attempting to reconstruct genetic networks based on analyses of microarray ...
Use of a Rapid HIV Home Test to Screen Sexual Partners: An Evaluation of its Possible Use and Relative Risk
(Springer, 2009)
We estimated the HIV risk reduction that could be attained by using a rapid HIV home test (HT) to screen sexual partners versus using condoms in different proportions of anal intercourse (AI) occasions among men who have ...