Effect of reminders on mitigating participation bias in a case-control study
BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2011 Background Researchers commonly employ strategies to increase participation in health studies. These include use of incentives and intensive reminders.
Rodrigues Laura C +2 more
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On the calibration of compartmental epidemiological models [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Epidemiological compartmental models are useful for understanding infectious disease propagation and directing public health policy decisions. Calibration of these models is an important step in offering accurate forecasts of disease dynamics and the effectiveness of interventions.
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An ontology to standardize research output of nutritional epidemiology : from paper-based standards to linked content [PDF]
, 2019 Background: The use of linked data in the Semantic Web is a promising approach to add value to nutrition research. An ontology, which defines the logical relationships between well-defined taxonomic terms, enables linking and harmonizing research output.
Ambayo, Henry +9 more
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Annotation of epidemiological information in animal disease-related news articles: guidelines [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 This paper describes a method for annotation of epidemiological information in animal disease-related news articles. The annotation guidelines are generic and aim to embrace all animal or zoonotic infectious diseases, regardless of the pathogen involved or its way of transmission (e.g. vector-borne, airborne, by contact).
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Estimating short-term and long-term survival in rectal cancer patients using cure model
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022 Background: A large number of rectal cancer patients are cured after treatment. In such cases, cure models are used for survival analysis. This study aims to investigate factors that affect survival in rectal cancer using the Cox mixture cure model ...
Behrouz Beiranvand +2 more
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PEACH Tree: A Multiple Sequence Alignment and Tree Display Tool for Epidemiologists [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 PEACH Tree is an easy-to-use, online tool for displaying multiple sequence alignments and phylogenetic trees side-by-side. PEACH Tree is powerful for rapidly tracing evolutionary and transmission histories by filtering invariant sites out of the display, and allowing samples to readily be filtered out of the display.
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A 10-year Study of Factors Associated with Alcohol Treatment Use and Non-use in a U.S. Population Sample [PDF]
, 2016 Background This study seeks to identify changes in perceived barriers to alcohol treatment and predictors of treatment use between 1991–92 and 2001–02, to potentially help understand reported reductions in treatment use at this time.
Caetano, Raul +3 more
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Temporal Changes in Prevalence of Antimicrobial Resistance in 23 U.S. Hospitals
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2002 Antimicrobial resistance is increasing in nearly all health-care–associated pathogens. We examined changes in resistance prevalence during 1996–1999 in 23 hospitals by using two statistical methods.
Project Hospitals +7 more
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Study of risk factors associated with the development of malocclusion [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2013 Background/Aim. Research of the most common causes of irregularities of jaws and teeth is designed in order to find the most efficient mode of their prevention.
Petrović Đorđe +4 more
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Revision and Update of the Consensus Definitions of Invasive Fungal Disease From the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer and the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium. [PDF]
, 2019 BACKGROUND: Invasive fungal diseases (IFDs) remain important causes of morbidity and mortality. The consensus definitions of the Infectious Diseases Group of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer and the Mycoses Study Group have ...
Akan, H +64 more
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