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A Framework for Descriptive Epidemiology

American Journal of Epidemiology, 2022
Abstract In this paper, we propose a framework for thinking through the design and conduct of descriptive epidemiologic studies. A well-defined descriptive question aims to quantify and characterize some feature of the health of a population and must clearly state: 1) the target population, characterized by person and place, and anchored
Catherine R, Lesko, Matthew P, Fox, Jessie K, Edwards   +2 more
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Descriptive Epidemiology of Cervical Dystonia

Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, 2013
Background: Cervical dystonia (CD), the most common form of adult‐onset focal dystonia, has a heterogeneous clinical presentation with variable clinical features, leading to difficulties and delays in diagnosis.
Giovanni Defazio, Joseph Jankovic, Jennifer L. Giel, Spyridon Papapetropoulos   +3 more
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Different epidemiology of bloodstream infections in COVID-19 compared to non-COVID-19 critically ill patients: a descriptive analysis of the Eurobact II study [PDF]

Critical Care, 2022
Background The study aimed to describe the epidemiology and outcomes of hospital-acquired bloodstream infections (HABSIs) between COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 critically ill patients.
N. Buetti, A. Tabah, Ambre Loiodice, S. Ruckly, A. Aslan, G. Montrucchio, A. Cortegiani, N. Saltoğlu, B. Kayaaslan, F. Aksoy, Akova Murat, Özlem Akdoğan, K. Saraçoğlu, Cem Erdoğan, M. Leone, R. Ferrer, J. Paiva, Y. Hayashi, M. Ramanan, A. Conway Morris, F. Barbier, J. Timsit, Jeffrey Edward Anna Maria Timothy Ege Koji Hideki Shigeki Lipman Litton Palermo Yap Eroglu Hosokawa Yoshida , J. Lipman, E. Litton, A. M. Palermo, T. Yap, Ege Eroglu, K. Hosokawa, Hideki Yoshida, S. Fujitani, F. Zand, A. Mahmoodpoor, Seyed Mohammad Hossein Tabatabaei, Omar Elrabi, G. Almekhlafi, Gabriela Vidal, M. Aparicio, Irene Alonzo, S. Ñamendys-Silva, Mariana Hermosillo, Roberto Alejandro Castillo, L. de Bus, J. D. De Waele, Isabelle Hollevoet, Nicolas de Schryver, Nicolas Serck, P. Kovačević, Biljana Zlojutro, E. Ruppé, P. Montravers, Thierry Dulac, Jérémy Castanera, Alexandre Massri, Charlotte Guesdon, P. Garçon, M. Duprey, F. Philippart, M. Tran, C. Bruel, P. Kalfon, Gaëtan Badre, S. Demeret, L. le Guennec, M. Bassetti, D. Giacobbe, G. Sales, I. Daroui, G. Lodi, M. Ippolito, Davide Bellina, Andrea Di Guardo, M. Rocco, S. Fiorelli, A. Mikstacki, Mariusz Peichota, Iwona Pietraszek-Grzywaczewska, P. Póvoa, A. Krystopchuk, A. Teresa, António Manuel Pereira de Figueiredo, I. Botelho, Vasco Costa, Rui Pedro Cunha, A. Gritsan, V. Belskiy, M. Furman, María Martínez, V. Casares, M. P. G. Arnillas, R. Bermudez, A. Ubeda, M. Salgado, E. Maseda, A. S. de la Rica, M. Blasco-Navalpotro, A. Gallego, J. Prazak, J. Pagani, S. Abed-Maillard, A. T. Iskit, Selcuk Mehtap, Solakoğlu Ceyhun, A. Kalem, İ. Kurt, M. Telli, B. Ozturk, N. Baykam, R. Karaali, I. Koksal, Y. Bi̇li̇r, Seda Guzeldag, G. Ersoz, Güliz Evik, Y. Bayındır, Y. Ersoy, A. Ercole, A. Raj, Artemis Zormpa, George Tinaslanidis, R. Khade, A. Roshdy, S. Kannan, Supriya Antrolikar, N.J.N. Marsden, B. Attwood, J. Patel, M. Gurjar, Carol Dsilva, J. Chandran, Bashir El Sanousi, Elfayadh Saidahmed, H. Hamid   +132 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

The Cancer Epidemiology Descriptive Cohort Database: A Tool to Support Population-Based Interdisciplinary Research. [PDF]

Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, 2016
Kennedy AE, Khoury MJ, Ioannidis JP, Brotzman M, Miller A, Lane C, Lai GY, Rogers SD, Harvey C, Elena JW, Seminara D.   +10 more
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Epidemiology, Descriptive [PDF]

Definitions, 2020
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Descriptive epidemiology of Lassa fever in Nigeria, 2012-2017

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2020
INTRODUCTION: Lassa fever, an acute viral hemorrhagic zoonotic disease is endemic in some parts of Nigeria. The disease alert and outbreak threshold are known; however, there has been a shift from the previous seasonal transmission pattern to an all year-
Onyebuchi Augustine Okoro, Eniola Bamgboye, Chioma Dan-Nwafor, Chukwuma Umeokonkwo, Elsie Ilori, Rimamdeyati Yashe, Muhammad Balogun, Patrick Nguku, Chikwe Ihekweazu   +8 more
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Descriptive epidemiology of the head and neck cancers in old patients

Frontiers in Oncology, 2023
Background In Europe, as in other high-income (HI) countries, quite half of the newly diagnosed patients with head and neck (H and N) cancers are older than 65 years of age and their proportion within the prevalent cases is even higher.
G. Gatta, R. Capocaccia, L. Botta
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Descriptive Epidemiology of Neurodegenerative Diseases: What Are the Critical Questions?

Neuroepidemiology, 2022
The field of neurodegenerative diseases is a major challenge faced by public health and is still in need of robust preventive measures and disease-modifying treatments.
G. Logroscino, Daniele Urso, R. Savica
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Describing numerical variables: which are the most appropriate parameters to describe the data? [PDF]

Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2017
: The proper description of numerical variables is very important when presenting a set of data. Measures of central tendency and dispersion are used to adequately understand a set of numerical variables. Knowledge of the properties of these measures and
Rodrigo Pereira Duquia, David Alejandro González-Chica, João Luiz Bastos, Jeovany Martínez-Mesa, Renan Rangel Bonamigo   +4 more
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On the Need to Revitalize Descriptive Epidemiology

American Journal of Epidemiology, 2022
Nearly every introductory epidemiology course begins with a focus on person, place, and time, the key components of descriptive epidemiology. And yet in our experience, introductory epidemiology courses were the last time we spent any significant amount ...
M. P. Fox, E. Murray, C. Lesko, S. Sealy-Jefferson   +3 more
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