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Risk of pneumonia in patients with burn injury: a population-based cohort study

open access: yesClinical Epidemiology, 2018
Chi-Ho Chan,1 Shun-Fa Yang,2,3 Han-Wei Yeh,4 Ying-Tung Yeh,5–7 Yu-Hsun Wang,2 Ying-Hock Teng,8,9 Chao-Bin Yeh8,9 1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China; 2Department of Medical ...
Chan CH   +6 more
doaj  

Meta-Analysis of the Relationship Between Ethnicity, Obesity, and Type 2 Diabetes of Adults in Urban Populations of Central America [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The purpose of this meta-analysis was to examine the impact of ethnicity and obesity as it relates to Type-2 Diabetes (T2D) in specific Central American countries. A meta-analysis was conducted to determine the association of ethnicity, obesity, and T2D.
Humphries, J. (James)   +3 more
core  

Treating lupus nephritis patients to lupus low disease activity reduces renal relapse and preserves long‐term kidney function

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective Lupus low disease activity state (LLDAS) is a validated treatment target in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) but limited studies have explored the role of LLDAS in lupus nephritis (LN). This study aims to investigate the frequency and predictors of LLDAS attainment, and its benefit on LN relapse and renal function preservation in patients ...
Chak Kwan Cheung   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Note on Adapting Propensity Score Matching and Selection Models to Choice Based Samples [PDF]

open access: yes
The probability of selection into treatment plays an important role in matching and selection models. However, this probability can often not be consistently estimated, because of choice-based sampling designs with unknown sampling weights.
Heckman, James J., Todd, Petra E.
core  

Ethnicity, Obesity, and Type 2 Diabetes of Adults in Urban Populations of Central America [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The purpose of this meta-analysis was to examine the impact of ethnicity and obesity as it relates to Type-2 Diabetes (T2D) in specific Central American countries. A meta-analysis was conducted to determine the association of ethnicity, obesity, and T2D.
Humphries, J. (James)   +3 more
core  

The power of Bayesian evidence in astronomy

open access: yes, 2011
We discuss the use of the Bayesian evidence ratio, or Bayes factor, for model selection in astronomy. We treat the evidence ratio as a statistic and investigate its distribution over an ensemble of experiments, considering both simple analytical examples
Berger   +24 more
core   +1 more source

A clarification on odds ratios as conditional risk ratios [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2018
• The interpretation of odds ratio as risk ratio conditionally on pairs being discordant is valid, but the two odds ratios presented by Hoppe et al.
openaire   +3 more sources

Hip morphology‐based osteoarthritis risk prediction models: development and external validation using individual participant data from the World COACH Consortium

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objectives This study aims to develop hip morphology‐based radiographic hip osteoarthritis (RHOA) risk prediction models and investigates the added predictive value of hip morphology measurements and the generalizability to different populations. Methods We combined data from nine prospective cohort studies participating in the World COACH consortium ...
Myrthe A. van den Berg   +26 more
wiley   +1 more source

Physician Referral Patterns to Physical Therapists for Managing Knee Osteoarthritis: A Retrospective Analysis of Electronic Health Records from an Integrated Health System

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objectives This study aims to describe the frequency and timing of physician referrals to physical therapists (PT) and other treatments prescribed over 12 months in patients with recent onset of knee osteoarthritis (KOA). The study also aims to identify determinants of early PT referrals.
Samannaaz S. Khoja   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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