Samiran Nundy • Atul Kakar Zulfiqar A. Bhutta 2022 When I became an assistant editor at the BMJ in 1979 and began to process scientific papers submitted to the journal it was extremely unusual to see, let alone publish, a paper from a low-income country. I remember being surprised by high-quality papers coming from Bangladesh, […]

Mateja Dovjak • Andreja Kukec 2019 An Assessment of Health Risk Factors The stock of buildings in the European Union is relatively old, with more than 40% of it built before 1960 and 90% before 1990. About 75% of the buildings are energy inefficient. According to legislation on energy efficiency, strategic action plans for the improvement of the […]

Lawrence M. Friedman • Curt D. Furberg David L. DeMets • David M. Reboussin Christopher B. Granger 2015 The clinical trial is “the most definitive tool for evaluation of the applicability of clinical research.” It represents “a key research activity with the potential to improve the quality of health care and control costs through careful comparison of alternative […]

William H. Holmes • William C. Rinaman 2014 We wrote this book for readers who wish to acquire a basic understanding of statistical analysis and the various functions that statistics perform in clinical research. Our intended audience includes practitioners of evidence-based medicine, practitioners-in-training, students working on research projects under the supervision of their faculty, and clinicians collaborating with […]

Daniele Manfredini • Rosa Arboretti • Luca Guarda- Nardini • Eleonora Carrozzo • Luigi Salmaso 2014

Ton J. Cleophas • Aeilko H. Zwinderman 2014 The amount of data stored in the world’s databases doubles every 20 months, as estimated by Usama Fayyad, one of the founders of machine learning and coauthor of the book ‘‘Advances in knowledge discovery and data mining’’ (ed. by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Menlo Park, CA, USA, 1996), and […]

Wolfgang Ahrens • Iris Pigeot Editors 2014 The objective of this handbook is to provide a comprehensive overview of the field of epidemiology, bridging the gap between standard textbooks of epidemiology and publications for specialists with a narrow focus on specific areas. The handbook reviews the methodological approaches, statistical concepts, and important subjectmatter topics pertinent to the field for […]

Ton J. Cleophas • Aeilko H. Zwinderman 2014 The amount of data stored in the world’s medical databases doubles every 20 months, and adequate health and health care will soon be impossible without proper data supervision from modern machine learning methodologies like cluster models, neural networks, and other data mining methodologies. In the past three years we completed three […]