Bacterial Infections of Humans

Bacterial Infections of Humans-1

Philip S. Brachman Elias Abrutyn 2009 Epidemiology and Control The third edition of Bacterial Infections of Humans is dedicated to Alfred Spring Evans, who died on January 21, 1996, 2 ½ years after a diagnosis of cancer. Al was the senior editor of this textbook, which he founded with Harry Feldman in 1982. Alfred S. Evans 1917–1996 Al was a […]

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Applying Quantitative Bias Analysis to Epidemiologic Data

Applying Quantitative Bias Analysis to Epidemiologic Data-1

Timothy L. Lash • Matthew P. Fox Aliza K. Fink 2009 Bias analysis quantifies the influence of systematic error on an epidemiology study’s estimate of association. The fundamental methods of bias analysis in epidemiology have been well described for decades, yet are seldom applied in published presentations of epidemiologic research. More recent advances in bias analysis, such as probabilistic […]

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Up from CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY & EBM

Up from Clinical Epidemiology & EBM-1

O. S. Miettinen 2011 “Over the past thousand years there has developed in the West a ‘culture of improvement . . . in which . . . conditions have been cultivated to encourage and sustain improvement. Related to the value attached to improvement is the widespread expectation that improvement will indeed occur in most realms of technology.”

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The CDA™ Book

The CDA TM book-1

Keith W. Boone 2011 I’ve been meaning to write a book on CDA for at least 3 years. The first time I brought the idea up with possible collaborators, there seemed to be not enough time. There was simply too much work going on developing CDA implementation guides to carve out the time it would take.

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