(1) We conclude that a journal club is a powerful motivator of critical house-staff reading behavior and can help teach epidemiology and biostatistics to physicians-in-training.
(2) The USDA license requirements for present and future veterinary biologics remain essentially unchanged for acceptable rationale and biostatistically significant data establishing consistency of satisfactory production, purity, safety, efficacy and potency.
(3) Indeed, after carefully examining of the microbiological content of these lipsticks, their biostatistical efficiency was also determined.
(4) Since the dependent variable was time to greyout (failure), two contemporary biostatistical modeling procedures (proportional hazard and logistic discriminant function) were used to estimate risk, given a particular subject's profile.
(5) The people under study were the 490 students registered in the first year of Medicine and doing the Biostatistics course.
(6) Through a mailed survey, 588 leaders in CHN service and education identified the following as the most important to include in the core CHN curriculum: a practicum experience; epidemiology; community health assessment and diagnosis; administration and management, including public health administration, management theory, program planning and evaluation, financial management and budgeting, and quality assurance; research methods and biostatistics; health promotion and disease prevention; intervention at the aggregate level; and leadership theory.
(7) The iron balls technique was shown to be the method of choice with regard to biostatistical consistency.
(8) A Biostatistical Monitoring Committee was established to review periodically the procedures and performance of the data coordinating center of the National Cooperative Gallstone Study.
(9) To evaluate blood group (and HL-A) findings biostatistically, one uses the BAYES' Theorem with ESSEN-MOLLER's frequencies X and Y (in two-hypothesis cases).
(10) A possible accidental exchange of the child could be excluded by biostatistical calculations of the probabilities of motherhood, fatherhood and parenthood, and the descent from the parents was proven in both generations.
(11) The alleged father could not be excluded from the paternity in 25 additional blood group marker systems (biostatistical probability of paternity W greater than 99.75%).
(12) From biostatistical evaluation of 21 genetic markers, including HLA phenotypes, a high value of probability for paternity, maternity and parentage was found between the child, the child's mother, the accused man and his mother.
(13) Nightingale proposed widespread changes in the reporting of military health status and biostatistics, in sanitary engineering, and in self-care activities.
(14) "Ultimately, it would be very exciting to develop therapy interventions to reset the clock and hopefully keep us young," said Steve Horvath , professor of genetics and biostatistics at the University of California in Los Angeles.
(15) In the biostatistical evaluation of the results of examinations of blood-groups the role of the ADA system seems to be important.
(16) Medical students and doctors need training in biostatistics.
(17) We performed a prospective controlled trial of a monthly journal club to determine if it would increase pediatric residents' knowledge of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics.
(18) Modern imaging techniques, methodology, and biostatistics have identified risk factors and refined clinical trials such that we question all previous studies of stroke management.
(19) In criminal cases a DNA-profile derived from four single-locus probes always leads to a very high value of discrimination and in paternity testing the probability of paternity always exceeds 99.9% regardless to the reference population used for biostatistical evaluation.
(20) The methodological survey below reviews the present state of this development and is intended to promote further research into biostatistical issues and methods of analysis.
Epidemiology
Definition:
(n.) That branch of science which treats of epidemics.
Example Sentences:
(1) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(2) The epidemiology of HIV infection among women and hence among children has progressively changed since the onset of the epidemic in Western countries.
(3) Subtypes of HBs Ag are already of great use in the epidemiology of hepatitis B virus infections; yet they may have additional significance.
(4) Because of the dearth of epidemiological clues as to causation, studies with experimental animal models assume greater importance.
(5) Epidemiological studies on low risks involve a number of major methodological difficulties.
(6) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
(7) The clinical and epidemiological aspects of these 35 cases are discussed.
(8) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
(9) Schistosomal obstructive uropathy was studied by clinical, laboratory epidemiologic and pathologic analysis in 155 Egyptian patients treated surgically.
(10) The epidemiological effectiveness of dipyridamol, an interferon-inducing agent used for the prevention of influenza and viral acute respiratory diseases, was tested in 4 epidemiological trials, 3 of them carried out as double blind trials.
(11) Studies of diarrhoeal disease have been limited mainly to descriptive epidemiological investigations.
(12) This preliminary study estimates the occurrence of concurrent helminth infection in Africa and Brazil to determine whether such an approach is justified epidemiologically.
(13) This method can characterize reliably flavivirus field isolates at the molecular level without extensive virus propagation and molecular cloning, and will be a valuable tool for molecular epidemiological studies.
(14) In this series, the association between the anomalous ductal insertion and biliary tract disease cannot be established, since the method of patient selection obviates any epidemiologic consideration.
(15) This may help explain the poor correlation of low-back pain with radiographic degenerative changes reported in previous epidemiologic studies.
(16) Nevertheless, they are still being widely used, since in most cases only the epidemiology of the disease points to the etiologic role of A. cantonensis.
(17) However, the epidemiology and clinical course of AIDS are different in Africa and in the West.
(18) The author formulates possible approaches to the solution of the information problem in epidemiology.
(19) As yet there is no evidence that the occurrence of savanna flies in the rain forest zone of Liberia was of epidemiological significance.
(20) A 12-month epidemiological survey of attacks of acute myocardial infarction was carried out in a large urban population.