Analysis of five-year trends in self-reported language preference and issues of item non-response among Hispanic persons in a large cross-sectional health survey: implications for the measurement of an ethnic minority population [0.03%]
一次大规模横断面健康调查中Hispanic人群自我报告的语言偏好五年变化及未回应问题分析:测量少数族裔人口的启示
William S Pearson,William S Garvin,Earl S Ford et al.
William S Pearson et al.
Background: Significant differences in health outcomes have been documented among Hispanic persons, the fastest-growing demographic segment of the United States. The objective of this study was to examine trends in popula...
Deaths from heart failure: using coarsened exact matching to correct cause-of-death statistics [0.03%]
利用模糊精确匹配法校正死亡原因统计数据中的心脏病死亡数
Gretchen A Stevens,Gary King,Kenji Shibuya
Gretchen A Stevens
Background: Incomplete information on death certificates makes recorded cause-of-death data less useful for public health monitoring and planning. Certifying physicians sometimes list only the mode of death without indica...
Mohsen Naghavi,Farshad Pourmalek,Saeid Shahraz et al.
Mohsen Naghavi et al.
Background: Child injury is recognized as a global health problem. Injuries caused the highest burden of disease among the total population of Iran in 2003. We aimed to estimate the morbidity, mortality, and disease burde...
Statistical modeling of volume of alcohol exposure for epidemiological studies of population health: the US example [0.03%]
基于统计建模的饮酒量研究及其在美国的应用探讨
Jürgen Rehm,Tara Kehoe,Gerrit Gmel et al.
Jürgen Rehm et al.
Background: Alcohol consumption is a major risk factor in the global burden of disease, with overall volume of exposure as the principal underlying dimension. Two main sources of data on volume of alcohol exposure are ava...
The Summary Index of Malaria Surveillance (SIMS): a stable index of malaria within India [0.03%]
印度疟疾监测综合指数(SIMS):一个稳定的疟疾指标
Alan A Cohen,Neeraj Dhingra,Raju M Jotkar et al.
Alan A Cohen et al.
Background: Malaria in India has been difficult to measure. Mortality and morbidity are not comprehensively reported, impeding efforts to track changes in disease burden. However, a set of blood measures has been collecte...
Using breath carbon monoxide to validate self-reported tobacco smoking in remote Australian Indigenous communities [0.03%]
利用呼出气一氧化碳检测远程地区澳大利亚土著社区居民自报吸烟情况的真实性
David J Maclaren,Katherine M Conigrave,Jan A Robertson et al.
David J Maclaren et al.
Background: This paper examines the specificity and sensitivity of a breath carbon monoxide (BCO) test and optimum BCO cutoff level for validating self-reported tobacco smoking in Indigenous Australians in Arnhem Land, No...
Temporal analysis of the incidence of meningitis in the Tehran metropolitan area, 1999-2005 [0.03%]
伊朗德黑兰地区1999-2005年脑膜炎发病率的时间分析
Alireza Mosavi-Jarrahi,Abdolreza Esteghamati,Freshteh Asgari et al.
Alireza Mosavi-Jarrahi et al.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe the temporal determinants of meningitis incidence in the population living in the Tehran metropolis. Met...
Further validation of the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory in a US adult population sample [0.03%]
美国成人人群样本中多维疲劳量表的进一步验证研究
Jin-Mann S Lin,Dana J Brimmer,Elizabeth M Maloney et al.
Jin-Mann S Lin et al.
Background: The Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI-20) was developed in 1995. Since then, it has been widely used in cancer research and cancer-related illnesses but has never been validated in fatiguing illnesses or...
Replication of an empirical approach to delineate the heterogeneity of chronic unexplained fatigue [0.03%]
重复一项实证方法的研究以描述慢性原因不明疲劳的异质性
Eric Aslakson,Uté Vollmer-Conna,William C Reeves et al.
Eric Aslakson et al.
Background: Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is defined by self-reported symptoms. There are no diagnostic signs or laboratory markers, and the pathophysiology remains inchoate. In part, difficulties identifying and replica...