Dichotomous factor analysis of symptoms reported by UK and US veterans of the 1991 Gulf War [0.03%]
英国和美国海湾战争退伍军人所报症状的分叉因素分析
Rosane Nisenbaum,Khalida Ismail,Simon Wessely et al.
Rosane Nisenbaum et al.
BACKGROUND: Factor analysis is one of the most used statistical techniques to analyze the inter-relationships among symptoms reported by Gulf War veterans. The objective of this study was to apply factor analyses to binary symptom data from...
David S Brennan,A John Spencer
David S Brennan
BACKGROUND: Australian burden of disease estimates appeared inconsistent with the reported repetitive and ubiquitous nature of dental problems. The aims of the study were to measure the nature, severity and duration of symptoms for specific...
Estimating age conditional probability of developing disease from surveillance data [0.03%]
利用监测数据估计某一疾病的发生条件概率
Michael P Fay
Michael P Fay
Fay, Pfeiffer, Cronin, Le, and Feuer (Statistics in Medicine 2003; 22; 1837-1848) developed a formula to calculate the age-conditional probability of developing a disease for the first time (ACPDvD) for a hypothetical cohort. The novelty of...
Using linked data to calculate summary measures of population health: Health-adjusted life expectancy of people with Diabetes Mellitus [0.03%]
利用链接数据计算人口健康综合指标：糖尿病患者调整预期寿命
Douglas G Manuel,Susan E Schultz
Douglas G Manuel
OBJECTIVES: To estimate the health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) from diabetes mellitus (DM) using a population health survey linked to a population-based DM registry. METHODS: The 1996/97 Ontario Health Survey (N = 35,517) was linked to ...
A comparison of sexual behaviour and attitudes of healthy adolescents in a Danish high school in 1982, 1996, and 2001 [0.03%]
丹麦高中生1982年、1996年和2001年的性行为及态度的比较研究
Ida Kangas,Berit Andersen,Christine A McGarrigle et al.
Ida Kangas et al.
AIM: To assess changes in sexual behaviour among students at a high school in Denmark from 1982 to 2001. METHODS: An anonymous self-administered questionnaire was used to compare data from three identical cross-sectional surveys performed i...
A note on the use of sensitivity analysis to explore the potential impact of declining institutional care utilisation on disability prevalence [0.03%]
关于使用敏感性分析探讨机构护理利用下降对残疾流行率潜在影响的注记
Patrick J Graham
Patrick J Graham
Many health and disability surveys are conducted using the non-institutionalised population as a sampling frame. Consequently, it is possible that changes in the utilisation of institutional care could account for all or part of any change ...
Use of the Social Security Administration Death Master File for ascertainment of mortality status [0.03%]
利用社会安全署死亡大师文件确定死亡状态
Enrique F Schisterman,Brian W Whitcomb
Enrique F Schisterman
OBJECTIVES: Internet sources that use the Social Security Administration's (SSA) Death Master File have demonstrated high sensitivity among males for detection of mortality status in comparisons to the National Death Index, but the sensitiv...
Regional distribution of fatiguing illnesses in the United States: a pilot study [0.03%]
美国疲劳性疾病地区分布的试点研究
Cynthia Bierl,Rosane Nisenbaum,David C Hoaglin et al.
Cynthia Bierl et al.
BACKGROUND: Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a debilitating illness with no known cause or effective therapy. Population-based epidemiologic data on CFS prevalence are critical to put CFS in a realistic context for public health officials ...
Reconsidering the use of rankings in the valuation of health states: a model for estimating cardinal values from ordinal data [0.03%]
从Ordinal数据估计Cardinal值的模型：重新考虑健康状况估价中的等级运用
Joshua A Salomon
Joshua A Salomon
BACKGROUND: In survey studies on health-state valuations, ordinal ranking exercises often are used as precursors to other elicitation methods such as the time trade-off (TTO) or standard gamble, but the ranking data have not been used in de...
Jennifer Jelsma,Kristian Hansen,Willy De Weerdt et al.
Jennifer Jelsma et al.
BACKGROUND: Quality of life weights based on valuations of health states are often used in cost utility analysis and population health measures. This paper reports on an attempt to develop quality of life weights within the Zimbabwe context...