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...
Autoregression as a means of assessing the strength of seasonality in a time series [0.03%]
自回归法在时间序列周期性评估中的应用
Rahim Moineddin,Ross EG Upshur,Eric Crighton et al.
Rahim Moineddin et al.
BACKGROUND: The study of the seasonal variation of disease is receiving increasing attention from health researchers. Available statistical tests for seasonality typically indicate the presence or absence of statistically significant season...
Cross-national agreement on disability weights: the European Disability Weights Project [0.03%]
国际间残障权重的共识：欧洲残障权重项目
Michaël Schwarzinger,Marlies EA Stouthard,Kristina Burström et al.
Michaël Schwarzinger et al.
BACKGROUND: Disability weights represent the relative severity of disease stages to be incorporated in summary measures of population health. The level of agreement on disability weights in Western European countries was investigated with d...
Carla J Machado,Ken Hill
Carla J Machado
BACKGROUND: Early infant morbidities may produce adverse outcomes in subsequent life. A low Apgar score is a convenient measure of early infant morbidity. We study determinants of early infant morbidity (sex, plurality, mode of delivery, pr...
Colin D Mathers,Christopher JL Murray
Colin D Mathers
Population Health Metrics is an open-access online electronic journal published by BioMed Central - it is universally and freely available online to everyone, its authors retain copyright, and it is archived in at least one internationally ...
Christopher JL Murray,Majid Ezzati,Alan D Lopez et al.
Christopher JL Murray et al.
Reliable and comparable analysis of risks to health is key for preventing disease and injury. Causal attribution of morbidity and mortality to risk factors has traditionally been conducted in the context of methodological traditions of indi...