A case-control study is a type of medical research investigation often used to help determine the cause of a disease, particularly when investigating a disease outbreak or rare condition. If public ...

Length of stay outliers are associated with hospital-acquired infections, complications, and discharge to facility, as opposed to nonmodifiable risk factors like age and comorbidities. Objectives: ...

Whereas cardiovascular disease-related mortality has declined in most developed countries, its known prevalence is increasing worldwide, although few data on the causes of heart disease in the ...

Empiric concomitant coverage of MRSA and multidrug-resistant organisms is not necessary for most patients with sepsis.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We consider the problem of maximum-likelihood estimation in case-control studies of gene-environment associations with disease when genetic ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A new estimator of the common odds ratio in one-to-one matched case-control studies is proposed. The connection between this estimator and the ...