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 ...

Public health is a field that's widely misunderstood, even by science journalists. That's because epidemiology is an inexact science, complicated by a large variability in the quality of the data it ...

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 ...