Clinical Epidemiology

Clinical Epidemiology

well as serving to introduce the general reader to the basic life-processes of viruses, the most elementary of all living things. The arrangement of the book represents a trend away from classification by disease and towards a classification by the nature of the causative agent. Infections due to B-virus, the simian member of the herpes group, are now discussed with herpes simplex infections in...

Clinical Progress Malaria Epidemiology

Recent reports of the World Health Organization have shown that malaria as an indigenous disease has disappeared from Europe and from the U.S.A., from most of the U.S.S.R., from Israel, Lebanon, large parts of India, from Singapore, Hong-Kong, Taiwan, South Africa, Australia, Chile, most of Argentina and Venezuela, most of the islands of the Caribbean, and from Mauritius. Nevertheless, the whol...

Epidemiology and clinical presentation.

In the UK, poisoning causes about 10% of acute hospital medical admissions. This usually involves self-administration of a prescribed or over-the-counter medicine or an illicit drug. Most patients have taken (usually ingested) more than one drug, and alcohol is the most commonly implicated second agent. As deliberate selfharm is a risk factor for further episodes of self-harm, about 20% of thes...

Principles of clinical epidemiology

Clinical Epidemiology: The Architecture of Clinical Research

obtain yes/no answers at alpha = 0.05, whereas this formulation is almost useless to the policy maker, who is more interested in the amount of improvement that can be expected in different segments ofsociety and the translation of that into demographic and economic terms. Third, the book is revealing to those who imagine that even the best-designed studies really answer the original questions d...