In Situ Carcinoma—Can We Predict which Patient Will Come Back with a Recurrence?

Will ye no come back again?

Can We Predict Which Adolescents Will Engage in Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment?

Understanding which adolescents remain in substance abuse treatment may facilitate the development of effective strategies for enhancing engagement and retention. Using clinical service data from a large naturalistic sample of adolescents, we examined whether client characteristics predict retention in outpatient alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment. χ2 tests and multinomial logistic regressi...

Can we predict which groups of questions students will learn from?

In a previous study ([4]), we used the ASSISTment system to track student knowledge longitudinally over the course of a schools year, based upon each student using our system about a dozen times during the course of the year. This result confounded learning from the computer system with students learning from their sitting their normal class. In this work, we look to see if students were reliab...

Can we predict which children with clinically suspected pneumonia will have the presence of focal infiltrates on chest radiographs?

OBJECTIVE To determine predictive factors for the presence of focal infiltrates in children with clinically suspected pneumonia in a pediatric emergency department. METHODS Children (1-16 years) with clinically suspected pneumonia were studied prospectively. The presenting features were compared between the children with and without focal infiltrates using chi2 analysis, t test, and odds rati...

Will they come and will they stay?