What makes large epidemiological studies comparable?

Underreporting of patient safety incidents reduces health care's ability to quantify and accurately measure harm reduction.

Underreporting of patient safety incidents creates a reservoir of information that is plagued with epidemiological bias. These include systematic biases such as the practice of reporting minor incidents at the expense of more serious ones. This leads to inaccurate rates of errors and an inability to generalize results to whole patient populations. It leaves reporting incidents, in epidemiologic...

Comparison of diagnostic criteria for Atopic dermatitis in epidemiological studies

Atopic dermatitis is one of the commonest childhood diseases. Large variations in the prevalence of the disease have been observed in different studies. This variation in the prevalence may be not only from genetic and environmental factors but also from methodology of estimating prevalence of the disease. In this study, Hanifin and UKWP criteria have been used in determining prevalence of the ...

Health and well-being among child immigrants in Europe

Previous studies on the health of childimmigrants were carried out primarily in the USA, with fewer studies carried out in Europe.2,3 Findings from these studies were equivocal. Some studies found that immigrant children fare worse compared to their native peers in relation to mental health, risk behaviour, academic achievements, health and well being,4,5 some reported that immigrant children f...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

Recommendations for epidemiological studies on COPD.

The prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has been extensively studied, especially in Western Europe and North America. Few of these data are directly comparable because of differences between the surveys regarding composition of study populations, diagnostic criteria of the disease and definitions of the risk factors. Few community studies have examined phenotypes of COPD ...