Design: A clinical database (Diabeta) of 106,000 patient problem record entries containing 2,625 unique concepts in an clinical academic department was used to compare semantic, free-text, ICD-10, and hierarchic data retrieval against a gold standard in response to a battery of 47 clinical questions. Measurements: The performance of concept and record retrieval expressed as mean detection rate,...

Non-interventional prospective study of all patients in our hospital who were admitted for GI bleeding while on anticoagulation 2022. The primary outcomes events, thrombotic events and mortality within 90 days. We ran a logistic regression analysis to assess correlation between resumption outcomes. Mantel-Haenszel outcomes, various scores determine safe timing patient population.

The Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel (CMH) test, developed in the 1950s, is a classic health research, especially epidemiology and other fields which dichotomous polytomous variables are frequent. This nonparametric test makes it possible to measure check effect of an antecedent variable X on outcome Y, statistically controlling third Z that acts as confounding relationship between Y. Both Y measured qu...

The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that HIV interacts with human papilloma virus (HPV) to increase the odds of cervical neoplasia. The study design was a meta-analysis using data pooled from published sources. Studies published between January 1986 and March 1998 were eligible for inclusion if they included data on neoplasia (cytology-based), HIV (defined by laboratory and/o...

BACKGROUND Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is becoming an increasingly commonly diagnosed and treated childhood illness. Untreated ADHD is recognised as an independent risk factor for suicide-related events and deliberate self-harm and is reported more commonly in these populations. With the treatment of ADHD it is thus crucial to understand further any associations between phar...

When analyzing right-censored survival data, equality of survival curves across treatment groups is often tested using log rank tests (Peto and Peto 1972), aka Mantel-Haenszel tests. For instance, in a cancer trial, the primary response variable might be time to disease progression and the treatment groups might be chemotherapy regimens. To increase power and protect against baseline imbalances...

This paper proposes an alternative analysis of the statistically significant blood pressure/blood lead relationship reported for males, ages 12 to 74, based on data from the second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Because of the substantial decline, both for blood lead levels and blood pressures, during the 4-year survey period, there is considerable interest in the extent to w...