BACKGROUND Several authors have developed and applied methods to routine data sets to identify the nature and rate of complications following interventional procedures. But, to date, there has been no systematic search for such methods. The objective of this article was to find, classify and appraise published methods, based on analysis of clinical codes, which used routine healthcare databases...

This book starts the new collection published jointly by the American Mathematical Society and the MASS (Mathematics Advanced Study Semesters) program as a part of the Student Mathematical Library series. The books in the collection will be based on lecture notes for advanced undergraduate topics courses taught at the MASS and/or Penn State summer REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates). E...

Each year mathematicians publish more than 50,000 research papers. Since 1940, Mathematical Reviews (MR; available electronically on the World Wide Web as MathSciNet [8]) has catalogued most of them, and MR’s current database contains more than one and a half million items, produced by more than a third of a million authors. By studying this wealth of data, we can discern some interesting patte...

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