Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cardiovascular system
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Latino Community Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Outreach Initiative
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cardiovascular system
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Prevention and Treatment of Missing Data in Clinical Trials
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030918651X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Randomized clinical trials are the primary tool for evaluating new medical interventions. Randomization provides for a fair comparison between treatment and control groups, balancing out, on average, distributions of known and unknown factors among the participants. Unfortunately, these studies often lack a substantial percentage of data. This missing data reduces the benefit provided by the randomization and introduces potential biases in the comparison of the treatment groups. Missing data can arise for a variety of reasons, including the inability or unwillingness of participants to meet appointments for evaluation. And in some studies, some or all of data collection ceases when participants discontinue study treatment. Existing guidelines for the design and conduct of clinical trials, and the analysis of the resulting data, provide only limited advice on how to handle missing data. Thus, approaches to the analysis of data with an appreciable amount of missing values tend to be ad hoc and variable. The Prevention and Treatment of Missing Data in Clinical Trials concludes that a more principled approach to design and analysis in the presence of missing data is both needed and possible. Such an approach needs to focus on two critical elements: (1) careful design and conduct to limit the amount and impact of missing data and (2) analysis that makes full use of information on all randomized participants and is based on careful attention to the assumptions about the nature of the missing data underlying estimates of treatment effects. In addition to the highest priority recommendations, the book offers more detailed recommendations on the conduct of clinical trials and techniques for analysis of trial data.
The NIH Record
Author: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1996
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related AgenciesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2256
Book Description
Bringing Heart Health to Latinos
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Cardiovascular system
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
HeartMemo
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cardiovascular system
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
NIH Almanac
Author: National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Division of Public InformationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to medical care research
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Annual Performance Report
Author: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1999
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related AgenciesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1734
Book Description
Communities in Action
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309452961
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.