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Applied Quantitative Methods for Health Services Management

Applied Quantitative Methods for Health Services Management Books

Applied Quantitative Methods for Health Services Management

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University of New Hampshire, Durham. Statistics textbook for health administration students. Stresses methods relevant to administration such as forecasting and project analysis. Assumes knowledge of algebra, statistics, accounting, economics, and health care organizations.

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Writing and Speaking for Excellence: A Guide for Physicians

Writing and Speaking for Excellence: A Guide for Physicians Books

Writing and Speaking for Excellence: A Guide for Physicians

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Addresses the most frequently questioned questions physicians have about medical writing and oral presentations and offers matter-of-fact solutions.

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Older Adults, Health Information, and the World Wide Web

Older Adults, Health In rank, and the World Wide Web Books

Older Adults, Health Information, and the World Wide Web

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Older Adults, Health In rank, and the World Wide Web is devoted to the exploration of how the World Wide Web might be used to deliver current, easily accessible health in rank to adults over the age of 60 and their caregivers. The book considers how age-correlated changes in thought, cognitive function, and motor skills affect the delivery and comprehension of health in rank.

The volume is divided into four separate sections. Within these sections, individual chapters:
*trace the increasing use of the Web by older adults and offer suggestions on how use can be increased;
*discuss federal government initiatives on increasing use of the Web by older adults;
*offer guidelines that might be applied to Web site design for older adults; and
*describe actual projects in which older adults use the Web for various outcomes.

Proposed for health care providers, health service providers, and older adults and their caregivers, this book is also of interest to researchers in aging, cognition, and human factors.

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2004 Writer’s Market

2004 Novelist’s Market Books

2004 Writers Market

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Novelist’s Market is the world’s bestselling writing reference. Why? Because more writers get published using Novelist’s Market than any other resource. Unlike any other reference, the in rank in Novelist’s Market is absolutely updated every single year–guaranteed! From book publishers to script buyers, writers will find the crucial in rank they need to contact more than 8,000 editors, including what they’re looking for, how much they pay, how quick they answer, and more. Quick-reference symbols and indexes make finding the aptly in rank simple and quick. An invaluable selection of articles and interviews add even more to the mix, helping readers to break into print and market their work successfully.

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Clinical Epidemiology & Evidence-Based Medicine: Fundamental Principles of Clinical Reasoning & Research

Clinical Epidemiology & Evidence-Based Medicine: Fundamental Principles of Clinical Reasoning & Research Books

Clinical Epidemiology & Evidence Based Medicine: Fundamental Principles of Clinical Reasoning & Research

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“The presentation is consistently brilliant. One, the writing is lucid and organized in a way that should be very natural for the clinical reader. Two, the text requires no background in mathematics and uses a minimum of symbols. And, three, the matter-of-fact concepts and clinical issues are well integrated through a number of carefully prepared and comprehensive examples.” Greg Samsa, Associate Director, Duke Focal top for Clinical Health Policy Research If a patient is older or younger than, sicker or healthier than, taller or shorter than or simply different from the subjects of a study, do the consequences pertain? Clinical Epidemiology & Evidence-based Medicine is a resource for all health-care workers caught up in applying evidence to the care of their patients. Using clinical examples and citing liberally from the peer-reviewed literature, the book shows how statistical principles can improve medical decisions. Plus, as Katz shows how probability, risk and alternatives are fundamental considerations in all clinical decisions, he demonstrates the intuitive basis for using clinical epidemiolgy as a science underlying medical decisions. After reading this text, the practitioner should be better able to access, interpret, and apply evidence to patient care as well as better know and control the administer of medical choice making.

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Randomized Experiments for Planning and Evaluation: A Practical Guide

Randomized Experiments for Plotting and Evaluation: A Matter-of-fact Guide Books

Randomized Experiments for Planning and Evaluation: A Practical Guide

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How can one tell if a new programme has been effective or not? Is there any way to predict how a group of individuals would have fared without the new programme or service? Packed with rich and varied examples, Robert F Boruch’s book untangles the complexities of randomized field experiments to enable researchers to evaluate better the impact of new programmes. After an exploration of how to judge whether or not a programme worked, the author discusses: the context of experiments; the standards used to judge the ethical propriety of randomized experiments; methods for studying populations; sampling methods; the randomization course of action; baseline measures; gone data registry; and analyses for quality assurance.

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Author’s Handbook of Styles for Life Science Journals

Author’s Handbook of Styles for Life Science Journals Books

Authors Handbook of Styles for Life Science Journals

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Let the Author’s Handbook of Styles for Life Science Journals save you time and distress by providing a one-stop resource for all your manuscript writing requirements. No more plowing through your journal collection or wandering the library stacks to get those elusive journal pages containing instructions to authors.
This unique book contains all the in rank you need to know: whether the journal will consider your manuscript; the journal’s submission address; how to hypothesis the abstract, illustrations, tables, and references; and specific in rank on copyright, multiple authorship, statistical analyses, and page charges. The Author’s Handbook of Styles for Life Science Journals gives all this in rank for 440 of the most vital English-language, life science journals. Titles were selected from the “Journal Rankings by Times Cited” list in the Science Citation Index Journal Citation Report. Because this report is heavily weighted toward the medical sciences, other life science journals are incorporated into the book based on general level of prestige and reputation. In addition, some new titles that promise to be vital to their fields, like Nature Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases are also included.
Organized by journal title, the handbook’s entries are uniformly arranged to allow direct comparison between journals. In rank is presented in an simple-to-use, simple-to-read format with clear and explicitly stated instructions. The Author’s Handbook of Styles for Life Science Journals gives authors in the life sciences all the in rank necessary for the right and complete compilation of a manuscript for submission to their journal of choice.

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Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives, Second Edition

Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives, Second Edition Books

Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives, Second Edition

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Numerous studies, inquiries, and statistics accumulated over the years have demonstrated the poor health status of Aboriginal peoples relative to the Canadian populace in general. Aboriginal Health in Canada is about the complex web of physiological, psychological, spiritual, historical, sociological, cultural, economic, and environmental factors that contribute to health and disease patterns among the Aboriginal peoples of Canada.

The authors explore the evidence for changes in patterns of health and disease prior to and since European contact, up to the bestow. They discuss medical systems and the place of medicine within various Aboriginal cultures and trace the relationship between politics and the organization of health services for Aboriginal people. They also examine well loved explanations for Aboriginal health patterns today, and emphasize the need to know both the historical-cultural context of health issues, as well as the circumstances that give rise to variation in health problems and healing strategies in Aboriginal communities across the people. An overview of Aboriginal peoples in Canada provides a very general background for the non-specialist. Finally, contemporary Aboriginal healing traditions, the come forth of self-determination and health care, and current trends in Aboriginal health issues are examined.

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Disease Mapping with WinBUGS and MLwiN

Disease Mapping with WinBUGS and MLwiN Books

Disease Mapping with WinBUGS and MLwiN

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Disease mapping involves the analysis of geo-referenced disease incidence data and has many applications, for example within resource allocation, cluster alarm analysis, and ecological studies. There is a real need amongst broadcast health workers for simpler and more well-organized tools for the analysis of geo-referenced disease incidence data. Bayesian and multilevel methods provide the required efficiency, and with the emergence of software packages – such as WinBUGS and MLwiN – are now simple to implement in do.

  • Provides an introduction to Bayesian and multilevel modelling in disease mapping.
  • Adopts a matter-of-fact approach, with many detailed worked examples.
  • Includes introductory material on WinBUGS and MLwiN.
  • Discusses three applications in detail – relative risk estimation, focused clustering, and ecological analysis.
  • Apposite for broadcast health workers and epidemiologists with a sound statistical knowledge.
  • Supported by a Website featuring data sets and WinBUGS and MLwiN programs.

Disease Mapping with WinBUGS and MLwiN  provides a matter-of-fact introduction to the use of software for disease mapping for researchers, practitioners and graduate students from statistics, broadcast health and epidemiology who analyse disease incidence data.

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A Surgeon’s Guide to Writing and Publishing

A General practitioner’s Guide to Writing and Publishing Books

A Surgeons Guide to Writing and Publishing

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Most ‘How to write/publish’ books are aimed at the scientific community and medical professionals as a whole. To date none has ever been dedicated to surgeons lonely. This book is aimed specifically at surgeons who wish to have their work, observations, novel thoughts to be published, but do not know the route leading to successful publication in the various leading and reputable journals. Each chapter (21 in total) will attempt to guide the budding novelist, using simple and brief language and taking examples from daily life.

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