• Discuss the role of complex systems methods for causal inference in epidemiology Evaluate alternative methods for collecting ethnicity data when self-reported ethnicity is unavailable. (confex.com)
  • He has a wealth of experience in designing, executing, and coordinating epidemiology studies in highly collaborative, mostly multi-country, real-world data and advanced analytics projects. (iconplc.com)
  • He provides strategic direction and coaches an international team of epidemiology, health economics and data analytics experts at ICON. (iconplc.com)
  • The aims of the Rotterdam Elderly Study are: (1) To investigate, by means of epidemiologic, clinical and basic research, the determinants of diseases in order to assess their etiologic significance. (nih.gov)
  • Substantively, she is interested in estimating effects of interventions along the HIV continuum of care using clinical data. (epiresearch.org)
  • RWD includes data from a variety of sources, including national and regional registries, electronic medical records, claims databases, health surveys, and clinical databases. (iconplc.com)
  • This article focuses on recent IMD data from 2012 to 2019 and explores trends over time, seasonality, spatial distribution and clinical presentation of cases and mortality. (canada.ca)
  • No one denies that observational and epidemiologic studies are more expedient, but what have we collectively done here? (ajnr.org)
  • Such syntheses are part of systematic reviews of observational epidemiologic study findings. (nih.gov)
  • Development of RFPs for protocol design, analytic plan, conduct, analyses of observational safety studies such as systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses, indirect treatment comparisons, observational research using existing data and/or generation of prospective primary data. (biospace.com)
  • Now for the most important message, epidemiologic methods are not appropriate for clinicians hoping to justify their interventions. (ajnr.org)
  • Data mining is a set of methods designed to extraction of machine‐processable knowledge implicit in data bases, with the aim of finding solutions to problems of prediction and classification. (unavarra.es)
  • Her research focuses on using quantitative epidemiologic methods to improve public health, particularly in the area of HIV. (epiresearch.org)
  • His projects have encompassed methodologies to assess drug safety, comparative effectiveness, indirect treatment comparison (external controls), health resource utilization, treatment patterns, burden of illness, disease comorbidity, and methods for terminology mapping and common data models. (iconplc.com)
  • Seventy-two iGAS outbreaks in LTCFs were identified, from individual outbreak reports ( 1 - 14 ) or summary data identified in surveillance studies or reviews ( 6 , 13 , 15 - 20 ), or laboratory studies ( 16 ). (cdc.gov)
  • This thesis examines approaches to pharmacoepidemiologic studies of drug-drug interactions in electronic healthcare data, along with methodological challenges and potential sources of bias that can arise in this setting. (harvard.edu)
  • Epidemiologic studies are designed to discover some unknown things, by using known data. (ajnr.org)
  • They cannot be relegated to future epidemiologic studies, and they must be integrated to current medical practice that is in desperate need of validation, by using randomized allocation of options. (ajnr.org)
  • Effects of misclassification in epidemiologic studies. (cdc.gov)
  • Gullen, W. H. and Bearman, J. E. and Johnson, E. A. "Effects of misclassification in epidemiologic studies. (cdc.gov)
  • Increasingly, risk of bias tools are used to evaluate epidemiologic studies as part of evidence synthesis (evidence integration), often involving meta-analyses. (nih.gov)
  • It should include the use of classical considerations for judging causality in human studies, as well as triangulation and integration of animal and mechanistic data. (nih.gov)
  • Evidence synthesis (or evidence integration) is widely used to summarize findings of epidemiologic studies of environmental and occupational exposures. (nih.gov)
  • Even though this phase is commonly encountered while using secondary data in epidemiological studies, it is seldom reported explicitly. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Confirming these associations would require larger, more robust epidemiologic studies. (medscape.com)
  • Follows best practices for data collection, conduct and reporting of real-world evidence studies. (biospace.com)
  • Further epidemiologic studies should focus on specific meniscal tears based on their morphology to better understand their relevance in the genesis and progression of knee OA. (lu.se)
  • This report has supposed an immersion in data mining world with the target of building an advice tool to manage information in order to improve the reasoning process in diagnosis of chronic illnesses such as allergic diseases based on outcomes from epidemiologic research. (unavarra.es)
  • Bernd Schweikert is a health economist with over 15 years of experience in health economics, epidemiological research and evidence generation, and data analytics, working with large longitudinal data sets claims data sets in different countries. (iconplc.com)
  • And we don't even have hospitalization data that are complete on a daily basis. (medscape.com)
  • All data relevant to the study are included in the article or uploaded as supplementary information. (bmj.com)
  • The aim of this study was to determine the potential for any non-response bias by comparing data from participants and non-participants of the Melbourne VIP. (nih.gov)
  • The ability of an epidemiologic study to detect an increased incidence of disease is dependent on the increased risk level and on the size of the affected population. (cdc.gov)
  • Therefore, the NHANES I Epidemiologic Followup Study (NHEFS) was designed to investigate the association between factors measured at the baseline with the development of specific health conditions. (cdc.gov)
  • Copies of all pertinent study materials (tracing materials, questionnaires, authorization forms, and health facility data collection forms) can be found in Appendix VI of the Plan and Operation of the NHANES I Epidemiologic Followup Study 1982-84. (cdc.gov)
  • Design, Setting, and Participants: This survey study included data from 43 093 respondents of the 2001-2002 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC) and 36 309 respondents of the 2012-2013 NESARC-III. (columbia.edu)
  • Prospective epidemiologic study of the outcome and cost-effectiveness of antenatal screening to detect neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia due to anti-HPA-1a. (napier.ac.uk)
  • Available from: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/7400069_Prospective_epidemiologic_study_of_the_outcome_and_cost-effectiveness_of_antenatal_screening_to_detect_neonatal_alloimmune_thrombocytopenia_due_to_anti-HPA-1a [accessed Nov 13, 2015]. (napier.ac.uk)
  • This study investigates the possibilities of routinely collected administrative data as a data source for hip fracture incidence monitoring in Finland. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The study demonstrates that a straightforward use of register data results in biased estimates for the numbers of hip fractures. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This study examines the possibilities of routinely collected Finnish administrative data as a data source for an epidemiologic surveillance system. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This study aims to offer practically useful methodological perspectives for the utilization of data by emphasizing the importance of continuous data-sensitive problem solving. (biomedcentral.com)
  • These days, identifying data sources to help answer strategic or study objectives is rarely an obvious choice. (iconplc.com)
  • This is a flexible methodology that can be customized to meet company needs, whether to locate data sources to answer a specific study question or to get a larger overview of RWD sources for an indication of interest. (iconplc.com)
  • His principal scientific focus has been on the use of genomic and digital data, along with artificial intelligence, to individualize medicine. (medscape.com)
  • Epidemiologic Reviews 1981;3(1): 140-62. (who.int)
  • The data contain basic patient characteristics, cardiovascular risk factors, laboratory measurements, medications, detailed information on the extent and severity of coronary artery disease, revascularisation history, treatment strategy and mortality specifics. (bmj.com)
  • In summary, it is important to bear in mind that the classification of an isolate as matching or nonmatching is provisional and can change as new data become available. (cdc.gov)
  • In a series of well-written articles, we are told that there is something to learn from looking at death and discharge to long-term facilities from a large US hospital data base, cross-matching International Classification of Diseases-9 diagnostic and procedural codes. (ajnr.org)
  • This way, from real medical data, statistical features and discriminant classification have been undertaken by statistical packages (statistica and Statistica) with the aim of finding some rules able to govern the model of real activity. (unavarra.es)
  • In other words, an extra interpretation and preprocessing phase that aims to find an adequate compromise between problem-driven and data-driven approaches becomes an important part of the research process [ 4 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Case data were obtained from the National Enhanced IMD Surveillance System between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2019. (canada.ca)
  • Methodologically, she focuses on techniques for causal inference in settings with complex or high dimensional exposure plans, measurement error and missing data. (epiresearch.org)
  • As infected animals and contaminated environments are the primary source of human infections, regional analyses that bring together human and animal surveillance data are an important basis for exposure and transmission risk assessment and public health action. (who.int)
  • Real world data mapping provides a tool to systematically identify and evaluate RWD sources. (iconplc.com)
  • these findings may not apply to estimates which use data from crashes without a death. (bmj.com)
  • The main problem with secondary administrative data is that the straightforward application of standard epidemiological practices may not be feasible, because the data collection cannot be tailored to meet the needs of the exact research problem, as with separate primary data collection. (biomedcentral.com)
  • As noted on paragraph 18.4.1 of the book Veterinary Epidemiologic Research , logistic regression is widely used for binary data, with the estimates reported as odds ratios (OR). (r-bloggers.com)
  • Therefore, it is obvious that the validity of secondary data depends on the research question in mind [ 3 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The basic idea is to demonstrate what kind of issues may require some "rethinking" during a concrete empirical research process that utilizes secondary data. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Because data are not fully compatible with the traditional conceptualization, some alternative theoretical ideas originating from health services and aging research are used as additional links between the problem of hip fracture incidence monitoring and secondary data. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In summary, the overarching rationale of SATURN was to improve methodological standards and conduct research that will help to better understand the impact of antibiotic use on acquisition, selection and transmission of AMR in different environments, by combining analyses of molecular, individual patient-level and ecologic data. (europa.eu)
  • Also, SATURN had as mission to improve methodological standards and conduct research to better understand the impact of antibiotic use on acquisition, selection and transmission of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) in different environments, by combining state-of-the-art analyses of molecular, ecologic and individual patient-level data. (europa.eu)
  • Additionally, U.S. and military disease rates (where available) were added to provide epidemiologic context for the frequency of these infectious diseases. (health.mil)
  • The role objective of this position is to provide technical and strategic guidance to meet strategic objectives in the generation and dissemination of data to characterize the safety profile of Takeda products. (biospace.com)
  • Experimental Surgery : Introduction to artificial intelligence (AI) applied to issues in medical diagnosis, therapy selection and learning from health data. (mcgill.ca)
  • It was evaluated the data obtained from medical records of 1816 patients, of which 73 had histopathologic diagnosis of malignant lesions of the mouth. (bvsalud.org)
  • The infectious period is a key part of determining if epidemiologic links exist between TB patients because it describes when a TB patient was most likely capable of transmitting TB to others. (cdc.gov)
  • Certain limitations of register-based data can be partly avoided by synthesizing data-sensitive methodological solutions during the analysis process. (biomedcentral.com)
  • First, an example is given of how conventional use of data turns out to produce improper estimates. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Estimates of seat belt effects based upon police data were not substantially different from estimates which used data obtained by trained crash investigators who were not police officers. (bmj.com)
  • We believe these results will not impact significantly on the interpretation of gender and age-specific data from the Melbourne VIP. (nih.gov)
  • Safety Pharmacoepidemiology (SPE) contributes to cross-functional teams that are responsible for generation of primary data or analysis of secondary data sources to contribute to the assessment of the benefit-risk profile of Takeda products as needed to satisfy post-authorization regulatory commitments and safety reporting. (biospace.com)
  • The tool simulates health outcome reality on the basis of collected specific rules to give an advice to an user tested by web‐based survey, telling him if necessary to go and see the doctor due to different medical reasons connected with symptoms (as input data for expert system) or his health status. (unavarra.es)
  • DSN: CC37.HANES1FU.INTRV824 Description of Survey Introduction The first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES I) collected data from a national probability sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population. (cdc.gov)
  • Nationally representative face-to-face household survey data from structured diagnostic interviews of the 2012-2013 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions-III (NESARC-III) (n = 36,309) were used to estimate percentages of respondents with 12-month DSM-5 mood, anxiety, and substance use disorders who received disorder-specific treatment during the 12 months before the interview. (psychiatrist.com)
  • A national sero-epidemiologic survey. (cdc.gov)
  • The purpose of this paper was to compare results from our survey with results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC), a face-to-face probability sample survey of 43,093 adults, with a focus on associations between demographics, age of drinking onset, and alcohol dependence. (websm.org)
  • The rate of substance use disorder keeps rising with about 9.9% of adults becoming diagnosed with drug use at some point in their lifetime, according to the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. (psychcentral.com)
  • Familiarity with software for management and analysis of data. (biospace.com)
  • Data were submitted to a descriptive analysis using the Software for Statistics and Data Science (STATA). (bvsalud.org)
  • De acordo com os dados da pesquisa Covid-19 and Obesity: An Epidemiologic Analysis of the Brazilian Data (Covid-19 e obesidade: uma análise epidemiológica dos dados brasileiros), desenvolvida pela pesquisadora da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Jacy Gameiro, o vírus potencializa que pacientes com obesidade cheguem a óbito mais novos que indivíduos sem a comorbidade. (bvsalud.org)
  • Os dados foram submetidos a análise descritiva utilizando o Software for Statistics and Data Science (STATA). (bvsalud.org)
  • Real-world data (RWD) increasingly inform drug development, health technology assessment, and drug regulation (peri- and post-approval). (iconplc.com)
  • The growth and heterogeneity of available RWD sources has created a data landscape that is increasingly difficult to navigate. (iconplc.com)
  • Electronic tools help with navigation through an increasingly complex universe of data sources. (iconplc.com)
  • Accompanying data include the patient name and local laboratory identifier, date of specimen collection, as well as any additional available information (e.g. address, date of birth, age, sex, location of stool collection). (cdc.gov)
  • Data collection is performed by surveillance epidemiologists at each EIP site. (cdc.gov)
  • Data collection for the followup was conducted from 1982 to 1984, with all data collection completed in August 1984. (cdc.gov)
  • Note: Individuals from the Philippine Islands have been recorded as Pacific Islanders in previous data collection strategies. (nih.gov)
  • Several risk factor and risk population extraction techniques required in register-based data analyses are also demonstrated. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Regional analyses of human infections with avian influenza subtypes revealed distinct epidemiologic patterns that varied across countries, age and time. (who.int)
  • If the two programs routinely compared their data, however, the match would be identified at that time. (cdc.gov)
  • Data from the EIP CDI program is used to measure the burden of CDI in the population, characterize C. difficile strains associated with disease, and to monitor trends in disease over time. (cdc.gov)
  • The newly emerging field of big data science (BDs) presents inherent challenges of utilization and value particularly in fields relating to disease prevention and control. (calstate.edu)
  • The drawback in underreporting is that the data utilization may seem to be easier than it really is. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The table below illustrates the estimated population under surveillance for each EIP site in 2019, the most recent year for which data are available. (cdc.gov)
  • Similarly, if a source patient transmits TB to a secondary patient, and that secondary patient is not diagnosed at the same time, the initial review of the genotyping data will show that the source patient's isolate has a nonmatching genotype. (cdc.gov)
  • There are no data on non-invasive diagnostic results before inclusion in the cohort and no storage of serum and urine. (bmj.com)
  • Results of search for 'ccl=su:{Epidemiologic surveillance. (who.int)
  • We use data on culling of dairy cows to demonstrate this. (r-bloggers.com)
  • data from the National Accident Sampling System Crashworthiness Data System. (bmj.com)
  • Table 1 summarises mortality, air pollution, temperature and relative humidity data in the 18 Thailand provinces. (nature.com)
  • Analyzing the data (i), we found that the W-shaped pattern was not only seen in mortality but also in the age-specific case fatality ratio, suggesting the presence of underlying age-specific risk factor(s) of influenza death among young adults. (hindawi.com)
  • The data (iii) were analyzed by employing the age-period-cohort model, revealing harvesting effect in the period function of TB mortality shortly after the 1918-19 pandemic. (hindawi.com)
  • Using self-reporting or self-identification to collect an individual's data on ethnicity and race, investigators should use two separate questions with ethnicity information collected first followed by the option to select more than one racial designation. (nih.gov)
  • All of these agencies were involved in both developing topics important to their specialty areas and designing procedures to collect data that would address these issues. (cdc.gov)
  • This article highlights relevant data sources to elucidate elements of an operational definition of needs in a humanitarian emergency. (who.int)
  • This article analyzes Typhoon Haiyan's impact on the health system in a part of the Philippines using data from a syndromic surveillance database. (who.int)
  • This tool uses the knowledge structure extracted from medical data by an expert system and intelligent modeling capable of responding to similar problems based on integrated knowledge rules. (unavarra.es)
  • The data also suggest that many PWE learn about cannabis for epilepsy from nonmedical sources, including social media and the internet. (medscape.com)
  • For this example, we have assumed that these data are being reported to the "XY" State TB program. (cdc.gov)