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  • Medical Decision Making

    A Physician's Guide

    by Alan Schwartz, George Bergus ...
    Decision making is a key activity, perhaps the most important activity, in the practice of healthcare. Although physicians acquire a great deal of knowledge and specialised skills during their training and through their practice, it is in the exercise of clinical judgement and its application to individual patients that the outstanding physician is distinguished. This has become even more relevant ... Read more

    $88.59 USD

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  • Dirty Electricity

    Electrification and the Diseases of Civilization

    by Samuel Milham MD MPH ...
    When Thomas Edison began wiring New York City with a direct current electricity distribution system in the 1880s, he gave humankind the magic of electric light, heat, and power; in the process, though, he inadvertently opened a Pandoras Box of unimaginable illness and death.Dirty Electricity tells the story of Dr. Samuel Milham, the scientist who first alerted the world about the frightening link ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Pandemic

    Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond

    by Sonia Shah ...
    Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | A New York Times Editor's Choice“[A] grounded, bracingly intelligent study” —NaturePrizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a startling examination of the pandemics that have ravaged humanity—and shows us how history can prepare us to confront the most serious acute global health emergency of our time.Over the past fifty years, more than ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Statistics in Medicine

    by Robert H. Riffenburgh ...
    Statistics in Medicine, Third Edition makes medical statistics easy to understand by students, practicing physicians, and researchers. The book begins with databases from clinical medicine and uses such data to give multiple worked-out illustrations of every method. The text opens with how to plan studies from conception to publication and what to do with your data, and follows with step-by-step ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Social Epidemiology

    Edited by Lisa F. Berkman, Ichiro Kawachi ...
    The authors of this groundbreaking text define social epidemiology as the study of the social determinants of health, implying that an important goal of public health is to identify and address factors in the social environment that may be related to health outcomes. In the first systematic account of this field, they focus on the major social variables that influence health, including ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Applied Methods of Cost-effectiveness Analysis in Healthcare

    by Alastair M. Gray, Philip M. Clarke, Jane L. Wolstenholme, Sarah Wordsworth ...
    Series Book 3 - Handbooks in Health Economic Evaluation
    The third volume in the Handbooks in Health Economic Evaluation series, this book provides the reader with a comprehensive set of instructions and examples of how to perform an economic evaluation of a health intervention. It focuses solely on cost-effectiveness analysis in health care. The book is developed out of the Advanced Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis course taught at the University ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis

    Modeling Change and Event Occurrence

    by Judith D. Singer, John B. Willett ...
    Change is constant in everyday life. Infants crawl and then walk, children learn to read and write, teenagers mature in myriad ways, the elderly become frail and forgetful. Beyond these natural processes and events, external forces and interventions instigate and disrupt change: test scores may rise after a coaching course, drug abusers may remain abstinent after residential treatment. By charting ... Read more

    $123.29 USD

  • Dread

    How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu

    by Philip Alcabes ...
    Deaths from epidemic disease are rare in the developed world, yet in our technically and medically advanced society, an ever-present risk of disease has created an industry out of fear.As Philip Alcabes persuasively argues in Dread, our anxieties about epidemics often stray from the facts on the ground. In a fascinating exploration of the social and cultural history of epidemics, Alcabes delivers ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling

    by Emilia Vynnycky, Richard White ...
    Mathematical models are increasingly being used to examine questions in infectious disease control. Applications include predicting the impact of vaccination strategies against common infections and determining optimal control strategies against HIV and pandemic influenza. This book introduces individuals interested in infectious diseases to this exciting and expanding area. The mathematical level ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Nutritional Epidemiology

    by Walter Willett ...
    Series series Monographs in Epidemiology and Biostatistics
    This text is intended for those who wish to understand the complex relationships between diet and risks of important diseases, such as cancer and cardiovascular disease. It is aimed both at researchers engaged in the unraveling of these complex relationships and at readers of the rapidly multiplying and often confusing scholarly literature on the subject. The book starts with an overview of ... Read more

    $123.29 USD

  • Statistical Methods for Hospital Monitoring with R

    by Anthony Morton, Kerrie L. Mengersen, Geoffrey Playford, Michael Whitby ...
    Series series Statistics in Practice
    Hospitals monitoring is becoming more complex and is increasing both because staff want their data analysed and because of increasing mandated surveillance. This book provides a suite of functions in R, enabling scientists and data analysts working in infection management and quality improvement departments in hospitals, to analyse their often non-independent data which is frequently in the form ... Read more

    $71.00 USD

  • Statistical Methods for Survival Data Analysis

    by Elisa T. Lee, John Wenyu Wang ...
    Series series Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics
    Praise for the Third Edition“. . . an easy-to read introduction to survival analysis which covers the major concepts and techniques of the subject.” —Statistics in Medical ResearchUpdated and expanded to reflect the latest developments, Statistical Methods for Survival Data Analysis, Fourth Edition continues to deliver a comprehensive introduction to the most commonly-used methods for analyzing ... Read more

    $124.00 USD