American journal of respiratory and critical care…
2015
RATIONALE
Limited data exist about the international burden of severe sepsis in critically ill children.
OBJECTIVES
To characterize the global prevalence, therapies, and outcomes of severe sepsis… (More)
OBJECTIVES
To recommend methodological standards in the prevention and handling of missing data for primary patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR).
STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING
We searched National… (More)
Tom Ten Have made many contributions to causal inference and biostatistics before his untimely death. This paper reviews Tom's contributions and discusses potential related future research… (More)
BACKGROUND & AIMS
The high costs of direct-acting antiviral (DAA) agents to treat chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection have resulted in denials of treatment, but it is not clear whether… (More)
Chronic diseases are often described by stages of severity. Clinical decisions about what to do are influenced by the stage, whether a patient is progressing, and the rate of progression. For chronic… (More)
Survival analysis is commonly used to evaluate factors associated with time to an event of interest (e.g., ESRD, cardiovascular disease, and mortality) among CKD populations. Time to the event of… (More)
PURPOSE
Pharmacoepidemiology researchers often utilize data from two UK electronic medical record databases, the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) and The Health Improvement Network (THIN),… (More)
Cardiovascular events, such as hospitalizations because of congestive heart failure, often occur repeatedly in patients with CKD. Many studies focus on analyses of the first occurrence of these… (More)
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the risk of serious adverse events among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus initiating saxagliptin compared with oral antidiabetic drugs (OADs) in classes other than… (More)
We propose a Bayesian non-parametric (BNP) framework for estimating causal effects of mediation, the natural direct, and indirect, effects. The strategy is to do this in two parts. Part 1 is a… (More)