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clinical specialties. The fourth edition of Oxford Assess and
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The second edition of this volume provides insight and practical
illustrations on how modern statistical concepts and regression
methods can be applied in medical prediction problems, including
diagnostic and prognostic outcomes. Many advances have been made in
statistical approaches towards outcome prediction, but a sensible
strategy is needed for model development, validation, and updating,
such that prediction models can better support medical practice.
There is an increasing need for personalized evidence-based
medicine that uses an individualized approach to medical
decision-making. In this Big Data era, there is expanded access to
large volumes of routinely collected data and an increased number
of applications for prediction models, such as targeted early
detection of disease and individualized approaches to diagnostic
testing and treatment. Clinical Prediction Models presents a
practical checklist that needs to be considered for development of
a valid prediction model. Steps include preliminary considerations
such as dealing with missing values; coding of predictors;
selection of main effects and interactions for a multivariable
model; estimation of model parameters with shrinkage methods and
incorporation of external data; evaluation of performance and
usefulness; internal validation; and presentation formatting. The
text also addresses common issues that make prediction models
suboptimal, such as small sample sizes, exaggerated claims, and
poor generalizability. The text is primarily intended for clinical
epidemiologists and biostatisticians. Including many case studies
and publicly available R code and data sets, the book is also
appropriate as a textbook for a graduate course on predictive
modeling in diagnosis and prognosis. While practical in nature, the
book also provides a philosophical perspective on data analysis in
medicine that goes beyond predictive modeling. Updates to this new
and expanded edition include: * A discussion of Big Data and its
implications for the design of prediction models * Machine learning
issues * More simulations with missing 'y' values * Extended
discussion on between-cohort heterogeneity * Description of
ShinyApp * Updated LASSO illustration * New case studies
As the global psychiatric community enters a new era of
transformation, this book explores lessons learned from previous
efforts with the goal of "getting it right" this time. In response
to the common refrain that we know about and 'do' recovery already,
the authors set the recovery movement within the conceptual
framework of major thinkers and achievers in the history of
psychiatry, such as Philippe Pinel, Dorothea Dix, Adolf Meyer,
Harry Stack Sullivan, and Franco Basaglia.
The book reaches beyond the usual boundaries of psychiatry to
incorporate lessons from related fields, such as psychology,
sociology, social welfare, philosophy, political economic theory,
and civil rights. From Jane Addams and the Settlement House
movement to Martin Luther King, Jr., and Gilles Deleuze, this book
identifies the less well-known and less visible dimensions of the
recovery concept and movement that underlie concrete clinical
practice.
In addition, the authors highlight the limitations of previous
efforts to reform and transform mental health practice, such as the
de-institutionalization movement begun in the 1950s, in the hope
that the field will not have to repeat these same mistakes. Their
thoughtful analysis and valuable advice will benefit people in
recovery, their loved ones, the practitioners who serve them, and
society at large.
Foreword by Fred Frese, "Founder of the Community and State
Hospital Section of the American Psychological Association and past
president of the National Mental Health Consumers' Association"
This new volume of Methods in Enzymology continues the legacy of
this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in
the field. This volume covers research methods in riboswitch
discovery and validation, synthesis and sample prep methods for
large RNAs, riboswitch structure and function methods, folding
pathways and dynamics, and ligand interactions and thermodynamics.
Cord Blood Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine discusses the
current applications for cord blood stem cells and techniques for
banking cord blood. Cord blood, blood from the umbilical cord and
placenta of an infant, represents an alternate source of stem cells
that can be used to treat a myriad of disorders. Cord blood stem
cells are being used more frequently and studied more seriously, as
evidenced by the explosion of scientific literature on the topic.
Currently, clinical and pre-clinical trials are being done in the
field, treating conditions as severe as heart failure. Coupled with
regenerative medicine, cord blood stem cells potentially carry the
future of research and medicine in treating tissue damage, genetic
disorders, and degenerative diseases. Read about new applications
for cord blood stem cells and new techniques for banking cord blood
- the future of regenerative medicine therapy.
The sodium channel, a ubiquitous member of the cardiac, neural, and
muscular conduction systems, has been implicated in the
pathogenesis of an array of human diseases. Mutations associated
with the cardiac sodium channel are responsible for a wide spectrum
of disorders. The cardiac sodium channel and associated disorders
are comprehensively examined in this issues of the Cardiac
Electrophysiology Clinics.
Are we satisfied with the rate of drug development? Are we happy
with the drugs that come to market? Are we getting our money's
worth in spending for basic biomedical research? In Translational
Systems Biology, Drs. Yoram Vodovotz and Gary An address these
questions by providing a foundational description the barriers
facing biomedical research today and the immediate future, and how
these barriers could be overcome through the adoption of a robust
and scalable approach that will form the underpinning of biomedical
research for the future. By using a combination of essays providing
the intellectual basis of the Translational Dilemma and reports of
examples in the study of inflammation, the content of Translational
Systems Biology will remain relevant as technology and knowledge
advances bring broad translational applicability to other diseases.
Translational systems biology is an integrated, multi-scale,
evidence-based approach that combines laboratory, clinical and
computational methods with an explicit goal of developing effective
means of control of biological processes for improving human health
and rapid clinical application. This comprehensive approach to date
has been utilized for in silico studies of sepsis, trauma,
hemorrhage, and traumatic brain injury, acute liver failure, wound
healing, and inflammation.
This issue begins with an overview that distinguishes
evidence-based practice (EBP) and translation science, followed by
a description of Hawaii's statewide EBP program that uses active
and multifaceted translation science strategies to facilitate the
rate and extent of adoption of EBP changes. With one exception, the
remaining articles describe individual EBP projects from five
different health care facilities that used the Iowa Model to guide
their work. Each article includes an evidence summary, a
description of implementation strategies, an evaluation of the
innovation, and lessons learned. These completed projects were
initiated between 2009 and 2012, address a variety of topical
nursing issues, and, for the most part, focus on preventing
complications (ie, blood sugar elevations, increased lengths of
stay, extubation failures, noise-related injury, pain, surgical
site infections, pneumonia, restraint use, delirium, and fever). An
additional article describes the use of evidence to inform
simulation-based learning, a possible strategy for ensuring
competencies in and compliance with EBP interventions. Nursing
leaders will come away with solid information about utilizing EBP
to improve patient outcomes. The Hawaii program demonstrates that
health care quality can be realized by employing the best available
evidence and empowering the nursing workforce. It also offers a
glimpse of the care that the future nursing workforce could provide
to create a health system that provides accessible, affordable and
quality care to everyone in the United States.
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