Legend holds that the city of Portland, Oregon, was nearly called Boston. A coin toss in 1845 between Francis Pettygrove, who hailed from a different Portland, in Maine, and Asa Lovejoy, from Boston (the one in Massachusetts) eventually ...
Limitations: The complication rate relies on physician self-reporting. Conclusions: Rectal retroflexion during colonoscopy is associated with a low rate of perforation, yet this serious complication can occur even in the hands of experienced endoscopists. Most cases of rectal perforation during retro...
Notes: Graphs for non-parametric preference measures represent proportion of each outcome at levels of the preference measure. Whiskers represent 95 % confidence intervals. Outcomes are a binary measure of Herpes Simplex Virus Type-2 (HSV-2) positive status and a count of number of sexual partners...
"What we're doing now is somewhat like trying to predict the outcome of a basketball game by tuning in at halftime to check the score, or by watching only the tipoff," Diehn said, "when in reality we know that there are any number of things that could have happened during the first ...
The division or branching process was accomplished by searching all input variables (ie, potential predictors) and all values of each input variable to find the individual variable and its cut-off value that best classified patients as responders or non-responders, as determined by some statistical...
The division or branching process was accomplished by searching all input variables (ie, potential predictors) and all values of each input variable to find the individual variable and its cut-off value that best classified patients as responders or non-responders, as determined by some statistical...
Improving on a coin toss to predict patient adherence to medications. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2001 ;134:1004-1006.Turner BJ, Hecht FM. Improving on a coin toss to predict patient adherence to medications. Ann Intern Med 2001; 134: 1004-6....