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Researchers Submit Patent Application, “Systems and Methods for Performing Health Risk Assessments and Risk Stratification on a Patient Population”,…

No assignee for this patent application has been made. News editors obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: "The evolving U.S. health care system ...
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Prehospital risk stratification in suspected non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome with point-of-care troponin: an individual patient data meta-analysis

Background Emergency Medical Services (EMS) patients with chest pain are often suspected of having non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTE-ACS). Current risk stratification protocols for ...
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Review and Evaluation of Methods Correcting for Population Stratification with a Focus on Underlying Statistical Principles

Vol. 66, No. 2, Advances in Family-Based Association Analysis: 15 Years of Practical Experience with the Original Transmission Disequilibrium Test (2008), pp. 67-86 (20 pages) When two or more ...
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Primary care practices use four risk stratification methods to identify patients

Risk stratified care management--assigning a patient to a risk category on which care is based--is increasingly viewed as a way to improve care and reduce costs. An analysis of 484 practices in the ...
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Assessment of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (6th and 7th editions) for clinically localized prostate cancer and comparison to the National Comprehensive Cancer Network ...

Bowel and bladder toxicity patterns in patients with prostate cancer treated with proton beam versus intensity-modulated radiation therapy. Background: The purpose was to compare the prognostic value ...
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Stratified Resampling of Phytosociological Databases: Some Strategies for Obtaining More Representative Data Sets for Classification Studies

Question: The heterogeneous origin of the data in large phytosociological databases may seriously influence the results of their analysis. Therefore we propose some strategies for stratified ...