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Original Source: Stratification for Confounding - Part 2: Direct and Indirect Standardization.
Standardization is a method used to compare observed and expected rates of a given disease/outcome by removing the influence of factors that may confound the comparison. There are two major standardization methods: one is used when the 'standard' is the structure of a population (direct method) and the other when the 'standard' is a set of specific event rates (indirect method). The direct standardization is commonly used for large populations while the indirect one is applied to populations of relatively s...
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Dyslipidemia is a generally asymptomatic disease in which serum lipid levels deviate from the normal level. It is considered to be a modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease due to its dire...
Discoid lupus erythematosus DLE
Discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) is a disease of the skin causing atrophy, scarring and photosensitivity. DLE affects between 17 and 48 per 100,000 people, occuring twice as often in women. The cha...
India, in the Asian subcontinent is the world’s fourth largest producer of pharmaceuticals, and is thought as one of the most promising biotech markets in the world. Several important steps...
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PARIS (dpa-AFX) - Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that attacks nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, leading to complete paralysis, and eventually, dea...
Bespoke weighing solutions for ease of integration
Mettler Toledo s range of weigh modules, process terminals and load cells provide the standardisation and modularity required
Standardisation of outcome measures (z scores)
Researchers investigated the effects of weekly vitamin D supplements on the mortality, morbidity, and growth of low birthweight term infants up to 6 months of age in India. A randomised placebo......
Use of HbA1c in the diagnosis of diabetes
Before 2010, guidelines recommended the measurement of blood glucose for diagnosing diabetes. Improved standardisation in the measurement of glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) and wider availability of the....
Medicyte GmbH and Life Technologies form agreement to develop next-generation hepatocytes
Medicyte has signed a licensing agreement for the rights to use lentiviral vector technology from Life Technologies to develop and market next-generation, cell-based hepatocyte cell products to the bi...
PARIS, September 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite the placatory speeches of recent months, in the light of certain leaks that have appeared in the German (Die Welt, Bild Zeitung) and specia...
Direct payments for healthcare consultation
A public consultation on changes to the regulations for direct payments for healthcare is published today. Direct payment, where money is given directly to an individual for the management of …...
AstraZeneca’s first direct-to-patient program – one year on
Steven Davis, Executive Director, Foundation Brands, AstraZeneca shares his views on ARIMIDEX Direct – AstraZeneca’s first direct-to-patient program, and how successful its first year has been. A...
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Guidelines and standardisation documents should be published anonymously.
In the interest of progress and in order to avoid conflict of interest, guidelines and standardisation documents should be published anonymously, and they should undergo a mandatory review process by...
The objectives of this study were to evaluate the batch-to-batch and inter-reagent variability of prothrombin time (PT) measurements in canine plasma and to investigate the effect of different methods...
Detection and analysis of airborne particles of biological origin: present and future.
Detection and identification of bioaerosols in the environment presents a unique analytical challenge. The complexity and variation of the analyte, coupled with the disparity of the end users required...
The vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein-phosphorylation (VASP-P) flow-cytometric assay is mainly used in clinical trials to measure thienopyridine effects. However, there are remarkable differences...
As part of the new EUVAC.NET contract with ECDC (Pertussis Work Area 4), a collaborative study was organised in July-December 2010. Two well-defined reference preparations with high and low IgG antibo...
