A New Method for Deriving Global Estimates of Maternal Mortality
Maternal mortality is widely regarded as a key indicator of population health and of social and economic development. Its levels and trends are monitored closely by the United N...
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Impact of educational and patient decision aids on decisional conflict associated with total knee arthroplasty
Abstract Objective To examine the impact of a videobooklet patient decision aid supplemented by an interactive values clarification exercise on decisional conflict in patients w...
Estrogen Replacement Therapy and Prognosis after First Myocardial Infarction
The effects of estrogen replacement therapy on prognosis in women with established coronary disease remain uncertain. The authors conducted a retrospective cohort study of 726 w...
Improving bioscience research reporting: ARRIVE-ing at a solution
In the last decade the number of bioscience journals has increased enormously. The emergence of open access journals has further revolutionized the publication process, maximizi...
Assessing Reports of Therapeutic Trials
A check list is described which helps the systematic assessment of reports of therapeutic trials, particularly the aspects that need to be considered in assessing their validity...
Age- and Sex-Specific Mortality Associated With the 1918–1919 Influenza Pandemic in Kentucky
The observed mortality breakpoints in male and female cohorts born during 1859-1862, 1892-1894, and 1908-1909 did not coincide with known dates of historical pandemics. The atyp...
On the Validity of Econometric Techniques with Weak Instruments
Abstract We evaluate Angrist and Krueger (1991) and Bound, Jaeger, and Baker (1995) by constructing reliable confidence regions around the 2SLS and LIML estimators for returns-t...
A Case-Control Study of Myocardial Infarction in Relation to Use of Estrogen Supplements
Observational epidemiologic studies suggest that the incidence of cardiovascular disease is reduced by about 50% in users of unopposed estrogens, but the reduction may have been...