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Medical illuminations : using evidence, visualization and statistical thinking to improve healthcare /
Is it sensible to screen for breast or prostate cancer? Should the locations of cancer clusters be made available to the general public? When a doctor wants to perform major surgery and there's no chance for a second opinion, do you agree?The answers to these questions are not as black and whit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Medical illuminations : |b using evidence, visualization and statistical thinking to improve healthcare / |c Howard Wainer. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Oxford ; |a New York, NY : |b Oxford University Press, |c 2014. | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (xv, 175 pages) : |b illustrations (some color), maps (some color) | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-170) and index. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a New York's cancer maps : what we don't know won't hurt us, it's what we do know that ain't -- A centenary celebration for Will Burtin : a pioneer of scientific visualization -- That's funny ... -- Commentary on some graphs in the 2008 National Healthcare Quality Report -- Improving graphic displays by controlling creativity -- Diabetes and the obesity : taking a better look at blood sugar as a start -- A second look at second opinions, with hip fractures as an example -- False positives, or, Is a pound of prevention worth an ounce of cure -- Assessing long-term risk with shorter-term data -- A remarkable horse : an inquiry into the accuracy of medical predictions -- On the role of replication in the advance of science : the survival of the fittest -- What does it take to change practice? -- Why is a raven like a writing desk? Musing on the power of convention. | |
| 520 | |a Is it sensible to screen for breast or prostate cancer? Should the locations of cancer clusters be made available to the general public? When a doctor wants to perform major surgery and there's no chance for a second opinion, do you agree?The answers to these questions are not as black and white as they may first appear. Medical Illuminations presents thirteen contemporary medical topics, from the diminishing value of mammograms to how to decide if a hip needs to be replaced, to understanding cancer maps. In each case it illustrates how modern tools of statistical thinking and statistical grap. | ||
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| 650 | 2 | |a Evidence-Based Medicine | |
| 650 | 2 | |a Evidence-Based Practice | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a HEALTH & FITNESS |x Reference. |2 bisacsh | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a MEDICAL |x Essays. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a MEDICAL |x Family & General Practice. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a MEDICAL |x Holistic Medicine. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a MEDICAL |x Osteopathy. |2 bisacsh | |
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