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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.