With each new case, the virus advanced, infecting larger clusters of patients, remaining for weeks in one community before re-emerging in another without visible links.
Generalized estimating equations were used to accommodate nonindependence within randomized clusters of patients within clinic sites.
Following diagnosis, clusters of patients needing similar treatment undergo a week of outpatient care delivered by a consistent multidisciplinary clinical team.
Such data could represent clusters of patients or customers, for example.
Current efforts are focused on finding clusters of patients with similar characteristics and designing one implant for each cluster.
Doctors in Massachusetts recently reported seeing clusters of patients with a history of opioid abuse who present with an inability to form new memories.
This clinical data, which would include both healthy subjects and patients with widely varying conditions, could then be systematically "mined" to identify clusters of patients with similar changes in the brain.
"The clusters of patients in Venezuela were studied from that point of view and as yet, although these gene therapies are exciting, it hasn't provided a treatment". Unpicking the medical from the social causes of poverty, he says, is difficult.
To assess whether clusters of patients with hip fracture and with distinct initial recovery trajectories (IRT) could be identified by using practice-based evidence data and to examine the validity of these data.
The study aim is two-fold; firstly to prospectively explore acceptance and uptake of post-exacerbation PR and secondly to identify possible clusters of patients' illness perceptions following hospitalisation for an exacerbation of COPD.
The aim of this study was to explore the SD, or symptom clusters, of patients with atopic dermatitis (AD) using non-negative factorization methods and k-means clustering analysis.
