This study investigated predictive performance of five comorbidity measures for population-based diabetes cohorts in administrative data.
Appropriately selected performance measures may serve well as measures for population-based diabetes care surveillance and enable more detailed examination of geographic and other disparities in patterns of care.
A further consideration discussed was how summary measures for populations of patients should be calculated and reported.
All cholera prevention and control measures for populations at highest risk need the continued support of powerful advocates in the scientific, political, and policy-making spheres.
The alliance, which was founded in 2002, said it was on target for a "no-kill New York" in 2015, not meaning that there will be no animals put to death, but that euthanasia will not be used as a measure for population control.
Based on genome-wide SNP information, we estimated inflation factor, a measure for population stratification, for each of the three traits (BMI, FM, and hip BMD) tested in this study.
In the analysis using EIGENSTRAT [23], the measure for population stratification, λ, for each study phenotype (BMI, FM and hip BMD) as inferred from genome-wide SNP information, was very close to 1, which also suggests no stratification in our GWAS cohort.
As in many previous time series studies, we used PM2.5 monitoring results from a fixed station as a proxy measure for population exposures to air pollution.
Our findings reinforce the importance of using SRH in epidemiological research as a simple, low-cost and complementary measure for population health monitoring.
This is because, as a summary measure for population health which attributes a perceived social value to different health states, variance in QALYs may result in inappropriate resource allocation decisions [ 19].
