Several databases provide access to this literature; some are specialty databases such as the U.K. National Health Service Economic Evaluation Database while others are large general purpose biomedical databases.
In fact, every biological research endeavour today starts with the search and retrieval of information from a simple Google query to a complex interrogation of specialty databases.
Although the questionnaire was completed by a relatively large number of patients and physicians, care must be used when applying the results to the entire Asian population, since participating physicians were chosen from among specific specialty databases, instead of randomly selected from the entire physician population in Malaysia, Taiwan, the Philippines, Korea and Singapore.
A review of the literature indicates that such a prospectively validated method for predicting end-organ dysfunction in individual septic surgical patients, based on a mixed specialty septic database, has not previously been reported, and is a significant finding of the present study.
"We're offering big brokerage firms the opportunity to take our basic service, add specialty online databases they have in-house, and then brand the whole thing and provide it to the firm's clients.
We tested the accuracy of coverage of Genotator in three separate diseases for which there exist specialty curated databases, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Parkinson's Disease, and Alzheimer Disease.
We identified 16,567 patients from KPCO's inpatient and outpatient based facility and professional claims, and internal outpatient primary care and specialty care databases for years 1996 through 2001.
Many of these moves broadened the companies' products and services from their traditional specialties, like databases, computers or networking equipment.
The objectives of this article are to understand the differences between outcomes research and clinical trials as well as to gain familiarity with public multispecialty and specialty-specific databases.
Factors used in the weighting were data from the MMS database: specialty, year of graduation from medical school, geographic region (East, South, Midwest, West), whether hospital or office-based, and whether trained in the U.S. or overseas.
