The Stata Journal, ISSN 1536-867X, 6/2019, Volume 19, Issue 2, pp. 477 - 496
A major challenge of outcomes research is measuring hospital performance using readily available administrative data. When the outcome measure is mortality or...
DESIGN | eclplot | risk-standardized mortality rates | generalized estimating equations | mfpboot | risk adjustment | STATISTICS & PROBABILITY | qic | bootstrap | outcomes research | multivariable modeling | hospital profiling | st0562 | caterpillar plot | SOCIAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICAL METHODS | funnel plot | mfpboot_bif | xtgee | stability | healthcare quality assessment
DESIGN | eclplot | risk-standardized mortality rates | generalized estimating equations | mfpboot | risk adjustment | STATISTICS & PROBABILITY | qic | bootstrap | outcomes research | multivariable modeling | hospital profiling | st0562 | caterpillar plot | SOCIAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICAL METHODS | funnel plot | mfpboot_bif | xtgee | stability | healthcare quality assessment
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The Lancet, ISSN 0140-6736, 03/2018, Volume 391, Issue 10125, pp. 1023 - 1075
In 2015, the second cycle of the CONCORD programme established global surveillance of cancer survival as a metric of the effectiveness of health systems and to...
UNITED-STATES | MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | RELATIVE SURVIVAL | CHILDHOOD-CANCER | UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE | PUBLIC-HEALTH | WOMENS CANCERS | NORDIC-COUNTRIES | CURE | HIGH-INCOME COUNTRIES | ALTERNATIVE APPROACH | Neoplasms - mortality | Registries | Survival Rate | Neoplasms - pathology | Population Surveillance | Humans | Health care | Low income groups | High income | Leukemia | Mortality | Colorectal cancer | Melanoma | Medical screening | Disease control | Sustainable development | Survival | Quality of life | Studies | Prevention | Surveillance | Population | Lymphomas | Trends | Health risk assessment | Cancer
UNITED-STATES | MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | RELATIVE SURVIVAL | CHILDHOOD-CANCER | UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE | PUBLIC-HEALTH | WOMENS CANCERS | NORDIC-COUNTRIES | CURE | HIGH-INCOME COUNTRIES | ALTERNATIVE APPROACH | Neoplasms - mortality | Registries | Survival Rate | Neoplasms - pathology | Population Surveillance | Humans | Health care | Low income groups | High income | Leukemia | Mortality | Colorectal cancer | Melanoma | Medical screening | Disease control | Sustainable development | Survival | Quality of life | Studies | Prevention | Surveillance | Population | Lymphomas | Trends | Health risk assessment | Cancer
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Diabetic Medicine, ISSN 0742-3071, 08/2015, Volume 32, Issue 8, pp. 1036 - 1050
Aims Improving glycaemic control in people with Type 1 diabetes is known to reduce complications. Our aim was to compare glycaemic control among people with...
Western Australia | United States | Glycated Hemoglobin A - metabolism | Humans | Wales | Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 - metabolism | England | Male | Scotland | Greece | Young Adult | Austria | Latvia | Netherlands | Sweden | Ireland | Adult | Female | Registries | France | Insulin Infusion Systems - utilization | Hypoglycemic Agents - therapeutic use | Ukraine | Northern Ireland | Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 - drug therapy | New Zealand | Guideline Adherence | Norway | Adolescent | Denmark | Italy | Germany | Insulin - therapeutic use | Practice Guidelines as Topic | Type 1 diabetes | Diabetes therapy | Hypoglycemia | Insulin | Diabetes
Western Australia | United States | Glycated Hemoglobin A - metabolism | Humans | Wales | Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 - metabolism | England | Male | Scotland | Greece | Young Adult | Austria | Latvia | Netherlands | Sweden | Ireland | Adult | Female | Registries | France | Insulin Infusion Systems - utilization | Hypoglycemic Agents - therapeutic use | Ukraine | Northern Ireland | Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 - drug therapy | New Zealand | Guideline Adherence | Norway | Adolescent | Denmark | Italy | Germany | Insulin - therapeutic use | Practice Guidelines as Topic | Type 1 diabetes | Diabetes therapy | Hypoglycemia | Insulin | Diabetes
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Acta Oncologica, ISSN 0284-186X, 07/2018, Volume 57, Issue 7, pp. 973 - 982
Background: Most studies from high income countries consistently report that preexisting diabetes reduces overall survival of cancer patients. We examined this...
SURVIVAL | EUROPE | RISK | ONCOLOGY | COLORECTAL-CANCER | PROSTATE-CANCER
SURVIVAL | EUROPE | RISK | ONCOLOGY | COLORECTAL-CANCER | PROSTATE-CANCER
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European Heart Journal, ISSN 0195-668X, 10/2019, Volume 40, Issue Supplement_1
Abstract Background According to statistics of Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Latvia has one of the highest 30-day mortality for...
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Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Section B. Natural, Exact, and Applied Sciences, ISSN 1407-009X, 08/2019, Volume 73, Issue 4, pp. 407 - 410
The most common autoimmune disorders with clinically opposite manifestations are hypothyroidism in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and hyperthyroidism in Graves’...
Thiamazole | Levothyroxine | hypothyroidism | prescribing data | Hyperthyroidism | Health care | Thyroiditis | Statistical analysis | Graves' disease | Medical services | Thyroid diseases | Thyroid gland | Hormones | Gender | Hypothyroidism | Morbidity | Girls | Thyroxine | Thyroid hormones | Autoimmune diseases | Cost analysis | Age | Thyroid
Thiamazole | Levothyroxine | hypothyroidism | prescribing data | Hyperthyroidism | Health care | Thyroiditis | Statistical analysis | Graves' disease | Medical services | Thyroid diseases | Thyroid gland | Hormones | Gender | Hypothyroidism | Morbidity | Girls | Thyroxine | Thyroid hormones | Autoimmune diseases | Cost analysis | Age | Thyroid
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The Lancet Oncology, ISSN 1470-2045, 08/2017, Volume 18, Issue 8, pp. 1022 - 1039
Rare cancers pose challenges for diagnosis, treatments, and clinical decision making. Information about rare cancers is scant. The RARECARE project defined...
CANCER SURVIVAL | HEAD | IMPACT | QUALITY | ONCOLOGY | EUROCARE-5 | NECK-CANCER | EPIDEMIOLOGY | Rare Diseases - mortality | Humans | Europe - epidemiology | Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data | Neoplasms - mortality | Rare Diseases - epidemiology | Male | Survival Rate | Cancer Care Facilities | Incidence | Neoplasms - therapy | Rare Diseases - therapy | Delivery of Health Care | Female | Registries | Neoplasms - epidemiology | Life Sciences
CANCER SURVIVAL | HEAD | IMPACT | QUALITY | ONCOLOGY | EUROCARE-5 | NECK-CANCER | EPIDEMIOLOGY | Rare Diseases - mortality | Humans | Europe - epidemiology | Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data | Neoplasms - mortality | Rare Diseases - epidemiology | Male | Survival Rate | Cancer Care Facilities | Incidence | Neoplasms - therapy | Rare Diseases - therapy | Delivery of Health Care | Female | Registries | Neoplasms - epidemiology | Life Sciences
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Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, ISSN 0012-1622, 04/2014, Volume 56, Issue 4, pp. 361 - 369
Aim Our aim was to study the feasibility of creating a framework for monitoring and undertaking collaborative research on intellectual disability at the...
POPULATION | ETIOLOGY | SEVERE MENTAL-RETARDATION | PEDIATRICS | HEALTH INDICATORS | PEOPLE | CLINICAL NEUROLOGY | NORWEGIAN CHILDREN | Prevalence | Epidemiological Monitoring | Humans | Intellectual Disability - diagnosis | Databases, Factual - statistics & numerical data | Europe - epidemiology | Female | Male | Intelligence Tests | Feasibility Studies | Intellectual Disability - epidemiology
POPULATION | ETIOLOGY | SEVERE MENTAL-RETARDATION | PEDIATRICS | HEALTH INDICATORS | PEOPLE | CLINICAL NEUROLOGY | NORWEGIAN CHILDREN | Prevalence | Epidemiological Monitoring | Humans | Intellectual Disability - diagnosis | Databases, Factual - statistics & numerical data | Europe - epidemiology | Female | Male | Intelligence Tests | Feasibility Studies | Intellectual Disability - epidemiology
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Medicina, ISSN 1010-660X, 2014, Volume 50, Issue 2, pp. 130 - 136
In Latvia, like in other European countries, the incidence of diabetes mellitus is increasing and so it is important to find out what the trends in the...
Diabetes mellitus | Mortality indicators | POPULATION | MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | COHORT | PREVALENCE | TRENDS | Humans | Mortality | Sex Factors | Female | Male | Diabetes Mellitus - mortality | Incidence | Latvia - epidemiology
Diabetes mellitus | Mortality indicators | POPULATION | MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | COHORT | PREVALENCE | TRENDS | Humans | Mortality | Sex Factors | Female | Male | Diabetes Mellitus - mortality | Incidence | Latvia - epidemiology
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SHS Web of Conferences, ISSN 2261-2424, 2019, Volume 68, p. 2002
Schools and municipalities play an important role in local health promotion. The Institute of Public Health at Rıga Stradiņš University in collaboration with...
schools | health promotion | municipalities
schools | health promotion | municipalities
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DIABETIC MEDICINE, ISSN 0742-3071, 08/2015, Volume 32, Issue 8, pp. 1036 - 1050
Aims Improving glycaemic control in people with Type1 diabetes is known to reduce complications. Our aim was to compare glycaemic control among people with...
ADOLESCENTS | ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM | METABOLIC-CONTROL | CHILDHOOD | CARE | CHILDREN | REGISTRY | Pediatrics | Pediatrik | IDDM | Endokrinologi och diabetes | 18 COUNTRIES | Endocrinology & Metabolism | COMPLICATIONS | Endocrinology and Diabetes
ADOLESCENTS | ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM | METABOLIC-CONTROL | CHILDHOOD | CARE | CHILDREN | REGISTRY | Pediatrics | Pediatrik | IDDM | Endokrinologi och diabetes | 18 COUNTRIES | Endocrinology & Metabolism | COMPLICATIONS | Endocrinology and Diabetes
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European Urology Supplements, ISSN 1569-9056, 2017, Volume 16, Issue 5, pp. e2163 - e2164
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European Journal of Surgical Oncology, ISSN 0748-7983, 01/2019, Volume 45, Issue 1, pp. 40 - 45
Head and neck cancer (HNC) is a rare disease that can affect different sites and is characterized by variable incidence and 5-year survival rates across...
Head and neck cancer | Multidisciplinary team | European reference networks joint action of rare cancers | Rare disease | SURVIVAL | SURGERY | RISK | MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM MANAGEMENT | CHEMOTHERAPY | CARE | IMPACT | ONCOLOGY | SQUAMOUS-CELL CARCINOMA | PATIENT | RADIOTHERAPY
Head and neck cancer | Multidisciplinary team | European reference networks joint action of rare cancers | Rare disease | SURVIVAL | SURGERY | RISK | MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM MANAGEMENT | CHEMOTHERAPY | CARE | IMPACT | ONCOLOGY | SQUAMOUS-CELL CARCINOMA | PATIENT | RADIOTHERAPY
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