Early phase oncology trials often require a continuous safety monitoring because of the unexpected toxicity associated with investigational agents. Safety monitoring beco [...]

A tremendous amount of attention has been paid to Big Data in recent years. Such data hold promise for scientific discoveries but also pose challenges for analyses. In th [...]

The climate of Oregon is highly variable and ranges from a temperature rainforest to the high desert. The average annual temperature in the Pacific Northwest has increa [...]

Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are increasingly isolated from respiratory cultures, but distinguishing true pulmonary disease from colonization remains challenging. Th [...]

Using individual patient data from 10 industry-sponsored randomized, controlled trials of rhBMP-2, including 1,255 patients, linear and generalized linear mixed models w [...]

Placebo response variability in neuropathic pain trials complicates indirect comparisons of pharmacotherapies. This meta-regression analysis of 39 randomized placebo-cont [...]

The U.S. government Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance (BRFSS) survey is an important source of demographic and health data. As with many surveys, BRFSS has missing dat [...]

Slower gait speed has previously been shown to be associated with mortality in aging pop- ulations, based on a single measure of gait speed,1–3 but repeated measures of g [...]

Evaluate the effects of process improvement methods on wait-time across each study period (baseline, intervention, sustain) for patients entering substance abuse treatme [...]

Evidence suggests that built environments influence consumptive behaviors such as smoking. This study examined whether tobacco retailer density affects smoking cessation [...]