Managerial Epidemiology for Health Care Organizations (Public Health/Epidemiology and Biostatistics) Review

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(More customer reviews)My students find the book easy to read and understand but are frustrated by the multiple errors and missing data in Chapter five data examples and end of chapter questions.

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Managerial Epidemiology for Health Care Organizations provides readers with a thorough and comprehensive understanding of the application of epidemiological principles to the delivery of health care services and management of health care organizations. As health administration becomes evidence- and population-based, it becomes critical to understand the impact of disease on populations of people in a service area. This book also addresses the need of health organizations' to demonstrate emergency preparedness and respond to bioterrorism threats. A follow-up to the standard text in the field, this book introduces core epidemiology principles and clearly illustrates their essential applications in planning, evaluating, and managing health care for populations. This book demonstrates how health care executives can incorporate the practice of epidemiology into their various management functions and is rich with current examples, concepts, and case studies that reinforce the essential theories, methods, and applications of managerial epidemiology.

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Handbook of Statistics, Volume 27: Epidemiology and Medical Statistics Review

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(More customer reviews)This series is a long and successful collection of volumes on the most important topics in statistics. Professor Krishnaiah from the University of Pittsburgh was one of the first editors. When the famous Professor C. R. Rao moved from India to the US he joined his colleague Krishnaiah at Pittsburgh and helped coedit some of these handbooks. After Krishnaiah's death Professor Rao continued to edit these volumes and brought in some of his colleagues as co-editors.
This is volume 27 and it contains 27 chapters on the topic of medical statistics and epidemiology. This is very important to me as I work in the medical research area.
The editors have assembly the leading experts in statistical methodology and applied biostatistical reserach to produce these 27 chapters.
Ross Prentice (coauthor of 2 edition of a book on survival analysis and the Cox model) wrote an overview chapter on the topics to be covered. He has had a long career at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle Washington. Fred Hutchinson was a famous manager for the Cincinnati Reds in the early 1960s and brought them to the World Series in 1961. He died of cancer and his estate started an endowment to form this research center.
Don Rubin covers causal analysis in Chapter 2. Rubin is an expert on causal inference, Bayesian methods and missing data. He presents the randomized trial approaches of Fisher and Neyman introduces propensity scores. A Bayesian approach is also covered.
Other chapters cover epidemiologic study designs, assessments for biomarkers, linear and nonlinear regression models, logistic regression, regression models for count data, mixed linear and nonlinear models, survival analysis, competing risk models, cluster analysis, factor analysis, structural equation models, crossover trials, group sequential methods, early phase trials (I and II), late phase (III and IV), missing data, Meta-Analysis, multiple comparisons, sample size determination
statistical learning using splines, evidence based medicine, marginal regression models, use of difference equations in modeling and the Bayesian approach to medical inference.
This volume is over 800 pages and each chapter is fairly long and includes large bibliographies.

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Practical Aspects of Interview and Interrogation, Second Edition (Practical Aspects of Criminal & Forensic Investigations) Review

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(More customer reviews)I have twenty years of investigation experience in both law enforcement and the private sector. Never have I seen such a well written and insightful book on the art of investigative interviewing. Drawing on sound psychological theory and good old fashion practical nous; this book fully explains and provides an investigator with a solid foundation to work with, but the flexibility to move in any type of interview or interrogation setting. Sadly, Australian courts and those in the UK would render any confessions (criminal prosecutions) using this technique inadmissible, due to what some critics say is psychological thuggery. However, the technique has seen an increasing use in the private sector with excellent results, especially in the investigation of insurance fraud. Much like the Reid Technique, but more open and flowing - learn this excellent interviewing system and benefit from reading this investigative masterpiece.

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