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| Mir Said SiadatySummaryAffiliation: University of Virginia Country: USA Publications
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Repeated-measures modeling improved comparison of diagnostic tests in meta-analysis of dependent studiesMir Said Siadaty
Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Box 800717, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 57:698-711. 2004..We adopt statistical methodology for repeated measurements for the purpose of meta-analysis of diagnostic tests...
Locating previously unknown patterns in data-mining results: a dual data- and knowledge-mining methodMir S Siadaty
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Box 800717, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 6:13. 2006..In this paper we propose a method for automatically acquiring knowledge to shorten the pattern list by locating the novel and interesting ones...
Multi-database miningMir S Siadaty
Division of Clinical Informatics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Suite 3181 West Complex, 1335 Hospital Drive Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
Clin Lab Med 28:73-82, vi. 2008....
Relemed: sentence-level search engine with relevance score for the MEDLINE database of biomedical articlesMir S Siadaty
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Box 800717, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 7:1. 2007..However among the >30 retrieval services available for MEDLINE, only a few estimate a relevance score, and none detects and incorporates the relation between the query words as part of the relevance score...
Proportional odds ratio model for comparison of diagnostic tests in meta-analysisMir Said Siadaty
Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Box 800717, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
BMC Med Res Methodol 4:27. 2004..Some of the papers may have studied more than one test, hence the results are not independent. Also the collection of tests studied may change from one paper to the other, hence incomplete matched groups...
Air travel and venous thromboembolism: a systematic reviewJohn T Philbrick
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:107-14. 2007..Despite multiple attempts to document and quantify the danger of venous thromboembolism (VTE) following prolonged travel, there is still uncertainty about the magnitude of risk and what can be done to lower it...
Impact of lifestyle intervention on lost productivity and disability: improving control with activity and nutritionAnne M Wolf
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908 0717, USA
J Occup Environ Med 51:139-45. 2009..To evaluate the effectiveness of a lifestyle intervention (LI) in reducing work loss and disability days...
Papaverine prolongs patency of peripheral arterial catheters in neonatesM Pamela Griffin
Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
J Pediatr 146:62-5. 2005..To test the hypothesis that the continuous infusion of papaverine-containing solutions in peripheral arterial catheters would decrease the catheter failure rate and increase the functional duration of the catheter in neonates...
The effect of physician feedback and an action checklist on diabetes care measuresJoel M Schectman
Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
Am J Med Qual 19:207-13. 2004..In conclusion, a simple physician feedback tool with action checklist can be both helpful and popular for improving rates of diabetes care guideline adherence. More complex interventions are likely required to improve diabetes outcomes...
D-dimer testing for deep venous thrombosis: a metaanalysisSteven W Heim
Department of Family Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
Clin Chem 50:1136-47. 2004..The use of D-dimer assays as a rule-out test for deep venous thrombosis (DVT) is controversial. To clarify this issue we performed a systematic review of the relevant literature...
GeneX Va: VBC open source microarray database and analysis softwareJae K Lee
Department of Health Evaluation Sciences, Hospital West Complex, Room 3181, University of Virginia School of Medicine, P O Box 800717, Charlottesville, VA 22908 0717, USA
Biotechniques 36:634-8, 640, 642. 2004..The VBC GeneX Va sites, which include documentation, are at http://genes.med.virginia.edu/ of the University of Virginia and at http://genex.csbc.vcu.edu/ of the Virginia Commonwealth University...
Do pacifiers reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome? A meta-analysisFern R Hauck
Department of Family Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Pediatrics 116:e716-23. 2005..This meta-analysis was undertaken to quantify and evaluate the protective effect of pacifiers against SIDS and to make a recommendation on the use of pacifiers to prevent SIDS...
Data mining and clinical data repositories: Insights from a 667,000 patient data setIrene M Mullins
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Comput Biol Med 36:1351-77. 2006..The initial results from this study suggest that these approaches have the potential to expand research capabilities through identification of potentially novel clinical disease associations...
Pacifiers and breastfeeding: a systematic reviewNina R O'Connor
Department of Family Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908 0729, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 163:378-82. 2009..To summarize current evidence on the association between infant pacifier use and breastfeeding...
Plaque blush, branch location, and calcification are angiographic predictors of progression of mild to moderate coronary stenosesWard Casscells
University of Texas Houston Health Science Center, and Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Tex, USA
Am Heart J 145:813-20. 2003..Having noted plaques that briefly retained dye after angiography, we interpreted these as plaques with a fissured surface or neovascularization and hypothesized that progression would be predicted by "plaque blush."..
