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| P H Van NessSummaryAffiliation: Yale University Country: USA Publications
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Efficacy and effectiveness as aspects of cluster randomized trials with nursing home residents: methodological insights from a pneumonia prevention trialPeter H Van Ness
Department of Internal Medicine, Geriatrics Section, and the Program on Aging, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Contemp Clin Trials 33:1124-31. 2012..e., hybrid designs) can address some of the methodological challenges of conducting clinical research in nursing homes; they have distinctive advantages and some limitations...- Multivariate graphical methods provide an insightful way to formulate explanatory hypotheses from limited categorical dataPeter H Van Ness
Geriatrics Section, Department of Internal Medicine and the Program on Aging, Yale University School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511 6664 USA
J Clin Epidemiol 65:179-88. 2012..Graphical methods for generating explanatory hypotheses from limited categorical data are described and illustrated... - A research algorithm to improve detection of delirium in the intensive care unitMargaret A Pisani
Department of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Section, and the Program on Aging, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520 8057, USA
Crit Care 10:R121. 2006..The purpose of this study was to develop a research algorithm to enhance detection of delirium in critically ill ICU patients using chart review to complement a validated clinical delirium instrument... - Gerontologic biostatistics: the statistical challenges of clinical research with older study participantsPeter H Van Ness
Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511
J Am Geriatr Soc 58:1386-92. 2010..These conceptual and methodological resources have been developed in the context of several collaborating Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers... - Inverse intensity weighting in generalized linear models as an option for analyzing longitudinal data with triggered observationsPeter H Van Ness
Program on Aging, Yale University School of Medicine, 300 George Street, Suite 775, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Am J Epidemiol 171:105-12. 2010..An additional benefit of the analytical approach presented is that it allows for assessment of the utility of triggered sampling in longitudinal studies... - Religion, risk, and medical decision making at the end of lifePeter H Van Ness
Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Program on Aging, and Yale School of Public Health, 300 George Street, Suite 775, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
J Aging Health 20:545-59. 2008..The purpose of this study is to present empirical evidence about whether religious patients are more or less willing to undergo the risks associated with potentially life-sustaining treatment... - Testing measurement reliability in older populations: methods for informed discrimination in instrument selection and applicationPeter H Van Ness
Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Program on Aging, 300 George Street, Suite 775, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
J Aging Health 20:183-97. 2008.... - The use of missingness screens in clinical epidemiologic research has implications for regression modelingPeter H Van Ness
Program on Aging, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University, School of Medicine, 300 George Street Suite 775, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 60:1239-45. 2007..We illustrate methods for understanding whether missing values are ignorable and describe implications of their use in regression modeling... 
Religion, race, and breast cancer survivalPeter H Van Ness
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520 8034, USA
Int J Psychiatry Med 33:357-75. 2003..The study investigated whether any of four measures of religiousness predicted longer survival for 145 African-American and 177 White women diagnosed with breast cancer in Connecticut between January 1987 and March 1989...- Socioeconomic marginality and health services utilization among Central Harlem substance usersPeter H Van Ness
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Subst Use Misuse 39:61-85. 2004..Results are supportive of a public health model of drug user treatment that recommends that it occur as part of an integrated strategy addressing poverty, homelessness, violence, and related social problems... - Religion and cognitive dysfunction in an elderly cohortPeter H Van Ness
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 58:S21-9. 2003.... - Religion, senescence, and mental health: the end of life is not the end of hopePeter H Van Ness
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520 8034, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 10:386-97. 2002..Religion's effects on mental health are generally protective in direction but modest in strength... - The concept of risk in biomedical research involving human subjectsP H Van Ness
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, 60 College St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
Bioethics 15:364-70. 2001..As a precondition of harm it is unintended and undesirable in projects of biomedical research. It requires ethical vigilance. As a vehicle of chance, however, it is both intended and desirable. It requires methodological appreciation...