MORBIDITY STATISTICS

Respiratory disease in agricultural workers: mortality and morbidity statistics.

To quantify the respiratory disease burden among agricultural workers, we examined the 1988-1998 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) "Multiple Cause of Death Data" and the 1988-1994 Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data (NHANES III). Proportionate mortality ratios (PMRs) were determined for 11 respiratory conditions among 6 agricultural groups: crop farm workers, ...

Some problems in the analysis of hospital in-patients morbidity statistics--on the usefulness of rank distribution of morbidity.

Though the application of the hospital morbidity is very limited due mainly to the biasing aspect of the data, some important uses can be made by formulating a norm of hospital disease pattern in investigating the deviation of a hospital's patients morbidity or in time-series analysis of such morbidity. A most feasible way of establishing a representative norm of inpatients morbidity from the h...

Statistics for dental researcher, Part 2: Descriptive statistics

Descriptive statistics is the process of summarizing gathered raw data from a research and creating useful statistics, which help the better understanding of data. According to the types of variables, which consist of qualitative and quantitative variables, some descriptive statistics have been introduced. Frequency percentage is used in qualitative data, and mean, median, mode, standard deviat...

Draft Not for Quotation or Attribution Morbidity, Air Pollution and Health Statistics

ETHICAL ISSUES IN MEDICAL STATISTICS

Medical statistics (biostatistics), as a vital essential part of modem life, does raise some fundamental ethical issues. Surprisingly, this aspect seems to have been totally ignored by books on medical ethics. This paper discusses how the statistical aspects affect the ethics. The relation between biostatistics and medical research is explored. All stages of a medical research exercise are ...