Respectus Philologicus, 2009 Nr. 15 (20)

Package ‘ nlme ’ October 15 , 2009

October 15, 2009 Version 3.1-96 Date 2009-10-15 Priority recommended Title Linear and Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models Author Jose Pinheiro (S version), Douglas Bates (up to 2007), Saikat DebRoy (up to 2002), Deepayan Sarkar (up to 2005), the R Core team. Maintainer R-core <R-core@R-pr...

December 2009: rural Medicare Advantage enrollment grows 15% in 2009.

Rural enrollment in Medicare Advantage (MA) and other prepaid plans grew by 15% from December 2008 to December 2009, faster than the 10% national growth rate. Preferred provider organization (PPO) plans drove the increased enrollment in MA plans in rural areas in 2009, while private fee-for-service (PFFS) plans continued to dominate the market with over 50% of enrollment. This landscape could c...

Bericht zur MetriKon 2009, 18. - 20. November 2009 in Kaiserslautern

Eurohealth, Vol 15, No.4, (2009)

QuickScan Reviews in Urology, March 15 2009

Objective: Test the impact of delay in time to cystectomy and mortality in a national database. Participants/Methods: Using a linked Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare dataset, 441 patients were indentified who underwent radical cystectomy for stage II bladder cancer within 4 to 52 weeks of diagnosis and who did not receive preoperative chemotherapy. Survival models wer...