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If you're Looking at the Cell Means, You're Not Looking at Only the Interaction (Unless All Main Effects Are Zero)
(American Psychological Association, 1991)
This reply to Meyer explains again that cell means, although usually the results of greatest interest, should not be confused with interaction effects. Unless all main effects are 0, one cannot accurately interpret an ...
Evaluating the federal role in financing health-related research
(National Academy of Sciences, 1996)
This paper considers the appropriate role for government in the support of scientific and technological progress in health care; the information the federal government needs to make well-informed decisions about its role; ...
Health care productivity
(Brookings Institution Press, 1997)
Mortality, hospital admissions, and medical costs of end-stage renal disease in the United States and Manitoba, Canada
(Lippincott-Raven Publishers, 1997)
Objectives. National registry data suggest that mortality rates among patients with end-stage renal disease are lower in Canada than in the United States. Casemix and treatment variables, although limited in such instances, ...
Measurement of the validity of utility elicitations performed by computerized interview
(Lippincott-Raven Publishers, 1997)
Objectives. The authors evaluate a measure of the validity of utility elicitations and study the potential effects of invalid elicitations on population utility values.
Methods. The authors used a computerized survey ...
The cost of VA-sponsored research
(Association of American Medical Colleges, 1996)
BACKGROUND: Under pressures to reduce health care costs, clinical income is a shrinking source of support for research. Such pressures also threaten research at the medical centers of the Department of Veterans Affairs ...
Predicting high-risk cholesterol levels
(International Statistical Institute, 1994)
The pattern of longitudinal changes in cholesterol levels has important implications for screening policies and for understanding the role of cholesterol as a risk factor for coronary heart disease. We explored a variety ...
Can technology assessment control health spending?
(Project Hope, 1994)
Because medical technology is the most important controllable component of health spending growth, the success of strategies for limiting spending growth depends upon their impact on technology dissemination. Technology ...
Practice guidelines and cholesterol policy
(Project HOPE, 1991)