Like its two successful previous editions, Health & Numbers: A Problems-Based Introduction to Biostatistics, Third Edition, is the only fully problems-based introduction to biostatistics and offers a concise introduction to basic statistical concepts and reasoning at a level suitable for a broad spectrum of students and professionals in medicine and the allied health fields. This book has always b…
This highly popular introduction to confidence intervals has been thoroughly updated and expanded. It includes methods for using confidence intervals, with illustrative worked examples and extensive guidelines and checklists to help the novice.
This book introduces the reader to the complexities and management of chronic/persistent pain. Chronic pain affects one in seven in the UK population and can be experienced as a symptom of disease or trauma but can also exist without the presence of either of these. This is aimed at non-specialist working in all areas of health care who want to know more about this complex problem. This book begin…
The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.
It is now recognized that innovation in healthcare needs to be a primary strategy for dealing with the challenges of pressure from consumers and the effort to control costs.This practical guide describes key issues surrounding innovation, such as the barriers to innovation in healthcare, the opportunities of working across boundaries in open innovation, and the process and tools of exploring the i…
It is now recognized that innovation in healthcare needs to be a primary strategy for dealing with the challenges of pressure from consumers and the effort to control costs.This practical guide describes key issues surrounding innovation, such as the barriers to innovation in healthcare, the opportunities of working across boundaries in open innovation, and the process and tools of exploring the i…
It is now recognized that innovation in healthcare needs to be a primary strategy for dealing with the challenges of pressure from consumers and the effort to control costs.This practical guide describes key issues surrounding innovation, such as the barriers to innovation in healthcare, the opportunities of working across boundaries in open innovation, and the process and tools of exploring the i…
It is now recognized that innovation in healthcare needs to be a primary strategy for dealing with the challenges of pressure from consumers and the effort to control costs.This practical guide describes key issues surrounding innovation, such as the barriers to innovation in healthcare, the opportunities of working across boundaries in open innovation, and the process and tools of exploring the i…
The distinguishing feature of this pocket-sized searching skills book, like all the Toolkit series titles, is its user-friendliness. The guiding principle is that readers do not want to become librarians, but they are faced with practical difficulties when searching for evidence, such as lack of skills, lack of time and information overload. They need to learn simple search skills, and be directed…
Proceedings of the Third Baveno International Consensus Workshop on Definitions, Methodology and Therapeutic Strategies. The participants attempted to develop consensus definitions of key events in portal hypertension and variceal bleeding, diagnostic and therapeutic issues, and the complications of therapies for portal hypertension, as well as producing updated guidelines. The lectures summarized…
Имя Парацельса окутано тысячей тайн и загадок. Человек, на несколько веков опередивший свое время, и фактически основавший медицину как науку в современном понимании этого слова, так и не был принят обществом своего времени. Его тексты поняли лишь спустя столетия после смерти великого врача. Книга, которую вы держите в руках, представляет собой первое фундаментальное издание на русском языке основ…
Книга «Big data изменяют Китай» – это актуальная работа, написанная в научно-популярном стиле, где углублённо и пристально рассматриваются те феномены и те радикальные изменения, которые влечет за собой использование больших данных в современном Китае. У книги два автора-составителя: Ту Цзыпэй и Чжэн Лэй. Ту Цзыпэй известен как тот, кто «прокладывал путь большим данным в Китае», он является авторо…
Анализы крови, почечные и печеночные ферменты, гормоны, холестерин, онкомаркеры и еще более 10 других популярных исследований, которые мы часто проходим самостоятельно, а потом не можем расшифровать. Книга-помощник каждому, кто посещает лаборатории без назначения врача, а также тем, кто хочет понимать, почему доктор поставил тот или иной диагноз.
The 5th edition of this popular introduction to statistics for the medical and health sciences has undergone a significant revision, with several new chapters added and examples refreshed throughout the book. Yet it retains its central philosophy to explain medical statistics with as little technical detail as possible, making it accessible to a wide audience. Helpful multi-choice exercises are …
Слушая музыку, мы вступаем в мир совершенно абстрактный – в нем нет ни слов, ни цвета, ни вкуса. Но при этом мы испытываем настоящие чувства: наше настроение меняется, мы погружаемся в воспоминания, испытываем наслаждение или печаль. Наука все еще не может объяснить, каким образом мелодии и гармонии могут владеть нашими чувствами, однако сегодня мы знаем, что занятия музыкой влияют на мозг и на ко…