Objectives The relationship between the volume of medical procedures conducted in hospitals and the resulting health outcomes has been described for various surgical and non-surgical medical ...

[1] M. Csorgo and L. Horvnth, “Limit Theorem in Change-Point Analysi,” Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics, John Wiley & Sons: New York, 1997. [2] I. Fiteni, “ τ-estimators of Regression Models ...

A segmented regression model predicting the weekly risk adjusted survival was estimated and a discontinuity in the gradient (trend) or intercept (level) of the fitted model was tested for at the ...

Normalized measurements were compared with age and fitted to a segmented regression ... but changed minimally beyond that (slope=0.005/year) (R 2 =0.2). The regression model calculated that, at 5 ...

The variable ‘intervention’ was 0 for the preintervention period and 1 for the postintervention period starting June 2013 (model 1). Time after intervention was a continuous variable starting June ...

Each segmented region obtained 1,288 radiomic features ... were selected using the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression model with 10-fold cross-validation, which was ...

Objective: To investigate the trends in cataract-related blindness and vision impairment burden among cataract patients in China, the largest developing country, from 1990 to 2021, providing evidence ...

We developed an educational model where members of the team would spend time ... After implementation of the bundle, there was a downward trend in readmissions but segmented regression analysis showed ...

A review of history suggests that the surge in rolling 10-year performance for the S&P 500 Index over the past decade or so ...