Analyses of longitudinal, hospital clinical laboratory data with application to blood glucose concentrations

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 27, 2011, Pages 3208-3220

  Schildcrout, Jonathan S ^a   Haneuse, Sebastien ^b   Peterson, Josh F ^a,d   Denny, Joshua C ^a   Matheny, Michael E ^a,d   Waitman, Lemuel R ^c   Miller, Randolph A ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Electronic medical records; Glucose; Longitudinal data analysis; Medical informatics

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSULIN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81855182172     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4352     Document Type: Article

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