Medical Illuminations (inbunden)
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
192
Utgivningsdatum
2013-10-10
Förlag
OUP Oxford
Illustrationer
39 b/w line drawings, 30 colour line drawings, 2 b/w halftones, 2 colour halftones
Dimensioner
236 x 163 x 15 mm
Vikt
477 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780199668793

Medical Illuminations

Using Evidence, Visualization and Statistical Thinking to Improve Healthcare

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Thirteen contemporary medical topics are used to illustrate how modern tools of statistical thinking and statistical graphics can illuminate them. The book aims to solve some vexing problems that seem perplexing, and make the problems and their solutions clear for the general reader in order to gain a greater understanding of our complex world.
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Christopher W. Hansen, President of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network In science, information without understanding can be useless and even harmful. Science requires a depth of understanding. To assist this understanding, data must be accurate, lucid and comprehensible. Dr. Wainer has done an extraordinary job of explaining this reality. Medical Illuminations is well written, insightful and thought provoking. It is filled with evocative stories and examples that are memorable, forcing one to think critically. In addition to the book's important message and examples, I would also recommend this book because it is a pleasure to read. Medical Illuminations is an important work that puts the data used to explain much of medical science in a realistic and important context. In a word, this work is - brilliant!

Joseph Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Veterans' Hospital Philadelphia On the journey from factual knowledge to conceptual understanding, Howard Wainer is an able guide and a most amiable companion.


Ben Schneiderman, Science His sensitivities are well aligned with the huge upswing in interest in these topics, but once again he leads the way with fresh ideas, compelling examples, wise generalizations, and clever phrases.

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Howard Wainer, Distinguished Research Scientist at the National Board of Medical Examiners Howard Wainer is a statistician and author; Medical Illuminations is his 20th book. His first two medical books (technical works in pediatrics) were published almost 40 years ago. He has been working primarily on medical topics since 2001 as the Distinguished Research Scientist of the National Board of Medical Examiners. At various times in his career he has taught at Princeton, The University of Chicago and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has a PhD from Princeton and is a fellow in the American Statistical Association and the American Educational Research Association. He has been the recipient of many awards for his broad ranging research and has served internationally on many editorial boards of leading statistical journals as well as a consultant to both government and industry. He has also written a column in the magazine Chance for the past 22 years.

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Introduction ; SECTION I - COMMUNICATING WITH THE PUBLIC ; 1. N.Y. State's Cancer map ; 2. Will Burtin and some pictures at an exhibition ; 3. That's funny ; 4. Commentary on some graphs in the 2008 National Healthcare Quality Report ; 5. Improving graphic displays by controlling creativity ; SECTION II - SOME ADVANCES ; 6. Looking at blood sugar ; 7. A different kind of second opinion on hip fractures ; 8. False positives ; 9. Estimating long-term effects ; 10. A remarkable horse ; SECTION III - ANOTHER HINDRANCE TO PROGRESS ; 12. What does it take to change practice? ; 13. Why is a raven like a writing desk? Musing on the power of convention