Comprehensive Meta Analysis

Editors: Biondi-Zoccai, Giuseppe (Ed.)
​Explains how to read, interpret, and independently conduct umbrella reviews
Written by a multinational team of contributors who provide a multidisciplinary and multidimensional approach
First book to be devoted solely to umbrella reviews

Modern medicine has done much in the field of acute conditions such as trauma, infections, burn, and bone fractures, but it has limited success in treating chronic diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, cancer, and diabetes among others. At present, the root causes of most chronic diseases are still unknown, and the drugs developed by pharmaceutical companies to treat chronic diseases actually treat only the symptoms rather than causes. According to Dr. Monte Lai, a nutrient deficient diet and unhealthy lifestyle are by far the two most important environmental factors associated with the causes of a host of chronic diseases.

Learn how to utilize biostatistics with Python for excelling in research and biomedical professions with practical exemplar projects

An important role of diagnostic medicine research is to estimate and compare the accuracies of diagnostic tests. This book provides a comprehensive account of statistical methods for design and analysis of diagnostic studies, including sample size calculations, estimation of the accuracy of a diagnostic test, comparison of accuracies of competing diagnostic tests, and regression analysis of diagnostic accuracy data.