George Luta

TL;DR: A statistical procedure, named curvHDR, for automatic and semi-automatic gating, that combines the notions of significant high negative curvature regions and highest density regions and has the ability to adapt well to human-perceived gates.

TL;DR: A combination of pictorial warnings featuring risk-based and efficacy-enhancing information may promote better public health outcomes and research is needed to investigate how strategically framed warning messages impact smokers' behaviors based on their pre-existing attitudes and beliefs in real-world settings.

TL;DR: Within two prostate cancer screening programs, the authors evaluated the impact of a print-based decision aid (DA) on decision-making outcomes, and concluded that the DA had little impact on the outcome.

TL;DR: An analysis of QTc data collected in four thorough QT studies conducted at Eli Lilly and Company was performed to develop a sample size calculation framework that enables clinical trial researchers to account for key features of their thoroughQT studies, including study design (parallel and crossover designs), number of ECG replicates, number of post-baseline ECG recordings, and subject population.

TL;DR: To analyze discordance between global estimates by patients (PATGL) and their physicians (DOCGL) according to demographic and self‐report variables on a Multidimensional Health Assessment Questionnaire (MDHAQ) in patients with many rheumatic diseases seen in usual care.