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About: RAND Corporation is a nonprofit organization based out in Santa Monica, California, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Health care. The organization has 9602 authors who have published 18570 publications receiving 744658 citations.
Topics: Population, Health care, Poison control, Mental health, Public health
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01 Dec 1971TL;DR: Results, both old and new, which will aid the reader in applying Volterra-series-type analyses to systems driven by sine waves or Gaussian noise are presented.
Abstract: Troublesome distortions often occur in communication systems. For a wide class of systems such distortions can be computed with the help of Volterra series. Results, both old and new, which will aid the reader in applying Volterra-series-type analyses to systems driven by sine waves or Gaussian noise are presented. The n-fold Fourier transform G n of the nth Volterra kernel plays an important role in the analysis. Methods of computing G n from the system equations are described and several special systems are considered. When the G n are known, items of interest regarding the output can be obtained by substituting the G n in general formulas derived from the Volterra series representation. These items include expressions for the output harmonics, when the input is the sum of two or three sine waves, and the power spectrum and various moments, when the input is Gaussian. Special attention is paid to the case in which the Volterra series consists of only the linear and quadratic terms.
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TL;DR: The need to strike a balance between risk management strategies to prevent and deter prescription opioid abuse and the need for physicians and patients to have appropriate access to opioid pharmaceuticals for the treatment of pain is addressed.
479 citations
01 Dec 2007
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the benefits in fracture reduction and the harms from adverse events (AE) among and within the various classes of treatment for low bone density for vertebral, non-vertebral, hip, and radial fractures.
Abstract: This Comparative Effectiveness Review (CER) compares the benefits in fracture reduction and the harms from adverse events (AE) among and within the various classes of treatment for low bone density. Our outcomes of interest for measuring benefits are vertebral, non-vertebral, hip, and radial fractures. The studies collect vertebral fracture outcomes in one of two ways. In some studies, all participants undergo radiography at pre-determined intervals. Other studies use clinical criteria, i.e. whether a fracture has been diagnosed by a clinician during the time interval. Trials that radiograph all participants will by nature detect more fractures. However the higher detection rate will apply to both treatment and placebo groups. Thus, the relative differences found should be similar that found in studies that use clinical criteria.
477 citations
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TL;DR: A systematic review of 76 randomized trials and 24 meta-analyses found good evidence that several agents, including alendronate, zoledronic acid, and estrogen, reduced the risk for vertebral and...
Abstract: This systematic review of 76 randomized trials and 24 meta-analyses found good evidence that several agents, including alendronate, zoledronic acid, and estrogen, reduced the risk for vertebral and...
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TL;DR: Evidence suggests that cohorts entering older age now are healthier than previous ones, but progress has been very uneven, as indicated by the wide gaps in population health between the worst (Sierra Leone) and best (Japan) performing countries.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Darien Wood | 160 | 2174 | 136596 |
Herbert A. Simon | 157 | 745 | 194597 |
Ron D. Hays | 135 | 781 | 82285 |
Paul G. Shekelle | 132 | 601 | 101639 |
John E. Ware | 121 | 327 | 134031 |
Linda Darling-Hammond | 109 | 374 | 59518 |
Robert H. Brook | 105 | 571 | 43743 |
Clifford Y. Ko | 104 | 514 | 37029 |
Lotfi A. Zadeh | 104 | 331 | 148857 |
Claudio Ronco | 102 | 1312 | 72828 |
Joseph P. Newhouse | 101 | 484 | 47711 |
Kenneth B. Wells | 100 | 484 | 47479 |
Moyses Szklo | 99 | 428 | 47487 |
Alan M. Zaslavsky | 98 | 444 | 58335 |
Graham J. Hutchings | 97 | 995 | 44270 |