Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences
Abstract This study evaluated gastric emptying, small bowel transit time, and total intestinal transit time in 8 critically ill trauma patients. These data were compared with those obtained in 87 healthy volunteers from a separate trial. Data were obtained with a motility capsule that wirelessly transmitted pH, pressure, and temperature to a recorder attached to […]
Abstract This data set contains 99 adult patients with a body mass index between 30 and 50 kg/m2 who required orotracheal intubation for elective surgery. Patient demographics, airway assessment data, intubation success rate, time to intubation, ease of intubation, and occurrence of complications were recorded. The dataset is cleaned and complete. There are no outliers […]
Abstract This study enrolled 236 adult patients undergoing elective thoracic surgery requiring a double-lumen endotracheal tube. Gender, physical status, BMI, age, Mallampati score, smoking status, preoperative pain, surgery size, intervention and the outcomes (cough, sore throat and pain swallowing at various time points) are provided. The dataset is cleaned and complete (missing outcomes for 2 […]
Abstract This data set contains 316 men who had undergone radical prostatectomy and received transfusion during or within 30 days of the surgical procedure and had available PSA follow-up data. The main exposure of interest was RBC storage duration group. A number of demographic, baseline and prognostic factors were also collected. The outcome was time […]
Abstract This data set contains 32, 001 elective general surgical patients. Age, gender, race, BMI, several comorbidities, several surgical risk indices, the surgical timing predictors (hour, day of week, month,moon phase) and the outcomes (30-day mortality and in-hosptial complication) are provided. The dataset is cleaned and complete (no missing data except for BMI). There are […]
Abstract This dataset contains repeated measurements of tumor size from an animal xenograft experiment designed to compare four treatments for cancers. Study animals were n=37 mice with baseline tumor volumes of between40-60 mm3. Animals were assigned to either: 1) control (n=8); drug only (n=10); 3) radiation only (n=10); or 4) drug + radiation (n=9). Tumor […]
Abstract This data set contains 2,919 individual records of adults undergoing colorectal surgery. Age, gender, race, BMI, several risk factors, several surgical indices, vitamin D levels (on 5% of the patients, approx.), the key predictor (season) and the outcome (infection or not) are provided. The dataset is cleaned and complete (no missing data except for […]
Abstract This data set contains data obtained from “Acupuncture for chronic headache in primary care: large, pragmatic, randomized trial”, Andrew J Vickers, Rebecca W Rees, Catherine E Zollman, Rob McCarney, Claire M Smith, Nadia Ellis, Peter Fisher and Robbert Van Haselen, 2004 Mar 27;328(7442):744. This trial compared acupuncture therapy vs. no acupuncture therapy on headache […]
Abstract This is a subset of the Framingham Heart Study of the factors related to cardiovascular disease development. Data are measurements of 9 variables on 4,699 initially disease-free subjects measured at baseline. Blood pressure, gender, age, BMI, and serum cholesterol are available for use in predicting the development of heart disease using a time-to-event model […]