Medical Risks: 1991 Compend of Mortality and Morbidity

by Richard B. Singer, Michael W. Kita, John R. Avery

Overview

This book is a collection of mortality abstracts based on recent follow-up studies on the results of health disorders from the abstracts and articles appearing recently in the Jourbanal of Insurance Medicine. The widely different types of investigators who may have repeated need of outcome data (death or morbid event) in a particular disease or risk factor will find this collection invaluable. Such a collection is valuable not only to users in the insurance industry, but to all physicians and health scientists who are interested in prognosis of chronic diseases, in clinical trials, in cost/benefit questions, in clinical decision-making, and similar fields of inquiry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275945534
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/21/1994
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

RICHARD B. SINGER, M.D., is a consultant in medical risk appraisal.

MICHAEL W. KITA, M.D., is Vice-President and Chief Medical Director of the UNUM Life Insurance Company of America.

JOHN R. AVERY is Director, Center of Medico-Actuarial Statistics at MIB, Inc.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contributors
Chapter Text
Introduction
Mortality Methodology
Mortality Methodology—Additional Aspects
Guidelines for Evaluation of Follow-Up Articles and Preparation of Mortality Abstracts
A Classification System for Mortality and Morbidity Abstracts and Related Data
Commentary on Abstracts and Articles
Abstracts and Articles
Contributor Index
Subject Index
Reference List