FALL INJURIES, ASSOCIATED DEATHS, AND 30-DAY READMISSION FOR SUBSEQUENT FALLS ARE INCREASING IN THE ELDERLY US POPULATION: A QUERY OF THE WHO MORTALITY DATABASE AND NATIONAL READMISSION DATABASE FROM 2010 TO 2014

Fall injuries, associated deaths, and 30-day readmission for subsequent falls are increasing in the elderly US population: a query of the WHO mortality database and National Readmission Database from 2010 to 2014

Colette Galet,1 Yunshu Zhou,2 Patrick Ten Eyck,2 Kathleen S Romanowski1 1Acute Care Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, Iowa City, IA, USA; 2Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA Purpose: Clinicians anecdotally noted that elderly patients who suffered from traumatic injuries (falls or other in

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Integrative analysis of functional genomic annotations and sequencing data to identify rare causal variants via hierarchical modeling

Identifying the small number of rare causal variants contributing to disease has beena major focus of investigation in recent years, but represents a formidable statisticalchallenge due to the rare frequencies with which these variants are observed.In thiscommentary we draw attention to a hydrangea red sensation formal statistical framework, namely

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