Multilevel Analysis
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Relationship between the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection and indicators of nosocomial infection control measures: a population-based study in French hospitals.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: To assess whether infection control indicators are associated with the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection in French hospitals. METHODS: We linked the database for the 2006 national prevalence survey ... Read more...

Association between attendance at religious services and self-reported health in 22 European countries.

30 Jul 2009 There are consistent reports of protective associations between attendance at religious services and better self-rated health but existing data rarely consider the social or individual context of religious behaviour. This paper investigates whether ... Read more...

Is physician adherence to prescription guidelines a general trait of health care practices or dependent on drug type?--a multilevel logistic regression analysis in South Sweden.

30 Jul 2009 PURPOSE: Therapeutic traditions at health care practices (HCPs) influence physicians' adherence to prescription guidelines for specific drugs, however, it is not known if such traditions affect all kinds of prescriptions or only specific types of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Multilevel Analysis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Relationship between the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection and indicators of nosocomial infection control measures: a population-based study in French hospitals. 30 Aug 2009
• Association between attendance at religious services and self-reported health in 22 European countries. 30 Jul 2009
• Is physician adherence to prescription guidelines a general trait of health care practices or dependent on drug type?--a multilevel logistic regression analysis in South Sweden. 30 Jul 2009
• Urban built environments and trajectories of mobility disability: findings from a national sample of community-dwelling American adults (1986-2001). 26 Jul 2009
• Social capital and perceived health in Japan: an ecological and multilevel analysis. 30 Jun 2009
• The different effects of vertical social capital and horizontal social capital on dental status: a multilevel analysis. 29 Jun 2009
• Improving multilevel analyses: the integrated epidemiologic design. 29 Jun 2009
• Multilevel modeling of direct effects and interactions of peers, parents, school, and community influences on adolescent substance use. 10 Jun 2009
• Social capital, income inequality and self-rated health in Chita peninsula, Japan: a multilevel analysis of older people in 25 communities. 9 Jun 2009
• Shaping attitudes about homosexuality: the role of religion and cultural context. 30 May 2009
• Socioeconomic context and the association between marriage and Mexico-U.S. migration. 30 May 2009
• Coping-anxiety and coping-depression motives predict different daily mood-drinking relationships. 30 May 2009
• Interpersonal problems and negative mood as predictors of within-day time to drinking. 30 May 2009
• The association between observed parental emotion socialization and adolescent self-medication. 29 Apr 2009
• Predicting change in children's aggression and victimization using classroom-level descriptive norms of aggression and pro-social behavior. 26 Apr 2009
• Dutch obesity intervention in teenagers: effectiveness of a school-based program on body composition and behavior. 30 Mar 2009
• Use of posterior predictive assessments to evaluate model fit in multilevel logistic regression. 26 Mar 2009
• Extent of peri-implantitis-associated bone loss. 9 Mar 2009
• The development of gendered interests and personality qualities from middle childhood through adolescence: a biosocial analysis. 27 Feb 2009
• Social dominance in adolescence: the moderating role of the classroom context and behavioral heterogeneity. 27 Feb 2009

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Technical information about 'Multilevel Analysis'

Definition: The statistical manipulation of hierarchically and non-hierarchically nested data. It includes clustered data, such as a sample of subjects within a group of schools. Prevalent in the social, behavioral sciences, and biomedical sciences, both linear and nonlinear regression models are applied.

Descriptor UI: D055361

Alternative terms: Multilevel Analysis; Analyses, Multilevel; Analysis, Multilevel; Multilevel Analyses;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; ethics;

Tree Number: N06.850.520.830.562;

History Note: 2009