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J Robert Beck

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Josh Beck

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Markov models in medical decision making: a practical guide

FA Sonnenberg, JR Beck - Medical decision making, 1993 - journals.sagepub.com
Markov models are useful when a decision problem involves risk that is continuous over time,
when the timing of events is important, and when important events may happen more than …

Protein export into malaria parasite–infected erythrocytes: mechanisms and functional consequences

NJ Spillman, JR Beck… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
… However, follow-up experiments with epitope-tagged HSP101 have failed to further
substantiate this interaction (JR Beck & DE Goldberg, unpublished data). Furthermore, PM5 action …

The Markov process in medical prognosis

JR Beck, SG Pauker - Medical decision making, 1983 - journals.sagepub.com
The physician's estimate of prognosis under alternative treatment plans is a principal factor
in therapeutic decision making. Current methods of reporting prognosis, which include five-…

Cytoskeleton assembly in Toxoplasma gondii cell division

B Anderson-White, JR Beck, CT Chen… - International review of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Cell division across members of the protozoan parasite phylum Apicomplexa displays a
surprising diversity between different species as well as between different life stages of the …

The use of relative operating characteristic (ROC) curves in test performance evaluation.

JR Beck, EK Shultz - Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine, 1986 - europepmc.org
Relative (or receiver) operating characteristic (ROC) curves are a graphical representation
of the relationship between sensitivity and specificity of a laboratory test over all possible …

Why summary comorbidity measures such as the Charlson comorbidity index and Elixhauser score work

SR Austin, YN Wong, RG Uzzo, JR Beck… - Medical care, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Background: Comorbidity adjustment is an important component of health services research
and clinical prognosis. When adjusting for comorbidities in statistical models, researchers …

Time to surgery and breast cancer survival in the United States

RJ Bleicher, K Ruth, ER Sigurdson, JR Beck… - JAMA …, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Time to surgery (TTS) is of concern to patients and clinicians, but controversy
surrounds its effect on breast cancer survival. There remains little national data evaluating the …

A convenient approximation of life expectancy (the “DEALE”): II. Use in medical decision-making

JR Beck, SG Pauker, JE Gottlieb, K Klein… - The American journal of …, 1982 - Elsevier
We show how to use a bedside approximation of life expectancy in quantitative decision-making.
This method, the declining exponential approximation of life expectancy (DEALE), …

A convenient approximation of life expectancy (the “DEALE”): I. Validation of the method

JR Beck, JP Kassirer, SG Pauker - The American journal of medicine, 1982 - Elsevier
The physician developing a treatment plan for a particular patient often needs to know the
life expectancy associated with the outcomes of therapeutic choices. Currently available …

The parasitophorous vacuole of the blood-stage malaria parasite

JM Matz, JR Beck, MJ Blackman - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2020 - nature.com
The pathology of malaria is caused by infection of red blood cells with unicellular Plasmodium
parasites. During blood-stage development, the parasite replicates within a membrane-…