Naslov
Holistic approach to analysis of medical data: Cervical cancer

Autori
Buković, Damir ; Rudan, Igor ; Đelmiš, Josip ; Štimac, Goran ; Rubala, Drago

Izvornik
Collegium Antropologicum (0350-6134) 20 (1996), 2; 479-488

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
factor analysis; cervical cancer; multidisciplinarity

Sažetak
This study is the second in the series of studies on holistic approach to analysis of medical data. Namely, besides the information regarding his/her disease, each hospitalized cancer patient also provides the variety of data regarding his/her psychological, cultural, social, economical, genetic, constitutional and medical background. The aim of this series of studies is to introduce a model for holistic approach to analysis of medical data, in this case clinical data regarding cervical cancer. The model requires the collection of as many such data as possible for each patient in the sample, and after the satisfactory sample size is obtained (which should be at least five times greater than the number of examined patient characteristics), the performance of factor analysis. In this particular study the authors have processed the data regarding 25 characteristics of 1000 consecutive cervical cancer patients treated between 1988 and 1990 at the Department for Gynecological Oncology of the University Hospital for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Zagreb, Croatia.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Temeljne medicinske znanosti, Kliničke medicinske znanosti, Javno zdravstvo i zdravstvena zaštita

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