Synopses & Reviews
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 Journal 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.
Review
A reference volume which every underwriter should have readily available along with Medical Risks I and Medical Risks II.Journal of the Academy of Life Underwriters
Synopsis
This book is a collection of mortality abstracts, derived from recent issues of the Journal of Insurance Medicine, and a discussion of the methodology of creating such abstracts.
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