Prognosis Research in Healthcare : Concepts, Methods, and Impact

This book is an introduction to the field of prognosis, and a discussion of how the information collected during prognosis research can be used to predict an individual patient's outcome. It looks at how we can develop target treatments based on prognosis research.

Richard D. Riley, Professor of Biostatistics, Research Institute of Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, UK,Danielle van der Windt, Professor of Primary Care Epidemiology, Research Institute of Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, UK,Peter Croft, Professor of Primary Care Epidemiology, Research Institute of Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, UK,Karel G.M. Moons, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, Utrecht University Medical Centre, The Netherlands

Richard D. Riley is a Professor of Biostatistics at Keele University since 2014, having previous held posts at the Universities of Birmingham, Liverpool and Leicester. He is focused on statistical and methodological research for prognosis and meta-analysis, and supports clinical projects in these areas. He is also a Statistics Editor for the BMJ and a co-convenor of the Cochrane Prognosis Methods Group. Prof Riley co-leads a summer school in Prognosis Research Methods, and leads a number of statistical training courses for risk prediction and meta-analysis

Professor Danielle van der Windt received her academic training in epidemiology in the Netherlands at the EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research of the VU University in Amsterdam where she worked in a programme of research on the diagnosis, prognosis and management of musculoskeletal disorders. She is currently a Professor of primary care epidemiology at Keele, and is part of the Centre's executive management team

Professor Peter Croft is a Professor of Primary Care Epidemiology at Keele since 1994. Previously, he worked as a General Practitioner in Newcastle-under-Lyme, before training as an epidemiologist at the Medical Research Council's Environmental Epidemiology Unit in Southampton, and at the Arthritis Research Campaign's Epidemiology Research Unit in Manchester

Professor Karel G.M. Moons is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care. He is Director of Research in the management team of the Julius Center, and leads the research programme 'Methodology'. Since 2005 also he has an Adjunct Professorship at VanderBilt University, Nashville, USA. Having obtained his PhD in Epidemiology at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, he has been Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA in 2002, and at Tokai University, Japan.