The democratic fallacy in matters of clinical opinion: implications for analysing cause-of-death data
Author(s): Byass Peter
Volume: 8
Issue: 1
Year: 2011




Conceptualising population health: from mechanistic thinking to complexity science
Author(s): Jayasinghe Saroj
Volume: 8
Issue: 1
Year: 2011




Assessing causal relationships in genomics: From Bradford-Hill criteria to complex gene-environment interactions and directed acyclic graphs
Author(s): Geneletti Sara | Gallo Valentina | Porta Miquel | Khoury Muin | Vineis Paolo
Volume: 8
Issue: 1
Year: 2011




Defining neurotrauma in administrative data using the International Classification of Diseases Tenth Revision
Author(s): Chen Amy | Colantonio Angela
Volume: 8
Issue: 1
Year: 2011




Testing bias in clinical databases: methodological considerations
Author(s): Velthove Karin | Leufkens Hubert | Souverein Patrick | Schweizer René | van Solinge Wouter
Volume: 7
Issue: 1
Year: 2010




Challenges in measuring measles case fatality ratios in settings without vital registration
Author(s): Cairns K Lisa | Nandy Robin | Grais Rebecca
Volume: 7
Issue: 1
Year: 2010




Sampling strategies to measure the prevalence of common recurrent infections in longitudinal studies
Author(s): Schmidt Wolf-Peter | Genser Bernd | Barreto Mauricio | Clasen Thomas | Luby Stephen | Cairncross Sandy | Chalabi Zaid
Volume: 7
Issue: 1
Year: 2010




Propensity scores in the presence of effect modification: A case study using the comparison of mortality on hemodialysis versus peritoneal dialysis
Author(s): Liem Ylian | Wong John | Hunink MG Myriam | de Charro Frank | Winkelmayer Wolfgang
Volume: 7
Issue: 1
Year: 2010




Bayes-LQAS: classifying the prevalence of global acute malnutrition
Author(s): Olives Casey | Pagano Marcello
Volume: 7
Issue: 1
Year: 2010




Can we apply the Mendelian randomization methodology without considering epigenetic effects?
Author(s): Ogbuanu Ikechukwu | Zhang Hongmei | Karmaus Wilfried
Volume: 6
Issue: 1
Year: 2009




Efficacy dilution in randomized placebo-controlled vaginal microbicide trials
Author(s): Mâsse Benoît | Boily Marie-Claude | Dimitrov Dobromir | Desai Kamal
Volume: 6
Issue: 1
Year: 2009




Seven mistakes and potential solutions in epidemiology, including a call for a World Council of Epidemiology and Causality
Author(s): Bhopal Raj
Volume: 6
Issue: 1
Year: 2009




Revisiting the relationship between baseline risk and risk under treatment
Author(s): Wang Hao | Boissel Jean-Pierre | Nony Patrice
Volume: 6
Issue: 1
Year: 2009




Methodological issues in estimating survival in patients with multiple primary cancers: an application to women with breast cancer as a first tumour
Author(s): Rosso Stefano | Ricceri Fulvio | Terracini Lea | Zanetti Roberto
Volume: 6
Issue: 1
Year: 2009




Development of a quality assessment tool for systematic reviews of observational studies (QATSO) of HIV prevalence in men having sex with men and associated risk behaviours
Author(s): Wong William | Cheung Catherine | Hart Graham
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Year: 2008




The role of causal reasoning in understanding Simpson's paradox, Lord's paradox, and the suppression effect: covariate selection in the analysis of observational studies
Author(s): Arah Onyebuchi
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Year: 2008




Issues in the construction of wealth indices for the measurement of socio-economic position in low-income countries
Author(s): Howe Laura | Hargreaves James | Huttly Sharon
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Year: 2008




Old and new cluster designs in emergency field surveys: in search of a one-fits-all solution
Author(s): Bilukha Oleg
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Year: 2008




Open access for the non-English-speaking world: overcoming the language barrier
Author(s): Fung Isaac
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Year: 2008




Persisting with prevention: The importance of adherence for HIV prevention
Author(s): Weiss Helen | Wasserheit Judith | Barnabas Ruanne | Hayes Richard | Abu-Raddad Laith
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Year: 2008




(Errors in statistical tests)3
Author(s): Phillips Carl | MacLehose Richard | Kaufman Jay
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Year: 2008




Harnessing the wealth of Chinese scientific literature: schistosomiasis research and control in China
Author(s): Liu Qin | Tian Li-Guang | Xiao Shu-Hua | Qi Zhen | Steinmann Peter | Mak Tippi | Utzinger Jürg | Zhou Xiao-Nong
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Year: 2008




Interpreting results of cluster surveys in emergency settings: is the LQAS test the best option?
Author(s): Bilukha Oleg | Blanton Curtis
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Year: 2008




Questions on causality and responsibility arising from an outbreak of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in Norway
Author(s): Iversen Bjørn | Hofmann Bjørn | Aavitsland Preben
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Year: 2008




Enhancing access to reports of randomized trials published world-wide – the contribution of EMBASE records to the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) in The Cochrane Library
Author(s): Lefebvre Carol | Eisinga Anne | McDonald Steve | Paul Nina
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Year: 2008




Revised estimates of influenza-associated excess mortality, United States, 1995 through 2005
Author(s): Foppa Ivo | Hossain Md Monir
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Year: 2008




Index medicus for the Eastern Mediterranean region
Author(s): Al-Shorbaji Najeeb
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Year: 2008




Simpson's Paradox, Lord's Paradox, and Suppression Effects are the same phenomenon – the reversal paradox
Author(s): Tu Yu-Kang | Gunnell David | Gilthorpe Mark
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Year: 2008




Biomedical journals and databases in Russia and Russian language in the former Soviet Union and beyond
Author(s): Vlassov Vasiliy | Danishevskiy Kirill
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Year: 2008




Seek, and ye shall find: Accessing the global epidemiological literature in different languages
Author(s): Fung Isaac
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Year: 2008




Precision, time, and cost: a comparison of three sampling designs in an emergency setting
Author(s): Deitchler Megan | Deconinck Hedwig | Bergeron Gilles
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Year: 2008




Citation of non-English peer review publications – some Chinese examples
Author(s): Fung Isaac
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Year: 2008




Public health and epidemiology journals published in Brazil and other Portuguese speaking countries
Author(s): Barreto Mauricio | Barata Rita
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Year: 2008




Hispanic Latin America, Spain and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean: A rich source of reference material for public health, epidemiology and tropical medicine
Author(s): Williams John | Bórquez Annick | Basáñez María-Gloria
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Year: 2008




Widespread rape does not directly appear to increase the overall HIV prevalence in conflict-affected countries: so now what?
Author(s): Anema Aranka | Joffres Michel | Mills Edward | Spiegel Paul
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Year: 2008




Does language matter? A case study of epidemiological and public health journals, databases and professional education in French, German and Italian
Author(s): Baussano Iacopo | Brzoska Patrick | Fedeli Ugo | Larouche Claudia | Razum Oliver | Fung Isaac
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Year: 2008




Cars, corporations, and commodities: Consequences for the social determinants of health
Author(s): Woodcock James | Aldred Rachel
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Year: 2008




Sample size requirements to detect the effect of a group of genetic variants in case-control studies
Author(s): Moonesinghe Ramal | Yang Quanhe | Khoury Muin
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Year: 2008




Who should be undertaking population-based surveys in humanitarian emergencies?
Author(s): Spiegel Paul
Volume: 4
Issue: 1
Year: 2007




Early efforts in modeling the incubation period of infectious diseases with an acute course of illness
Author(s): Nishiura Hiroshi
Volume: 4
Issue: 1
Year: 2007




A review of methodology and analysis of nutrition and mortality surveys conducted in humanitarian emergencies from October 1993 to April 2004
Author(s): Prudhon Claudine | Spiegel Paul
Volume: 4
Issue: 1
Year: 2007




Estimating the role of casual contact from the community in transmission of Bordetella pertussis to young infants
Author(s): Wendelboe Aaron | Hudgens Michael | Poole Charles | Van Rie Annelies
Volume: 4
Issue: 1
Year: 2007




Sampling in health geography: reconciling geographical objectives and probabilistic methods. An example of a health survey in Vientiane (Lao PDR)
Author(s): Vallée Julie | Souris Marc | Fournet Florence | Bochaton Audrey | Mobillion Virginie | Peyronnie Karine | Salem Gérard
Volume: 4
Issue: 1
Year: 2007




Don't spin the pen: two alternative methods for second-stage sampling in urban cluster surveys
Author(s): Grais Rebecca | Rose Angela | Guthmann Jean-Paul
Volume: 4
Issue: 1
Year: 2007




Mortality and nutrition surveys by Non-Governmental organisations. Perspectives from the CE-DAT database
Author(s): Degomme Olivier | Guha-Sapir Debarati
Volume: 4
Issue: 1
Year: 2007




The use of personal digital assistants for data entry at the point of collection in a large household survey in southern Tanzania
Author(s): Shirima Kizito | Mukasa Oscar | Schellenberg Joanna | Manzi Fatuma | John Davis | Mushi Adiel | Mrisho Mwifadhi | Tanner Marcel | Mshinda Hassan | Schellenberg David
Volume: 4
Issue: 1
Year: 2007




Age standardisation – an indigenous standard?
Author(s): Robson Bridget | Purdie Gordon | Cram Fiona | Simmonds Shirley
Volume: 4
Issue: 1
Year: 2007




Geographic variation and localised clustering of congenital anomalies in Great Britain
Author(s): Armstrong Ben | Dolk Helen | Pattenden Sam | Vrijheid Martine | Loane Maria | Rankin Judith | Dunn Chris | Grundy Chris | Abramsky Lenore | Boyd Patricia | Stone David | Wellesley Diana
Volume: 4
Issue: 1
Year: 2007




Risk factor studies of age-at-onset in a sample ascertained for Parkinson disease affected sibling pairs: a cautionary tale
Author(s): Wilk Jemma | Lash Timothy
Volume: 4
Issue: 1
Year: 2007



