Items where Faculty or Department is "Dept of Medical Statistics"

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December 2020

Estimated transmissibility and impact of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 in England. (2020) Davies, Nicholas G; Abbott, Sam; Barnard, Rosanna C; Jarvis, Christopher I; Kucharski, Adam J; Munday, James D; Pearson, Carl AB; Russell, Timothy W; Tully, Damien C; Washburne, Alex D; Wenseleers, Tom; Gimma, Amy; Waites, William; Wong, Kerry LM; van Zandvoort, Kevin; Silverman, Justin D; Diaz-Ordaz, Karla; Keogh, Ruth; Eggo, Rosalind M; Funk, Sebastian; Jit, Mark; Atkins, Katherine E; Edmunds, W John picture_as_pdf

Unwarranted optimism about vaccine efficacy. (2020) Skegg, David; Pearce, Neil

Faecal immunochemical testing in bowel cancer screening: Estimating outcomes for different diagnostic policies. (2020) Li, Shuping J; Sharples, Linda D; Benton, Sally C; Blyuss, Oleg; Mathews, Christopher; Sasieni, Peter; Duffy, Stephen W

Cystic Fibrosis Point of Personalized Detection (CFPOPD): An Interactive Web Application. (2020) Wolfe, Christopher; Pestian, Teresa; Gecili, Emrah; Su, Weiji; Keogh, Ruth H; Pestian, John P; Seid, Michael; Diggle, Peter J; Ziady, Assem; Clancy, John Paul; Grossoehme, Daniel H; Szczesniak, Rhonda D; Brokamp, Cole

Boys are more likely to be undernourished than girls: A systematic review and meta-analysis of sex differences in undernutrition. (2020) Thurstans, Susan; Opondo, Charles; Seal, Andrew; Wells, Jonathan C; Khara, Tanya; Dolan, Carmel; Briend, André; Myatt, Mark; Garenne, Michel; Sear, Rebecca; Kerac, Marko

Broad cross-national public support for accelerated COVID-19 vaccine trial designs. (2020) Broockman, David; Kalla, Joshua; Guerrero, Alexander; Budolfson, Mark; Eyal, Nir; Jewell, Nicholas P; Magalhaes, Monica; Sekhon, Jasjeet S

Design of a prospective patient-level pooled analysis of two parallel trials of empagliflozin in patients with established heart failure. (2020) Packer, Milton; Butler, Javed; Filippatos, Gerasimos; Zannad, Faiez; Ferreira, Joao Pedro; Zeller, Cordula; Brueckmann, Martina; Jamal, Waheed; Pocock, Stuart J; Anker, Stefan D; EMPEROR Trial Committees and Investigators picture_as_pdf

Impact of obstetric unit closures, travel time and distance to obstetric services on maternal and neonatal outcomes in high-income countries: a systematic review. (2020) Malouf, Reem Saleem; Tomlinson, Claire; Henderson, Jane; Opondo, Charles; Brocklehurst, Peter; Alderdice, Fiona; Phalguni, Angaja; Dretzke, Janine

Engagement With a Behavior Change App for Alcohol Reduction: Data Visualization for Longitudinal Observational Study (Preprint). (2020) Bell, Lauren; Garnett, Claire; Qian, Tianchen; Perski, Olga; Williamson, Elizabeth; Potts, Henry WW

Engagement With a Behavior Change App for Alcohol Reduction: Data Visualization for Longitudinal Observational Study. (2020) Bell, Lauren; Garnett, Claire; Qian, Tianchen; Perski, Olga; Williamson, Elizabeth; Potts, Henry Ww

Early initiation of prophylactic anticoagulation for prevention of COVID-19 mortality: a nationwide cohort study of hospitalized patients in the United States. (2020) Rentsch, Christopher T; Beckman, Joshua A; Tomlinson, Laurie; Gellad, Walid F; Alcorn, Charles; Kidwai-Khan, Farah; Skanderson, Melissa; Brittain, Evan; King, Joseph T; Ho, Yuk-Lam; Eden, Svetlana; Kundu, Suman; Lann, Michael F; Greevy, Robert A; Ho, P Michael; Heidenreich, Paul A; Jacobson, Daniel A; Douglas, Ian J; Tate, Janet P; Evans, Stephen Jw; Atkins, David; Justice, Amy C; Freiberg, Matthew S

Reply to: Versatility of the clone-censor-weight approach: response to ''trial emulation in the presence of immortal-time bias''. (2020) Maringe, Camille; Benitez Majano, Sara; Exarchakou, Aimilia; Smith, Matthew; Rachet, Bernard; Belot, Aurélien; Leyrat, Clémence

Long-Term Outcomes of the Good School Toolkit Primary School Violence Prevention Intervention Among Adolescents: Protocol for a Nonrandomized Quasi-Experimental Study. (2020) Knight, Louise; Atuhaire, Lydia; Allen, Elizabeth; Namy, Sophie; Anton-Erxleben, Katharina; Nakuti, Janet; Mirembe, Angel Faridah; Nakiboneka, Mastula; Seeley, Janet; Weiss, Helen A; Parkes, Jenny; Bonell, Chris; Naker, Dipak; Devries, Karen

OpenSAFELY: impact of national guidance on switching from warfarin to direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) in early phase of COVID-19 pandemic in England. (2020) Curtis, Helen J; MacKenna, Brian; Walker, Alex J; Croker, Richard; Mehrkar, Amir; Morton, Caroline E; Bacon, Seb; Hickman, George; Inglesby, Peter; Bates, Chris; Evans, David; Ward, Tom; Cockburn, Jonathan; Davy, Simon; Bhaskaran, Krishnan; Schultze, Anna; Rentsch, Christopher T; Williamson, Elizabeth; Hulme, William; McDonald, Helen I; Tomlinson, Laurie; Mathur, Rohini; Drysdale, Henry; Eggo, Rosalind M; Wing, Kevin; Wong, Angel YS; Forbes, Harriet; Parry, John; Hester, Frank; Harper, Sam; Evans, Stephen JW; Douglas, Ian J; Smeeth, Liam; Goldacre, Ben

Exclusion of enrolled participants in randomised controlled trials: what to do with ineligible participants? (2020) Rehman, Andrea M; Ferrand, Rashida; Allen, Elizabeth; Simms, Victoria; McHugh, Grace; Weiss, Helen Anne

Validation and development of models using clinical, biochemical and ultrasound markers for predicting pre-eclampsia: an individual participant data meta-analysis. (2020) Allotey, John; Snell, Kym Ie; Smuk, Melanie; Hooper, Richard; Chan, Claire L; Ahmed, Asif; Chappell, Lucy C; von Dadelszen, Peter; Dodds, Julie; Green, Marcus; Kenny, Louise; Khalil, Asma; Khan, Khalid S; Mol, Ben W; Myers, Jenny; Poston, Lucilla; Thilaganathan, Basky; Staff, Anne C; Smith, Gordon Cs; Ganzevoort, Wessel; Laivuori, Hannele; Odibo, Anthony O; Ramírez, Javier A; Kingdom, John; Daskalakis, George; Farrar, Diane; Baschat, Ahmet A; Seed, Paul T; Prefumo, Federico; da Silva Costa, Fabricio; Groen, Henk; Audibert, Francois; Masse, Jacques; Skråstad, Ragnhild B; Salvesen, Kjell Å; Haavaldsen, Camilla; Nagata, Chie; Rumbold, Alice R; Heinonen, Seppo; Askie, Lisa M; Smits, Luc Jm; Vinter, Christina A; Magnus, Per M; Eero, Kajantie; Villa, Pia M; Jenum, Anne K; Andersen, Louise B; Norman, Jane E; Ohkuchi, Akihide; Eskild, Anne; Bhattacharya, Sohinee; McAuliffe, Fionnuala M; Galindo, Alberto; Herraiz, Ignacio; Carbillon, Lionel; Klipstein-Grobusch, Kerstin; Yeo, SeonAe; Teede, Helena J; Browne, Joyce L; Moons, Karel Gm; Riley, Richard D; Thangaratinam, Shakila

Baseline characteristics of patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in the EMPEROR-Preserved trial. (2020) Anker, Stefan D; Butler, Javed; Filippatos, Gerasimos; Shahzeb Khan, Muhammad; Ferreira, João Pedro; Bocchi, Edimar; Böhm, Michael; Brunner-La Rocca, Hans Pieter; Choi, Dong-Ju; Chopra, Vijay; Chuquiure, Eduardo; Giannetti, Nadia; Gomez-Mesa, Juan Esteban; Janssens, Stefan; Januzzi, James L; Gonzalez-Juanatey, Jose R; Merkely, Bela; Nicholls, Stephen J; Perrone, Sergio V; Piña, Ileana L; Ponikowski, Piotr; Senni, Michele; Seronde, Marie-France; Sim, David; Spinar, Jindrich; Squire, Iain; Taddei, Stefano; Tsutsui, Hiroyuki; Verma, Subodh; Vinereanu, Dragos; Zhang, Jian; Jamal, Waheed; Schnaidt, Sven; Schnee, Janet M; Brueckmann, Martina; Pocock, Stuart J; Zannad, Faiez; Packer, Milton; EMPEROR-Preserved Trial Committees and Investigators

Stopping renin-angiotensin system blockers after acute kidney injury and risk of adverse outcomes: parallel population-based cohort studies in English and Swedish routine care. (2020) Bidulka, Patrick; Fu, Edouard L; Leyrat, Clémence; Kalogirou, Fotini; McAllister, Katherine SL; Kingdon, Edward J; Mansfield, Kathryn E; Iwagami, Masao; Smeeth, Liam; Clase, Catherine M; Bhaskaran, Krishnan; van Diepen, Merel; Carrero, Juan-Jesus; Nitsch, Dorothea; Tomlinson, Laurie A

Estimating the Lifetime Benefits of Treatments for Heart Failure. (2020) Ferreira, João Pedro; Docherty, Kieran F; Stienen, Susan; Jhund, Pardeep S; Claggett, Brian L; Solomon, Scott D; Petrie, Mark C; Gregson, John; Pocock, Stuart J; Zannad, Faiez; McMurray, John JV

Conditional Cash Transfer Program and Leprosy Incidence: Analysis of 12.9 Million Families From the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort. (2020) Pescarini, Julia M; Williamson, Elizabeth; Ichihara, Maria Y; Fiaccone, Rosemeire L; Forastiere, Laura; Ramond, Anna; Nery, Joilda Silva; Penna, Maria Lucia F; Strina, Agostino; Reis, Sandra; Smeeth, Liam; Rodrigues, Laura C; Brickley, Elizabeth B; Penna, Gerson O; Barreto, Mauricio L

The HOME Study: Statistical and economic analysis plan for a randomised controlled trial comparing the addition of Proactive Psychological Medicine to usual care, with usual care alone, on the  time spent in hospital by older acute hospital inpatients. (2020) Magill, Nicholas; White, Ian R; Walker, Jane; Burke, Katy; Toynbee, Mark; van Niekerk, Maike; Yang, Fan; Walker, Simon; Sculpher, Mark; Sharpe, Michael; Frost, Chris

November 2020

Optimizing the efficiency and implementation of cash transfers to improve adherence to antiretroviral therapy: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial. (2020) Packel, Laura; Njau, Prosper; Fahey, Carolyn; Ramadhani, Angela; Dow, William H; Jewell, Nicholas P; McCoy, Sandra

Nonlinear mediation analysis with high-dimensional mediators whose causal structure is unknown. (2020) Loh, Wen Wei; Moerkerke, Beatrijs; Loeys, Tom; Vansteelandt, Stijn

Is night-time light intensity associated with cardiovascular disease risk factors among adults in early-stage urbanisation in South India? A cross-sectional study of the Andhra Pradesh Children and Parents Study. (2020) Sorensen, Tina Bonde; Wilson, Robin; Gregson, John; Shankar, Bhavani; Dangour, Alan D; Kinra, Sanjay

First line drug treatment for hypertension and reductions in blood pressure according to age and ethnicity: cohort study in UK primary care. (2020) Sinnott, Sarah-Jo; Douglas, Ian J; Smeeth, Liam; Williamson, Elizabeth; Tomlinson, Laurie A

Global Asthma Network Phase I Surveillance: Geographical Coverage and Response Rates. (2020) Ellwood, Philippa; Ellwood, Eamon; Rutter, Charlotte; Perez-Fernandez, Virginia; Morales, Eva; García-Marcos, Luis; Pearce, Neil; Asher, M Innes; Strachan, David; On Behalf Of The Gan Phase I Study Group

Management of Gastroschisis: Results From the NETS2G Study, a Joint British, Irish, and Canadian Prospective Cohort Study of 1268 Infants. (2020) Allin, Benjamin SR; Opondo, Charles; Kurinczuk, Jennifer J; Baird, Rob; Puligandla, P; Skarsgard, Erik; Knight, Marian; on behalf of the BAPS-CASS/NETS

Health on the Move (HOME) Study: Using a smartphone app to explore the health and wellbeing of migrants in the United Kingdom. (2020) Aldridge, Robert W; Burns, Rachel; Kirkby, Victoria; Elsay, Nadia; Murray, Elizabeth; Perski, Olga; Navaratnam, Annalan M; Williamson, Elizabeth J; Nieto-Martínez, Ramfis; Miranda, J Jaime; Hugenholtz, Greg CG

Effect of Empagliflozin on Cardiovascular and Renal Outcomes in Patients With Heart Failure by Baseline Diabetes Status: Results From the EMPEROR-Reduced Trial. (2020) Anker, Stefan D; Butler, Javed; Filippatos, Gerasimos; Khan, Muhammad Shahzeb; Marx, Nikolaus; Lam, Carolyn SP; Schnaidt, Sven; Ofstad, Anne Pernille; Brueckmann, Martina; Jamal, Waheed; Bocchi, Edimar A; Ponikowski, Piotr; Perrone, Sergio V; Januzzi, James L; Verma, Subodh; Böhm, Michael; Ferreira, João Pedro; Pocock, Stuart J; Zannad, Faiez; Packer, Milton

Informative presence and observation in routine health data: A review of methodology for clinical risk prediction. (2020) Sisk, Rose; Lin, Lijing; Sperrin, Matthew; Barrett, Jessica K; Tom, Brian; Diaz-Ordaz, Karla; Peek, Niels; Martin, Glen P

Relationship between nitrate headache and outcome in patients with acute stroke: results from the efficacy of nitric oxide in stroke (ENOS) trial. (2020) Beishon, Lucy; Woodhouse, Lisa J; Bereczki, Daniel; Christensen, Hanne K; Collins, Ronan; Gommans, John; Kruuse, Christina; Ntaios, George; Ozturk, Serefnur; Phillips, Stephen; Pocock, Stuart; Szatmari, Szabolcs; Wardlaw, Joanna; Sprigg, Nikola; Bath, Philip M; for ENOS Investigators

Effect of pre-exposure use of hydroxychloroquine on COVID-19 mortality: a population-based cohort study in patients with rheumatoid arthritis or systemic lupus erythematosus using the OpenSAFELY platform. (2020) Rentsch, Christopher T; DeVito, Nicholas J; MacKenna, Brian; Morton, Caroline E; Bhaskaran, Krishnan; Brown, Jeremy P; Schultze, Anna; Hulme, William J; Croker, Richard; Walker, Alex J; Williamson, Elizabeth J; Bates, Chris; Bacon, Seb; Mehrkar, Amir; Curtis, Helen J; Evans, David; Wing, Kevin; Inglesby, Peter; Mathur, Rohini; Drysdale, Henry; Wong, Angel YS; McDonald, Helen I; Cockburn, Jonathan; Forbes, Harriet; Parry, John; Hester, Frank; Harper, Sam; Smeeth, Liam; Douglas, Ian J; Dixon, William G; Evans, Stephen JW; Tomlinson, Laurie; Goldacre, Ben

Hydroxychloroquine for prevention of COVID-19 mortality: a population-based cohort study. (2020) Rentsch, Christopher T; DeVito, Nicholas J; MacKenna, Brian; Morton, Caroline E; Bhaskaran, Krishnan; Brown, Jeremy P; Schultze, Anna; J Hulme, William; Croker, Richard; Walker, Alex J; Williamson, Elizabeth J; Bates, Chris; Bacon, Seb; Mehrkar, Amir; Curtis, Helen J; Evans, David; Wing, Kevin; Inglesby, Peter; Mathur, Rohini; Drysdale, Henry; Wong, Angel YS; McDonald, Helen I; Cockburn, Jonathan; Forbes, Harriet; Parry, John; Hester, Frank; Harper, Sam; Smeeth, Liam; Douglas, Ian J; Dixon, William G; Evans, Stephen JW; Tomlinson, Laurie; Goldacre, Ben

Mediators of change in cognitive behavior therapy and interpersonal psychotherapy for eating disorders: A secondary analysis of a transdiagnostic randomized controlled trial. (2020) Sivyer, Katy; Allen, Elizabeth; Cooper, Zafra; Bailey-Straebler, Suzanne; O'Connor, Marianne E; Fairburn, Christopher G; Murphy, Rebecca

Metabolomics datasets in the Born in Bradford cohort. (2020) Taylor, Kurt; McBride, Nancy; J Goulding, Neil; Burrows, Kimberley; Mason, Dan; Pembrey, Lucy; Yang, Tiffany; Azad, Rafaq; Wright, John; A Lawlor, Deborah

Diabetes association with self-reported health, resource utilization, and prognosis post-myocardial infarction. (2020) Nicolau, José C; Brieger, David; Owen, Ruth; Furtado, Remo HM; Goodman, Shaun G; Cohen, Mauricio G; Simon, Tabassome; Westermann, Dirk; Granger, Christopher B; Grieve, Richard; Yasuda, Satoshi; Chen, Jiyan; Hedman, Katarina; Mellström, Carl; Brandrup-Wognsen, Gunnar; Pocock, Stuart J

Outcomes at five to eight years of age for children with Hirschsprung's disease. (2020) Allin, Benjamin Saul Raywood; Opondo, Charles; Bradnock, Timothy John; Kenny, Simon Edward; Kurinczuk, Jennifer J; Walker, Gregor M; Knight, Marian; NETS2HD collaboration

Association between living with children and outcomes from COVID-19: an OpenSAFELY cohort study of 12 million adults in England. (2020) Forbes, Harriet; Morton, Caroline E; Bacon, Seb; McDonald, Helen I; Minassian, Caroline; Brown, Jeremy P; Rentsch, Christopher T; Mathur, Rohini; Schultze, Anna; DeVito, Nicholas J; MacKenna, Brian; Hulme, William J; Croker, Richard; Walker, Alex J; Williamson, Elizabeth J; Bates, Chris; Mehrkar, Amir; Curtis, Helen J; Evans, David; Wing, Kevin; Inglesby, Peter; Drysdale, Henry; Wong, Angel YS; Cockburn, Jonathan; McManus, Robert; Parry, John; Hester, Frank; Harper, Sam; Douglas, Ian J; Smeeth, Liam; Evans, Stephen JW; Bhaskaran, Krishnan; Eggo, Rosalind M; Goldacre, Ben; Tomlinson, Laurie A

External validation of prognostic models predicting pre-eclampsia: individual participant data meta-analysis. (2020) Snell, Kym IE; Allotey, John; Smuk, Melanie; Hooper, Richard; Chan, Claire; Ahmed, Asif; Chappell, Lucy C; Von Dadelszen, Peter; Green, Marcus; Kenny, Louise; Khalil, Asma; Khan, Khalid S; Mol, Ben W; Myers, Jenny; Poston, Lucilla; Thilaganathan, Basky; Staff, Anne C; Smith, Gordon CS; Ganzevoort, Wessel; Laivuori, Hannele; Odibo, Anthony O; Arenas Ramírez, Javier; Kingdom, John; Daskalakis, George; Farrar, Diane; Baschat, Ahmet A; Seed, Paul T; Prefumo, Federico; da Silva Costa, Fabricio; Groen, Henk; Audibert, Francois; Masse, Jacques; Skråstad, Ragnhild B; Salvesen, Kjell Å; Haavaldsen, Camilla; Nagata, Chie; Rumbold, Alice R; Heinonen, Seppo; Askie, Lisa M; Smits, Luc JM; Vinter, Christina A; Magnus, Per; Eero, Kajantie; Villa, Pia M; Jenum, Anne K; Andersen, Louise B; Norman, Jane E; Ohkuchi, Akihide; Eskild, Anne; Bhattacharya, Sohinee; McAuliffe, Fionnuala M; Galindo, Alberto; Herraiz, Ignacio; Carbillon, Lionel; Klipstein-Grobusch, Kerstin; Yeo, Seon Ae; Browne, Joyce L; Moons, Karel GM; Riley, Richard D; Thangaratinam, Shakila; IPPIC Collaborative Network

Quantitative Bias Analysis for a Misclassified Confounder: A Comparison Between Marginal Structural Models and Conditional Models for Point Treatments. (2020) Nab, Linda; Groenwold, Rolf HH; van Smeden, Maarten; Keogh, Ruth H

Understanding the cumulative risk of maternal prenatal biopsychosocial factors on birth weight: a DynaHEALTH study on two birth cohorts. (2020) Parmar, Priyanka; Lowry, Estelle; Vehmeijer, Florianne; El Marroun, Hanan; Lewin, Alex; Tolvanen, Mimmi; Tzala, Evangelia; Ala-Mursula, Leena; Herzig, Karl-Heinz; Miettunen, Jouko; Prokopenko, Inga; Rautio, Nina; Jaddoe, Vincent Wv; Järvelin, Marjo-Riitta; Felix, Janine; Sebert, Sylvain

Risk of COVID-19-related death among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or asthma prescribed inhaled corticosteroids: an observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform. (2020) Schultze, Anna; Walker, Alex J; MacKenna, Brian; Morton, Caroline E; Bhaskaran, Krishnan; Brown, Jeremy P; Rentsch, Christopher T; Williamson, Elizabeth; Drysdale, Henry; Croker, Richard; Bacon, Seb; Hulme, William; Bates, Chris; Curtis, Helen J; Mehrkar, Amir; Evans, David; Inglesby, Peter; Cockburn, Jonathan; McDonald, Helen I; Tomlinson, Laurie; Mathur, Rohini; Wing, Kevin; Wong, Angel YS; Forbes, Harriet; Parry, John; Hester, Frank; Harper, Sam; Evans, Stephen JW; Quint, Jennifer; Smeeth, Liam; Douglas, Ian J; Goldacre, Ben; OpenSAFELY Collaborative

Dynamic Survival Prediction Combining Landmarking with a Machine Learning Ensemble: Methodology and Empirical Comparison. (2020) Tanner, Kamaryn T; Sharples, Linda D; Daniel, Rhian M; Keogh, Ruth H

A Test-Negative Design with Additional Population Controls Can Be Used to Rapidly Study Causes of the SARS-CoV-2 Epidemic. (2020) Vandenbroucke, Jan P; Brickley, Elizabeth B; Vandenbroucke-Grauls, Christina MJE; Pearce, Neil

October 2020

Effects of the school environment on early sexual risk behavior: A longitudinal analysis of students in English secondary schools. (2020) Peterson, Amy J; Allen, Elizabeth; Viner, Russell; Bonell, Chris

Lung cancer risk in painters: results from the SYNERGY pooled case-control study consortium. (2020) Guha, Neela; Bouaoun, Liacine; Kromhout, Hans; Vermeulen, Roel; Brüning, Thomas; Behrens, Thomas; Peters, Susan; Luzon, Véronique; Siemiatycki, Jack; Xu, Mengting; Kendzia, Benjamin; Guenel, Pascal; Luce, Danièle; Karrasch, Stefan; Wichmann, Heinz-Erich; Consonni, Dario; Landi, Maria Teresa; Caporaso, Neil E; Gustavsson, Per; Plato, Nils; Merletti, Franco; Mirabelli, Dario; Richiardi, Lorenzo; Jöckel, Karl-Heinz; Ahrens, Wolfgang; Pohlabeln, Hermann; Tse, Lap Ah; Yu, Ignatius Tak-Sun; Tardón, Adonina; Boffetta, Paolo; Zaridze, David; 't Mannetje, Andrea; Pearce, Neil; Davies, Michael PA; Lissowska, Jolanta; Świątkowska, Beata; McLaughlin, John; Demers, Paul A; Bencko, Vladimir; Foretova, Lenka; Janout, Vladimir; Pándics, Tamás; Fabianova, Eleonora; Mates, Dana; Forastiere, Francesco; Bueno-de-Mesquita, Bas; Schüz, Joachim; Straif, Kurt; Olsson, Ann description

Risk factors associated with rhinitis, allergic conjunctivitis and eczema among schoolchildren in Uganda. (2020) Mpairwe, Harriet; Nkurunungi, Gyaviira; Tumwesige, Pius; Akurut, Hellen; Namutebi, Milly; Nambuya, Irene; Nnaluwooza, Marble; Apule, Barbara; Onen, Caroline; Katongole, Tonny; Niwagaba, Emmanuel; Mukasa, Mike; Webb, Emily L; Elliott, Alison M; Pearce, Neil

Disease duration in autosomal dominant familial Alzheimer disease: A survival analysis. (2020) Pavisic, Ivanna M; Nicholas, Jennifer M; O'Connor, Antoinette; Rice, Helen; Lu, Kirsty; Fox, Nick C; Ryan, Natalie S

Preoperative intravenous iron to treat anaemia before major abdominal surgery (PREVENTT): a randomised, double-blind, controlled trial. (2020) Richards, Toby; Baikady, Ravishankar Rao; Clevenger, Ben; Butcher, Anna; Abeysiri, Sandy; Chau, Marisa; Macdougall, Iain C; Murphy, Gavin; Swinson, Rebecca; Collier, Tim; Van Dyck, Laura; Browne, John; Bradbury, Andrew; Dodd, Matthew; Evans, Richard; Brealey, David; Anker, Stefan D; Klein, Andrew

Preventive malaria treatment among school-aged children in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analyses. (2020) Cohee, Lauren M; Opondo, Charles; Clarke, Siân E; Halliday, Katherine E; Cano, Jorge; Shipper, Andrea G; Barger-Kamate, Breanna; Djimde, Abdoulaye; Diarra, Seybou; Dokras, Aditi; Kamya, Moses R; Lutumba, Pascal; Ly, Alioune Badara; Nankabirwa, Joaniter I; Njagi, J Kiambo; Maiga, Hamma; Maiteki-Sebuguzi, Catherine; Matangila, Junior; Okello, George; Rohner, Fabian; Roschnik, Natalie; Rouhani, Saba; Sissoko, Mahamadou S; Staedke, Sarah G; Thera, Mahamadou A; Turner, Elizabeth L; Van Geertruyden, JP; Zimmerman, Michael B; Jukes, Matthew CH; Brooker, Simon J; Allen, Elizabeth; Laufer, Miriam K; Chico, R Matthew

The Authors Respond. (2020) Williamson, Elizabeth; Bhaskaran, Krishnan; Walker, Alex; Smeeth, Liam; Goldacre, Ben description

Real world effects of COPD medications: a cohort study with validation against results from randomised controlled trials. (2020) Wing, Kevin; Williamson, Elizabeth; Carpenter, James R; Wise, Lesley; Schneeweiss, Sebastian; Smeeth, Liam; Quint, Jennifer K; Douglas, Ian

Living risk prediction algorithm (QCOVID) for risk of hospital admission and mortality from coronavirus 19 in adults: national derivation and validation cohort study. (2020) Clift, Ash K; Coupland, Carol AC; Keogh, Ruth H; Diaz-Ordaz, Karla; Williamson, Elizabeth; Harrison, Ewen M; Hayward, Andrew; Hemingway, Harry; Horby, Peter; Mehta, Nisha; Benger, Jonathan; Khunti, Kamlesh; Spiegelhalter, David; Sheikh, Aziz; Valabhji, Jonathan; Lyons, Ronan A; Robson, John; Semple, Malcolm G; Kee, Frank; Johnson, Peter; Jebb, Susan; Williams, Tony; Hippisley-Cox, Julia

Tailored, psychological intervention for anxiety and/or depression in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), TANDEM (Tailored intervention for ANxiety and DEpression Management in COPD): statistical analysis plan for a randomised controlled trial. (2020) Chan, Claire L; Smuk, Melanie; Sohanpal, Ratna; Pinnock, Hilary; Taylor, Stephanie JC; TANDEM Investigators

Common Methods for Handling Missing Data in Marginal Structural Models: What Works and Why. (2020) Leyrat, Clémence; Carpenter, James R; Bailly, Sébastien; Williamson, Elizabeth J

Study protocol: Comparison of different risk prediction modelling approaches for COVID-19 related death using the OpenSAFELY platform. (2020) Williamson, Elizabeth J; Tazare, John; Bhaskaran, Krishnan; Walker, Alex J; McDonald, Helen I; Tomlinson, Laurie; Bacon, Sebastian; Bates, Chris; Curtis, Helen J; Forbes, Harriet; Minassian, Caroline; Morton, Caroline E; Nightingale, Emily; Mehrkar, Amir; Evans, Dave; Nicholson, Brian D; Leon, David; Inglesby, Peter; MacKenna, Brian; Cockburn, Jonathan; Davies, Nicholas G; Hulme, William; Morley, Jessica; Douglas, Ian J; Rentsch, Christopher T; Mathur, Rohini; Wong, Angel; Schultze, Anna; Croker, Richard; Parry, John; Hester, Frank; Harper, Sam; Perera, Rafael; Grieve, Richard; Harrison, David; Steyerberg, Ewout; Eggo, Rosalind M; Diaz-Ordaz, Karla; Keogh, Ruth; Evans, Stephen JW; Smeeth, Liam; Goldacre, Ben

Approaches for combining primary care electronic health record data from multiple sources: a systematic review of observational studies. (2020) Dedman, Daniel; Cabecinha, Melissa; Williams, Rachael; Evans, Stephen JW; Bhaskaran, Krishnan; Douglas, Ian J

Effects of lighting variability on locomotion in posterior cortical atrophy. (2020) Yong, Keir XX; McCarthy, Ian D; Poole, Teresa; Ocal, Dilek; Suzuki, Ayako; Suzuki, Tatsuto; Mengoudi, Kyriaki; Papadosifos, Nikolaos; Boampong, Derrick; Tyler, Nick; Frost, Chris; Crutch, Sebastian J

ECMO for severe ARDS: systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis. (2020) Combes, Alain; Peek, Giles J; Hajage, David; Hardy, Pollyanna; Abrams, Darryl; Schmidt, Matthieu; Dechartres, Agnès; Elbourne, Diana

Genetic risk of obesity as a modifier of associations between neighbourhood environment and body mass index: an observational study of 335 046 UK Biobank participants. (2020) Mason, Kate E; Palla, Luigi; Pearce, Neil; Phelan, Jody; Cummins, Steven

Genetic risk of obesity as a modifier of associations between neighbourhood environment and body mass index: an observational study of 335,046 UK Biobank participants. (2020) Mason, Kate E; Palla, Luigi; Pearce, Neil; Phelan, Jody; Cummins, Steven

Ticagrelor alone vs. ticagrelor plus aspirin following percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes: TWILIGHT-ACS. (2020) Baber, Usman; Dangas, George; Angiolillo, Dominick Joseph; Cohen, David Joel; Sharma, Samin Kumar; Nicolas, Johny; Briguori, Carlo; Cha, Jin Yu; Collier, Timothy; Dudek, Dariusz; Džavik, Vladimir; Escaned, Javier; Gil, Robert; Gurbel, Paul; Hamm, Christian W; Henry, Timothy; Huber, Kurt; Kastrati, Adnan; Kaul, Upendra; Kornowski, Ran; Krucoff, Mitchell; Kunadian, Vijay; Marx, Steven Owen; Mehta, Shamir; Moliterno, David; Ohman, Erik Magnus; Oldroyd, Keith; Sardella, Gennaro; Sartori, Samantha; Shlofmitz, Richard; Steg, Philippe Gabriel; Weisz, Giora; Witzenbichler, Bernhard; Han, Ya-Ling; Pocock, Stuart; Gibson, Charles Michael; Mehran, Roxana

Transparency of high-dimensional propensity score analyses: Guidance for diagnostics and reporting. (2020) Tazare, John; Wyss, Richard; Franklin, Jessica M; Smeeth, Liam; Evans, Stephen JW; Wang, Shirley V; Schneeweiss, Sebastian; Douglas, Ian J; Williamson, Elizabeth; Gagne, Joshua J

September 2020

Preoperative anaemia management in patients undergoing vascular surgery. (2020) Nandhra, S; Chau, M; Klein, AA; Yeates, JA; Collier, T; Evans, C; Agarwal, S; Richards, T; UK Cardiac and Vascular Surgery Interventional Anaemia Response

Social cognition impairment in genetic frontotemporal dementia within the GENFI cohort. (2020) Russell, Lucy L; Greaves, Caroline V; Bocchetta, Martina; Nicholas, Jennifer; Convery, Rhian S; Moore, Katrina; Cash, David M; van Swieten, John; Jiskoot, Lize; Moreno, Fermin; Sanchez-Valle, Raquel; Borroni, Barbara; Laforce, Robert; Masellis, Mario; Tartaglia, Maria Carmela; Graff, Caroline; Rotondo, Emanuela; Galimberti, Daniela; Rowe, James B; Finger, Elizabeth; Synofzik, Matthis; Vandenberghe, Rik; de Mendonça, Alexandre; Tagliavini, Fabrizio; Santana, Isabel; Ducharme, Simon; Butler, Chris; Gerhard, Alex; Levin, Johannes; Danek, Adrian; Otto, Markus; Warren, Jason D; Rohrer, Jonathan D; Genetic FTD Initiative, GENFI

Trends in worldwide asthma prevalence. (2020) Asher, M Innes; García-Marcos, Luis; Pearce, Neil E; Strachan, David P

Ethnic differences in SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19-related hospitalisation, intensive care unit admission, and death in 17 million adults in England: an observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform. (2020) Mathur, Rohini; Rentsch, Christopher T; Morton, Caroline E; Hulme, William J; Schultze, Anna; MacKenna, Brian; Eggo, Rosalind M; Bhaskaran, Krishnan; Wong, Angel YS; Williamson, Elizabeth J; Forbes, Harriet; Wing, Kevin; McDonald, Helen I; Bates, Chris; Bacon, Seb; Walker, Alex J; Evans, David; Inglesby, Peter; Mehrkar, Amir; Curtis, Helen J; DeVito, Nicholas J; Croker, Richard; Drysdale, Henry; Cockburn, Jonathan; Parry, John; Hester, Frank; Harper, Sam; Douglas, Ian J; Tomlinson, Laurie; Evans, Stephen JW; Grieve, Richard; Harrison, David; Rowan, Kathy; Khunti, Kamlesh; Chaturvedi, Nishi; Smeeth, Liam; Goldacre, Ben; OpenSAFELY Collaborative

How much can we remedy very low learning levels in rural parts of low-income countries? Impact and generalizability of a multi-pronged para-teacher intervention from a cluster-randomized trial in the Gambia. (2020) Eble, Alex; Frost, Chris; Camara, Alpha; Bouy, Baboucarr; Bah, Momodou; Sivaraman, Maitri; Hsieh, Pei-Tseng Jenny; Jayanty, Chitra; Brady, Tony; Gawron, Piotr; Vansteelandt, Stijn; Boone, Peter; Elbourne, Diana description

Measuring cortical mean diffusivity to assess early microstructural cortical change in presymptomatic familial Alzheimer's disease. (2020) Weston, Philip SJ; Poole, Teresa; Nicholas, Jennifer M; Toussaint, Nicolas; Simpson, Ivor JA; Modat, Marc; Ryan, Natalie S; Liang, Yuying; Rossor, Martin N; Schott, Jonathan M; Ourselin, Sebastien; Zhang, Hui; Fox, Nick C

Risk of Bias Assessments and Evidence Syntheses for Observational Epidemiologic Studies of Environmental and Occupational Exposures: Strengths and Limitations. (2020) Steenland, Kyle; Schubauer-Berigan, MK; Vermeulen, R; Lunn, RM; Straif, K; Zahm, S; Stewart, P; Arroyave, WD; Mehta, SS; Pearce, N

Implementing high-dimensional propensity score principles to improve confounder adjustment in UK electronic health records. (2020) Tazare, John; Smeeth, Liam; Evans, Stephen JW; Williamson, Elizabeth; Douglas, Ian J

Validation of a life-logging wearable camera method and the 24-h diet recall method for assessing maternal and child dietary diversity. (2020) Bulungu, Andrea LS; Palla, Luigi; Priebe, Jan; Forsythe, Lora; Katic, Pamela; Varley, Gwen; Galinda, Bernice D; Sarah, Nakimuli; Nambooze, Joweria; Wellard, Kate; Ferguson, Elaine L

Prevalence and risk factors for chronic kidney disease of unknown cause in Malawi: a cross-sectional analysis in a rural and urban population. (2020) Hamilton, Sophie A; Nakanga, Wisdom P; Prynn, Josephine E; Crampin, Amelia C; Fecht, Daniela; Vineis, Paolo; Caplin, Ben; Pearce, Neil; Nyirenda, Moffat J

Cost-Utility Analysis of a Complex Intervention to Reduce School-Based Bullying and Aggression: An Analysis of the Inclusive RCT. (2020) Legood, Rosa; Opondo, Charles; Warren, Emily; Jamal, Farah; Bonell, Chris; Viner, Russell; Sadique, Zia description

Financial incentives to promote retention in care and viral suppression in adults with HIV initiating antiretroviral therapy in Tanzania: a three-arm randomised controlled trial. (2020) Fahey, Carolyn A; Njau, Prosper F; Katabaro, Emmanuel; Mfaume, Rashid S; Ulenga, Nzovu; Mwenda, Natalino; Bradshaw, Patrick T; Dow, William H; Padian, Nancy S; Jewell, Nicholas P; McCoy, Sandra I

Rationale and design of the LIBERATES trial: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial of flash glucose monitoring for optimisation of glycaemia in individuals with type 2 diabetes and recent myocardial infarction. (2020) Everett, Colin C; Reynolds, Catherine; Fernandez, Catherine; Stocken, Deborah D; Sharples, Linda D; Sathyapalan, Thozhukat; Heller, Simon; Storey, Robert F; Ajjan, Ramzi A

Causal graphs for the analysis of genetic cohort data. (2020) Hines, Oliver; Diaz-Ordaz, Karla; Vansteelandt, Stijn; Jamshidi, Yalda

Why does Russia have such high cardiovascular mortality rates? Comparisons of blood-based biomarkers with Norway implicate non-ischaemic cardiac damage. (2020) Lakunchykova, Olena; Averina, Maria; Wilsgaard, Tom; Watkins, Hugh; Malyutina, Sofia; Ragino, Yulia; Keogh, Ruth H; Kudryavtsev, Alexander V; Govorun, Vadim; Cook, Sarah; Schirmer, Henrik; Eggen, Anne Elise; Hopstock, Laila Arnesdatter; Leon, David A

Do neighbourhood characteristics act together to influence BMI? A cross-sectional study of urban parks and takeaway/fast-food stores as modifiers of the effect of physical activity facilities. (2020) Mason, Kate E; Pearce, Neil; Cummins, Steven description

Precision of Measurements Performed by a Cadre of Anthropometrists Trained for a Large Household Nutrition Survey in Ethiopia. (2020) Moss, Cami; Kuche, Desalegn; Bekele, Tesfaye Hailu; Salasibew, Mihretab; Ayana, Girmay; Abera, Andinet; Eshetu, Solomon; Dangour, Alan D; Allen, Elizabeth

Re: Sponsorship by Big Oil, Like the Tobacco Industry, Should be Banned by the Research Community. (2020) Pearce, Neil

August 2020

Metformin discontinuation in patients beginning second-line glucose-lowering therapy: results from the global observational DISCOVER study programme. (2020) Khunti, Kamlesh; Gomes, Marilia B; Kosiborod, Mikhail; Nicolucci, Antonio; Pocock, Stuart; Rathmann, Wolfgang; Shestakova, Marina V; Shimomura, Iichiro; Watada, Hirotaka; Chen, Hungta; Cid-Ruzafa, Javier; Fenici, Peter; Hammar, Niklas; Tang, Fengming; Ji, Linong; DISCOVER Scientific Committee and all DISCOVER investigators

Discussion on 'Testing small study effects in multivariate meta-analysis' by Chuan Hong, Georgia Salanti, Sally Morton, Richard Riley, Haitao Chu, Stephen E Kimmel and Yong Chen. (2020) Carpenter, James R; Rücker, Gerta; Schwarzer, Guido

Informing the design of a trial of kangaroo mother care initiated before stabilisation amongst small and sick newborns in a sub-Saharan African context using mixed methods. (2020) Medvedev, MM

One-year mortality of colorectal cancer patients: development and validation of a prediction model using linked national electronic data. (2020) Cowling, Thomas E; Bellot, Alexis; Boyle, Jemma; Walker, Kate; Kuryba, Angela; Galbraith, Sarah; Aggarwal, Ajay; Braun, Michael; Sharples, Linda D; van der Meulen, Jan

Association Between Common Infections and Incident Post-Stroke Dementia: A Cohort Study Using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink. (2020) Morton, Caroline E; Forbes, Harriet J; Pearce, Neil; Smeeth, Liam; Warren-Gash, Charlotte

Risk factors for maternal mortality among 1.9 million women in nine empowered action group states in India: secondary analysis of Annual Health Survey data. (2020) Horwood, Geneviève; Opondo, Charles; Choudhury, Saswati Sanyal; Rani, Anjali; Nair, Manisha

Exploring mechanisms of action in clinical trials of complex surgical interventions using mediation analysis. (2020) Sharples, Linda; Papachristofi, Olympia; Rex, Saleema; Landau, Sabine

Different independent associations of depression and anxiety with survival in patients with cancer. (2020) Walker, Jane; Magill, Nicholas; Mulick, Amy; Symeonides, Stefan; Gourley, Charlie; Toynbee, Mark; van Niekerk, Maike; Burke, Katy; Quartagno, Matteo; Frost, Chris; Sharpe, Michael

OpenSAFELY: Do adults prescribed non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have an increased risk of death from COVID-19? (2020) Wong, Angel YS; MacKenna, Brian; Morton, Caroline E; Schultze, Anna; Walker, Alex J; Bhaskaran, Krishnan; Brown, Jeremy P; Rentsch, Christopher T; Williamson, Elizabeth; Drysdale, Henry; Croker, Richard; Bacon, Seb; Hulme, William; Bates, Chris; Curtis, Helen J; Mehrkar, Amir; Evans, David; Inglesby, Peter; Cockburn, Jonathan; McDonald, Helen I; Tomlinson, Laurie; Mathur, Rohini; Wing, Kevin; Forbes, Harriet; Parry, John; Hester, Frank; Harper, Sam; Evans, Stephen JW; Smeeth, Liam; Douglas, Ian J; Goldacre, Ben picture_as_pdf

A four-step strategy for handling missing outcome data in randomised trials affected by a pandemic. (2020) Cro, Suzie; Morris, Tim P; Kahan, Brennan C; Cornelius, Victoria R; Carpenter, James R

Increased variability in reaction time is associated with amyloid beta pathology at age 70. (2020) Lu, Kirsty; Nicholas, Jennifer M; James, Sarah-Naomi; Lane, Christopher A; Parker, Thomas D; Keshavan, Ashvini; Keuss, Sarah E; Buchanan, Sarah M; Murray-Smith, Heidi; Cash, David M; Sudre, Carole H; Malone, Ian B; Coath, William; Wong, Andrew; Henley, Susie MD; Fox, Nick C; Richards, Marcus; Schott, Jonathan M; Crutch, Sebastian J

A novel approach selected small sets of diagnosis codes with high prediction performance in large healthcare datasets. (2020) Cowling, Thomas E; Cromwell, David A; Sharples, Linda D; van der Meulen, Jan

Notifications to Improve Engagement With an Alcohol Reduction App: Protocol for a Micro-Randomized Trial (Preprint). (2020) Bell, Lauren; Garnett, Claire; Qian, Tianchen; Perski, Olga; Potts, Henry WW; Williamson, Elizabeth

Notifications to Improve Engagement With an Alcohol Reduction App: Protocol for a Micro-Randomized Trial. (2020) Bell, Lauren; Garnett, Claire; Qian, Tianchen; Perski, Olga; Potts, Henry WW; Williamson, Elizabeth

Draft for internal testing Scientific Committee guidance on appraising and integrating evidence from epidemiological studies for use in EFSA's scientific assessments. (2020) EFSA Scientific Committee; More, Simon; Bambidis, Vasileos; Benford, Diane; Bragard, Claude; Hernandez-Jerez, Antonio; Bennekou, Susanne Hougaard; Koutsoumanis, Kostas; Machera, Kyriaki; Naegeli, Hanspeter; Nielsen, Soren Saxmose; Schlatter, Josef R; Schrenk, Dieter; Silano, Vittorio; Turck, Dominique; Younes, Maged; Fletcher, Tony; Greiner, Matthias; Ntzani, Evangelia; Pearce, Neil; Vinceti, Marco; Ciccolallo, Laura; Georgiadis, Marios; Gervelmeyer, Andrea; Halldorsson, Thorhallur I

Where Do Adolescents Eat Less-Healthy Foods? Correspondence Analysis and Logistic Regression Results from the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey. (2020) Palla, Luigi; Chapman, Andrew; Beh, Eric; Pot, Gerda; Almiron-Roig, Eva

Evaluating the clinical and cost-effectiveness of permissive hypotension in critically ill patients aged 65 years or over with vasodilatory hypotension: Statistical and health economic analysis plan for the 65 trial in article. (2020) Thomas, Karen; Patel, Akshay; Sadique, M Zia; Grieve, Richard D; Mason, Alexina J; Moler, Silvia; Gordon, Anthony C; Rowan, Kathryn M; Mouncey, Paul R; Lamontagne, Francois; Harrison, David A

July 2020

Accuracy of time to treatment estimates in the CRASH-3 clinical trial: impact on the trial results. (2020) Mansukhani, Raoul; Frimley, Lauren; Shakur-Still, Haleema; Sharples, Linda; Roberts, Ian

Impact of receiving recorded mental health recovery narratives on quality of life in people experiencing psychosis, people experiencing other mental health problems and for informal carers: Narrative Experiences Online (NEON) study protocol for three randomised controlled trials. (2020) Rennick-Egglestone, Stefan; Elliott, Rachel; Smuk, Melanie; Robinson, Clare; Bailey, Sylvia; Smith, Roger; Keppens, Jeroen; Hussain, Hannah; Pollock, Kristian; Cuijpers, Pim; Llewellyn-Beardsley, Joy; Ng, Fiona; Yeo, Caroline; Roe, James; Hui, Ada; van der Krieke, Lian; Walcott, Rianna; Slade, Mike

Plasma phospho-tau181 in presymptomatic and symptomatic familial Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal cohort study. (2020) O'Connor, Antoinette; Karikari, Thomas K; Poole, Teresa; Ashton, Nicholas J; Lantero Rodriguez, Juan; Khatun, Ayesha; Swift, Imogen; Heslegrave, Amanda J; Abel, Emily; Chung, Elisha; Weston, Philip SJ; Pavisic, Ivanna M; Ryan, Natalie S; Barker, Suzie; Rossor, Martin N; Polke, James M; Frost, Chris; Mead, Simon; Blennow, Kaj; Zetterberg, Henrik; Fox, Nick C

Factors that influence vaccination decision-making among pregnant women: A systematic review and meta-analysis. (2020) Kilich, Eliz; Dada, Sara; Francis, Mark R; Tazare, John; Chico, R Matthew; Paterson, Pauline; Larson, Heidi J

Doug Altman: Driving critical appraisal and improvements in the quality of methodological and medical research. (2020) Sauerbrei, Willi; Bland, Martin; Evans, Stephen JW; Riley, Richard D; Royston, Patrick; Schumacher, Martin; Collins, Gary S

Factors associated with COVID-19-related death using OpenSAFELY. (2020) Williamson, Elizabeth J; Walker, Alex J; Bhaskaran, Krishnan; Bacon, Seb; Bates, Chris; Morton, Caroline E; Curtis, Helen J; Mehrkar, Amir; Evans, David; Inglesby, Peter; Cockburn, Jonathan; McDonald, Helen I; MacKenna, Brian; Tomlinson, Laurie; Douglas, Ian J; Rentsch, Christopher T; Mathur, Rohini; Wong, Angel YS; Grieve, Richard; Harrison, David; Forbes, Harriet; Schultze, Anna; Croker, Richard; Parry, John; Hester, Frank; Harper, Sam; Perera, Rafael; Evans, Stephen JW; Smeeth, Liam; Goldacre, Ben

Long-term antithrombotic management patterns in Asian patients with acute coronary syndrome: 2-year observations from the EPICOR Asia study. (2020) Zheng, Bo; Huo, Yong; Lee, Stephen W-L; Sawhney, Jitendra PS; Kim, Hyo-Soo; Krittayaphong, Rungroj; Pocock, Stuart J; Nhan, Vo T; Alonso Garcia, Angeles; Chin, Chee Tang; Jiang, Jie; Jan, Stephen; Vega, Ana Maria; Hayashi, Nobuya; Ong, Tiong K

Data-adaptive doubly robust instrumental variable methods for treatment effect heterogeneity. (2020) Diaz-Ordaz, Karla; Daniel, Rhian; Kreif, Noemi

A Framework for Methodological Choice and Evidence Assessment for Studies Using External Comparators from Real-World Data. (2020) Gray, Christen M; Grimson, Fiona; Layton, Deborah; Pocock, Stuart; Kim, Joseph

Effect of supplemental nutrition in pregnancy on offspring's risk of cardiovascular disease in young adulthood: Long-term follow-up of a cluster trial from India. (2020) Kinra, Sanjay; Gregson, John; Prabhakaran, Poornima; Gupta, Vipin; Walia, Gagandeep Kaur; Bhogadi, Santhi; Gupta, Ruby; Aggarwal, Aastha; Mallinson, Poppy Alice Carson; Kulkarni, Bharati; Prabhakaran, Dorairaj; Davey Smith, George; Radha Krishna, KV; Ebrahim, Shah; Kuper, Hannah; Ben-Shlomo, Yoav

Accurate Statistics on COVID-19 Are Essential for Policy Guidance and Decisions. (2020) Pearce, Neil; Vandenbroucke, Jan P; VanderWeele, Tyler J; Greenland, Sander picture_as_pdf

CSF amyloid is a consistent predictor of white matter hyperintensities across the disease course from aging to Alzheimer's disease. (2020) Walsh, Phoebe; Sudre, Carole H; Fiford, Cassidy M; Ryan, Natalie S; Lashley, Tammaryn; Frost, Chris; Barnes, Josephine; ADNI Investigators

A simplified, combined protocol versus standard treatment for acute malnutrition in children 6-59 months (ComPAS trial): A cluster-randomized controlled non-inferiority trial in Kenya and South Sudan. (2020) Bailey, Jeanette; Opondo, Charles; Lelijveld, Natasha; Marron, Bethany; Onyo, Pamela; Musyoki, Eunice N; Adongo, Susan W; Manary, Mark; Briend, André; Kerac, Marko

June 2020

Bootstrap inference for multiple imputation under uncongeniality and misspecification. (2020) Bartlett, Jonathan W; Hughes, Rachael A

The changing demography of the cystic fibrosis population: forecasting future numbers of adults in the UK. (2020) Keogh, Ruth H; Tanner, Kamaryn; Simmonds, Nicholas J; Bilton, Diana

Comparisons between countries are essential for the control of COVID-19. (2020) Pearce, Neil; Lawlor, Deborah A; Brickley, Elizabeth B

Protocol for a cluster randomised trial in Madhya Pradesh, India: community health promotion and medical provision and impact on neonates (CHAMPION2); and support to rural India's public education system and impact on numeracy and literacy scores (STRIPES2). (2020) Agarwal, Arjun; Banerji, Rukmini; Boone, Peter; Elbourne, Diana; Fazzio, Ila; Frost, Chris; Gopal, Madan; Karnati, Sridevi; Nair, Rakhi; Reddy, Harshavardhan; Reddy, Padmanabh; Sharma, Dropti; Shekhawat, Sajjan Singh; Shivalli, Siddharudha

Olfactory testing does not predict β-amyloid, MRI measures of neurodegeneration or vascular pathology in the British 1946 birth cohort. (2020) Buchanan, Sarah M; Parker, Thomas D; Lane, Christopher A; Keshavan, Ashvini; Keuss, Sarah E; Lu, Kirsty; James, Sarah-Naomi; Murray-Smith, Heidi; Wong, Andrew; Nicholas, Jennifer; Cash, David M; Malone, Ian B; Coath, William; Thomas, David L; Sudre, Carole; Fox, Nick C; Richards, Marcus; Schott, Jonathan M

Weekly COVID-19 testing with household quarantine and contact tracing is feasible and would probably end the epidemic. (2020) Peto, J; Carpenter, J; Smith, GD; Duffy, S; Houlston, R; Hunter, DJ; Mcpherson, K; Pearce, N; Romer, P; Sasieni, P; Turnbull, C

Inhaled corticosteroid use and risk COVID-19 related death among 966,461 patients with COPD or asthma: an OpenSAFELY analysis. (2020) Schultze, Anna; Walker, Alex J; MacKenna, Brian; Morton, Caroline E; Bhaskaran, Krishnan; Brown, Jeremy P; Rentsch, Christopher T; Williamson, Elizabeth; Drysdale, Henry; Croker, Richard; Bacon, Seb; Hulme, William; Bates, Chris; Curtis, Helen J; Mehrkar, Amir; Evans, David; Inglesby, Peter; Cockburn, Jonathan; McDonald, Helen I; Tomlinson, Laurie; Mathur, Rohini; Wing, Kevin; Wong, Angel YS; Forbes, Harriet; Parry, John; Hester, Frank; Harper, Sam; Evans, Stephen JW; Quint, Jennifer; Smeeth, Liam; Douglas, Ian J; Goldacre, Ben

Addressing non-adherence in cluster randomised trials using instrumental variable-based methods. (2020) Agbla, SC

Sustaining academics during COVID-19 pandemic: The role of online teaching-learning. (2020) Kaup, Soujanya; Jain, Rashmi; Shivalli, Siddharudha; Pandey, Suresh; Kaup, Soumya

Determinants of healthcare facility utilization for childbirth in Kuantan Singingi regency, Riau province, Indonesia 2017. (2020) Sukirman, Rajunitrigo; Wahyono, Tri Yunis Miko; Shivalli, Siddharudha

Evaluating the effect of healthcare providers on the clinical path of heart failure patients through a semi-Markov, multi-state model. (2020) Gasperoni, Francesca; Ieva, Francesca; Paganoni, Anna Maria; Jackson, Christopher H; Sharples, Linda

The effect of initiation of renin-angiotensin system inhibitors on haemoglobin: A national cohort study. (2020) Greenhall, George HB; Mansfield, Kathryn E; Nitsch, Dorothea; Iwagami, Masao; Leyrat, Clemence; Johnston, Rosalynd; Smeeth, Liam; Tomlinson, Laurie A

Accurate Statistics on COVID-19 Are Essential for Policy Guidance and Decisions. (2020) Pearce, Neil; Vandenbroucke, Jan P; VanderWeele, Tyler J; Greenland, Sander

Risks to healthcare workers following tracheal intubation of patients with COVID-19: a prospective international multicentre cohort study. (2020) El-Boghdadly, K; Wong, DJN; Owen, R; Neuman, MD; Pocock, S; Carlisle, JB; Johnstone, C; Andruszkiewicz, P; Baker, PA; Biccard, BM; Bryson, GL; Chan, MTV; Cheng, MH; Chin, KJ; Coburn, M; Jonsson Fagerlund, M; Myatra, SN; Myles, PS; O'Sullivan, E; Pasin, L; Shamim, F; van Klei, WA; Ahmad, I

G-computation, propensity score-based methods, and targeted maximum likelihood estimator for causal inference with different covariates sets: a comparative simulation study. (2020) Chatton, Arthur; Le Borgne, Florent; Leyrat, Clémence; Gillaizeau, Florence; Rousseau, Chloé; Barbin, Laetitia; Laplaud, David; Léger, Maxime; Giraudeau, Bruno; Foucher, Yohann

Exposures to Fumigants and Residual Chemicals in Workers Handling Cargo from Shipping Containers and Export Logs in New Zealand. (2020) Hinz, Ruth; Mannetje, Andrea 't; Glass, Bill; McLean, Dave; Pearce, Neil; Douwes, Jeroen description

Is death from Covid-19 a multistep process? (2020) Pearce, Neil; Moirano, Giovenale; Maule, Milena; Kogevinas, Manolis; Rodo, Xavier; Lawlor, Deborah A; Vandenbroucke, Jan; Vandenbroucke-Grauls, Christina; Polack, Fernando P; Custovic, Adnan

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation via surgical subclavian versus direct aortic access: A United Kingdom analysis. (2020) Myat, Aung; Papachristofi, Olympia; Trivedi, Uday; Bapat, Vinayak; Young, Christopher; de Belder, Adam; Cockburn, James; Baumbach, Andreas; Banning, Adrian P; Blackman, Daniel J; MacCarthy, Philip; Mullen, Michael; Muir, Douglas F; Nolan, James; Zaman, Azfar; de Belder, Mark; Cox, Ian; Kovac, Jan; Brecker, Stephen; Turner, Mark; Khogali, Saib; Malik, Iqbal; Redwood, Simon; Prendergast, Bernard; Ludman, Peter; Sharples, Linda; Hildick-Smith, David

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation via surgical subclavian versus direct aortic access: A United Kingdom analysis. (2020) Myat, Aung; Papachristofi, Olympia; Trivedi, Uday; Bapat, Vinayak; Young, Christopher; de Belder, Adam; Cockburn, James; Baumbach, Andreas; Banning, Adrian P; Blackman, Daniel J; MacCarthy, Philip; Mullen, Michael; Muir, Douglas F; Nolan, James; Zaman, Azfar; de Belder, Mark; Cox, Ian; Kovac, Jan; Brecker, Stephen; Turner, Mark; Khogali, Saib; Malik, Iqbal; Redwood, Simon; Prendergast, Bernard; Ludman, Peter; Sharples, Linda; Hildick-Smith, David

May 2020

How are missing data in covariates handled in observational time-to-event studies in oncology? A systematic review. (2020) Carroll, Orlagh U; Morris, Tim P; Keogh, Ruth H

A review of the use of propensity score diagnostics in papers published in high-ranking medical journals. (2020) Granger, Emily; Watkins, Tim; Sergeant, Jamie C; Lunt, Mark

Update to the AWED (Applying Wolbachia to Eliminate Dengue) trial study protocol: a cluster randomised controlled trial in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. (2020) Anders, Katherine L; Indriani, Citra; Ahmad, Riris Andono; Tantowijoyo, Warsito; Arguni, Eggi; Andari, Bekti; Jewell, Nicholas P; Dufault, Suzanne M; Ryan, Peter A; Tanamas, Stephanie K; Rancès, Edwige; O'Neill, Scott L; Simmons, Cameron P; Utarini, Adi

Withholding Primary Pneumocystis Pneumonia Prophylaxis in Virologically Suppressed Patients With Human Immunodeficiency Virus: An Emulation of a Pragmatic Trial in COHERE. (2020) Atkinson, Andrew; Zwahlen, Marcel; Barger, Diana; d'Arminio Monforte, Antonella; De Wit, Stephane; Ghosn, Jade; Girardi, Enrico; Svedhem, Veronica; Morlat, Philippe; Mussini, Cristina; Noguera-Julian, Antoni; Stephan, Christoph; Touloumi, Giota; Kirk, Ole; Mocroft, Amanda; Reiss, Peter; Miro, Jose M; Carpenter, James R; Furrer, Hansjakob; Opportunistic Infections Project Working Group of the Collaborat

Incidence, clinical outcomes, and transmission dynamics of severe coronavirus disease 2019 in California and Washington: prospective cohort study. (2020) Lewnard, Joseph A; Liu, Vincent X; Jackson, Michael L; Schmidt, Mark A; Jewell, Britta L; Flores, Jean P; Jentz, Chris; Northrup, Graham R; Mahmud, Ayesha; Reingold, Arthur L; Petersen, Maya; Jewell, Nicholas P; Young, Scott; Bellows, Jim picture_as_pdf

The impact of city-wide deployment of Wolbachia-carrying mosquitoes on arboviral disease incidence in Medellín and Bello, Colombia: study protocol for an interrupted time-series analysis and a test-negative design study. (2020) Velez, Ivan D; Santacruz, Eduardo; Kutcher, Simon C; Duque, Sandra L; Uribe, Alexander; Barajas, Jovany; Gonzalez, Sandra; Patino, Ana Cristina; Zuluaga, Lina; Martínez, Luis; Muñoz, Estefanía; Mejia, María Camila; Arbelaez, María Patricia; Pulido, Henry; Jewell, Nicholas P; Dufault, Suzanne M; O'Neill, Scott L; Simmons, Cameron P; Anders, Katherine L; Tanamas, Stephanie K

Estimating treatment effects under untestable assumptions with nonignorable missing data. (2020) Gomes, Manuel; Kenward, Michael G; Grieve, Richard; Carpenter, James

Ticagrelor With or Without Aspirin in High-Risk Patients With Diabetes Mellitus Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. (2020) Angiolillo, Dominick J; Baber, Usman; Sartori, Samantha; Briguori, Carlo; Dangas, George; Cohen, David J; Mehta, Shamir R; Gibson, C Michael; Chandiramani, Rishi; Huber, Kurt; Kornowski, Ran; Weisz, Giora; Kunadian, Vijay; Oldroyd, Keith G; Ya-Ling, Han; Kaul, Upendra; Witzenbichler, Bernhard; Dudek, Dariusz; Sardella, Gennaro; Escaned, Javier; Sharma, Samin; Shlofmitz, Richard A; Collier, Timothy; Pocock, Stuart; Mehran, Roxana

Ticagrelor With or Without Aspirin After Complex PCI. (2020) Dangas, George; Baber, Usman; Sharma, Samin; Giustino, Gennaro; Mehta, Shamir; Cohen, David J; Angiolillo, Dominick J; Sartori, Samantha; Chandiramani, Rishi; Briguori, Carlo; Dudek, Dariusz; Escaned, Javier; Huber, Kurt; Collier, Timothy; Kornowski, Ran; Kunadian, Vijay; Kaul, Upendra; Oldroyd, Keith; Sardella, Gennaro; Shlofmitz, Richard; Witzenbichler, Bernhard; Ya-Ling, Han; Pocock, Stuart; Gibson, C Michael; Mehran, Roxana

Sensitivity analysis for clinical trials with missing continuous outcome data using controlled multiple imputation: A practical guide. (2020) Cro, Suzie; Morris, Tim P; Kenward, Michael G; Carpenter, James R

Broader impacts of an intervention to transform school environments on student behaviour and school functioning: post hoc analyses from the INCLUSIVE cluster randomised controlled trial. (2020) Bonell, Christopher; Dodd, Matthew; Allen, Elizabeth; Bevilacqua, Leonardo; McGowan, Jennifer; Opondo, Charles; Sturgess, Joanna; Elbourne, Diana; Warren, Emily; Viner, Russell M

The Hazards of Period Specific and Weighted Hazard Ratios. (2020) Bartlett, Jonathan W; Morris, Tim P; Stensrud, Mats J; Daniel, Rhian M; Vansteelandt, Stijn K; Burman, Carl-Fredrik

Access to routinely collected health data for clinical trials - review of successful data requests to UK registries. (2020) Lensen, Sarah; Macnair, Archie; Love, Sharon B; Yorke-Edwards, Victoria; Noor, Nurulamin M; Martyn, Meredith; Blenkinsop, Alexandra; Diaz-Montana, Carlos; Powell, Graham; Williamson, Elizabeth; Carpenter, James; Sydes, Matthew R

Reduced dengue incidence following deployments of Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti in Yogyakarta, Indonesia: a quasi-experimental trial using controlled interrupted time series analysis. (2020) Indriani, Citra; Tantowijoyo, Warsito; Rancès, Edwige; Andari, Bekti; Prabowo, Equatori; Yusdi, Dedik; Ansari, Muhammad Ridwan; Wardana, Dwi Satria; Supriyati, Endah; Nurhayati, Indah; Ernesia, Inggrid; Setyawan, Sigit; Fitriana, Iva; Arguni, Eggi; Amelia, Yudiria; Ahmad, Riris Andono; Jewell, Nicholas P; Dufault, Suzanne M; Ryan, Peter A; Green, Benjamin R; McAdam, Thomas F; O'Neill, Scott L; Tanamas, Stephanie K; Simmons, Cameron P; Anders, Katherine L; Utarini, Adi

Reflection on modern methods: trial emulation in the presence of immortal-time bias. Assessing the benefit of major surgery for elderly lung cancer patients using observational data. (2020) Maringe, Camille; Benitez Majano, Sara; Exarchakou, Aimilia; Smith, Matthew; Rachet, Bernard; Belot, Aurélien; Leyrat, Clémence

Effectiveness of a multicomponent pharmacist intervention at hospital discharge for drug-related problems: A cluster randomised cross-over trial. (2020) Pourrat, Xavier; Leyrat, Clémence; Allenet, Benoît; Bouzige, Brigitte; Develay, Armelle; Fraysse, Martial; Garnier, Valérie; Halimi, Jean-Michel; Roux-Marson, Clarisse; Giraudeau, Bruno

OpenSAFELY: factors associated with COVID-19-related hospital death in the linked electronic health records of 17 million adult NHS patients. (2020) Williamson, Elizabeth; Walker, Alex J; Bhaskaran, Krishnan; Bacon, Seb; Bates, Chris; Morton, Caroline E; Curtis, Helen J; Mehrkar, Amir; Evans, David; Inglesby, Peter; Cockburn, Jonathan; McDonald, Helen I; MacKenna, Brian; Tomlinson, Laurie; Douglas, Ian J; Rentsch, Christopher T; Mathur, Rohini; Wong, Angel; Grieve, Richard; Harrison, David; Forbes, Harriet; Schultze, Anna; Croker, Richard; Parry, John; Hester, Frank; Harper, Sam; Perera, Raf; Evans, Stephen; Smeeth, Liam; Goldacre, Ben description

Effect of adiposity on differences in carotid plaque burden in studies conducted in Norway and Russia: a cross-sectional analysis of two populations at very different risk of cardiovascular mortality. (2020) Imahori, Yume; Frost, Chris; Mathiesen, Ellisiv B; Ryabikov, Andrey; Kudryavtsev, Alexander V; Malyutina, Sofia; Kornev, Michael; Hughes, Alun D; Hopstock, Laila A; Leon, David A

Correction to: Rationale and design of two randomized sham‑controlled of catheter‑based renal denervation in subjects with uncontrolled hypertension in the absence (SPYRAL HTN‑OFF MED Pivotal) and presence (SPYRAL HTN‑ON MED Expansion) of antihypertensive medications: a novel approach using Bayesian design. (2020) Böhm, Michael; Townsend, Raymond R; Kario, Kazuomi; Kandzari, David; Mahfoud, Felix; Weber, Michael A; Schmieder, Roland E; Tsioufis, Konstantinos; Hickey, Graeme L; Fahy, Martin; DeBruin, Vanessa; Brar, Sandeep; Pocock, Stuart

Impact of tricuspid regurgitation on survival in patients with heart failure: a large electronic health record patient-level database analysis. (2020) Messika-Zeitoun, David; Verta, Patrick; Gregson, John; Pocock, Stuart J; Boero, Isabel; Feldman, Ted E; Abraham, William T; Lindenfeld, JoAnn; Bax, Jeroen; Leon, Martin; Enriquez-Sarano, Maurice

Concussion and long-term cognitive impairment among professional or elite sport-persons: a systematic review. (2020) Gallo, Valentina; Motley, Kim; Kemp, Simon PT; Mian, Saba; Patel, Tara; James, Laura; Pearce, Neil; McElvenny, Damien

Effect of a conditional cash transfer programme on leprosy treatment adherence and cure in patients from the nationwide 100 Million Brazilian Cohort: a quasi-experimental study. (2020) Pescarini, Julia M; Williamson, Elizabeth; Nery, Joilda S; Ramond, Anna; Ichihara, Maria Yury; Fiaccone, Rosemeire L; Penna, Maria Lucia F; Smeeth, Liam; Rodrigues, Laura C; Penna, Gerson O; Brickley, Elizabeth B; Barreto, Mauricio L

April 2020

Cerebrospinal Fluid YKL-40 and Chitotriosidase Levels in Frontotemporal Dementia Vary by Clinical, Genetic and Pathological Subtype. (2020) Woollacott, Ione OC; Nicholas, Jennifer M; Heller, Carolin; Foiani, Martha S; Moore, Katrina M; Russell, Lucy L; Paterson, Ross W; Keshavan, Ashvini; Schott, Jonathan M; Warren, Jason D; Heslegrave, Amanda; Zetterberg, Henrik; Rohrer, Jonathan D

Cerebrospinal fluid YKL-40 and chitotriosidase levels in frontotemporal dementia. (2020) Woollacott, Ione OC; Nicholas, Jennifer; Heller, Carolin; Foiani, Martha S; Moore, Katrina M; Russell, Lucy L; Paterson, Ross W; Keshavan, Ashvini; Schott, Jonathan M; Warren, Jason D; Heslegrave, Amanda; Zetterberg, Henrik; Rohrer, Jonathan D

Comparison of individual-level and population-level risk factors for rhinoconjunctivitis, asthma, and eczema in the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) Phase Three. (2020) Rutter, Charlotte E; Silverwood, Richard J; Asher, M Innes; Ellwood, Philippa; Pearce, Neil; Garcia-Marcos, Luis; Strachan, David P; ISAAC Phase Three Study Group

Evaluation of a five-year predicted survival model for cystic fibrosis in later time periods. (2020) Liou, Theodore G; Kartsonaki, Christiana; Keogh, Ruth H; Adler, Frederick R

Predictive Mathematical Models of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Underlying Principles and Value of Projections. (2020) Jewell, Nicholas P; Lewnard, Joseph A; Jewell, Britta L

UK case control study of smoking and risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. (2020) Opie-Martin, Sarah; Jones, Ashley; Iacoangeli, Alfredo; Al-Khleifat, Ahmad; Oumar, Mohamed; Shaw, Pamela J; Shaw, Chris E; Morrison, Karen E; Wootton, Robyn E; Davey-Smith, George; Pearce, Neil; Al-Chalabi, Ammar description

Caution Warranted: Using the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation Model for Predicting the Course of the COVID-19 Pandemic. (2020) Jewell, Nicholas P; Lewnard, Joseph A; Jewell, Britta L

Amyloid β influences the relationship between cortical thickness and vascular load. (2020) Parker, Thomas D; Cash, David M; Lane, Christopher A; Lu, Kirsty; Malone, Ian B; Nicholas, Jennifer M; James, Sarah-Naomi; Keshavan, Ashvini; Murray-Smith, Heidi; Wong, Andrew; Buchanan, Sarah M; Keuss, Sarah E; Sudre, Carole H; Thomas, David L; Crutch, Sebastian J; Fox, Nick C; Richards, Marcus; Schott, Jonathan M

Yoga-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation After Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Randomized Trial. (2020) Prabhakaran, Dorairaj; Chandrasekaran, Ambalam M; Singh, Kalpana; Mohan, Bishav; Chattopadhyay, Kaushik; Chadha, Davinder S; Negi, Prakash C; Bhat, Prabhavathi; Sadananda, Kanchanahalli S; Ajay, Vamadevan S; Singh, Kavita; Praveen, Pradeep A; Devarajan, Raji; Kondal, Dimple; Soni, Divya; Mallinson, Poppy; Manchanda, Subhash C; Madan, Kushal; Hughes, Alun D; Chathurvedi, Nishi; Roberts, Ian; Ebrahim, Shah; Reddy, Kolli S; Tandon, Nikhil; Pocock, Stuart; Roy, Ambuj; Kinra, Sanjay; Yoga-CaRe Trial Investigators

Multiple Interventions for Diabetic Foot Ulcer Treatment Trial (MIDFUT): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. (2020) Brown, Sarah; Nixon, Jane; Ransom, Myka; Gilberts, Rachael; Dewhirst, Nikki; McGinnis, Elizabeth; Longo, Roberta; Game, Frances; Bojke, Chris; Chadwick, Paul; Chandrasekar, Akila; Chetter, Ian; Collier, Howard; Fernandez, Catherine; Homer-Vanniasinkam, Shervanthi; Jude, Edward; Leigh, Richard; Lomas, Richard; Vowden, Peter; Wason, James; Sharples, Linda; Russell, David

PM2.5 and NO2 exposure errors using proxy measures, including derived personal exposure from outdoor sources: A systematic review and meta-analysis. (2020) Evangelopoulos, Dimitris; Katsouyanni, Klea; Keogh, Ruth H; Samoli, Evangelia; Schwartz, Joel; Barratt, Ben; Zhang, Hanbin; Walton, Heather

A school intervention for 13- to 15-year-olds to prevent dating and relationship violence: the Project Respect pilot cluster RCT. (2020) Meiksin, Rebecca; Crichton, Jo; Dodd, Matthew; Morgan, Gemma S; Williams, Pippa; Willmott, Micky; Allen, Elizabeth; Tilouche, Nerissa; Sturgess, Joanna; Morris, Steve; Barter, Christine; Young, Honor; Melendez-Torres, GJ; Taylor, Bruce; Reyes, H Luz McNaughton; Elbourne, Diana; Sweeting, Helen; Hunt, Kate; Ponsford, Ruth; Campbell, Rona; Bonell, Chris

March 2020

Respiratory health in professional cleaners: Symptoms, lung function, and risk factors. (2020) Brooks, Collin; Slater, Tania; Corbin, Marine; McLean, Dave; Firestone, Ridvan Tua; Zock, Jan-Paul; Pearce, Neil; Douwes, Jeroen description

Is agricultural engagement associated with lower incidence or prevalence of cardiovascular diseases and cardiovascular disease risk factors? A systematic review of observational studies from low- and middle-income countries. (2020) Sørensen, Tina B; Matsuzaki, Mika; Gregson, John; Kinra, Sanjay; Kadiyala, Suneetha; Shankar, Bhavani; Dangour, Alan D

Predictors of Survival After Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma in South America: The InterCHANGE Study. (2020) Abrahão, Renata; Perdomo, Sandra; Pinto, Luis Felipe Ribeiro; Nascimento de Carvalho, Flávia; Dias, Fernando Luis; de Podestá, José Roberto V; Ventorin von Zeidler, Sandra; Marinho de Abreu, Priscila; Vilensky, Marta; Giglio, Raul Eduardo; Oliveira, José Carlos; Mineiro, Matinair Siqueira; Kowalski, Luiz P; Ikeda, Mauro K; Cuello, Mauricio; Munyo, Andres; Rodríguez-Urrego, Paula A; Hakim, José Antonio; Suarez-Zamora, David Alfonso; Cayol, Federico; Figari, Marcelo Fernando; Oliver, Javier; Gaborieau, Valerie; Keogh, Ruth H; Brennan, Paul; Curado, Maria Paula; InterCHANGE Group

Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, and Antimalarial Activity of the Novel Plasmodium Phosphatidylinositol 4-Kinase Inhibitor MMV390048 in Healthy Volunteers. (2020) Sinxadi, Phumla; Donini, Cristina; Johnstone, Hilary; Langdon, Grant; Wiesner, Lubbe; Allen, Elizabeth; Duparc, Stephan; Chalon, Stephan; McCarthy, James S; Lorch, Ulrike; Chibale, Kelly; Möhrle, Jörg; Barnes, Karen I

An evaluation of inverse probability weighting using the propensity score for baseline covariate adjustment in smaller population randomised controlled trials with a continuous outcome. (2020) Raad, Hanaya; Cornelius, Victoria; Chan, Susan; Williamson, Elizabeth; Cro, Suzie

Agricultural and empowerment pathways from land ownership to women's nutrition in India. (2020) Harris-Fry, Helen; Krishnan, Sneha; Beaumont, Emma; Prost, Audrey; Gouda, Sanghamitra; Mohanty, Satyanarayan; Pradhan, Ronali; Rath, Suchitra; Rath, Shibanand; Pradhan, Shibnath; Mishra, Naba Kishore; Allen, Elizabeth; Kadiyala, Suneetha

The association between anthropometric measures of adiposity and the progression of carotid atherosclerosis. (2020) Imahori, Yume; Mathiesen, Ellisiv B; Morgan, Katy E; Frost, Chris; Hughes, Alun D; Hopstock, Laila A; Johnsen, Stein Harald; Emaus, Nina; Leon, David A

Trends in sexual activity and demand for and use of modern contraceptive methods in 74 countries: a retrospective analysis of nationally representative surveys. (2020) Slaymaker, Emma; Scott, Rachel H; Palmer, Melissa J; Palla, Luigi; Marston, Milly; Gonsalves, Lianne; Say, Lale; Wellings, Kaye

The association between partner bereavement and melanoma: cohort studies in the U.K. and Denmark. (2020) Wong, AYS; Frøslev, T; Dearing, L; Forbes, HJ; Mulick, A; Mansfield, KE; Silverwood, RJ; Kjaersgaard, A; Sørensen, HT; Smeeth, L; Lewin, A; Schmidt, SAJ; Langan, SM

Safetxt: a safer sex intervention delivered by mobile phone messaging on sexually transmitted infections (STI) among young people in the UK - protocol for a randomised controlled trial. (2020) Free, Caroline; McCarthy, Ona L; Palmer, Melissa J; Knight, Rosemary; Edwards, Phil; French, Rebecca; Baraitser, Paula; Hickson, Ford Colin Ian; Wellings, Kaye; Roberts, Ian; Bailey, Julia V; Hart, Graham; Michie, Susan; Clayton, Tim; Ploubidis, George B; Carpenter, James R; Turner, Katy ME; Devries, Karen; Potter, Kimberley

Does mobile phone instructional video demonstrating sputum expectoration improve the sputum sample quality and quantity in presumptive pulmonary TB cases? Protocol for a prospective pragmatic non-randomised controlled trial in Karnataka state, India. (2020) Shivalli, Siddharudha; Hondappagol, Amrut; Akshaya, Kibballi Madhukeshwar; Nirgude, Abhay; Varun, Narendra; Reddy, Raveendra Harohally Ramaiah; Sharath, Burugina Nagaraja

Rationale and design of two randomized sham-controlled trials of catheter-based renal denervation in subjects with uncontrolled hypertension in the absence (SPYRAL HTN-OFF MED Pivotal) and presence (SPYRAL HTN-ON MED Expansion) of antihypertensive medications: a novel approach using Bayesian design. (2020) Böhm, Michael; Townsend, Raymond R; Kario, Kazuomi; Kandzari, David; Mahfoud, Felix; Weber, Michael A; Schmieder, Roland E; Tsioufis, Konstantinos; Hickey, Graeme L; Fahy, Martin; DeBruin, Vanessa; Brar, Sandeep; Pocock, Stuart

February 2020

Doubly robust tests of exposure effects under high-dimensional confounding. (2020) Dukes, Oliver; Avagyan, Vahe; Vansteelandt, Stijn

Development and validation of a simplified score to predict neonatal mortality risk among neonates weighing 2000 g or less (NMR-2000): an analysis using data from the UK and The Gambia. (2020) Medvedev, Melissa M; Brotherton, Helen; Gai, Abdou; Tann, Cally; Gale, Christopher; Waiswa, Peter; Elbourne, Diana; Lawn, Joy E; Allen, Elizabeth

Propensity scores using missingness pattern information: a practical guide. (2020) Blake, Helen A; Leyrat, Clémence; Mansfield, Kathryn E; Seaman, Shaun; Tomlinson, Laurie A; Carpenter, James; Williamson, Elizabeth J

Non-memory cognitive symptom development in Alzheimer's disease. (2020) Blenkinsop, A; van der Flier, WM; Wolk, D; Lehmann, M; Howard, R; Frost, C; Barnes, J

Automated White Matter Hyperintensity Segmentation Using Bayesian Model Selection: Assessment and Correlations with Cognitive Change. (2020) Fiford, Cassidy M; Sudre, Carole H; Pemberton, Hugh; Walsh, Phoebe; Manning, Emily; Malone, Ian B; Nicholas, Jennifer; Bouvy, Willem H; Carmichael, Owen T; Biessels, Geert Jan; Cardoso, M Jorge; Barnes, Josephine; Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

Dealing with partially observed covariates in propensity score analysis of observational data. (2020) Blake, HA

Ethnic differences in the severity and clinical management of type 2 diabetes at time of diagnosis: A cohort study in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink. (2020) Mathur, R; Palla, L; Farmer, RE; Chaturvedi, N; Smeeth, L

CONSORT Extension for Within-Person Randomized Clinical Trials. (2020) Chung, B; Pandis, N; Scherer, RW; Elbourne, D description

Erratum to: Causal inference-so much more than statistics. (2020) Pearce, Neil; Lawlor, Debbie A

January 2020

Analysis of counts for cluster randomized trials: Negative controls and test-negative designs. (2020) Dufault, Suzanne M; Jewell, Nicholas P

Circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration and cause-specific mortality in the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study. (2020) Heath, Alicia K; Hodge, Allison M; Ebeling, Peter R; Kvaskoff, David; Eyles, Darryl W; Giles, Graham G; English, Dallas R; Williamson, Elizabeth J

Randomised, double-blind, placebo controlled multi-centre study to assess the efficacy, tolerability and safety of Enterosgel® in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhoea (IBS-D) in adults. (2020) Kemppinen, Anu; Howell, Carol; Allgar, Victoria; Dodd, Matthew; Gregson, John; Knowles, Charles; McLaughlin, John; Pandya, Preeti; Whorwell, Peter; Markaryan, Elena; Yiannakou, Yan

Estimating treatment effects with partially observed covariates using outcome regression with missing indicators. (2020) Blake, Helen A; Leyrat, Clémence; Mansfield, Kathryn E; Tomlinson, Laurie A; Carpenter, James; Williamson, Elizabeth J

Violence against children and intimate partner violence against women: overlap and common contributing factors among caregiver-adolescent dyads. (2020) Carlson, Catherine; Namy, Sophie; Norcini Pala, Andrea; Wainberg, Milton L; Michau, Lori; Nakuti, Janet; Knight, Louise; Allen, Elizabeth; Ikenberg, Carin; Naker, Dipak; Devries, Karen

Two-year outcomes among stable high-risk patients following acute MI. Insights from a global registry in 25 countries. (2020) Brieger, David; Pocock, Stuart J; Blankenberg, Stefan; Chen, Ji Yan; Cohen, Mauricio G; Granger, Christopher B; Grieve, Richard; Nicolau, Jose C; Simon, Tabassome; Westermann, Dirk; Yasuda, Satoshi; Gregson, John; Rennie, Kirsten L; Hedman, Katarina; Sundell, Karolina Andersson; Goodman, Shaun G

Prolonged dual antiplatelet therapy in patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: 2-year findings from EPICOR Asia. (2020) Zou, Yanan; Yang, Shuang; Wang, Shipeng; Lv, Bo; Xiu, Lili; Li, Lulu; Lee, Stephen W-L; Chin, Chee Tang; Pocock, Stuart J; Huo, Yong; Yu, Bo

Drug therapy for delirium in terminally ill adults. (2020) Finucane, Anne M; Jones, Louise; Leurent, Baptiste; Sampson, Elizabeth L; Stone, Patrick; Tookman, Adrian; Candy, Bridget

Variations in neonatal mortality, infant mortality, preterm birth and birth weight in England and Wales according to ethnicity and maternal country or region of birth: an analysis of linked national data from 2006 to 2012. (2020) Opondo, Charles; Jayaweera, Hiranthi; Hollowell, Jennifer; Li, Yangmei; Kurinczuk, Jennifer J; Quigley, Maria A

Comparative effects of sulphonylureas, dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors and sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors added to metformin monotherapy: a propensity-score matched cohort study in UK primary care. (2020) Wilkinson, Samantha; Williamson, Elizabeth; Pokrajac, Ana; Fogarty, Damian; Stirnadel-Farrant, Heide; Smeeth, Liam; Douglas, Ian J; Tomlinson, Laurie A

Effects of spironolactone on serum markers of fibrosis in people at high risk of developing heart failure: rationale, design and baseline characteristics of a proof-of-concept, randomised, precision-medicine, prevention trial. The Heart OMics in AGing (HOMAGE) trial. (2020) Pellicori, Pierpaolo; Ferreira, João Pedro; Mariottoni, Beatrice; Brunner-La Rocca, Hans-Peter; Ahmed, Fozia Z; Verdonschot, Job; Collier, Tim; Cuthbert, Joe J; Petutschnigg, Johannes; Mujaj, Blerim; Girerd, Nicolas; González, Arantxa; Clark, Andrew L; Cosmi, Franco; Staessen, Jan A; Heymans, Stephane; Latini, Roberto; Rossignol, Patrick; Zannad, Faiez; Cleland, John GF

Trihalomethanes in Drinking Water and Bladder Cancer Burden in the European Union. (2020) Evlampidou, Iro; Font-Ribera, Laia; Rojas-Rueda, David; Gracia-Lavedan, Esther; Costet, Nathalie; Pearce, Neil; Vineis, Paolo; Jaakkola, Jouni JK; Delloye, Francis; Makris, Konstantinos C; Stephanou, Euripides G; Kargaki, Sophia; Kozisek, Frantisek; Sigsgaard, Torben; Hansen, Birgitte; Schullehner, Jörg; Nahkur, Ramon; Galey, Catherine; Zwiener, Christian; Vargha, Marta; Righi, Elena; Aggazzotti, Gabriella; Kalnina, Gunda; Grazuleviciene, Regina; Polanska, Kinga; Gubkova, Dasa; Bitenc, Katarina; Goslan, Emma H; Kogevinas, Manolis; Villanueva, Cristina M

Context of Violence in Adolescence Cohort (CoVAC) study: protocol for a mixed methods longitudinal study in Uganda. (2020) Devries, Karen; Parkes, Jenny; Knight, Louise; Allen, Elizabeth; Namy, Sophie; Datzberger, Simone; Nalukenge, Winifred; Atuhaire, Lydia; Kyegombe, Nambusi; Walakira, Eddy; Seeley, Janet; Weiss, Helen A; Naker, Dipak

Mortality After Repeat Revascularization Following PCI or CABG for Left Main Disease: The EXCEL Trial. (2020) Giustino, Gennaro; Serruys, Patrick W; Sabik, Joseph F; Mehran, Roxana; Maehara, Akiko; Puskas, John D; Simonton, Charles A; Lembo, Nicholas J; Kandzari, David E; Morice, Marie-Claude; Taggart, David P; Gershlick, Anthony H; Ragosta, Michael; Kron, Irving L; Liu, Yangbo; Zhang, Zixuan; McAndrew, Thomas; Dressler, Ovidiu; Généreux, Philippe; Ben-Yehuda, Ori; Pocock, Stuart J; Kappetein, Arie Pieter; Stone, Gregg W description

Cardiovascular risk associated with serum potassium in the context of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist use in patients with heart failure and left ventricular dysfunction. (2020) Rossignol, Patrick; Duarte, Kevin; Girerd, Nicolas; Karoui, Moez; McMurray, John JV; Swedberg, Karl; van Veldhuisen, Dirk J; Pocock, Stuart; Dickstein, Kenneth; Zannad, Faiez; Pitt, Bertram description

Tailored, psychological intervention for anxiety or depression in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), TANDEM (Tailored intervention for ANxiety and DEpression Management in COPD): protocol for a randomised controlled trial. (2020) Sohanpal, Ratna; Pinnock, Hilary; Steed, Liz; Heslop Marshall, Karen; Chan, Claire; Kelly, Moira; Priebe, Stefan; Roberts, C Michael; Singh, Sally; Smuk, Melanie; Saqi-Waseem, Sarah; Healey, Andy; Underwood, Martin; White, Patrick; Warburton, Chris; Taylor, Stephanie JC; TANDEM Investigators

Association of anthropometry and weight change with risk of dementia and its major subtypes: A meta-analysis consisting 2.8 million adults with 57 294 cases of dementia. (2020) Lee, Crystal ManYing; Woodward, Mark; Batty, G David; Beiser, Alexa S; Bell, Steven; Berr, Claudine; Bjertness, Espen; Chalmers, John; Clarke, Robert; Dartigues, Jean-Francois; Davis-Plourde, Kendra; Debette, Stéphanie; Di Angelantonio, Emanuele; Feart, Catherine; Frikke-Schmidt, Ruth; Gregson, John; Haan, Mary N; Hassing, Linda B; Hayden, Kathleen M; Hoevenaar-Blom, Marieke P; Kaprio, Jaakko; Kivimaki, Mika; Lappas, Georgios; Larson, Eric B; LeBlanc, Erin S; Lee, Anne; Lui, Li-Yung; Moll van Charante, Eric P; Ninomiya, Toshiharu; Nordestgaard, Liv Tybjaerg; Ohara, Tomoyuki; Ohkuma, Toshiaki; Palviainen, Teemu; Peres, Karine; Peters, Ruth; Qizilbash, Nawab; Richard, Edo; Rosengren, Annika; Seshadri, Sudha; Shipley, Martin; Singh-Manoux, Archana; Strand, Bjorn Heine; van Gool, Willem A; Vuoksimaa, Eero; Yaffe, Kristine; Huxley, Rachel R

Preoperative intravenous iron before cardiac surgery: a prospective multicentre feasibility study. (2020) Klein, Andrew A; Chau, Marisa; Yeates, James A; Collier, Timothy; Evans, Caroline; Agarwal, Seema; Richards, Toby; UK Cardiac and Vascular Surgery Interventional Anaemia Response

Improving the quality of routine maternal and newborn data captured in primary health facilities in Gombe State, Northeastern Nigeria: a before-and-after study. (2020) Bhattacharya, Antoinette Alas; Allen, Elizabeth; Umar, Nasir; Audu, Ahmed; Felix, Habila; Schellenberg, Joanna; Marchant, Tanya

Boys are more likely to be undernourished than girls: a systematic review and meta-analysis of sex differences in undernutrition. (2020) Thurstans, Susan; Opondo, Charles; Seal, Andrew; Wells, Jonathan; Khara, Tanya; Dolan, Carmel; Briend, André; Myatt, Mark; Garenne, Michel; Sear, Rebecca; Kerac, Marko

Acute malnutrition recovery energy requirements based on mid-upper arm circumference: Secondary analysis of feeding program data from 5 countries, Combined Protocol for Acute Malnutrition Study (ComPAS) Stage 1. (2020) Chase, Rachel P; Kerac, Marko; Grant, Angeline; Manary, Mark; Briend, André; Opondo, Charles; Bailey, Jeanette

Developing excellence in biostatistics leadership, training and science in Africa: How the Sub-Saharan Africa Consortium for Advanced Biostatistics (SSACAB) training unites expertise to deliver excellence. (2020) Chirwa, Tobias F; Matsena Zingoni, Zvifadzo; Munyewende, Pascalia; Manda, Samuel O; Mwambi, Henry; Kandala, Ngianga-Bakwin; Kinyanjui, Samson; Young, Taryn; Musenge, Eustasius; Simbeye, Jupiter; Musonda, Patrick; Mahande, Michael Johnson; Weke, Patrick; Onyango, Nelson Owuor; Kazembe, Lawrence; Tumwesigye, Nazarius Mbona; Zuma, Khangelani; Yende-Zuma, Nonhlanhla; Omanyondo Ohambe, Marie-Claire; Kweku, Emmanuel Nakua; Maposa, Innocent; Ayele, Birhanu; Achia, Thomas; Machekano, Rhoderick; Thabane, Lehana; Levin, Jonathan; Eijkemans, Marinus JC; Carpenter, James; Chasela, Charles; Klipstein-Grobusch, Kerstin; Todd, Jim

High blood pressure predicts hippocampal atrophy rate in cognitively impaired elders. (2020) Fiford, Cassidy M; Nicholas, Jennifer M; Biessels, Geert Jan; Lane, Christopher A; Cardoso, M Jorge; Barnes, Josephine

Impact of school-based malaria case management on school attendance, health and education outcomes: a cluster randomised trial in southern Malawi. (2020) Halliday, Katherine E; Witek-McManus, Stefan S; Opondo, Charles; Mtali, Austin; Allen, Elizabeth; Bauleni, Andrew; Ndau, Saidi; Phondiwa, Emmanuel; Ali, Doreen; Kachigunda, Virginia; Sande, John H; Jawati, Mpumulo; Verney, Allison; Chimuna, Tiyese; Melody, David; Moestue, Helen; Roschnik, Natalie; Brooker, Simon J; Mathanga, Don P

Operationalising kangaroo Mother care before stabilisation amongst low birth Weight Neonates in Africa (OMWaNA): protocol for a randomised controlled trial to examine mortality impact in Uganda. (2020) Medvedev, Melissa M; Tumukunde, Victor; Mambule, Ivan; Tann, Cally J; Waiswa, Peter; Canter, Ruth R; Hansen, Christian H; Ekirapa-Kiracho, Elizabeth; Katumba, Kenneth; Pitt, Catherine; Greco, Giulia; Brotherton, Helen; Elbourne, Diana; Seeley, Janet; Nyirenda, Moffat; Allen, Elizabeth; Lawn, Joy E