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  1. Short-term fluctuations of ambient air pollution have been associated with exacerbation of cardiovascular disease. A multi-city study was designed to assess the probability of recurrent hospitalization in a co...

    Authors: Annette Peters, Stephanie von Klot, Niklas Berglind, Allmut Hörmann, Hannelore Löwel, Fredrik Nyberg, Juha Pekkanen, Carlo A Perucci, Massimo Stafoggia, Jordi Sunyer, Pekka Tiittanen and Francesco Forastiere
    Citation: Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 2006 3:10
  2. Published studies of geocoding accuracy often focus on a single geographic area, address source or vendor, do not adjust accuracy measures for address characteristics, and do not examine effects of inaccuracy ...

    Authors: Eric A Whitsel, P Miguel Quibrera, Richard L Smith, Diane J Catellier, Duanping Liao, Amanda C Henley and Gerardo Heiss
    Citation: Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 2006 3:8
  3. Exposure assessment is typically the greatest weakness of epidemiologic studies of disinfection by-products (DBPs) in drinking water, which largely stems from the difficulty in obtaining accurate data on indiv...

    Authors: Andria Q Jones, Catherine E Dewey, Kathryn Doré, Shannon E Majowicz, Scott A McEwen and David Waltner-Toews
    Citation: Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 2006 3:6
  4. Interaction measured on the additive scale has been argued to be better correlated with biologic interaction than when measured on the multiplicative scale. Measures of interaction on the additive scale have b...

    Authors: Linda Kalilani and Julius Atashili
    Citation: Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 2006 3:5
  5. The North West Adelaide Health Study is a population-based biomedical cohort study investigating the prevalence of a number of chronic conditions and health-related risk factors along a continuum. This methodo...

    Authors: Janet F Grant, Catherine R Chittleborough, Anne W Taylor, Eleonora Dal Grande, David H Wilson, Patrick J Phillips, Robert J Adams, Julianne Cheek, Kay Price, Tiffany Gill and Richard E Ruffin
    Citation: Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 2006 3:4
  6. Counting outcomes such as days of physical activity or servings of fruits and vegetables often have distributions that are highly skewed toward the right with a preponderance of zeros, posing analytical challe...

    Authors: Donald J Slymen, Guadalupe X Ayala, Elva M Arredondo and John P Elder
    Citation: Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 2006 3:3
  7. In a series of papers, Robins and colleagues describe inverse probability of treatment weighted (IPTW) estimation in marginal structural models (MSMs), a method of causal analysis of longitudinal data based on...

    Authors: Stephen C Newman
    Citation: Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 2006 3:2
  8. There have been dramatic advances in the development of web-based data collection instruments. This paper outlines a systematic web-based approach to facilitate this process through locally developed code and ...

    Authors: Charles J Cooper, Sharon P Cooper, Deborah J del Junco, Eva M Shipp, Ryan Whitworth and Sara R Cooper
    Citation: Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 2006 3:1
  9. A wide variety of bacterial typing systems are currently in use that vary greatly with respect to the effort required, cost, reliability and ability to discriminate between bacterial strains. No one technique ...

    Authors: Betsy Foxman, Lixin Zhang, James S Koopman, Shannon D Manning and Carl F Marrs
    Citation: Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 2005 2:10
  10. In teaching epidemiology, confounding is a difficult topic. The authors designed active learning objects (LO) based on manipulable three-dimensional (3D) plots to facilitate understanding of confounding. The 3...

    Authors: Cora MC Busstra, Rob Hartog and Pieter van 't Veer
    Citation: Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 2005 2:6
  11. This article accompanies Len Syme's "Historical Perspective: The social determinants of disease – some roots of the movement." It describes some of Len's role in the development of social epidemiology through ...

    Authors: Irene H Yen
    Citation: Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 2005 2:3
  12. It is well known that the incidence odds ratio approximates the risk ratio when the disease of interest is rare, but increasingly overestimates the risk ratio as the disease becomes more common. However when a...

    Authors: Ulka B Campbell, Nicolle M Gatto and Sharon Schwartz
    Citation: Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 2005 2:1
  13. Epidemiologic research is often devoted to etiologic investigation, and so techniques that may facilitate mechanistic inferences are attractive. Some of these techniques rely on rigid and/or unrealistic assump...

    Authors: Jay S Kaufman, Richard F MacLehose and Sol Kaufman
    Citation: Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 2004 1:4
  14. Austin Bradford Hill's landmark 1965 paper contains several important lessons for the current conduct of epidemiology. Unfortunately, it is almost exclusively cited as the source of the "Bradford-Hill criteria...

    Authors: Carl V Phillips and Karen J Goodman
    Citation: Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 2004 1:3
  15. As a supplement to our lead editorial, the editors of the new journal, Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations, provide a partial list of specific analyses and topic areas they would like to see submitted to the...

    Authors: George Maldonado and Carl V Phillips
    Citation: Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations 2004 1:2