2023 JClub

January 25, 2023
Lu J, Meyer S. A zero-inflated endemic-epidemic model with an application to measles time series in Germany. arXiv [statME] 2022. https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07285 

February 15, 2023
Inoue K, Ritz B, Arah OA. Causal Effect of Chronic Pain on Mortality Through Opioid Prescriptions: Application of the Front-Door Formula. Epidemiology 2022;33:572–80. https://doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000001490.  

April 19, 2023
Lesko CR, Fox MP, Edwards JK. A Framework for Descriptive Epidemiology. Am J Epidemiol 2022;191:2063–70. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwac115.

May 17, 2023
Matthay EC, Glymour MM. Causal Inference Challenges and New Directions for Epidemiologic Research on the Health Effects of Social Policies. Current Epidemiology Reports 2022;9:22–37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40471-022-00288-7.

June 21, 2023
Maringe C, Benitez Majano S, Exarchakou A, Smith M, Rachet B, Belot A, et al. 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. Int J Epidemiol 2020;49:1719–29. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyaa057.

July 19, 2023
Dekkers OM, Mulder JM. When will individuals meet their personalized probabilities? A philosophical note on risk prediction. Eur J Epidemiol 2020;35:1115–21. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-020-00700-w.

October 18, 2023
Rod NH, Broadbent A, Rod MH, Russo F, Arah OA, Stronks K. Complexity in Epidemiology and Public Health. Addressing Complex Health Problems Through a Mix of Epidemiologic Methods and Data. Epidemiology 2023;34:505–14. https://dx.doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000001612

November 15, 2023
Armstrong BG, Gasparrini A, Tobias A. Conditional Poisson models: a flexible alternative to conditional logistic case cross-over analysis. BMC Medical Research Methodology 2014, 14: 122. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-14-122