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23 Sep 2022
PhD student in Cancer Epidemiology/Applied Biostatistics (KI)
One PhD student position is available for a research project in breast cancer epidemiology and applied biostatistics, where novel statistical methods for cancer epidemiology will b...
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23 Sep 2022
PhD student in Biostatistics/Epidemiology (KI)
Applicants are invited for a PhD research training position to work on a project on survival following a diagnosis of malignant melanoma. The overall aim is to quantify and describ...
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23 Sep 2022
Postdoctoral fellow at the division of infection medicine (LU)
The project is coordinated by Malin Inghammar, associate professor (docent), Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, in close collaboration with the research group EPI@LUND, led by P...
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13 Sep 2022
Postdoctoral Researcher/The Strategic Research Programme for Diabetes (KI)
Project: The impact of socioeconomic factors on antidiabetic medications use and discontinuation and type 2 diabetes consequences such as cardiovascular problems, kidney failure an...
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6 Sep 2022
Postdoctor in Epidemiology at University of Gothenburg
The applicant must have a PhD in epidemiology-public health, statistics, or similar, with a focus on research on register and/or large-scale cohort data and good epidemiological kn...
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22 Aug 2022
Ny studie: Genetiska variationer i immunförsvaret och insjuknande i infektionssjukdomar
Infektionssjukdomar är vanliga och kan i de flesta fall behandlas effektivt inom dagens sjukvård. Ökad antibiotikaresistens samt nya virus förändrar dock förutsättningarna för beha...
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26 Jul 2022
SUHF:s inventering av forskningsdatahantering
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21 Jun 2022
A Flexible Statistical Framework for Estimating Excess Mortality
Quantifying the impact of natural disasters or epidemics is critical for guiding policy decisions and interventions. When the effects of an event are long-lasting and difficult to ...
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20 Jun 2022
The Case for Case–Cohort: An Applied Epidemiologist’s Guide to Reframing Case–Cohort Studies to Improve Usability and Flexibility
When research questions require the use of precious samples, expensive assays or equipment, or labor-intensive data collection or analysis, nested case–control or case–cohort sampl...
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17 Jun 2022
Reflection on modern methods: combining weights for confounding and missing data
Inverse probability weights are increasingly used in epidemiological analysis, and estimation and application of weights to address a single bias are well discussed in the literatu...
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16 Jun 2022
Reflection on modern methods: statistical, policy and ethical implications of using age-standardized health indicators to quantify inequities
Methods for calculating health indicators profoundly influence understanding of and action on population health and inequities. Age-standardization can be useful and is commonly ap...
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14 Jun 2022
Reflection on modern methods: visualizing the effects of collinearity in distributed lag models
Collinearity can be a problem in regression models. When examining the effects of an exposure at different time points, constrained distributed lag models can alleviate some of the...
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13 Jun 2022
Generalizability and effect measure modification in sibling comparison studies
Sibling comparison studies have the attractive feature of being able to control for unmeasured confounding by factors that are shared within families. However, there is sometimes a...
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7 Jun 2022
The German Multiple Sclerosis and Pregnancy Registry: rationale, objective, design, and first results
The DMSKW is a valuable structure in providing safety data on drug exposure during pregnancy and lactation in combination with information on disease activity up to 6 years postpar...
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3 Jun 2022
High Validity of the Danish National Patient Registry for Systemic Anticancer Treatment Registration from 2009 to 2019
Background: The Danish National Patient Registry is a major resource for Danish epidemiology. Only a few studies have been conducted to check the validity of the reporting of syste...
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2 Jun 2022
Registries, Databases and Repositories for Developing Artificial Intelligence in Cancer Care
Modern artificial intelligence techniques have solved some previously intractable problems and produced impressive results in selected medical domains. One of their drawbacks is th...
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1 Jun 2022
Early experience with an opt-in research register - Scottish Health Research Register (SHARE): a multi-method evaluation of participant recruitment performance
Recruiting participants to a clinical study is a resource-intensive process with a high failure rate. The Scottish Health Research Register (SHARE) provides recruitment support ser...