@danlewer

Consultant in Public Health at Bradford Institute for Health Research @CityOfResearch @BiBresearch

 Leeds
Joined February 2009
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@danlewer, @tdbrothers and colleagues explain why risk factors for health outcomes shouldn't be studied by putting several independent variables into a regression model and identifying which are statistically significant in a new Methods Primer. bit.ly/3JC6G7u
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Among people who use heroin, tobacco smoking and illegal drugs cause a similar number of premature deaths buff.ly/tIC0Fqp @danlewer @TattanBirch @Sharon_ACox
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📷 We did some life table modelling among people who use heroin. Tobacco smoking causes as many premature deaths in this group as illegal drugs. Yet public health policies overlook smoking: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… New research with @Sharon_ACox and @TattanBirch
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We've just published a scoping review of projects that aim to improve opioid agonist therapy (eg. methadone) in acute hospital settings: This journals.plos.org/mentalheal…. This is part of our excellent iHOST project (lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres…). A couple of findings ...

Interventions to improve access to opioid agonist therapy in acute hospitals: A scoping review

Many people who use illicit opioids have negative experiences when admitted to hospital, which is partly due to poor availability of opioid agonist therapy (OAT). We conducted a scoping review of...

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(5) My favourite find was the article "Treatment of hospitalized narcotic addicts" from the Illinois Medical Journal, 1970. archive.org/details/imjillin…. This deserves an essay of its own

IMJ, Illinois Medical Journal

Title variation: Illinois Medical Journal; Contents include clinical articles, IMJ Surgical Grand Rounds, and regular features such as editorials and obituaries; A brief biography with photograph of...

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Authors include @pwidpride, @tdbrothers, @VivProf, and others who probably already left Twitter
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MRC IEU@mrc_ieu9 Dec 2024
Replying to @bmj_latest
If it sounds too good to be true it probably is. Before you stock up on dark chocolate read this response from @mendel_random ieureka.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/…
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Please do find me at @danlewer.bsky.social
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Inflation is usually measured the change in prices compared to one year previously. Therefore, a reducing but still positive inflation figure often means REDUCING pricing month-on-month. A positive inflation figures does not always mean prices are going up.
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Let's talk about the "5%" model. You just can't contribute meaningfully to a research project with 5% of your time. If you have 20 parallel projects, you literally just go to meetings and do nothing.
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Replying to @danlewer
it is a dark and twisted tongue, made as a mockery to all that is beautiful
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Replying to @noah_greifer
Regular reminder that we almost had the meat axe.
Carlisle Rainey@carlislerainey25 Jan 2024
All-time acknowledgements section. jstor.org/stable/2958830?seq… h/t @KyleSchindl, iirc.
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We're recruiting a senior research fellow (£43,742 to £50,056) to join Bradford Centre for Health Data Science - the leading centre for applied epidemiology and quantitative health research in the north of England - jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadv…
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Submit your Lancet articles with standard decimal points. Resist the interpunct #smashthesystem
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@TheLancet what do you do when anarchic authors submit manuscripts without using the interpunct?
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In principle I'm fine with students and job applicants using chatGPT to help them. But I can't bear to read any more of the utter rubbish it generates. I find the gramatically correct nonsense lists particularly infuriating
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