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| Title |
The missed lessons of Sir Austin Bradford Hill
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations, October 2004
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| DOI | 10.1186/1742-5573-1-3 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Carl V Phillips, Karen J Goodman |
| Abstract |
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" for inferring causation when association is observed, despite Hill's explicit statement that cause-effect decisions cannot be based on a set of rules. Overlooked are Hill's important lessons about how to make decisions based on epidemiologic evidence. He advised epidemiologists to avoid over-emphasizing statistical significance testing, given the observation that systematic error is often greater than random error. His compelling and intuitive examples point out the need to consider costs and benefits when making decisions about health-promoting interventions. These lessons, which offer ways to dramatically increase the contribution of health science to decision making, are as needed today as they were when Hill presented them. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 47 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 13 | 28% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 13% |
| Australia | 4 | 9% |
| Canada | 3 | 6% |
| Norway | 2 | 4% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 2% |
| Comoros | 1 | 2% |
| Finland | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 2 | 4% |
| Unknown | 13 | 28% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 30 | 64% |
| Scientists | 12 | 26% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 5 | 11% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 336 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 1% |
| Brazil | 3 | <1% |
| Germany | 2 | <1% |
| Canada | 2 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Cameroon | 1 | <1% |
| Ghana | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 9 | 3% |
| Unknown | 305 | 91% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 60 | 18% |
| Researcher | 53 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 49 | 15% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 21 | 6% |
| Student > Bachelor | 21 | 6% |
| Other | 83 | 25% |
| Unknown | 49 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 133 | 40% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 19 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 19 | 6% |
| Psychology | 19 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 18 | 5% |
| Other | 55 | 16% |
| Unknown | 73 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 52. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 March 2024.
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