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Patterns and trends of medicinal poisoning substances: a population-based cohort study of injuries in 0-11 year old children from 1998-2018 (2024)
Journal Article

Background There have been sharp increases in antidepressant and opioid prescriptions over the last 10 years, as well as increased over-the-counter medicine availability. However, the impact on childhood medicinal poisonings rates, particularly by s... Read More about Patterns and trends of medicinal poisoning substances: a population-based cohort study of injuries in 0-11 year old children from 1998-2018.

Assessing the value of integrating national longitudinal shopping data into respiratory disease forecasting models (2023)
Journal Article

The COVID-19 pandemic led to unparalleled pressure on healthcare services. Improved healthcare planning in relation to diseases affecting the respiratory system has consequently become a key concern. We investigated the value of integrating sales of... Read More about Assessing the value of integrating national longitudinal shopping data into respiratory disease forecasting models.

Qualitative Investigation of the Novel Use of Shopping Loyalty Card Data in Medical Decision Making (2023)
Book Chapter

This paper describes early results of a small qualitative study investigating the potential impact of shopping loyalty card data (SLCD) in the diagnostic pathway for ovarian cancer. There is early evidence that pharmaceutical products such as pain re... Read More about Qualitative Investigation of the Novel Use of Shopping Loyalty Card Data in Medical Decision Making.

How to read a cohort study (2014)
Book Chapter

The cohort is the basis of all epidemiologic study designs as it is the closest way to study the natural progression of people's life course over which the temporal relationship between exposures and outcomes can be assessed. Although a cohort is def... Read More about How to read a cohort study.

How to read a case-control study (2014)
Book Chapter