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The Revolution Will Be Hard to Evaluate: How Co-Occurring Policy Changes Affect Research on the Health Effects of Social Policies. 革命难以评估:同时发生的政策变化如何影响社会政策对健康影响的研究》(The Revolution Will Hard Evaluate: How Co-Occurcurring Policy Changes Affect Research on the Health Effects of Social Policies)。
IF 5.2 2区 医学
Epidemiologic Reviews Pub Date : 2022-01-14 DOI: 10.1093/epirev/mxab009
Ellicott C Matthay, Erin Hagan, Spruha Joshi, May Lynn Tan, David Vlahov, Nancy Adler, M Maria Glymour
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引用次数: 0
Assumptions Not Often Assessed or Satisfied in Published Mediation Analyses in Psychology and Psychiatry. 在心理学和精神病学发表的调解分析中不经常评估或满足的假设。
IF 5.5 2区 医学
Epidemiologic Reviews Pub Date : 2022-01-14 DOI: 10.1093/epirev/mxab007
Elizabeth A Stuart, Ian Schmid, Trang Nguyen, Elizabeth Sarker, Adam Pittman, Kelly Benke, Kara Rudolph, Elena Badillo-Goicoechea, Jeannie-Marie Leoutsakos
{"title":"Assumptions Not Often Assessed or Satisfied in Published Mediation Analyses in Psychology and Psychiatry.","authors":"Elizabeth A Stuart, Ian Schmid, Trang Nguyen, Elizabeth Sarker, Adam Pittman, Kelly Benke, Kara Rudolph, Elena Badillo-Goicoechea, Jeannie-Marie Leoutsakos","doi":"10.1093/epirev/mxab007","DOIUrl":"10.1093/epirev/mxab007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mediation analysis aims to investigate the mechanisms of action behind the effects of interventions or treatments. Given the history and common use of mediation in mental health research, we conducted this review to understand how mediation analysis is implemented in psychology and psychiatry and whether analyses adhere to, address, or justify the key underlying assumptions of their approaches. All articles (n = 206) were from top academic psychiatry or psychology journals in the PsycInfo database and were published in English from 2013 to 2018. Information extracted from each article related to study design, covariates adjusted for in the analysis, temporal ordering of variables, and the specific method used to perform the mediation analysis. In most studies, underlying assumptions were not adhered to. Only approximately 20% of articles had full temporal ordering of exposure, mediator, and outcome. Confounding of the exposure-mediator and/or mediator-outcome relationships was controlled for in fewer than half of the studies. In almost none of the articles were the underlying assumptions of their approaches discussed or causal mediation methods used. These results provide insights to how methodologists should aim to communicate methods, and motivation for more outreach to the research community on best practices for mediation analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":50510,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiologic Reviews","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8900288/pdf/mxab007.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39438529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 6
Assessment of Physical Activity in Adults Using Wrist Accelerometers. 使用腕部加速度计评估成人的身体活动。
IF 5.5 2区 医学
Epidemiologic Reviews Pub Date : 2022-01-14 DOI: 10.1093/epirev/mxab004
Fangyu Liu, Amal A Wanigatunga, Jennifer A Schrack
{"title":"Assessment of Physical Activity in Adults Using Wrist Accelerometers.","authors":"Fangyu Liu,&nbsp;Amal A Wanigatunga,&nbsp;Jennifer A Schrack","doi":"10.1093/epirev/mxab004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/epirev/mxab004","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The health benefits of physical activity (PA) have been widely recognized, yet traditional measures of PA, including questionnaires and category-based assessments of volume and intensity, provide only broad estimates of daily activities. Accelerometers have advanced epidemiologic research on PA by providing objective and continuous measurement of PA in free-living conditions. Wrist-worn accelerometers have become especially popular because of low participant burden. However, the validity and reliability of wrist-worn devices for adults have yet to be summarized. Moreover, accelerometer data provide rich information on how PA is accumulated throughout the day, but only a small portion of these rich data have been used by researchers. Last, new methodological developments are emerging that aim to overcome some of the limitations of accelerometers. In this review, we provide an overview of accelerometry research, with a special focus on wrist-worn accelerometers. We describe briefly how accelerometers work; summarize the validity and reliability of wrist-worn accelerometers; discuss the benefits of accelerometers, including measuring light-intensity PA; and discuss pattern metrics of daily PA recently introduced in the literature. A summary of large-scale cohort studies and randomized trials that implemented wrist-worn accelerometry is provided. We conclude the review by discussing new developments and directions of research using accelerometers, with a focus on wrist-worn accelerometers.</p>","PeriodicalId":50510,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiologic Reviews","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8900289/pdf/mxab004.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39064740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 15
Evolution and Reproducibility of Simulation Modeling in Epidemiology and Health Policy Over Half a Century. 半个世纪以来流行病学和卫生政策模拟模型的演变和可重复性。
IF 5.5 2区 医学
Epidemiologic Reviews Pub Date : 2022-01-14 DOI: 10.1093/epirev/mxab006
Mohammad S Jalali, Catherine DiGennaro, Abby Guitar, Karen Lew, Hazhir Rahmandad
{"title":"Evolution and Reproducibility of Simulation Modeling in Epidemiology and Health Policy Over Half a Century.","authors":"Mohammad S Jalali,&nbsp;Catherine DiGennaro,&nbsp;Abby Guitar,&nbsp;Karen Lew,&nbsp;Hazhir Rahmandad","doi":"10.1093/epirev/mxab006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/epirev/mxab006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Simulation models are increasingly being used to inform epidemiologic studies and health policy, yet there is great variation in their transparency and reproducibility. In this review, we provide an overview of applications of simulation models in health policy and epidemiology, analyze the use of best reporting practices, and assess the reproducibility of the models using predefined, categorical criteria. We identified and analyzed 1,613 applicable articles and found exponential growth in the number of studies over the past half century, with the highest growth in dynamic modeling approaches. The largest subset of studies focused on disease policy models (70%), within which pathological conditions, viral diseases, neoplasms, and cardiovascular diseases account for one-third of the articles. Model details were not reported in almost half of the studies. We also provide in-depth analysis of modeling best practices, reporting quality and reproducibility of models for a subset of 100 articles (50 highly cited and 50 randomly selected from the remaining articles). Only 7 of 26 in-depth evaluation criteria were satisfied by more than 80% of samples. We identify areas for increased application of simulation modeling and opportunities to enhance the rigor and documentation in the conduct and reporting of simulation modeling in epidemiology and health policy.</p>","PeriodicalId":50510,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiologic Reviews","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/07/ed/mxab006.PMC8763126.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10770253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 11
Longitudinal Methods for Modeling Exposures in Pharmacoepidemiologic Studies in Pregnancy. 妊娠药物流行病学研究中暴露建模的纵向方法。
IF 5.5 2区 医学
Epidemiologic Reviews Pub Date : 2022-01-14 DOI: 10.1093/epirev/mxab002
Mollie E Wood, Angela Lupattelli, Kristin Palmsten, Gretchen Bandoli, Caroline Hurault-Delarue, Christine Damase-Michel, Christina D Chambers, Hedvig M E Nordeng, Marleen M H J van Gelder
{"title":"Longitudinal Methods for Modeling Exposures in Pharmacoepidemiologic Studies in Pregnancy.","authors":"Mollie E Wood,&nbsp;Angela Lupattelli,&nbsp;Kristin Palmsten,&nbsp;Gretchen Bandoli,&nbsp;Caroline Hurault-Delarue,&nbsp;Christine Damase-Michel,&nbsp;Christina D Chambers,&nbsp;Hedvig M E Nordeng,&nbsp;Marleen M H J van Gelder","doi":"10.1093/epirev/mxab002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/epirev/mxab002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In many perinatal pharmacoepidemiologic studies, exposure to a medication is classified as \"ever exposed\" versus \"never exposed\" within each trimester or even over the entire pregnancy. This approach is often far from real-world exposure patterns, may lead to exposure misclassification, and does not to incorporate important aspects such as dosage, timing of exposure, and treatment duration. Alternative exposure modeling methods can better summarize complex, individual-level medication use trajectories or time-varying exposures from information on medication dosage, gestational timing of use, and frequency of use. We provide an overview of commonly used methods for more refined definitions of real-world exposure to medication use during pregnancy, focusing on the major strengths and limitations of the techniques, including the potential for method-specific biases. Unsupervised clustering methods, including k-means clustering, group-based trajectory models, and hierarchical cluster analysis, are of interest because they enable visual examination of medication use trajectories over time in pregnancy and complex individual-level exposures, as well as providing insight into comedication and drug-switching patterns. Analytical techniques for time-varying exposure methods, such as extended Cox models and Robins' generalized methods, are useful tools when medication exposure is not static during pregnancy. We propose that where appropriate, combining unsupervised clustering techniques with causal modeling approaches may be a powerful approach to understanding medication safety in pregnancy, and this framework can also be applied in other areas of epidemiology.</p>","PeriodicalId":50510,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiologic Reviews","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/47/62/mxab002.PMC8763114.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9487891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 15
Epidemiologic Methods: Seeing the Forest and the Trees. 流行病学方法:看到森林和树木。
IF 5.5 2区 医学
Epidemiologic Reviews Pub Date : 2022-01-14 DOI: 10.1093/epirev/mxab010
Kara E Rudolph, Bryan Lau
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引用次数: 0
Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance: Compared to What? 抗菌素耐药性负担:与什么相比?
IF 5.5 2区 医学
Epidemiologic Reviews Pub Date : 2022-01-14 DOI: 10.1093/epirev/mxab001
Marlieke E A de Kraker, Marc Lipsitch
{"title":"Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance: Compared to What?","authors":"Marlieke E A de Kraker,&nbsp;Marc Lipsitch","doi":"10.1093/epirev/mxab001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/epirev/mxab001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The increased focus on the public health burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) raises conceptual challenges, such as determining how much harm multidrug-resistant organisms do compared to what, or how to establish the burden. Here, we present a counterfactual framework and provide guidance to harmonize methodologies and optimize study quality. In AMR-burden studies, 2 counterfactual approaches have been applied: the harm of drug-resistant infections relative to the harm of the same drug-susceptible infections (the susceptible-infection counterfactual); and the total harm of drug-resistant infections relative to a situation where such infections were prevented (the no-infection counterfactual). We propose to use an intervention-based causal approach to determine the most appropriate counterfactual. We show that intervention scenarios, species of interest, and types of infections influence the choice of counterfactual. We recommend using purpose-designed cohort studies to apply this counterfactual framework, whereby the selection of cohorts (patients with drug-resistant, drug-susceptible infections, and those with no infection) should be based on matching on time to infection through exposure density sampling to avoid biased estimates. Application of survival methods is preferred, considering competing events. We conclude by advocating estimation of the burden of AMR by using the no-infection and susceptible-infection counterfactuals. The resulting numbers will provide policy-relevant information about the upper and lower bound of future interventions designed to control AMR. The counterfactuals should be applied in cohort studies, whereby selection of the unexposed cohorts should be based on exposure density sampling, applying methods avoiding time-dependent bias and confounding.</p>","PeriodicalId":50510,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiologic Reviews","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/epirev/mxab001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10425629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 21
Is the Way Forward to Step Back? Documenting the Frequency With Which Study Goals Are Misaligned With Study Methods and Interpretations in the Epidemiologic Literature. 后退是前进的道路吗?记录研究目标与流行病学文献中的研究方法和解释不一致的频率。
IF 5.5 2区 医学
Epidemiologic Reviews Pub Date : 2022-01-14 DOI: 10.1093/epirev/mxab008
Katrina L Kezios
{"title":"Is the Way Forward to Step Back? Documenting the Frequency With Which Study Goals Are Misaligned With Study Methods and Interpretations in the Epidemiologic Literature.","authors":"Katrina L Kezios","doi":"10.1093/epirev/mxab008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/epirev/mxab008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In any research study, there is an underlying process that should begin with a clear articulation of the study's goal. The study's goal drives this process; it determines many study features, including the estimand of interest, the analytic approaches that can be used to estimate it, and which coefficients, if any, should be interpreted. Misalignment can occur in this process when analytic approaches and/or interpretations do not match the study's goal; misalignment is potentially more likely to arise when study goals are ambiguously framed. In this study, misalignment in the observational epidemiologic literature was documented and how the framing of study goals contributes to misalignment was explored. The following 2 misalignments were examined: use of an inappropriate variable selection approach for the goal (a \"goal-methods\" misalignment) and interpretation of coefficients of variables for which causal considerations were not made (e.g., Table 2 Fallacy, a \"goal-interpretation\" misalignment). A random sample of 100 articles published 2014-2018 in the top 5 general epidemiology journals were reviewed. Most reviewed studies were causal, with either explicitly stated (n = 13; 13%) or associational-framed (n = 71; 69%) aims. Full alignment of goal-methods-interpretations was infrequent (n = 9; 9%), although clearly causal studies (n = 5 of 13; 38%) were more often fully aligned than were seemingly causal ones (n = 3 of 71; 4%). Goal-methods misalignments were common (n = 34 of 103; 33%), but most frequently, methods were insufficiently reported to draw conclusions (n = 47; 46%). Goal-interpretations misalignments occurred in 31% (n = 32) of the studies and occurred less often when the methods were aligned (n = 2; 2%) compared with when the methods were misaligned (n = 13; 13%).</p>","PeriodicalId":50510,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiologic Reviews","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9005115/pdf/mxab008.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39426753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Monte Carlo Simulation Approaches for Quantitative Bias Analysis: A Tutorial. 定量偏差分析的蒙特卡罗模拟方法:教程。
IF 5.5 2区 医学
Epidemiologic Reviews Pub Date : 2022-01-14 DOI: 10.1093/epirev/mxab012
Hailey R Banack, Eleanor Hayes-Larson, Elizabeth Rose Mayeda
{"title":"Monte Carlo Simulation Approaches for Quantitative Bias Analysis: A Tutorial.","authors":"Hailey R Banack,&nbsp;Eleanor Hayes-Larson,&nbsp;Elizabeth Rose Mayeda","doi":"10.1093/epirev/mxab012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/epirev/mxab012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Quantitative bias analysis can be used to empirically assess how far study estimates are from the truth (i.e., an estimate that is free of bias). These methods can be used to explore the potential impact of confounding bias, selection bias (collider stratification bias), and information bias. Quantitative bias analysis includes methods that can be used to check the robustness of study findings to multiple types of bias and methods that use simulation studies to generate data and understand the hypothetical impact of specific types of bias in a simulated data set. In this article, we review 2 strategies for quantitative bias analysis: 1) traditional probabilistic quantitative bias analysis and 2) quantitative bias analysis with generated data. An important difference between the 2 strategies relates to the type of data (real vs. generated data) used in the analysis. Monte Carlo simulations are used in both approaches, but the simulation process is used for different purposes in each. For both approaches, we outline and describe the steps required to carry out the quantitative bias analysis and also present a bias-analysis tutorial demonstrating how both approaches can be applied in the context of an analysis for selection bias. Our goal is to highlight the utility of quantitative bias analysis for practicing epidemiologists and increase the use of these methods in the epidemiologic literature.</p>","PeriodicalId":50510,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiologic Reviews","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9005059/pdf/mxab012.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39529829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 6
Availability, Accessibility, and Coverage of Needle and Syringe Programs in Prisons in the European Union. 欧盟监狱中针头和注射器项目的可得性、可及性和覆盖范围。
IF 5.5 2区 医学
Epidemiologic Reviews Pub Date : 2020-01-31 DOI: 10.1093/epirev/mxaa003
Babak Moazen, Kate Dolan, Sahar Saeedi Moghaddam, Masoud Lotfizadeh, Karen Duke, Florian Neuhann, Heino Stöver, Albrecht Jahn
{"title":"Availability, Accessibility, and Coverage of Needle and Syringe Programs in Prisons in the European Union.","authors":"Babak Moazen,&nbsp;Kate Dolan,&nbsp;Sahar Saeedi Moghaddam,&nbsp;Masoud Lotfizadeh,&nbsp;Karen Duke,&nbsp;Florian Neuhann,&nbsp;Heino Stöver,&nbsp;Albrecht Jahn","doi":"10.1093/epirev/mxaa003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/epirev/mxaa003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Needle and syringe programs (NSPs) are among the most effective interventions for controlling the transmission of infection among people who inject drugs in prisons. We evaluated the availability, accessibility, and coverage of NSPs in prisons in European Union (EU) countries. In line with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) criteria, we systematically searched 4 databases of peer-reviewed publications (MEDLINE (PubMed), ISI Web of Science, EBSCO, and ScienceDirect) and 53 databases containing gray literature to collect data published from January 2008 to August 2018. A total of 23,969 documents (17,297 papers and 6,672 gray documents) were identified, of which 26 were included in the study. In 2018, imprisonment rates in 28 EU countries ranged between 51 per 100,000 population in Finland and 235 per 100,000 population in Lithuania. Only 4 countries were found to have NSPs in prisons: Germany (in 1 prison), Luxembourg (no coverage data were found), Romania (available in more than 50% of prisons), and Spain (in all prisons). Portugal stopped an NSP after a 6-month pilot phase. Despite the protective impact of prison-based NSPs on infection transmission, only 4 EU countries distribute sterile syringes among people who inject drugs in prisons, and coverage of the programs within these countries is very low. Since most prisoners will eventually return to the community, lack of NSPs in EU prisons not only is a threat to the health of prisoners but also endangers public health.</p>","PeriodicalId":50510,"journal":{"name":"Epidemiologic Reviews","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/epirev/mxaa003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38463951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 11
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