Published 11 June 2019 Good health information is essential for good governance and national health information systems have a central function in the health systems. Decision makers and health professionals need a systematic way of increasing their ability to access and synthesise the growing volume of information as a part of public health, clinical medicine and management of health care service

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/how-maintain-good-quality-register-systems - 2025-05-23

Published 12 June 2019 Low back pain (LBP) is a ubiquitous, heterogeneous disorder that affects most people at some point in their lives. The efficient management of LBP remains elusive, with direct and indirect costs attributed to LBP surpassing many other common conditions. An emphasis on a structural basis of LBP often fails to recognize movement, specifically patterns of movement that may prov

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/back-pain-and-movement-b-pam-registry-study-protocol - 2025-05-23

Published 13 June 2019 Mediation analysis serves as a crucial tool to perform causal inferences on the relationship among an exposure, a mediator, and an outcome. Methods for statistical inference of the parameter estimates of the mediation effects are limited and need improvement, relying on Bayesian, bootstrapping or Delta methods. New publication in EpidemiologyRead more here

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/improvement-estimation-standard-error-natural-direct-effect-causal-mediation-analysis - 2025-05-23

Published 14 June 2019 A review of epidemiological papers conducted in 2009 concluded that several studies employed variable selection methods susceptible to introduce bias and yield inadequate inferences. Many new confounder selection methods have been developed since then. The goal of the study was to provide an updated descriptive portrait of which variable selection methods are used by epidemi

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/descriptive-review-variable-selection-methods-four-epidemiologic-journals-there-still-room - 2025-05-23

Published 14 June 2019 Vartannat år gör Vetenskapsrådet en inventering för att fånga upp nya behov av forskningsinfrastruktur av nationellt intresse. Nästa behovsinventering är öppen mellan 11 september och 9 oktober 2019 och riktar sig till lärosäten, myndigheter med forskningsuppdrag, forskningsfinansiärer och forskargrupperingar. Läs mer här.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/behovsinventering-forskningsinfrastruktur-av-nationellt-intresse - 2025-05-23

Published 21 August 2019 VR:s utlysning av internationell postdok öppnar 21 augusti 2019. Läs mer här.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/internationell-postdok - 2025-05-23

Published 15 June 2019 Vad kan effekterna för forsknings- och innovationssamarbete bli när Storbritannien träder ur Europeiska unionen och Brexit träder i kraft? Vetenskapsrådet och Vinnova har analyserat de förändrade förutsättningarna och rapporterat till regeringen löpande. Nu finns en slutrapport av deras gemensamma uppdrag. Läs mer och ladda ner rapporten här.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/slutrapport-om-brexits-effekter-pa-forsknings-och-innovationssamarbete - 2025-05-23

Published 16 June 2019 Vetenskapsrådet söker en forskningssekreterare som ska arbeta med forskningsinfrastrukturer, bland annat e-infrastrukturer, till enheten för infrastrukturstöd inom avdelningen för forskningsinfrastruktur. Läs mer här.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/vr-soker-forskningssekreterare - 2025-05-23

Published 17 June 2019 Causal modeling and inference rely on strong assumptions, one of which is conditional exchangeability. Uncontrolled confounding is often seen as if it is the most important threat to conditional exchangeability although collider-stratification bias or selection bias can be just as important New publicayion in Epidemiology.Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/analyzing-selection-bias-credible-causal-inference - 2025-05-23

Published 18 June 2019 When epidemiologic studies are conducted in a subset of the population, selection bias can threaten the validity of causal inference. This bias can occur whether or not that selected population is the target population and can occur even in the absence of exposure–outcome confounding. New publication in Epidemiology.Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/bounding-bias-due-selection - 2025-05-23

Published 18 June 2019 StatFinn - EPID Research is now IQVIA. They offer a full range of services in Clinical Trial Biostatistics and Data Management, Epidemiology and Real-World Evidence that covers the drug development life cycle – from Phase I to Phase IV and beyond.Their clients are leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies worldwide. Read more here.For additional information about th

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/iqvia-are-looking-full-time-senior-statistican-gothenburg-office - 2025-05-23

Published 19 June 2019 Multiple tests arise frequently in epidemiologic research. However, the issue of multiplicity adjustment is surrounded by confusion and controversy, and there is no uniform agreement on whether or when adjustment is warranted. In this paper we compare frequentist and Bayesian frameworks for multiple testing. New publication in European Journal of Epidemiology.Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/frequentist-versus-bayesian-approaches-multiple-testing - 2025-05-23

Published 20 June 2019 Diagnostic World Health Organization (WHO) Group 1 pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and Diagnostic Group 1' pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD) and/or pulmonary capillary hemangiomatosis (PCH) are progressive and fatal disorders. Past registries provided important insights into these disorders, but did not include hormonal exposures or genomic data. New publication

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/united-states-pulmonary-hypertension-scientific-registry-usphsr-rationale-design-and-clinical - 2025-05-23

Published 20 June 2019 Centre for Economic Demography (CED) & Lund University Population Research Platform (LUPOP) is presenting the 2nd Lund Population Day 26 September 2019! Keynote speaker Tomas Sobotka will give an open lecture in the morning, and joining Sobotka are invited researchers of reproduction, both external and from Lund University, who will present shorter lectures in the afternoon.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/lund-population-day-2019 - 2025-05-23

Published 20 June 2019 Epidemiology I, Introduction to epidemiology, 1,5hp Location and time: Spring 2020:  Lund. 23 and 30 January, 4 February (08:30 – 16:00). 7 February (08:30 – 12:00).Prerequisite: Applied Statistics I (or equivalent) Read more here

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/elective-course-phd-students-spring-2020 - 2025-05-23

Published 24 June 2019 New publication from Lund University New publication in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage.Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/opioid-use-knee-or-hip-osteoarthritis-region-wide-population-based-cohort-study - 2025-05-23

Published 25 June 2019 Disease trajectories for chronic diseases can span over several decades, with several time-dependent factors affecting treatment decisions. Thus, there is a need for long-term predictions of disease trajectories to inform patients and healthcare professionals on the long-term outcomes and provide information on the need of future health care. New publication in BMC Medical I

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/how-measure-temporal-changes-care-pathways-chronic-diseases-using-health-care-registry-data - 2025-05-23

Published 26 June 2019 The increasing use of regional and national registries of surgical implants has raised concerns that the cost and consequences of these initiatives will adversely influence innovation. New publication in Bone & Joint.Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/will-registries-slow-down-or-accelerate-innovation - 2025-05-23

Published 27 June 2019 Smoking is a strong risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and causes exposure to cadmium, which is a pro-atherosclerotic metal. Cadmium exposure has also been shown to increase the risk of CVD, even after adjustment for smoking. Our hypothesis was that part of the risk of CVD in smokers may be mediated by cadmium exposure from tobacco smoke. We examined this hypothesi

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/smoking-induced-risk-future-cardiovascular-disease-partly-mediated-cadmium-tobacco-malmo-diet-and - 2025-05-23

Published 28 June 2019 The Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry first began data collection on 1 September 1999 and full nationwide implementation commenced in January 2003. New publication in Bone & Joint.Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/orthopaedic-registries-australian-experience - 2025-05-23