Matthew P. Fox

TL;DR: The creation of NHLS National HIV Cohort has enabled longitudinal research on all lab-monitored patients in South Africa’s national HIV programme, including analyses of patient health at presentation, care outcomes such as ‘CD4 recovery’, ‘retention in care’ and ‘viral resuppression’.

TL;DR: In this article, bias analyses modify a conventional estimate of association to account for bias introduced by systematic error, which ultimately determines the direction and magnitude of the adjustment, and the sensitivity and specificity of exposure classification, within subgroups of persons with and without the disease outcome of interest.

TL;DR: A reparameterized imputation approach for measurement error (RIME) that can be used with internal or external validation data and which outperformed MIME when validation data included only true and mismeasured versions of the exposure or when exposure prevalence differed between the data sources.

TL;DR: It is disappointing that the authors, while criticising the neonatal sepsis studies that assessed treatment that could be given in clinics or outpatient settings for babies who cannot access in-patient care, do not suggest any alternatives for these babies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on Twitter and podcasting and discuss their relevance to epidemiology and science communication, and highlight three key reasons why epidemiologists should be engaging with these mediums: 1) science communications, 2) career advancement, and 3) development of a community and public service.