In addition to her data assembly and analysis, Khan also received Institutional Review Board approval to survey 75 health officials, health workers and epidemiologists about their attitudes toward whether measles could be eliminated in five years, 10 years, 20 years or even 50 years.
We asked the epidemiologists about four topics: Research context: aim, persons who give the assignment, financiers, collaborative partners, research method; Main outcomes of the research, considered important by epidemiologists; Follow up given to the results; Explanation of this follows up.
As the data on hysterectomy collected in most studies are usually ascertained through self-reporting, we feel that the data presented here can inform epidemiologists about the reliability of self-reporting of this variable.
We had to assume that the proportion of each cancer type attributable to HPV is not age dependent, although there is evidence that this may not be true for some cancers. 2 In some cases (such as oropharyngeal cancers) there is no consensus among epidemiologists about the proportion of cancers caused by HPV.
Registered dietitian and epidemiologist blogging about family life on the beach in Nicaragua at www.naomicahill.com.
Because Mr. Stevens and Mr. Blanco were co-workers, epidemiologists asked about recent construction or renovation at American Media.
Because AIDS case reporting reflected what happened years earlier, it produced a picture that told epidemiologists little about where, how many and how rapidly, new infections were occurring.
Meanwhile, epidemiologists fretted about unmeasured confounders and the limitations of observational studies.
The DSHS returned a list of state ID numbers and county of residence for case-patients with matching isolate PFGE patterns, and HDHHS and DSHS epidemiologists conferred about the data.
On ward rounds only a few weeks beforehand, I was now suddenly in the middle of a national epidemic, having lunch with one of the nation's top epidemiologists, learning about fascinating things I had not imagined last month.
