Hello #epitwitter ! does anyone have a good ref I can use as pushback for an author using the term "ethnic" when what they actually mean is "Black or Hispanic"? I know a good ref exists for this but it's escaping me #socialepi #healthequity #languagematters #AcademicTwitter

🆕 Ever wondered what words are commonly used to link exposures and outcomes in health/med/epi studies? How strongly language implies causality? How strongly studies hint at causality in other ways? Read this paper by Noah Haber et al. doi.org/10.1093/aje/kw…

Upgrade your #causalinference arsenal. A revision of our book "Causal Inference: What If" is now available👇 hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/… Thanks to everyone who suggested improvements, reported typos, and proposed new citations and material. Enjoy the #WhatIfBook. Also, it's free.

For decades, sleep and its associated disorders have been considered a Cinderella branch of medicine. On the cover, our Editorial on the importance of sleep. Find this and more in our new issue: hubs.li/Q01n2xNv0

We're proud to announce that the 18th international Forum on back and neck pain research will be held in Groningen, the Netherlands, Aug 30 - Sept 1, 2023! Follow us on Twitter and aanmelder.nl/forumgroningen…. Please share!

osf.io/79x4g 👆 New Center for Open Science #PrePrint in collaboration with Oliver Todd and MarkSG 💙🇺🇦 Been sitting on this for w hile but I had extra motivation to get it out there after Dr Ellie Murray, ScD and Zach Kunicki 's recent "As the wheel turns..." preprint The gist is...

new paper out in JAMA Network Open (my first first-author)! hoping it's useful to clinicians, methodologists, and analysts alike. 🔑 finding: modern methods for causal inference from observational data can recover RCT estimates jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… 🧵⬇️

TLDR, this study provides further evidence that estimating effects from observational data is possible-- but doing so relies on decisions at every stage of the study design and analytical process. it's open access, so please consider reading/sharing! jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… /n

1/ Six years ago we emulated a #TargetTrial of screening colonoscopy for colorectal #cancer using observational #Medicare data: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27669524/ Today we publish preliminary findings from a truly randomized trial: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… Their main results side by side👇

A review paper on causal mediation and R package 'regmedint' tutorial with Maya Mathur, Kazuki Yoshida, and Jay Kaufman is now online: A brief primer on conducting regression-based causal mediation analysis. psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi… APA Journals APA Databases #EpiTwitter

"Our study suggests that researchers are evasive with causal terminology in their stated aims, but often use methods that signal causal intent. Authors then tend to interpret their results in a causal way."

Had a great time working on this paper with Christi Ulmer and our other coauthors! Interested in the open access version of the paper? Find it here: doi.org/10.1093/sleepa…

For those of us clinician-scientists who excel in delayed gratification, you know how amazing it is to reach a big milestone! Deeply grateful to mentors & collaborators who opened countless doors. Excited to take on bigger challenges with this team. Onwards towards #PainEquity!

👀Development of the TARGET reporting guideline👀 We've assembled an all-star team to develop a #reportingguideline for observational studies explicitly aiming to emulate a target trial. Reporting of these studies is variable #epitwitter #causalinference doi.org/10.1136/bmjope…

Veterans experienced similar/higher prevalence of pain than nonveterans (2002-2018). Pain prevalence among veterans increased over time, with higher rate of increase compared to nonveterans for all pain variables - a widening disproportionate pain burden. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37952861/

Original: Kenneth Taylor and colleagues (Duke Clinical Research Institute) highlight that pain prevalence among veterans increased over time (2002-2018), with higher rate of increase compared to non-veterans for all pain variables - a widening disproportionate pain burden Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

We found that the probability of receiving guideline-concordant care at an institution with a standardized hip fracture program increased more for non-Hispanic White patients than racial and ethnic minority patients! #orthotwitter #healthequity Link: tinyurl.com/34ddv7d7

Cross-sectional study finds disparities in guideline-concordant care after hip fracture surgery, with racial & ethnic minority patients less likely to receive optimal treatment, even in institutions with standardized hip fracture protocols. ja.ma/3yW92bM #OrthoTwitter