This was a huge amount of work over many years. Thanks to all who participated in developing ROBINS-E!

Compared with no invitation for routine PSA testing, a single invitation for a PSA screening test reduced prostate cancer mortality at a median follow-up of 15 years, but the absolute mortality benefit was small. ja.ma/43J43q3 #EAU24

Excited to be part of the Bristol-Bordeaux Public Health Meeting 2024! Looking forward to the diverse set of talks over the next two days to facilitate research and training collaboration. #UB2PH2024

Miguel Hernán & Jonathan Sterne kick off the 17th Kolokotrones Symposium - UK Secure Data Environments: A New Approach to Population-Scale Real World Evidence. Check out today's agenda and follow along as we live tweet the event! causalab.sph.harvard.edu/symposia/

📢Paper alert! Read about ROBINS-E, a new tool for assessing risk of bias in observational studies of exposures. Paper by Prof Julian PT Higgins, Jonathan Sterne + rest of international team published in Environment International News tinyurl.com/29ac5sja Paper tinyurl.com/35f5ehcm

The 17th Kolokotrones Symposium, "UK Secure Data Environments: A New Approach to Population-Scale Real World Evidence,” was a success! Thanks to our speakers for providing valuable insight into the British data model. Presentations now live on YouTube: youtu.be/OkK57xqPOoI?si…

New Nature Medicine The longest randomized trial assessment—4 years— of semaglutide (Wegovy) in participants without diabetes nature.com/articles/s4159… Sustained weight loss, no new side effects noted

📢New collaborative project on our site! 'Handling missing data in large electronic healthcare record datasets' Led by Prof Angela Wood from Cambridge University, Jonathan Sterne + Prof Kate Tilling Partnering with BHFDataScience + Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) Project page tinyurl.com/427cx8jw

The TARGET Reporting Guideline team needs your help. If you work on #causalinference from observational data, please get involved in piloting the reporting guidelines for #TargetTrial emulation. Diverse viewpoints will make the guidelines more useful for everyone in #RWE. More info👇

Our Director's Fund is supporting 3 new projects looking at predicting postoperative complications, empowering young people in their #Digital lives + improving pleural #Mesothelioma prediction. Congratulations Richard Armstrong, Lucy Biddle + Geri Lynch! News tinyurl.com/ye27de34

Increased incidence of T2 diabetes after COVID-19 in people who were hospitalised with #Covid_19 Reduced risk in those vaccinated thelancet.com/action/showPdf… Jonathan Sterne OpenSAFELY et al

Fab to work with Kurt Taylor Venexia Walker Jonathan Sterne Nish Chaturvedi LHA @ UCL Rachel Denholm & others OpenSAFELY showing post-covid T2DM less likely after vaccination sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our latest research:Cohort study of cardiovascular safety of different COVID-19 vaccination doses among 46 million adults in England. Led by Samantha Ip Venexia Walker Jonathan Sterne &Angela Wood. Supporting wide uptake of future COVID-19 vaccination programs. nature.com/articles/s4146…

📢New paper in JAMA Psychiatry Incidence of mental illnesses in unvaccinated people increased for up to one year after severe COVID-19. Findings suggest vaccination may mitigate effects of the disease on #MentalHealth News tinyurl.com/24aaejz2 Paper tinyurl.com/3jjrafce

The CAUSALab Methods Series at Karolinska Institutet is back! Jonathan Sterne University of Bristol kicks off Fall 2024 with a virtual talk on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness & OpenSAFELY. Register to attend 👇 stats.sender.net/forms/e7JD1d/v… #causalinference #targettrial #publichealth #causal

New Year training goals? Explore our online intensive short courses for researchers and healthcare researchers - search Bristol Medical School short courses for more info.

1/ That "immortal time" is so frequent in survival analyses for #causalinference is fascinating. Because "immortal time" doesn't exist in the data, *we* create it when misanalyzing data. Our paper pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39494894/ summarizes why immortal time arises & how to prevent it.

We're off and away with Summer School 2025! Jonathan Sterne is leading our Advanced causal inference course, ably assisted by tutors Ghazaleh Dashti, Marnie Downes, Daisy Shepherd and Jiaxin Zhang from CEBU. PS. Follow us over on ViCBiostat.bsky.social..

A great privilege to have Prof Jonathan Sterne at Centre for Pain IMPACT to talk about assessing risk of bias in randomised trials using the RoB 2 tool.

🚨 Funded PhD opportunity 🚨 Work with large-scale electronic health record data from #OpenSAFELY to optimise vaccine effectiveness estimation for respiratory viruses. Apply here 👉findaphd.com/phds/project/o…