The Utstein factors explained 51% of the variation in survival to hospital discharge among multiple large geographically separate EMS agencies. This suggests that quality improvement and public health efforts should continue to target modifiable Utstein factors to improve OHCA survival. Further study is required to identify the reasons for the variation that is incompletely understood. New publica

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/international-variation-survival-after-out-hospital-cardiac-arrest-validation-study-utstein-template - 2025-08-29

Six main points of this article, at least at heart, are clear, documented, and convincing. In simple terms, these points are the following: (1) causal inference for certain questions in environmental epidemiology, such as studying the health effects of climate change, is difficult; (2) traditional methods have worked quite well for certain problems in environmental epidemiology; (3) additionally,

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/smog-lifting - 2025-08-29

The incredible strength of instrumental variable (IV) analyses is clear: if we are lucky enough to have a true instrument, we can perhaps learn about the causal effect of a treatment on an outcome without ever identifying, measuring, or adjusting for baseline confounding. New publication in Epidemiology.Read more here

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/practical-guide-selection-bias-instrumental-variable-analyses - 2025-08-29

Interested in mixed-methods? Welcome to lunch seminar May 29th with Dr Alex Donaldson from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia! Title of presentation: Concept Mapping: a useful tool for bridging the gap between qualitative and quantitative research methods Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/lunch-seminar-mixed-methods - 2025-08-29

How do we make the most of our unique position as the leading life science and healthcare cluster of the Nordics? What are our strongholds, unique selling points and must-win battles now and in the future? How do we realize the full potential of Medicon Valley and ensure that national Nordic life science strategies are aligned, coherent and forward-looking from a regional, national and global pers

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/annual-meeting-medicon-valley-alliance-mva - 2025-08-29

As a part om the research quality evaluation at Lund University, RQ20, all researchers are asked to make sure their publications are registered in LUCRIS. Deadline: 1 July 019. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/rq20-make-sure-your-publications-are-registered-lucris - 2025-08-29

Lund University has the opportunity to nominate up to three candidates for participation in STINT Teaching Sabbatical during the autumn semester 2020. Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/stint-teaching-sabbatical - 2025-08-29

This interdisciplinary course is suitable for sociologist, scientists, lawyers among others, and will deal with topics in the frame of Biobanking such as AI and machine learning, common registers, data sharing in a European framework, personalized/precision medicine, and ethics in the future of Biobanking For more information and registration, click here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/biobanking-sciences-era-personalized-medicine - 2025-08-29

The aim of this study was to understand patient-reported perception of participation in a population-based web-survey focusing on sensitive issues for adolescent and young adult cancer survivors. New publication in Eur J Oncol NursRead more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/adolescent-and-young-adult-cancer-survivors-perceptions-participating-survey-ethical-and - 2025-08-29

Bleeding risk stratification in acute coronary syndrome is of highest clinical interest but current risk scores have limitations. We sought to develop and validate a new in-hospital bleeding risk score for patients with acute myocardial infarction. New publication in Journal of the American Heart Association.Read more here

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/development-and-validation-novel-risk-score-hospital-major-bleeding-acute-myocardial-infarction - 2025-08-29

In the latest issue of International Journal of Epidemiology, you can find presentations of a line of birth cohorts from all over the world. The Table of Contents can be found at the journal's website.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/cohort-profiles-ije - 2025-08-29

The present study includes questionnaire information on parental place of upbringing from two sources: the parents themselves and their offspring. We aimed to investigate the agreement between offspring’s and parent’s reporting of parental place of upbringing, which to our knowledge has not been investigated before New publication in Epidemiology.Read more here

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/offspring-reports-parental-place-upbringing-it-valid - 2025-08-29

It has been argued that epidemiology is currently going through a methodologic revolution involving the “causal inference” movement.1,2 This proposes that observational studies should mimic key aspects of randomized trials, because this allows them to be rooted in counterfactual reasoning, which is said to formalize the natural way that humans think about causality. These new methods have many mer

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/causal-inference-environmental-epidemiology-old-and-new-approaches - 2025-08-29

Childhood cancer survivors treated before 1992, when blood donor screening for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection was introduced, are at risk of transfusion-transmitted HCV infection. A national HCV screening campaign targeting blood transfusion recipients was launched in Sweden in 2007-2010. New publication in Acta OncolRead more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/prevalence-chronic-hepatitis-c-virus-infection-among-childhood-cancer-survivors-stockholm-sweden - 2025-08-29

Given the increasing prevalence of cancer, it is vital to systematically collect data in order to monitor disease trends and quality of cancer care. For this purpose, clinical cancer registries have been developed in some countries. These registers are intended to be used as a basis for quality assurance and quality improvement, but they also constitute a rich resource of real world data for resea

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/mini-review-use-clinical-cancer-registers-prostate-cancer-national-prostate-cancer-register-npcr-0 - 2025-08-29

The objective of the article was to analyse how Finnish and Swedish speakers in Finland differ in health and labour market outcomes after sickness absence. Apart from many similarities, these two population groups differ in life expectancy and union stability and are supposed to be culturally distinct. Our analyses, therefore, help to shed light on the interrelation between culture and health. New

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/return-work-after-sickness-absence-register-based-comparison-two-indigenous-population-groups - 2025-08-29

Background-Bleeding risk stratification in acute coronary syndrome is of highest clinical interest but current risk scores have limitations. We sought to develop and validate a new in-hospital bleeding risk score for patients with acute myocardial infarction. New publication in Web of Science.Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/development-and-validation-novel-risk-score-hospital-major-bleeding-acute-myocardial-infarction-0 - 2025-08-29

The short-term survival of total stemless shoulder arthroplasty appears comparable with total stemmed shoulder arthroplasty, but longer observation time is needed to confirm whether they continue to perform equally. New publication in Journal of Shoulder and Elbow surgery.Read more here.

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/short-term-survival-total-stemless-shoulder-arthroplasty-osteoarthritis-comparable-total-stemmed - 2025-08-29

Precision medicine is the envisioned future model of health care in which treatments and care are tailored to the individual patient. The precision medicine slogan “One size does not fit all” stems from the fact that heterogeneity in treatment effects is common. Precision medicine research aims to find the best treatment for each patient through a better understanding of the underlying biology, fi

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/defining-evidence-precision-medicine-patient-more-set-covariates - 2025-08-29

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survival varies greatly between communities. The Utstein template was developed and promulgated to improve the comparability of OHCA outcome reports, but it has undergone limited empiric validation. We sought to assess how much of the variation in OHCA survival between emergency medical services (EMS) across the globe is explained by differences in the Utstein

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/international-variation-survival-after-out-hospital-cardiac-arrest-validation-study-utstein-template-0 - 2025-08-29