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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Hill Criteria"”.
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Smoking and Multiple Sclerosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Using the Bradford Hill Criteria for Causation
… development and progression of MS. The Bradford Hill criteria are commonly used to assess potentially causal associations. However, to date, no systematic reviews and meta-analyses had used these criteria to comprehensively evaluate the relationship between smoking and MS. The objective of this …
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Benzene Related Hematological Disorders: Evidence for a Threshold in Animals and Humans
… methodology is tested utilizing the criteria proposed by Sir Bradford Hill. The Hill Criteria are used to critically evaluate the weight of evidence for a threshold dose that can cause hematological cancer in humans following benzene exposure. This evaluation revealed that there is …
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Systematic Exploration of Associations Between Select Neural and Dermal Diseases in a Large Healthcare Database
In the age of big data, better use of large, real-world datasets is needed, especially ultra-large databases that leverage health information exchange (HIE) systems to gather data from multiple sources. Promising as this process is, there have been challenges analyzing big data in healthcare due to …