Published in BMC Med Res Methodol on October 11, 2012
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Peritoneal dialysis in polycystic kidney disease patients. Report from the French peritoneal dialysis registry (RDPLF). Nephrol Dial Transplant (2010) 1.10
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Assessing perceived risk and STI prevention behavior: a national population-based study with special reference to HPV. PLoS One (2011) 0.96
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Intuitions, simulations, theorems: the role and limits of methodology. Epidemiology (2012) 0.89
Whole grains are associated with serum concentrations of high sensitivity C-reactive protein among premenopausal women. J Nutr (2010) 0.89
Using directed acyclic graphs to consider adjustment for socioeconomic status in occupational cancer studies. J Epidemiol Community Health (2008) 0.84
Logistic regression was preferred to estimate risk differences and numbers needed to be exposed adjusted for covariates. J Clin Epidemiol (2010) 0.81
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Theorems, proofs, examples, and rules in the practice of epidemiology. Epidemiology (2012) 0.79
Management practices and risk of occupational blood exposure in U.S. paramedics: non-intact skin exposure. Ann Epidemiol (2009) 0.77
Estimating the impact of school closure on influenza transmission from Sentinel data. Nature (2008) 7.98
A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: using measures of clustering in multilevel logistic regression to investigate contextual phenomena. J Epidemiol Community Health (2006) 6.43
A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: linking the statistical concept of clustering to the idea of contextual phenomenon. J Epidemiol Community Health (2005) 5.44
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Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis: assessment of medication risks with emphasis on recently marketed drugs. The EuroSCAR-study. J Invest Dermatol (2007) 3.58
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Novel chikungunya virus variant in travelers returning from Indian Ocean islands. Emerg Infect Dis (2006) 3.43
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Effects of postoperative, nonsteroidal, antiinflammatory drugs on bleeding risk after tonsillectomy: meta-analysis of randomized, controlled trials. Anesthesiology (2003) 2.93
A brief conceptual tutorial on multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: interpreting neighbourhood differences and the effect of neighbourhood characteristics on individual health. J Epidemiol Community Health (2005) 2.69
Estimating Chikungunya prevalence in La Réunion Island outbreak by serosurveys: two methods for two critical times of the epidemic. BMC Infect Dis (2008) 2.61
Stage II colon cancer prognosis prediction by tumor gene expression profiling. J Clin Oncol (2006) 2.49
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An elaborated feeding cycle model for reductions in vectorial capacity of night-biting mosquitoes by insecticide-treated nets. Malar J (2007) 2.33
In vitro fertilization may increase the risk of Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome related to the abnormal imprinting of the KCN1OT gene. Am J Hum Genet (2003) 2.21
Measuring the food environment using geographical information systems: a methodological review. Public Health Nutr (2010) 2.05
The unexpected importance of mosquito oviposition behaviour for malaria: non-productive larval habitats can be sources for malaria transmission. Malar J (2005) 1.93
Educating end-stage renal disease patients on dialysis modality selection: clinical advice from the European Renal Best Practice (ERBP) Advisory Board. Nephrol Dial Transplant (2010) 1.90
Prediction of the spread of influenza epidemics by the method of analogues. Am J Epidemiol (2003) 1.85
Baseline results of the Depiscan study: a French randomized pilot trial of lung cancer screening comparing low dose CT scan (LDCT) and chest X-ray (CXR). Lung Cancer (2007) 1.68
Fluid status in peritoneal dialysis patients: the European Body Composition Monitoring (EuroBCM) study cohort. PLoS One (2011) 1.67
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Variability in case mix and peritoneal dialysis selection in fifty-nine French districts. Perit Dial Int (2008) 1.63
Natural rubber latex allergy among health care workers: a systematic review of the evidence. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2006) 1.63
Efficacy and safety of a 7.5% icodextrin peritoneal dialysis solution in patients treated with automated peritoneal dialysis. Am J Kidney Dis (2002) 1.62
Liver disease in pediatric patients with cystic fibrosis is associated with glutathione S-transferase P1 polymorphism. Hepatology (2002) 1.62
Conceptualization and measurement of environmental exposure in epidemiology: accounting for activity space related to daily mobility. Health Place (2013) 1.59
Aseptic peritonitis due to peptidoglycan contamination of pharmacopoeia standard dialysis solution. Lancet (2005) 1.54
Medications as risk factors of Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis in children: a pooled analysis. Pediatrics (2009) 1.53
Early loss of two renal grafts obtained from the same donor: role of ecstasy? Transplantation (2005) 1.50
Chikungunya fever: a clinical and virological investigation of outpatients on Reunion Island, South-West Indian Ocean. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2013) 1.49
Virus diversity in a winter epidemic of acute diarrhea in France. J Clin Microbiol (2002) 1.48
A method to assess seasonality of urinary tract infections based on medication sales and google trends. PLoS One (2013) 1.46
Medication sales and syndromic surveillance, France. Emerg Infect Dis (2006) 1.42
The Chikungunya epidemic on La Réunion Island in 2005-2006: a cost-of-illness study. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2011) 1.41
Could measuring of perceived risk among general practitioners have helped anticipate the French BSE crisis? Eur J Epidemiol (2004) 1.40
Corticosteroid-induced adverse events in adults: frequency, screening and prevention. Drug Saf (2007) 1.38
Mortality burden of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic in Europe. Influenza Other Respir Viruses (2009) 1.35
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Association between activity space exposure to food establishments and individual risk of overweight. PLoS One (2012) 1.31
Impact of Chikungunya virus infection on health status and quality of life: a retrospective cohort study. PLoS One (2009) 1.29
Peritoneal dialysis in elderly patients: report from the French Peritoneal Dialysis Registry (RDPLF). Nephrol Dial Transplant (2009) 1.29
European best practice guidelines for peritoneal dialysis. 3 Peritoneal access. Nephrol Dial Transplant (2005) 1.28
A simple method for molecular detection of Swine-origin and human-origin influenza a virus. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis (2010) 1.27
An axilla scoring system to predict non-sentinel lymph node status in breast cancer patients with sentinel lymph node involvement. Breast Cancer Res Treat (2005) 1.27
On chikungunya acute infection and chloroquine treatment. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis (2008) 1.24
Tissue microarray technology: validation in colorectal carcinoma and analysis of p53, hMLH1, and hMSH2 immunohistochemical expression. Virchows Arch (2003) 1.23
Are associations between neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics and body mass index or waist circumference based on model extrapolations? Epidemiology (2011) 1.22
Is assisted peritoneal dialysis associated with technique survival when competing events are considered? Clin J Am Soc Nephrol (2012) 1.21
Mechanisms involved in the low-level regeneration of CD4+ cells in HIV-1-infected patients receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy who have prolonged undetectable plasma viral loads. J Infect Dis (2005) 1.18
Key strategies for reducing spread of avian influenza among commercial poultry holdings: lessons for transmission to humans. Proc Biol Sci (2006) 1.15
Colon cancer prognosis prediction by gene expression profiling. Oncogene (2005) 1.13
Preliminary estimation of risk factors for admission to intensive care units and for death in patients infected with A(H1N1)2009 influenza virus, France, 2009-2010. PLoS Curr (2010) 1.12
Contribution of main causes of death to social inequalities in mortality in the whole population of Scania, Sweden. BMC Public Health (2006) 1.12
Peritoneal dialysis in polycystic kidney disease patients. Report from the French peritoneal dialysis registry (RDPLF). Nephrol Dial Transplant (2010) 1.10
Multicollinearity in associations between multiple environmental features and body weight and abdominal fat: using matching techniques to assess whether the associations are separable. Am J Epidemiol (2012) 1.10
Social inequalities in residential exposure to road traffic noise: an environmental justice analysis based on the RECORD Cohort Study. Occup Environ Med (2011) 1.08
Detecting activity locations from raw GPS data: a novel kernel-based algorithm. Int J Health Geogr (2013) 1.06
Predicting pneumonia and influenza mortality from morbidity data. PLoS One (2007) 1.05
Does the effectiveness of control measures depend on the influenza pandemic profile? PLoS One (2008) 1.05
Associations between dietary patterns, physical activity (leisure-time and occupational) and television viewing in middle-aged French adults. Br J Nutr (2011) 1.05
Factors associated with late antiretroviral therapy initiation in Cameroon: a representative multilevel analysis. J Antimicrob Chemother (2013) 1.05
Adult haemolytic and uraemic syndrome: causes and prognostic factors in the last decade. Nephrol Dial Transplant (2002) 1.03
Pandemic influenza due to pH1N1/2009 virus: estimation of infection burden in Reunion Island through a prospective serosurvey, austral winter 2009. PLoS One (2011) 1.03
Real-time monitoring of the influenza vaccine field effectiveness. Vaccine (2006) 1.02
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Re: "Detecting patterns of occupational illness clustering with alternating logistic regressions applied to longitudinal data". Am J Epidemiol (2004) 1.01
Similar support for three different life course socioeconomic models on predicting premature cardiovascular mortality and all-cause mortality. BMC Public Health (2006) 1.01
Improving global health education: development of a Global Health Competency Model. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2014) 1.01
Access to, and outcome of, renal transplantation according to treatment modality of end-stage renal disease in France. Kidney Int (2005) 0.99
Ischemic preconditioning modulates the expression of several genes, leading to the overproduction of IL-1Ra, iNOS, and Bcl-2 in a human model of liver ischemia-reperfusion. FASEB J (2005) 0.99
Suicide and attempted suicide in France: results of a general practice sentinel network, 1999-2001. Br J Gen Pract (2004) 0.98
Peritonitis-free survival in peritoneal dialysis: an update taking competing risks into account. Nephrol Dial Transplant (2010) 0.98
Pets-related peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis: companion animals or trojan horses? Semin Dial (2010) 0.98
Modeling spatial and temporal transmission of foot-and-mouth disease in France: identification of high-risk areas. Vet Res (2005) 0.97
Global public health leadership for the twenty-first century: towards improved health of all populations. Glob Public Health (2012) 0.96
Gender differences in daily smoking prevalence in different age strata: a population-based study in southern Sweden. Scand J Public Health (2009) 0.96
The association between socioeconomic position, use of revascularization procedures and five-year survival after recovery from acute myocardial infarction. BMC Public Health (2008) 0.96
Integrative study of pandemic A/H1N1 influenza infections: design and methods of the CoPanFlu-France cohort. BMC Public Health (2012) 0.96
Spatial accessibility to specific sport facilities and corresponding sport practice: the RECORD Study. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act (2013) 0.95
Identifying built environmental patterns using cluster analysis and GIS: relationships with walking, cycling and body mass index in French adults. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act (2012) 0.94
A typology of neighborhoods and blood pressure in the RECORD Cohort Study. J Hypertens (2012) 0.94
Daptomycin compatibility in peritoneal dialysis solutions. Perit Dial Int (2011) 0.94
Persistent increase in the incidence of acute male urethritis diagnosed in general practices in France. Br J Gen Pract (2006) 0.93
A collaborative approach to understanding EPS: the European perspective. Perit Dial Int (2011) 0.93
Investigating disparities in spatial accessibility to and characteristics of sport facilities: direction, strength, and spatial scale of associations with area income. Health Place (2010) 0.93
Intense co-circulation of non-influenza respiratory viruses during the first wave of pandemic influenza pH1N1/2009: a cohort study in Reunion Island. PLoS One (2012) 0.93
Gene expression profiling of nonneoplastic mucosa may predict clinical outcome of colon cancer patients. Dis Colon Rectum (2005) 0.93
Therapeutic traditions, patient socioeconomic characteristics and physicians' early new drug prescribing--a multilevel analysis of rosuvastatin prescription in south Sweden. Eur J Clin Pharmacol (2008) 0.92
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Neighbourhood effects and the real world beyond randomized community trials: a reply to Michael J Oakes. Int J Epidemiol (2006) 0.92
Revisiting causal neighborhood effects on individual ischemic heart disease risk: a quasi-experimental multilevel analysis among Swedish siblings. Soc Sci Med (2012) 0.92
Regional discrepancies in peritoneal dialysis utilization in France: the role of the nephrologist's opinion about peritoneal dialysis. Nephrol Dial Transplant (2008) 0.92
Risk factors for nephrolithiasis in patients with familial idiopathic hypercalciuria. Am J Med (2002) 0.92
Family breakup and adolescents' psychosocial maladjustment: public health implications of family disruptions. Pediatrics (2007) 0.91
Gene expression profiling in sinonasal adenocarcinoma. BMC Med Genomics (2009) 0.90
A recent increase in the incidence of male urethritis in France. Sex Transm Dis (2002) 0.90
European best practice guidelines for peritoneal dialysis. 7 Adequacy of peritoneal dialysis. Nephrol Dial Transplant (2005) 0.90
Risk perception of the "mad cow disease" in France: determinants and consequences. Risk Anal (2005) 0.90