Dan Lewer

Consultant in Public Health at Bradford Institute for Health Research @CityOfResearch @BiBresearch

[Dan Lewer @danlewer]

@louismosley Hi Louis. I just looked at the study. It's an interrupted time series with no control and less than a year of pre intervention data.

[BMJMedicine @BMJMedicine]

@danlewer, @tdbrothers and colleagues explain why risk factors for health outcomes shouldn't be studied by putting several independent variables into a regression model and identifying which are statistically significant in a new Methods Primer.

https://t.co/78CmzYNaTF

[Addiction Journal @AddictionJrnl]

Among people who use heroin, tobacco smoking and illegal drugs cause a similar number of premature deaths https://t.co/k3iDmGEHth @danlewer @TattanBirch @Sharon_ACox

[Dan Lewer @danlewer]

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We did some life table modelling among people who use heroin. Tobacco smoking causes as many premature deaths in this group as illegal drugs. Yet public health policies overlook smoking: https://t.co/3HQCPRqqZy New research with @Sharon_ACox and @TattanBirch

[Dan Lewer @danlewer]

@JAMAOnc Isn't this mostly changing/improved diagnostic practices and screening?

[Dan Lewer @danlewer]

Authors include @pwidpride, @tdbrothers, @VivProf, and others who probably already left Twitter

[Dan Lewer @danlewer]

We've just published a scoping review of projects that aim to improve opioid agonist therapy (eg. methadone) in acute hospital settings: This https://t.co/ZM00x9Uf2U. This is part of our excellent iHOST project (https://t.co/Pt6P6H5nF8). A couple of findings ...

[Dan Lewer @danlewer]

(5) My favourite find was the article "Treatment of hospitalized narcotic addicts" from the Illinois Medical Journal, 1970. https://t.co/gac7nj7jLm. This deserves an essay of its own

[Dan Lewer @danlewer]

@JanekirbyPA @PA Thanks, that would be great, I don't think I can DM you, but if you DM me I'll give you my email address.

[Dan Lewer @danlewer]

@elonmusk You seem like a very unhappy person

[MRC IEU @mrc_ieu]

@bmj_latest If it sounds too good to be true it probably is. Before you stock up on dark chocolate read this response from @mendel_random https://t.co/mS2jMiJ9G0

[Dan Lewer @danlewer]

Please do find me at @danlewer.bsky.social

[Dan Lewer @danlewer]

Inflation is usually measured the change in prices compared to one year previously. Therefore, a reducing but still positive inflation figure often means REDUCING pricing month-on-month. A positive inflation figures does not always mean prices are going up.

[Dan Lewer @danlewer]

Let's talk about the "5%" model. You just can't contribute meaningfully to a research project with 5% of your time. If you have 20 parallel projects, you literally just go to meetings and do nothing.

[Dan Lewer @danlewer]

@PabloVidalRibas I follow this logic too, but I also wonder what we're paying the journals for