• Case fatality ratios for serious emergency conditions in the Republic of Ireland: a longitudinal investigation of trends over the period 2002-2014 using joinpoint analysis 

  Lynch, Brenda; Fitzgerald, Anthony P.; Corcoran, Paul; Healy, Orla; Buckley, Claire; Foley, Conor; Browne, John (BioMed Central, 2018-06-19)

  Background: In the past decade, the Republic of Ireland has undertaken significant reconfiguration programmes to improve emergency services. During this time the public healthcare system experienced a large real decrease ...
• Exploratory dietary patterns: a systematic review of methods applied in pan-European studies and of validation studies 

  Jannasch, Franziska; Riordan, Fiona; Andersen, Lene F.; Schulze, Matthias B. (Nutrition Society, 2018)

  Besides a priori approaches, using previous knowledge about food characteristics, exploratory dietary pattern (DP) methods, using data at hand, are commonly applied. This systematic literature review aimed to identify ...
• Don’t quote me: reverse identification of research participants in social media studies 

  Ayers, John W.; Caputi, Theodore L.; Nebeker, Camille; Dredze, Mark (Springer Nature, 2018)

  We investigated if participants in social media surveillance studies could be reverse identified by reviewing all articles published on PubMed in 2015 or 2016 with the words “Twitter” and either “read,” “coded,” or “content” ...
• Barriers and facilitators to implementation of menu labelling interventions to support healthy food choices: a mixed methods systematic review protocol 

  Kerins, Claire; McSharry, Jennifer; Hayes, Catherine; Perry, Ivan J.; Geaney, Fiona; Kelly, Colette (Springer Nature, 2018)

  Background: Menu labelling is continuing to gather public and legislative support as one of the potential environmental strategies for addressing the obesity pandemic. However, issues relating to implementation have been ...
• Maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy and the risk of autism spectrum disorders in offspring: a retrospective analysis of the millennium cohort study 

  Gallagher, C.; McCarthy, Fergus P.; Ryan, R. M.; Khashan, Ali. S. (Springer, 2018)

  The objective of this retrospective analysis of the longitudinal Millennium Cohort Study was to examine whether maternal alcohol consumption in pregnancy (MACP) is associated with the development of childhood autism spectrum ...

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