ArticleEpidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)2008
Seven deadly sins of environmental epidemiology and the virtues of precaution.
Article in Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.), 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Paracelsus Revisited: The Dose Concept in a Complex World.Basic & clinical pharmacology & toxicology · 2016Review
- Critical complexity in environmental health practice: simplify and complexify.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2012Review
- The Matthew effect in environmental science publication: a bibliometric analysis of chemical substances in journal articles.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2011Article
- Opening the research agenda for selection of hot spots for human biomonitoring research in Belgium: a participatory research project.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2010Article
- Seven mistakes and potential solutions in epidemiology, including a call for a World Council of Epidemiology and Causality.Emerging themes in epidemiology · 2009Article
- Workshop on ethics and communication in Copenhagen 11-13.3.2007.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2008Article
- Late insights into early origins of disease.Basic & clinical pharmacology & toxicology · 2008Review
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Abstract
The potentials for error in planning, conducting, reporting, and utilizing epidemiologic results can be considered in terms of the traditional 7 deadly sins. To counter these sins, epidemiologic virtues should be inspired by the precautionary principle. The remedies emphasize acknowledgment and exploration of the impact of uncertainties, weight-of-the-evidence assessments that consider what could be known given the opportunities for research, and epidemiologic strategies that facilitate the use of tentative, though innovative, studies in decision-making.
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