Publications by authors named "Sheldon T"
Objective: To estimate the cost effectiveness of different antenatal screening programmes for cystic fibrosis.
Setting: Antenatal clinics and general practices in the United Kingdom.
Design: Four components of the screening process were identified: information giving, DNA testing, genetic counselling, and prenatal diagnosis.
Interpreting the new illness question in the UK census for health research on small areas.
J Epidemiol Community Health
December 1995
Study Objective: The study aimed to identify the various factors that seem to influence the average response to the new census question on limiting, long standing illness at the small area level, to assess the extent to which the new questions adds to information already available in the census and elsewhere, and to discuss how useful the data are likely to be for those planning health and social services.
Design: This was a cross sectional analysis of the relationship between rates of limiting, long standing illness (standardised for age and sex) and a large number of indicators of health and socioeconomic status at the small area level.
Setting: The study used data relating to 4985 small areas covering the whole of England.
Objective: To assess the benefit of nebulised amiloride added to the standard inpatient treatment of a respiratory exacerbation in cystic fibrosis.
Design: Prospective, randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial.
Subjects: 27 cystic fibrosis patients (mean age 12.
Objectives: To examine the evidence for a relation between volume of coronary artery bypass graft surgery and hospital death rates, and to assess the degree to which this could be due to confounding because of differences in case mix.
Subjects: People receiving coronary artery bypass graft surgery in the United States.
Design: A systematic review of empirical studies examining the relation between volume and outcome of coronary artery bypass graft surgery.