Milo A Puhan

Summary

Affiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Expansion of the prognostic assessment of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: the updated BODE index and the ADO index
    Milo A Puhan
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Lancet 374:704-11. 2009
  2. ncbi Discussing study limitations in reports of biomedical studies- the need for more transparency
    Milo A Puhan
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Mail room E6153, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Health Qual Life Outcomes 10:23. 2012
  3. ncbi Self-efficacy instruments for patients with chronic diseases suffer from methodological limitations--a systematic review
    Anja Frei
    Department of General Practice and Health Services Research, University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland
    Health Qual Life Outcomes 7:86. 2009
  4. ncbi ICE COLD ERIC--International collaborative effort on chronic obstructive lung disease: exacerbation risk index cohorts--study protocol for an international COPD cohort study
    Lara Siebeling
    Department of General Practice, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    BMC Pulm Med 9:15. 2009
  5. ncbi Interviewer versus self-administered health-related quality of life questionnaires - does it matter?
    Milo A Puhan
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Health Qual Life Outcomes 9:30. 2011
  6. ncbi Excess mortality in patients with AIDS in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy: temporal changes and risk factors
    Milo A Puhan
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
    Clin Infect Dis 51:947-56. 2010
  7. ncbi The minimal important difference of exercise tests in severe COPD
    M A Puhan
    Dept of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Eur Respir J 37:784-90. 2011
  8. ncbi Inhaled drugs to reduce exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a network meta-analysis
    Milo A Puhan
    Horten Centre for patient oriented research and knowledge transfer, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    BMC Med 7:2. 2009
  9. ncbi The standard gamble showed better construct validity than the time trade-off
    Milo A Puhan
    Horten Centre, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    J Clin Epidemiol 60:1029-33. 2007
  10. ncbi Relative responsiveness of the Chronic Respiratory Questionnaire, St. Georges Respiratory Questionnaire and four other health-related quality of life instruments for patients with chronic lung disease
    Milo A Puhan
    Horten Centre, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    Respir Med 101:308-16. 2007

Detail Information

Publications26

  1. ncbi Expansion of the prognostic assessment of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: the updated BODE index and the ADO index
    Milo A Puhan
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Lancet 374:704-11. 2009
    ..We assessed the calibration of the BODE index, updated it to improve its calibration, and developed and validated a simplified index for use in primary-care settings...
  2. ncbi Discussing study limitations in reports of biomedical studies- the need for more transparency
    Milo A Puhan
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Mail room E6153, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Health Qual Life Outcomes 10:23. 2012
    ..Instead of perceiving acknowledgment of limitations negatively, authors, reviewers and editors should recognize the potential of a frank and unbiased discussion of study limitations that should not jeopardize acceptance of manuscripts...
  3. ncbi Self-efficacy instruments for patients with chronic diseases suffer from methodological limitations--a systematic review
    Anja Frei
    Department of General Practice and Health Services Research, University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland
    Health Qual Life Outcomes 7:86. 2009
    ..Our aim was to systematically identify all existing self-efficacy scales for five major chronic diseases and to assess their development and validation process...
  4. ncbi ICE COLD ERIC--International collaborative effort on chronic obstructive lung disease: exacerbation risk index cohorts--study protocol for an international COPD cohort study
    Lara Siebeling
    Department of General Practice, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    BMC Pulm Med 9:15. 2009
    ..The objective of this study is to develop and validate a practical COPD disease risk index that predicts the clinical course of COPD in primary care patients with GOLD stages 2-4...
  5. ncbi Interviewer versus self-administered health-related quality of life questionnaires - does it matter?
    Milo A Puhan
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Health Qual Life Outcomes 9:30. 2011
    ....
  6. ncbi Excess mortality in patients with AIDS in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy: temporal changes and risk factors
    Milo A Puhan
    Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
    Clin Infect Dis 51:947-56. 2010
    ..We assessed temporal changes in excess mortality and elucidated risk factors for excess mortality in patients with AIDS diagnosed in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART)...
  7. ncbi The minimal important difference of exercise tests in severe COPD
    M A Puhan
    Dept of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Eur Respir J 37:784-90. 2011
    ..0-2.4 W), 3.2 W (95% CI 3.0-3.4 W), 3.2 W (95% CI 3.0-3.4 W) and 3.3 W (95% CI 3.0-3.5 W), while distribution-based estimates were 5.3 and 5.5 W. We suggest a MID of 26 ± 2 m for 6MWD and 4 ± 1 W for MCEC for patients with severe COPD...
  8. ncbi Inhaled drugs to reduce exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a network meta-analysis
    Milo A Puhan
    Horten Centre for patient oriented research and knowledge transfer, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    BMC Med 7:2. 2009
    ..Therefore we assessed, using a network meta-analytic technique, the relative effectiveness of the common inhaled drug regimes used to reduce exacerbations in patients with COPD...
  9. ncbi The standard gamble showed better construct validity than the time trade-off
    Milo A Puhan
    Horten Centre, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    J Clin Epidemiol 60:1029-33. 2007
    ..There is little evidence for the relative cross-sectional validity of the standard gamble (SG) and time trade-off (TTO). We compared these preference-based instruments in patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)...
  10. ncbi Relative responsiveness of the Chronic Respiratory Questionnaire, St. Georges Respiratory Questionnaire and four other health-related quality of life instruments for patients with chronic lung disease
    Milo A Puhan
    Horten Centre, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    Respir Med 101:308-16. 2007
    ..The objective of this study was to compare the responsiveness of the Chronic Respiratory Questionnaire (CRQ), the St. Georges Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) and four other HRQL instruments...
  11. ncbi Interval versus continuous high-intensity exercise in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a randomized trial
    Milo A Puhan
    University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    Ann Intern Med 145:816-25. 2006
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  12. ncbi Combining scores from different patient reported outcome measures in meta-analyses: when is it justified?
    Milo A Puhan
    Horten Centre, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    Health Qual Life Outcomes 4:94. 2006
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  13. ncbi Respiratory rehabilitation after acute exacerbation of COPD may reduce risk for readmission and mortality -- a systematic review
    Milo A Puhan
    Horten Centre, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    Respir Res 6:54. 2005
    ..To study whether respiratory rehabilitation after acute exacerbation improves prognosis and health status compared to usual care, we quantified its effects using meta-analyses...
  14. ncbi Value of supplemental interventions to enhance the effectiveness of physical exercise during respiratory rehabilitation in COPD patients. A systematic review
    Milo A Puhan
    University of Zurich, Horten Centre, Switzerland
    Respir Res 5:25. 2004
    ..The aim of this research was to assess randomised controlled trials (RCTs) testing the additional benefit of supplemental interventions during respiratory rehabilitation in COPD patients...
  15. ncbi A randomized trial of ways to describe test accuracy: the effect on physicians' post-test probability estimates
    Milo A Puhan
    University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    Ann Intern Med 143:184-9. 2005
    ..Some people believe that likelihood ratios provide diagnostic information that is more useful than sensitivity and specificity estimates...
  16. ncbi Self-administration and standardisation of the chronic respiratory questionnaire: a randomised trial in three German-speaking countries
    Milo A Puhan
    Horten Centre, University of Zurich, Postfach Nord, CH 8091 Zurich, Switzerland
    Respir Med 98:342-50. 2004
    ..Taken these results into consideration, researchers in COPD, in particular those in German-language countries can utilise any one of four CRQ formats that have proved both valid and responsive...
  17. ncbi More medical journals should inform their contributors about three key principles of graph construction
    Milo A Puhan
    Horten Centre, University of Zurich, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland
    J Clin Epidemiol 59:1017-22. 2006
    ..To identify key principles of graph construction and to review guidance on graph construction provided by medical journals...
  18. ncbi Pulmonary rehabilitation following exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
    Milo A Puhan
    Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 Wolfe Street, Mail room W5010, Baltimore, MD, USA, 21205
    Cochrane Database Syst Rev 10:CD005305. 2011
    ..However, in unstable COPD patients who have recently suffered an exacerbation, the effects of pulmonary rehabilitation are less established...
  19. ncbi Where is the supporting evidence for treating mild to moderate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations with antibiotics? A systematic review
    Milo A Puhan
    Horten Centre for patient oriented research and knowledge transfer, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    BMC Med 6:28. 2008
    ..Our aim was to study the evolvement of evidence from placebo-controlled and head-to-head trials on the effects of antibiotics for the treatment of mild to moderate exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease...
  20. ncbi The standard gamble demonstrated lower reliability than the feeling thermometer
    Milo A Puhan
    Horten Center, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    J Clin Epidemiol 58:458-65. 2005
    ..Investigators should use appropriate reliability statistics when addressing related issues...
  21. ncbi Network meta-analysis-highly attractive but more methodological research is needed
    Tianjing Li
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21212, USA
    BMC Med 9:79. 2011
    ..Since this commentary reflects the discussion at that meeting, it is not intended to provide an overview of the field...
  22. ncbi Recruitment barriers in a randomized controlled trial from the physicians' perspective: a postal survey
    Anne Spaar
    Horten Centre for patient oriented research and knowledge transfer, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    BMC Med Res Methodol 9:14. 2009
    ..Therefore, our aim was to conduct a postal survey among recruiting physicians of a multi-center trial to weigh barriers according to their impact on recruitment...
  23. ncbi High prevalence of potential biases threatens the interpretation of trials in patients with chronic disease
    Daniela Vollenweider
    Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
    BMC Med 9:73. 2011
    ..Our aim was to assess such aspects of trial design and analysis for four prevalent chronic diseases...
  24. ncbi Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: randomised controlled trial
    Milo A Puhan
    Horten Centre, University of Zurich, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland
    BMJ 332:266-70. 2006
    ..CONCLUSION: Regular didgeridoo playing is an effective treatment alternative well accepted by patients with moderate obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome. Trial registration ISRCTN: 31571714...
  25. ncbi Do citizens have minimum medical knowledge? A survey
    Lucas M Bachmann
    Horten Centre for Patient Oriented Research, University of Zurich, Postfach Nord, Zurich, Switzerland
    BMC Med 5:14. 2007
    ..We tested to what degree Swiss adult citizens satisfy this criterion for MMK and whether people with medical experience have acquired better knowledge than those without...
  26. ncbi The impact of complications on costs of major surgical procedures: a cost analysis of 1200 patients
    René Vonlanthen
    Department of Surgery Horten Center for Patient Oriented Research, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
    Ann Surg 254:907-13. 2011
    ..To assess the impact of postoperative complications on full in-hospital costs per case...