Sheila M Bird

Summary

Affiliation: University of Cambridge
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Military and public-health sciences need to ally
    Sheila M Bird
    MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge CB2 2 sR, UK
    Lancet 364:1831-3. 2004
  2. ncbi Military fatality rates (by cause) in Afghanistan and Iraq: a measure of hostilities
    Sheila M Bird
    MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge CB2 2SR
    Int J Epidemiol 36:841-6. 2007
  3. ncbi Survival and re-operation rates after neurosurgical procedures in Scotland: implications for targeted surveillance of sub-clinical variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
    Sheila M Bird
    MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK
    Neuroepidemiology 33:1-11. 2009
  4. ncbi Random mandatory drugs testing of prisoners
    Sheila M Bird
    MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge CB2 2SR, UK
    Lancet 365:1451-2. 2005
  5. ncbi UK statistical indifference to its military casualties in Iraq
    Sheila M Bird
    MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge CB2 2SR, UK
    Lancet 367:713-5. 2006
  6. ncbi Changes in male suicides in Scottish prisons: 10-year study
    Sheila M Bird
    Department of Statistics and Modelling Science, University of Strathclyde, and Medical Research Council, Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge CB2 2SR, UK
    Br J Psychiatry 192:446-9. 2008
  7. ncbi Prescribing sentence: time for evidence-based justice
    Sheila M Bird
    Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK and Department of Statistics and Modelling Science, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
    Lancet 364:1457-9. 2004
  8. ncbi Attributable testing for abnormal prion protein, database linkage, and blood-borne vCJD risks
    Sheila M Bird
    MRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Cambridge CB2 2SR, UK
    Lancet 364:1362-4. 2004
  9. ncbi Drug-related deaths by region, sex, and age group per 100 injecting drug users in Scotland, 2000-01
    Sheila M Bird
    MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK
    Lancet 362:941-4. 2003
  10. ncbi European Union's rapid TSE testing in adult cattle and sheep: implementation and results in 2001 and 2002
    Sheila M Bird
    MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK
    Stat Methods Med Res 12:261-78. 2003

Detail Information

Publications31

  1. ncbi Military and public-health sciences need to ally
    Sheila M Bird
    MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge CB2 2 sR, UK
    Lancet 364:1831-3. 2004
  2. ncbi Military fatality rates (by cause) in Afghanistan and Iraq: a measure of hostilities
    Sheila M Bird
    MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge CB2 2SR
    Int J Epidemiol 36:841-6. 2007
    ..Military fatalities occur in clusters, and causes differ between theatres of operation or within-theatre over time...
  3. ncbi Survival and re-operation rates after neurosurgical procedures in Scotland: implications for targeted surveillance of sub-clinical variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
    Sheila M Bird
    MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK
    Neuroepidemiology 33:1-11. 2009
    ..To assess the feasibility of post-mortem surveillance for subclinical variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) at least 5 years after neurosurgical procedures...
  4. ncbi Random mandatory drugs testing of prisoners
    Sheila M Bird
    MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge CB2 2SR, UK
    Lancet 365:1451-2. 2005
  5. ncbi UK statistical indifference to its military casualties in Iraq
    Sheila M Bird
    MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge CB2 2SR, UK
    Lancet 367:713-5. 2006
  6. ncbi Changes in male suicides in Scottish prisons: 10-year study
    Sheila M Bird
    Department of Statistics and Modelling Science, University of Strathclyde, and Medical Research Council, Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge CB2 2SR, UK
    Br J Psychiatry 192:446-9. 2008
    ..In 1999 I estimated the expected number of UK prison suicides, taking into account that opioid users' deaths from suicide were 10 times the number expected for their age and gender. Changes have since taken place in Scottish prisons...
  7. ncbi Prescribing sentence: time for evidence-based justice
    Sheila M Bird
    Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK and Department of Statistics and Modelling Science, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
    Lancet 364:1457-9. 2004
  8. ncbi Attributable testing for abnormal prion protein, database linkage, and blood-borne vCJD risks
    Sheila M Bird
    MRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Cambridge CB2 2SR, UK
    Lancet 364:1362-4. 2004
    ..Some ethical or legal impediments to the UK's potentially-attributable testing for PrP(SC) may yet be rued...
  9. ncbi Drug-related deaths by region, sex, and age group per 100 injecting drug users in Scotland, 2000-01
    Sheila M Bird
    MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK
    Lancet 362:941-4. 2003
    ..We assessed the effect of region, sex, and age group on drug-related deaths in Scotland per 100 injecting drug users...
  10. ncbi European Union's rapid TSE testing in adult cattle and sheep: implementation and results in 2001 and 2002
    Sheila M Bird
    MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK
    Stat Methods Med Res 12:261-78. 2003
    ..This paper details Europe's quantitative evolution in TSE surveillance...
  11. ncbi Missing targets on drugs-related deaths, and a Scottish paradox
    Sheila M Bird
    MRC Biostatistics Unit, Medical Research Council, Robinson Way, Cambridge, England G1 1XH, United Kingdom
    Int J Drug Policy 21:155-9. 2010
    ..Targets for reducing DRDs should pay heed to UK's injector epidemics...
  12. ncbi Mortality of those who attended drug services in Scotland 1996-2006: record-linkage study
    Elizabeth L C Merrall
    MRC Biostatistics Unit, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR, United Kingdom
    Int J Drug Policy 23:24-32. 2012
    ..We examine major causes of death amongst persons in contact with drug-treatment services across Scotland during April 1996-March 2006, hereafter Scottish Drug Misuse Database (SDMD) cohort...
  13. ncbi Hospitalisation for an alcohol-related cause among injecting drug users in Scotland: increased risk following diagnosis with hepatitis C infection
    Scott A McDonald
    Health Protection Scotland, Clifton House, Clifton Place, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
    Int J Drug Policy 22:63-9. 2011
    ..To investigate the extent of alcohol use in IDUs, we used hospitalisation with an alcohol-related diagnosis as an indicator for problematic consumption levels, and compared admission rates pre- and post-HCV diagnosis...
  14. ncbi Association of self-reported alcohol use and hospitalization for an alcohol-related cause in Scotland: a record-linkage study of 23,183 individuals
    Scott A McDonald
    Health Protection Scotland, Clifton House, Clifton Place, Glasgow, UK
    Addiction 104:593-602. 2009
    ..To investigate the extent to which self-reported alcohol consumption level in the Scottish population is associated with first-time hospital admission for an alcohol-related cause...
  15. ncbi Male drugs-related deaths in the fortnight after release from prison: Scotland, 1996-99
    Sheila M Bird
    MRC Biostatistics Unit, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 2SR, UK
    Addiction 98:185-90. 2003
    ..9 times (95% CI: 2.8-7.0) the 4.3 deaths expected. CONCLUSION: Investment in, and evaluation of, prison-based interventions is needed to reduce substantially recently released drugs-related deaths...
  16. ncbi Event-biased referral can distort estimation of hepatitis C virus progression rate to cirrhosis, and of prognostic influences
    Bo Fu
    MRC Biostatistics Unit, Robinson Way, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site Robinson Way, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK
    J Clin Epidemiol 60:1140-8. 2007
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  17. ncbi Meta-analysis of drug-related deaths soon after release from prison
    Elizabeth L C Merrall
    MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK
    Addiction 105:1545-54. 2010
    ..For precise, up-to-date understanding of these risks, a meta-analysis was conducted on the risk of drug-related death in weeks 1 + 2 and 3 + 4 compared with later 2-week periods in the first 12 weeks after release from prison...
  18. ncbi Modeling the current and future disease burden of hepatitis C among injection drug users in Scotland
    Sharon J Hutchinson
    Health Protection Scotland, Glasgow, UK
    Hepatology 42:711-23. 2005
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  19. ncbi Re-weighted inference about hepatitis C virus-infected communities when analysing diagnosed patients referred to liver clinics
    Bo Fu
    MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK
    Stat Methods Med Res 18:303-20. 2009
    ..The results obtained are compared to those from a Weibull survival analysis which ignores the selection bias...
  20. ncbi A population-based record linkage study of mortality in hepatitis C-diagnosed persons with or without HIV coinfection in Scotland
    Scott A McDonald
    Health Protection Scotland, Glasgow, United Kingdom
    Stat Methods Med Res 18:271-83. 2009
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  21. ncbi A record-linkage study of drug-related death and suicide after hospital discharge among drug-treatment clients in Scotland, 1996-2006
    Elizabeth L C Merrall
    MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK
    Addiction 108:377-84. 2013
    ..To investigate the relationship between time after hospital discharge and drug-related death (DRD) and suicide among drug users in Scotland, while controlling for potential confounders...
  22. ncbi A statistical perspective on the design of drug-court studies
    Elizabeth L C Merrall
    MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom
    Eval Rev 33:257-80. 2009
    ..The specific issues covered are randomization, describing the intervention, and baseline characteristics; study outcomes, and sample size calculations; in-program and postprogram behavior, analysis plan, and presentation of results...
  23. ncbi Review of models used to predict the future numbers of individuals with severe hepatitis C disease: therapeutic and cost implications
    Sharon J Hutchinson
    Health Protection Scotland, Clifton House, Clifton Place, Glasgow G3 7LN, UK and Department of Statistics and Modelling Science, University of Strathclyde, UK
    Expert Rev Pharmacoecon Outcomes Res 6:627-39. 2006
    ..In this article, the authors review published forecasting studies to examine the different methods adopted and results produced...
  24. ncbi Exploring methods to investigate sentencing decisions
    Elizabeth L C Merrall
    MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Robinson Way, Cambridge, United Kingdom
    Eval Rev 34:185-219. 2010
    ..The strengths and weaknesses of each approach are compared and discussed...
  25. ncbi Minimum dataset needed for confirmed human H5N1 cases
    Sheila M Bird
    MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK
    Lancet 372:696-7. 2008
  26. ncbi Prior information in behavioral capture-recapture methods: demographic influences on drug injectors' propensity to be listed in data sources and their drug-related mortality
    Ruth King
    Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, United Kingdom
    Am J Epidemiol 162:694-703. 2005
    ..The authors recommend that demographic influences be accommodated in behavioral capture-recapture estimation, especially when it is a prelude to secondary analysis, such as the analysis of drug-related death rates presented here...
  27. ncbi Influence of alcohol on the progression of hepatitis C virus infection: a meta-analysis
    Sharon J Hutchinson
    Health Protection Scotland, Clifton House, Clifton Place, Glasgow G3 7LN, Scotland, UK
    Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 3:1150-9. 2005
    ..The aim was to perform a meta-analysis to quantify the effect of alcohol on cirrhosis risk among persons infected with HCV...
  28. ncbi Suicide in recently released prisoners
    Sheila M Bird
    Lancet 368:1492-3; author reply 1493. 2006
  29. ncbi Sudden rise in uptake of hepatitis B vaccination among injecting drug users associated with a universal vaccine programme in prisons
    Sharon J Hutchinson
    Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health, Clifton House, Clifton Place, Glasgow G3 7LN, UK
    Vaccine 23:210-4. 2004
    ..Our results indicate that the universal offer of vaccination to all prisoners, within two years of the initiative's implementation, has had a dramatic impact on uptake among IDUs...
  30. ncbi Recipients of blood or blood products "at vCJD risk"
    Sheila M Bird
    BMJ 328:118-9. 2004
  31. ncbi NICE judgment: good law risks bad science
    Sheila M Bird
    Lancet Neurol 6:843-4. 2007