Harrison Hansford

👀Development of the TARGET reporting guideline👀 We've assembled an all-star team to develop a #reportingguideline for observational studies explicitly aiming to emulate a target trial. Reporting of these studies is variable #epitwitter #causalinference doi.org/10.1136/bmjope…

Doctors and health funds call for spinal cord stimulators to be banned privatehealthcareaustralia.org.au/doctors-and-he…

Logging in to share our new paper out in the @theMJA on spinal cord stimulators ⚡️ We used private insurer data to examine the patterns of care, re-intervention rates, and costs of spinal cord stimulators in Australia. We looked at 12k episodes of care... /1 @msk_health

Randomized trials in individual patients – N of 1 #RCTs - remain underutilized. This @AnnalsofIM paper describes our initial experience with 57 N of 1 RCTs. In 15, results prompted patients and clinicians to alter their treatment plans. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2297206/

One-Page Patient Fact Sheets for Low Back Pain in Primary Care jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

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Thrilled to see our work published in @JAMANetworkOpen! RCT with 1,080 people seeking care for #BackPain: Advice vs treatment options—what better prepares patients for shared decision-making? Huge thanks to @adrian_traeger for the mentorship!

🔥Which fact sheet helps most in #BackPain consultations? 👉In an RCT with 1080 patients, a nondirective sheet listing options beat a traditional advice sheet for decision-making preparedness. @Pain_NeuRa @rodrizzo_pain @mcferraro_ @msk_health jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

One-Page Patient Fact Sheets for Low Back Pain in Primary Care Fact sheets do better than regular advice to support shared decision making! jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… @PainIMPACTNeuRA @msk_health @Pain_NeuRa @AusPainSoc

>100000 single-arm trials exist. Most use convenience samples & give weak non-generalizable evidence. We can do better. We propose Random Invitation Single-Arm Trials (RISAT) - a simple way to get randomized real-world evidence from SATs. @AnnalsofIM acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/AN…

Great talk by Jack Janetski (of @MedIntelCRE) about their @OHDSI study on fluoroquinolone - finding no evidence of an increased risk of aortic dissection or aneurysm. Providing evidence to directly inform safety warnings from the @US_FDA and TGA. #AEA2025 @AustralasianEpi

Great opening plenary by Matt Fox about the role of intuition in epidemiology - some key takeaways were that intuition can be helpful, but also detrimental. Quantifying uncertainty can be a good strategy to avoid making readers (and yourself) not have to use intuition! #AEA2025

Webinar Alert! Optimising Openness and Transparency in Pain Research. Brought to you by @IASPpain @IASP_MESISIG Worked examples from preclinical, clinical and qualitative research. Register now! perc.iasp-pain.org/products/optim… 5 August 2025 at 6:00 a.m. ET

Trends in US Children’s Mortality, Chronic Conditions, Obesity, Functional Status, and Symptoms jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07/0…

📚How to bolster employability through open science osf.io/preprints/osf/…

Study backing “‘bone-strengthening’ exercise program should be retracted: experts.” abc.net.au/news/health/20…

NOW PUBLISHED! Featured article + 6 Commentaries + Rejoinder: “On the Uses and Abuses of Regression Models: A Call for Reform of Statistical Practice and Teaching” with my colleague John Carlin tinyurl.com/2z2tmkhh @CEBU_Melbourne @vicbiostat #epitwitter #causaltwitter

NEW PAPER in @JClinEpi looking at the content of open peer-review reports of RCTs in the field of oncology sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Peer review reports [...] were short (median 276 words), superficial, and rarely constructive #metascience #peerreview #RCTs

Tuesday morning kicked off with lectures from Issa Dahabreh & @_MiguelHernan CICI 👉 Generalizability and transportability analyses for outcomes assessed at the end of the study in non-nested trial designs TTE 👉 Emulating time zero #causalinference #causalab #publichealth