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Sir Austin Bradford Hill: A Personal View of His Contribution to Epidemiology
Author(s) -
Doll Richard
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series a (statistics in society)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.103
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1467-985X
pISSN - 0964-1998
DOI - 10.2307/2983409
Subject(s) - epidemiology , gerontology , medicine , pathology
SUMMARY The development of Bradford Hill's epidemiological research is traced from his use, as a novice research worker, of the then customary prevalence surveys, through case‐control studies, to cohort studies. In his studies of the relationships between inoculation (in general) and the development of paralytic poliomyelitis and between smoking and lung cancer and many other diseases, he set out for the first time the criteria required in the conduct of case‐control and cohort studies if they were to provide reliable results and cause‐and‐effect relationships distinguished from those due to bias and confounding.