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Sheila M Bird
The benefits and harms of breast cancer screening.
Elizabeth L C Merrall; Sheila M Bird; Sharon J Hutchinson
A record-linkage study of drug-related death and suicide after hospital discharge among drug-treatment clients in Scotland, 1996-2006.
Rebecca M Turner; Sheila M Bird; Julian P T Higgins
The impact of study size on meta-analyses: examination of underpowered studies in Cochrane reviews.

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2013: Sheila M Bird
The benefits and harms of breast cancer screening.
Lancet 2013;381(9869):802-3.
2013: Elizabeth L C Merrall; Sheila M Bird; Sharon J Hutchinson
A record-linkage study of drug-related death and suicide after hospital discharge among drug-treatment clients in Scotland, 1996-2006.
Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2013;108(2):377-84.
2013: Rebecca M Turner; Sheila M Bird; Julian P T Higgins
The impact of study size on meta-analyses: examination of underpowered studies in Cochrane reviews.
PloS one 2013;8(3):e59202.
2012: Sheila M Bird
Being sanguine about study design and multiple imputation.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2012;345():e5884; author reply e5885.
2012: Elizabeth L C Merrall; Sheila M Bird; Sharon J Hutchinson
Mortality of those who attended drug services in Scotland 1996-2006: record-linkage study.
The International journal on drug policy 2012;23(1):24-32.
2011: Scott A McDonald; Sharon J Hutchinson; Sheila M Bird; Chris Robertson; Peter R Mills; John F Dillon; David J Goldberg
Hospitalisation for an alcohol-related cause among injecting drug users in Scotland: increased risk following diagnosis with hepatitis C infection.
The International journal on drug policy 2011;22(1):63-9.
2010: Elizabeth L C Merrall; Azar Kariminia; Ingrid A Binswanger; Michael S Hobbs; Michael Farrell; John Marsden; Sharon J Hutchinson; Sheila M Bird
Meta-analysis of drug-related deaths soon after release from prison.
Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2010;105(9):1545-54.
2010: Elizabeth L C Merrall; Mandeep K Dhami; Sheila M Bird
Exploring methods to investigate sentencing decisions.
Evaluation review 2010;34(3):185-219.
2010: Sheila M Bird; Sharon J Hutchinson; Gordon Hay; Ruth King
Missing targets on drugs-related deaths, and a Scottish paradox.
The International journal on drug policy 2010;21(3):155-9.
2010: Sheila M Bird; John Harris
Time to move to presumed consent for organ donation.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2010;340():c2188.
2009: Ruth King; Sheila M Bird; Gordon Hay; Sharon J Hutchinson
Estimating current injectors in Scotland and their drug-related death rate by sex, region and age-group via Bayesian capture--recapture methods.
Statistical methods in medical research 2009;18(4):341-59.
2009: Sheila M Bird
Database linkage: outside reflections on health care inside prisons.
Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2009;104(7):1241-2.
2009: Elizabeth L C Merrall; Sheila M Bird
A statistical perspective on the design of drug-court studies.
Evaluation review 2009;33(3):257-80.
2009: Sheila M Bird; Elizabeth Lc Merrall
Serial offending: evaluation of drugs courts.
Lancet 2009;373(9671):1231-3.
2009: Scott A McDonald; Sharon J Hutchinson; Sheila M Bird; Lesley Graham; Chris Robertson; Peter R Mills; Peter Hayes; John F Dillon; David J Goldberg
Association of self-reported alcohol use and hospitalization for an alcohol-related cause in Scotland: a record-linkage study of 23,183 individuals.
Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2009;104(4):593-602.
2009: Sheila M Bird; Elizabeth L C Merrall; Hester J T Ward; Robert G Will
Survival and re-operation rates after neurosurgical procedures in Scotland: implications for targeted surveillance of sub-clinical variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Neuroepidemiology 2009;33(1):1-11.
2008: S A McDonald; Sharon J Hutchinson; Sheila M Bird; C Robertson; P R Mills; J F Dillon; David J Goldberg
A record-linkage study of the development of hepatocellular carcinoma in persons with hepatitis C infection in Scotland.
British journal of cancer 2008;99(5):805-10.
2008: Sheila M Bird; Jeremy Farrar
Minimum dataset needed for confirmed human H5N1 cases.
Lancet 2008;372(9640):696-7.
2006: Sharon J Hutchinson; Sheila M Bird; David J Goldberg
Review of models used to predict the future numbers of individuals with severe hepatitis C disease: therapeutic and cost implications.
Expert review of pharmacoeconomics & outcomes research 2006;6(6):627-39.
2006: Sharon J Hutchinson; Kirsty M Roy; Sarah Wadd; Sheila M Bird; Avril Taylor; E Anderson; L Shaw; G Codere; David J Goldberg
Hepatitis C virus infection in Scotland: epidemiological review and public health challenges.
Scottish medical journal 2006;51(2):8-15.
2005: Sharon J Hutchinson; Sheila M Bird; David J Goldberg
Influence of alcohol on the progression of hepatitis C virus infection: a meta-analysis.
Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2005;3(11):1150-9.
2005: Ruth King; Sheila M Bird; Steve P Brooks; Sharon J Hutchinson; Gordon Hay
Prior information in behavioral capture-recapture methods: demographic influences on drug injectors' propensity to be listed in data sources and their drug-related mortality.
American journal of epidemiology 2005;162(7):694-703.
2005: Sharon J Hutchinson; Sheila M Bird; David J Goldberg
Modeling the current and future disease burden of hepatitis C among injection drug users in Scotland.
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2005;42(3):711-23.
2004: Sharon J Hutchinson; Sarah Wadd; Avril Taylor; Sheila M Bird; Alan Mitchell; David S Morrison; Syed Ahmed; David J Goldberg
Sudden rise in uptake of hepatitis B vaccination among injecting drug users associated with a universal vaccine programme in prisons.
Vaccine 2004;23(2):210-4.
2004: Sheila M Bird
Attributable testing for abnormal prion protein, database linkage, and blood-borne vCJD risks.
Lancet 2004;364(9442):1362-4.
2003: Sheila M Bird; Sharon J Hutchinson; David J Goldberg
Drug-related deaths by region, sex, and age group per 100 injecting drug users in Scotland, 2000-01.
Lancet 2003;362(9388):941-4.
2003: Sheila M Bird
European Union's rapid TSE testing in adult cattle and sheep: implementation and results in 2001 and 2002.
Statistical methods in medical research 2003;12(3):261-78.
2003: Sheila M Bird; Sharon J Hutchinson
Male drugs-related deaths in the fortnight after release from prison: Scotland, 1996-99.
Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2003;98(2):185-90.
2002: Sheila M Bird; G Pearson; J Strang
Rationale and cost-efficiency compared for urine or saliva testing and behavioural inquiry among UK offender populations: injectors, arrestees and prisoners.
Journal of cancer epidemiology and prevention 2002;7(1):37-47.
2001: Sheila M Bird; David J Goldberg; Sharon J Hutchinson
Projecting severe sequelae of injection-related hepatitis C virus epidemic in the UK. Part 2: Preliminary UK estimates of prevalent injection-related hepatitis C carriers, and derivation of progression rates to liver cirrhosis by gender and age at hepatitis C virus infection.
Journal of epidemiology and biostatistics 2001;6(3):267-77; discussion 279-85.
2001: Sheila M Bird; David J Goldberg; Sharon J Hutchinson
Projecting severe sequelae of injection-related hepatitis C virus epidemic in the UK. Part 1: Critical hepatitis C and injector data.
Journal of epidemiology and biostatistics 2001;6(3):243-65; discussion 279-85.