Macaluso, M; Summerville, LA; Tabangin, ME; Daraiseh, NM. Enhancing the detection of injuries and near-misses among patient care staff in a large pediatric hospital. Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health. 2018; 44(4):377-384.
Healthcare has the one of the highest rates of non-fatal occupational injury/illness. Despite mandated surveillance of work-related injuries/illness, current evidence indicates that injury rates are underestimated, necessitating improved surveillance. This research integrated active data collection (based on voice recording) in a passive injury surveillance system. Not only did we improve our ability to detect injuries in a healthcare establishment, we showed that pediatric healthcare providers experience a high frequency of injuries that they do not report through the passive surveillance methods.
Aceves, SS; King, E; Collins, MH; Yang, G; Capocelli, KE; Abonia, JP; Atkins, D; Bonis, PA; Carpenter, CL; Dellon, ES; Eby, MD; Falk, GW; Gonsalves, N; Gupta, SK; Hirano, I; Kocher, K; Krischer, JP; Leung, J; Lipscomb, J; Menard-Katcher, P; Mukkada, VA; Pan, Z; Spergel, JM; Sun, Q; Wershil, BK; Rothenberg, ME; Furuta, GT; Consortium of Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disease Researchers (CEGIR). Alignment of parent- and child-reported outcomes and histology in eosinophilic esophagitis across multiple CEGIR sites. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 2018; 142(1):130-138.e1.
Our data suggest that parental report in young children can function as an adequate marker for self-reported symptoms and that self-reported symptoms can reflect changes in tissue histology in the proximal esophagus. These findings should be considered during clinical trials for drug development.
Bowers, K; Ding, L; Gregory, S; Yolton, K; Ji, H; Meyer, J; Ammerman, RT; Van Ginkel, J; Folger, A. Maternal distress and hair cortisol in pregnancy among women with elevated adverse childhood experiences. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2018; 95:145-148.
Adversity experienced by mothers during pregnancy can have implications for the developing infant. Prior adversity (experienced early in life) may prime a mother’s ongoing response to additional stress. In this study, there was a stronger association between depressive symptoms and maternal hair cortisol (a measure of accumulated stress) among women who experienced higher levels of early adversity compared to those who experienced lower early adversity.
Huang, B; Szczesniak, R. Cant see the wood for the trees confounders, colliders and causal inference - a statisticians approach. Thorax. 2019; 74(4):323-325.
This editor comments on a recent guideline Annuals of the American Thoracic Society article authored by 46 journal editors on the importance of controlling confounding when asking causal questions. This editorial complements the guideline by providing statistics intuition and highlighting challenges in the area of causal inference.  
Folger, AT; Ding, L; Ji, H; Yolton, K; Ammerman, RT; Van Ginkel, JB; Bowers, K. Neonatal NR3C1 Methylation and Social-Emotional Development at 6 and 18 Months of Age. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 2019; 13.
Neonatal DNA methylation—at a gene important in regulating stress response— was associated with social-emotional functioning at 6 and 18 months; this suggests that certain epigenetic profiles during infancy may be predictive of subsequent child developmental risk.