Rodney P Jones

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What are the limitations of age-standardized mortality rate?

The age-standardized mortality rate is often used to infer that some populations are healthier than others. What are the major limitations of this method? I am aware that it ignores year-of-birth...

11 November 2018 1,828 1 View

Has an unexplained increase in deaths since 2011 been reported in your country?

For the past nine years I have been investigating outbreaks of a novel agent which appears to work via indirect immune manipulation. These outbreaks lead to extended periods of higher deaths and...

02 February 2018 6,192 2 View

Is anyone aware of immunological changes in the last year of life?

Many studies have demonstrated that frailty, loss of independence and a large increase in hospital admissions are associated with the last year of life. I am looking for any evidence of immune...

02 February 2018 6,522 12 View

How do you test for high/low behaviour in a time series?

I have a series of increases in death arising from a suspected series of outbreaks of an unknown agent. The suspicion is that the agent is relatively difficult to transmit and relies heavily on...

10 October 2015 6,694 12 View

What are the typical error margins on common biochemical laboratory test results?

Am looking for details of the error margins for the most common biochemistry test results on blood. Am calculating a single score from weighted test results and would like to do a simulation of...

10 October 2015 4,185 0 View

Are there any researchers willing to investigate outbreaks of a new type of disease?

Unexplained periods of higher death and medical admissions have been characterised in the UK. Both deaths and medical admissions appear to show spatial spread indicating a potential infectious...

07 July 2015 1,738 14 View

Can anyone manipulate the parameters in infectious transmission models to see if they can replicate this unknown outbreak?

I have documented small area spread of a new type of infectious agent across Berkshire in the UK. The agent seems to be relatively difficult to transmit but has quite dramatic impact on medical...

03 March 2015 2,120 6 View

Can anybody analyse the infectious spread of this new type of infection?

The attached article is about to be published in Biomedicine International in early 2014 and shows evidence of a unique type of infectious spread. Does anyone know of suitable people who could...

12 December 2013 8,246 2 View

Do health care costs follow long-term cycles?

It is known that outbreaks of infectious diseases follow long-term cycles but is it possible that health care costs may also follow such cycles? Is anyone aware of any research in this area or of...

10 October 2013 3,466 2 View

Why use 5-year age bands in age standardization?

Does anyone know when 5-year age bands were first introduced, and the rationale for their use. Indeed why are 1, 2, 3, 4-year age bands not used? Also is anyone aware of research to show that...

01 January 1970 4,135 8 View

May I point you to a link on outbreaks of a new disease (CMV?????)?

Hi Cecelia and co, Still plugging away at describing the outbreaks of a new disease (CMV????) and its effects on morbidity and mortality. I have documented effects against certain cancers, etc. I...

01 January 1970 9,299 0 View

Some of the thinking in my analysis of deaths in the UK may be of help?

Have been investigating on/off switching in deaths and single-year-of-age patterns. See sections on deaths, etc in the attached list of publications...

01 January 1970 5,664 3 View

Hopefully you will include CMV IgG and IgM in the study?

Another possibility is changes in a blood biochemistry composite score which occurs before end of life. See attached

01 January 1970 2,810 0 View