PLOS Medicine

2004 - 2022

From Public Library of Science
Bibliographic data for series maintained by plosmedicine (plosmedicine@plos.org).

Access Statistics for this journal.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

Volume 14, issue 12, 2017

Effects of women’s groups practising participatory learning and action on preventive and care-seeking behaviours to reduce neonatal mortality: A meta-analysis of cluster-randomised trials pp. 1-22

Nadine Seward, Melissa Neuman, Tim Colbourn, David Osrin, Sonia Lewycka, Kishwar Azad, Anthony Costello, Sushmita Das, Edward Fottrell, Abdul Kuddus, Dharma Manandhar, Nirmala Nair, Bejoy Nambiar, Neena Shah More, Tambosi Phiri, Prasanta Tripathy and Audrey Prost

Bridging the quality chasm in maternal, newborn, and child healthcare in low- and middle-income countries pp. 1-3

Lars Åke Persson

Psychosocial and socioeconomic determinants of cardiovascular mortality in Eastern Europe: A multicentre prospective cohort study pp. 1-20

Taavi Tillmann, Hynek Pikhart, Anne Peasey, Ruzena Kubinova, Andrzej Pajak, Abdonas Tamosiunas, Sofia Malyutina, Andrew Steptoe, Mika Kivimäki, Michael Marmot and Martin Bobak

Shortages of benzathine penicillin for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of syphilis: An evaluation from multi-country surveys and stakeholder interviews pp. 1-18

Stephen Nurse-Findlay, Melanie M Taylor, Margaret Savage, Maeve B Mello, Sanni Saliyou, Manuel Lavayen, Frederic Seghers, Michael L Campbell, Françoise Birgirimana, Leopold Ouedraogo, Morkor Newman Owiredu, Nancy Kidula and Lee Pyne-Mercier

Cell salvage and donor blood transfusion during cesarean section: A pragmatic, multicentre randomised controlled trial (SALVO) pp. 1-19

Khalid S Khan, Philip A S Moore, Matthew J Wilson, Richard Hooper, Shubha Allard, Ian Wrench, Lee Beresford, Tracy E Roberts, Carol McLoughlin, James Geoghegan, Jane P Daniels, Sue Catling, Vicki A Clark, Paul Ayuk, Stephen Robson, Fang Gao-Smith, Matthew Hogg, Doris Lanz, Julie Dodds and on behalf of the SALVO study Group

Volume 14, issue 11, 2017

Human trafficking and exploitation: A global health concern pp. 1-11

Cathy Zimmerman and Ligia Kiss

Labour trafficking: Challenges and opportunities from an occupational health perspective pp. 1-6

Elena Ronda-Pérez and Bente E Moen

Extreme exploitation in Southeast Asia waters: Challenges in progressing towards universal health coverage for migrant workers pp. 1-6

Rapeepong Suphanchaimat, Nareerut Pudpong and Viroj Tangcharoensathien

malERA: An updated research agenda for health systems and policy research in malaria elimination and eradication pp. 1-15

The malERA Refresh Consultative Panel on Health Systems and Policy Research

Treatment guidelines and early loss from care for people living with HIV in Cape Town, South Africa: A retrospective cohort study pp. 1-12

Ingrid T Katz, Richard Kaplan, Garrett Fitzmaurice, Dominick Leone, David R Bangsberg, Linda-Gail Bekker and Catherine Orrell

Evidence-based restructuring of health and social care pp. 1-2

Aziz Sheikh

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) event rates in HIV-positive persons at high predicted CVD and CKD risk: A prospective analysis of the D:A:D observational study pp. 1-14

Mark A Boyd, Amanda Mocroft, Lene Ryom, Antonella d’Arminio Monforte, Caroline Sabin, Wafaa M El-Sadr, Camilla Ingrid Hatleberg, Stephane De Wit, Rainer Weber, Eric Fontas, Andrew Phillips, Fabrice Bonnet, Peter Reiss, Jens Lundgren and Matthew Law

Perinatal mortality associated with induction of labour versus expectant management in nulliparous women aged 35 years or over: An English national cohort study pp. 1-14

Hannah E Knight, David A Cromwell, Ipek Gurol-Urganci, Katie Harron, Jan H van der Meulen and Gordon C S Smith

The US President's Malaria Initiative, Plasmodium falciparum transmission and mortality: A modelling study pp. 1-14

Peter Winskill, Hannah C Slater, Jamie T Griffin, Azra C Ghani and Patrick G T Walker

Core Outcome Set-STAndards for Development: The COS-STAD recommendations pp. 1-10

Jamie J Kirkham, Katherine Davis, Douglas G Altman, Jane M Blazeby, Mike Clarke, Sean Tunis and Paula R Williamson

HIV self-testing among female sex workers in Zambia: A cluster randomized controlled trial pp. 1-19

Michael M Chanda, Katrina F Ortblad, Magdalene Mwale, Steven Chongo, Catherine Kanchele, Nyambe Kamungoma, Andrew Fullem, Caitlin Dunn, Leah G Barresi, Guy Harling, Till Bärnighausen and Catherine E Oldenburg

Comparison of two cash transfer strategies to prevent catastrophic costs for poor tuberculosis-affected households in low- and middle-income countries: An economic modelling study pp. 1-28

William Rudgard, Carlton A Evans, Sedona Sweeney, Tom Wingfield, Knut Lönnroth, Draurio Barreira and Delia Boccia

Effectiveness of a combination strategy for linkage and retention in adult HIV care in Swaziland: The Link4Health cluster randomized trial pp. 1-20

Margaret L McNairy, Matthew R Lamb, Averie B Gachuhi, Harriet Nuwagaba-Biribonwoha, Sean Burke, Sikhathele Mazibuko, Velephi Okello, Peter Ehrenkranz, Ruben Sahabo and Wafaa M El-Sadr

A combination intervention strategy to improve linkage to and retention in HIV care following diagnosis in Mozambique: A cluster-randomized study pp. 1-20

Batya Elul, Matthew R Lamb, Maria Lahuerta, Fatima Abacassamo, Laurence Ahoua, Stephanie A Kujawski, Maria Tomo and Ilesh Jani

Treatment eligibility and retention in clinical HIV care: A regression discontinuity study in South Africa pp. 1-20

Jacob Bor, Matthew P Fox, Sydney Rosen, Atheendar Venkataramani, Frank Tanser, Deenan Pillay and Till Bärnighausen

Bioequivalence between innovator and generic tacrolimus in liver and kidney transplant recipients: A randomized, crossover clinical trial pp. 1-22

Rita R Alloway, Alexander A Vinks, Tsuyoshi Fukuda, Tomoyuki Mizuno, Eileen C King, Yuanshu Zou, Wenlei Jiang, E Steve Woodle, Simon Tremblay, Jelena Klawitter, Jost Klawitter and Uwe Christians

Measuring success: The challenge of social protection in helping eliminate tuberculosis pp. 1-4

Priya B Shete and David W Dowdy

Reaching global HIV/AIDS goals: What got us here, won't get us there pp. 1-4

Wafaa M El-Sadr, Katherine Harripersaud and Miriam Rabkin

Closing the gaps in the HIV care continuum pp. 1-4

Ruanne V Barnabas and Connie Celum

Contemporary disengagement from antiretroviral therapy in Khayelitsha, South Africa: A cohort study pp. 1-24

Samantha R Kaplan, Christa Oosthuizen, Kathryn Stinson, Francesca Little, Jonathan Euvrard, Michael Schomaker, Meg Osler, Katherine Hilderbrand, Andrew Boulle and Graeme Meintjes

Direct provision versus facility collection of HIV self-tests among female sex workers in Uganda: A cluster-randomized controlled health systems trial pp. 1-24

Katrina Ortblad, Daniel Kibuuka Musoke, Thomson Ngabirano, Aidah Nakitende, Jonathan Magoola, Prossy Kayiira, Geoffrey Taasi, Leah G Barresi, Jessica E Haberer, Margaret A McConnell, Catherine E Oldenburg and Till Bärnighausen

Sexual exploitation of unaccompanied migrant and refugee boys in Greece: Approaches to prevention pp. 1-8

Julie Freccero, Dan Biswas, Audrey Whiting, Khaled Alrabe and Kim Thuy Seelinger

Volume 14, issue 10, 2017

Decommissioning care: The need for rigorous multifaceted evaluations of decisions to withdraw health services pp. 1-3

Aziz Sheikh

Benefit and harm of intensive blood pressure treatment: Derivation and validation of risk models using data from the SPRINT and ACCORD trials pp. 1-26

Sanjay Basu, Jeremy B Sussman, Joseph Rigdon, Lauren Steimle, Brian T Denton and Rodney A Hayward

When cost-effective interventions are unaffordable: Integrating cost-effectiveness and budget impact in priority setting for global health programs pp. 1-10

Alyssa Bilinski, Peter Neumann, Joshua Cohen, Teja Thorat, Katherine McDaniel and Joshua A Salomon

Regional initiatives for malaria elimination: Building and maintaining partnerships pp. 1-10

Andrew A Lover, Kelly E Harvard, Alistair E Lindawson, Cara Smith Gueye, Rima Shretta, Roly Gosling and Richard Feachem

Associations between an IgG3 polymorphism in the binding domain for FcRn, transplacental transfer of malaria-specific IgG3, and protection against Plasmodium falciparum malaria during infancy: A birth cohort study in Benin pp. 1-19

Celia Dechavanne, Sebastien Dechavanne, Ibrahim Sadissou, Adjimon Gatien Lokossou, Fernanda Alvarado, Magalie Dambrun, Kabirou Moutairou, David Courtin, Gregory Nuel, Andre Garcia, Florence Migot-Nabias and Christopher L King

A combination of plasma phospholipid fatty acids and its association with incidence of type 2 diabetes: The EPIC-InterAct case-cohort study pp. 1-19

Fumiaki Imamura, Stephen J Sharp, Albert Koulman, Matthias B Schulze, Janine Kröger, Julian L Griffin, José M Huerta, Marcela Guevara, Ivonne Sluijs, Antonio Agudo, Eva Ardanaz, Beverley Balkau, Heiner Boeing, Veronique Chajes, Christina C Dahm, Courtney Dow, Guy Fagherazzi, Edith J M Feskens, Paul W Franks, Diana Gavrila, Marc Gunter, Rudolf Kaaks, Timothy J Key, Kay-Tee Khaw, Tilman Kühn, Olle Melander, Elena Molina-Portillo, Peter M Nilsson, Anja Olsen, Kim Overvad, Domenico Palli, Salvatore Panico, Olov Rolandsson, Sabina Sieri, Carlotta Sacerdote, Nadia Slimani, Annemieke M W Spijkerman, Anne Tjønneland, Rosario Tumino, Yvonne T van der Schouw, Claudia Langenberg, Elio Riboli, Nita G Forouhi and Nick J Wareham

The clinical utility and cost impact of cystatin C measurement in the diagnosis and management of chronic kidney disease: A primary care cohort study pp. 1-18

Adam Shardlow, Natasha J McIntyre, Simon D S Fraser, Paul Roderick, James Raftery, Richard J Fluck, Christopher W McIntyre and Maarten W Taal

Estimating the fitness cost and benefit of cefixime resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae to inform prescription policy: A modelling study pp. 1-20

Lilith K Whittles, Peter J White and Xavier Didelot

Effectiveness of cervical screening after age 60 years according to screening history: Nationwide cohort study in Sweden pp. 1-17

Jiangrong Wang, Bengt Andrae, Karin Sundström, Alexander Ploner, Peter Ström, K Miriam Elfström, Joakim Dillner and Pär Sparén

Improving tuberculosis diagnosis: Better tests or better healthcare? pp. 1-4

Sumona Datta, Matthew J Saunders, Marco A Tovar and Carlton A Evans

Assessing the neuroprotective benefits for babies of antenatal magnesium sulphate: An individual participant data meta-analysis pp. 1-24

Caroline A Crowther, Philippa F Middleton, Merryn Voysey, Lisa Askie, Lelia Duley, Peter G Pryde, Stéphane Marret, Lex W Doyle and for the AMICABLE Group

Fitness cost and benefit of antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Multidisciplinary approaches are needed pp. 1-5

Magnus Unemo and Christian L Althaus

Impact of disinvestment from weekend allied health services across acute medical and surgical wards: 2 stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trials pp. 1-21

Terry P Haines, Kelly-Ann Bowles, Deb Mitchell, Lisa O’Brien, Donna Markham, Samantha Plumb, Kerry May, Kathleen Philip, Romi Haas, Mitchell N Sarkies, Marcelle Ghaly, Melina Shackell, Timothy Chiu, Steven McPhail, Fiona McDermott and Elizabeth H Skinner

Volume 14, issue 9, 2017

Vaginal progesterone pessaries for pregnant women with a previous preterm birth to prevent neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (the PROGRESS Study): A multicentre, randomised, placebo-controlled trial pp. 1-18

Caroline A Crowther, Pat Ashwood, Andrew J McPhee, Vicki Flenady, Thach Tran, Jodie M Dodd, Jeffrey S Robinson and for the PROGRESS Study Group

Self-monitoring of blood pressure in hypertension: A systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis pp. 1-29

Katherine L Tucker, James P Sheppard, Richard Stevens, Hayden B Bosworth, Alfred Bove, Emma P Bray, Kenneth Earle, Johnson George, Marshall Godwin, Beverly B Green, Paul Hebert, F D Richard Hobbs, Ilkka Kantola, Sally M Kerry, Alfonso Leiva, David J Magid, Jonathan Mant, Karen L Margolis, Brian McKinstry, Mary Ann McLaughlin, Stefano Omboni, Olugbenga Ogedegbe, Gianfranco Parati, Nashat Qamar, Bahman P Tabaei, Juha Varis, Willem J Verberk, Bonnie J Wakefield and Richard J McManus

Sustained effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Counselling for Alcohol Problems, a brief psychological treatment for harmful drinking in men, delivered by lay counsellors in primary care: 12-month follow-up of a randomised controlled trial pp. 1-20

Abhijit Nadkarni, Helen A Weiss, Benedict Weobong, David McDaid, Daisy R Singla, A-La Park, Bhargav Bhat, Basavaraj Katti, Jim McCambridge, Pratima Murthy, Michael King, G Terence Wilson, Betty Kirkwood, Christopher G Fairburn, Richard Velleman and Vikram Patel

Impact of common genetic determinants of Hemoglobin A1c on type 2 diabetes risk and diagnosis in ancestrally diverse populations: A transethnic genome-wide meta-analysis pp. 1-30

Eleanor Wheeler, Aaron Leong, Ching-Ti Liu, Marie-France Hivert, Rona J Strawbridge, Clara Podmore, Man Li, Jie Yao, Xueling Sim, Jaeyoung Hong, Audrey Y Chu, Weihua Zhang, Xu Wang, Peng Chen, Nisa M Maruthur, Bianca C Porneala, Stephen J Sharp, Yucheng Jia, Edmond K Kabagambe, Li-Ching Chang, Wei-Min Chen, Cathy E Elks, Daniel S Evans, Qiao Fan, Franco Giulianini, Min Jin Go, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Yao Hu, Anne U Jackson, Stavroula Kanoni, Young Jin Kim, Marcus E Kleber, Claes Ladenvall, Cecile Lecoeur, Sing-Hui Lim, Yingchang Lu, Anubha Mahajan, Carola Marzi, Mike A Nalls, Pau Navarro, Ilja M Nolte, Lynda M Rose, Denis V Rybin, Serena Sanna, Yuan Shi, Daniel O Stram, Fumihiko Takeuchi, Shu Pei Tan, Peter J van der Most, Jana V Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Andrew Wong, Loic Yengo, Wanting Zhao, Anuj Goel, Maria Teresa Martinez Larrad, Dörte Radke, Perttu Salo, Toshiko Tanaka, Erik P A van Iperen, Goncalo Abecasis, Saima Afaq, Behrooz Z Alizadeh, Alain G Bertoni, Amelie Bonnefond, Yvonne Böttcher, Erwin P Bottinger, Harry Campbell, Olga D Carlson, Chien-Hsiun Chen, Yoon Shin Cho, W Timothy Garvey, Christian Gieger, Mark O Goodarzi, Harald Grallert, Anders Hamsten, Catharina A Hartman, Christian Herder, Chao Agnes Hsiung, Jie Huang, Michiya Igase, Masato Isono, Tomohiro Katsuya, Chiea-Chuen Khor, Wieland Kiess, Katsuhiko Kohara, Peter Kovacs, Juyoung Lee, Wen-Jane Lee, Benjamin Lehne, Huaixing Li, Jianjun Liu, Stephane Lobbens, Jian'an Luan, Valeriya Lyssenko, Thomas Meitinger, Tetsuro Miki, Iva Miljkovic, Sanghoon Moon, Antonella Mulas, Gabriele Müller, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Ramaiah Nagaraja, Matthias Nauck, James S Pankow, Ozren Polasek, Inga Prokopenko, Paula S Ramos, Laura Rasmussen-Torvik, Wolfgang Rathmann, Stephen S Rich, Neil R Robertson, Michael Roden, Ronan Roussel, Igor Rudan, Robert A Scott, William R Scott, Bengt Sennblad, David S Siscovick, Konstantin Strauch, Liang Sun, Morris Swertz, Salman M Tajuddin, Kent D Taylor, Yik-Ying Teo, Yih Chung Tham, Anke Tönjes, Nicholas J Wareham, Gonneke Willemsen, Tom Wilsgaard, Aroon D Hingorani, Consortium Epic-Cvd, EPIC-InterAct Consortium, Lifelines Cohort Study, Josephine Egan, Luigi Ferrucci, G Kees Hovingh, Antti Jula, Mika Kivimaki, Meena Kumari, Inger Njølstad, Colin N A Palmer, Manuel Serrano Ríos, Michael Stumvoll, Hugh Watkins, Tin Aung, Matthias Blüher, Michael Boehnke, Dorret I Boomsma, Stefan R Bornstein, John C Chambers, Daniel I Chasman, Yii- Der Ida Chen, Yduan-Tsong Chen, Ching-Yu Cheng, Francesco Cucca, Eco J C de Geus, Panos Deloukas, Michele K Evans, Myriam Fornage, Yechiel Friedlander, Philippe Froguel, Leif Groop, Myron D Gross, Tamara B Harris, Caroline Hayward, Chew-Kiat Heng, Erik Ingelsson, Norihiro Kato, Bong-Jo Kim, Woon-Puay Koh, Jaspal S Kooner, Antje Körner, Diana Kuh, Johanna Kuusisto, Markku Laakso, Xu Lin, Yongmei Liu, Ruth J F Loos, Patrik K E Magnusson, Winfried März, Mark I McCarthy, Albertine J Oldehinkel, Ken K Ong, Nancy L Pedersen, Mark A Pereira, Annette Peters, Paul M Ridker, Charumathi Sabanayagam, Michele Sale, Danish Saleheen, Juha Saltevo, Peter EH Schwarz, Wayne H H Sheu, Harold Snieder, Timothy D Spector, Yasuharu Tabara, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Rob M van Dam, James G Wilson, James F Wilson, Bruce H R Wolffenbuttel, Tien Yin Wong, Jer-Yuarn Wu, Jian-Min Yuan, Alan B Zonderman, Nicole Soranzo, Xiuqing Guo, David J Roberts, Jose C Florez, Robert Sladek, Josée Dupuis, Andrew P Morris, E-Shyong Tai, Elizabeth Selvin, Jerome I Rotter, Claudia Langenberg, Inês Barroso and James B Meigs

Risk, treatment duration, and recurrence risk of postpartum affective disorder in women with no prior psychiatric history: A population-based cohort study pp. 1-13

Marie-Louise H Rasmussen, Marin Strøm, Jan Wohlfahrt, Poul Videbech and Mads Melbye

Sustained effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the Healthy Activity Programme, a brief psychological treatment for depression delivered by lay counsellors in primary care: 12-month follow-up of a randomised controlled trial pp. 1-21

Benedict Weobong, Helen A Weiss, David McDaid, Daisy R Singla, Steven D Hollon, Abhijit Nadkarni, A-La Park, Bhargav Bhat, Basavraj Katti, Arpita Anand, Sona Dimidjian, Ricardo Araya, Michael King, Lakshmi Vijayakumar, G Terence Wilson, Richard Velleman, Betty R Kirkwood, Christopher G Fairburn and Vikram Patel

Cervical screening with primary HPV testing or cytology in a population of women in which those aged 33 years or younger had previously been offered HPV vaccination: Results of the Compass pilot randomised trial pp. 1-21

Karen Canfell, Michael Caruana, Val Gebski, Jessica Darlington-Brown, Stella Heley, Julia Brotherton, Dorota Gertig, Chloe J Jennett, Annabelle Farnsworth, Jeffrey Tan, C David Wrede, Philip E Castle and Marion Saville

Volume 14, issue 8, 2017

Association of pre-pregnancy body mass index with offspring metabolic profile: Analyses of 3 European prospective birth cohorts pp. 1-19

Diana L Santos Ferreira, Dylan M Williams, Antti J Kangas, Pasi Soininen, Mika Ala-Korpela, George Davey Smith, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin and Debbie A Lawlor

Benefits and safety of gabapentinoids in chronic low back pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials pp. 1-21

Harsha Shanthanna, Ian Gilron, Manikandan Rajarathinam, Rizq AlAmri, Sriganesh Kamath, Lehana Thabane, Philip J Devereaux and Mohit Bhandari

Impact of fortified versus unfortified lipid-based supplements on morbidity and nutritional status: A randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial in ill Gambian children pp. 1-21

Stefan A Unger, Saikou Drammeh, Jahid Hasan, Kabiru Ceesay, Edrisa Sinjanka, Sainey Beyai, Bakary Sonko, Bai Lamin Dondeh, Anthony J Fulford, Sophie E Moore and Andrew M Prentice

Assessing the impact of healthcare research: A systematic review of methodological frameworks pp. 1-24

Samantha Cruz Rivera, Derek G Kyte, Olalekan Lee Aiyegbusi, Thomas J Keeley and Melanie J Calvert

Evaluating the impact of Affordable Care Act repeal on America's opioid epidemic pp. 1-4

Leana S Wen, Evan B Behrle and Alexander C Tsai

Effectiveness of a brief behavioural intervention on psychological distress among women with a history of gender-based violence in urban Kenya: A randomised clinical trial pp. 1-20

Richard A Bryant, Alison Schafer, Katie S Dawson, Dorothy Anjuri, Caroline Mulili, Lincoln Ndogoni, Phiona Koyiet, Marit Sijbrandij, Jeannette Ulate, Melissa Harper Shehadeh, Dusan Hadzi-Pavlovic and Mark van Ommeren

Malaria, malnutrition, and birthweight: A meta-analysis using individual participant data pp. 1-20

Jordan E Cates, Holger W Unger, Valerie Briand, Nadine Fievet, Innocent Valea, Halidou Tinto, Umberto D’Alessandro, Sarah H Landis, Seth Adu-Afarwuah, Kathryn G Dewey, Feiko O ter Kuile, Meghna Desai, Stephanie Dellicour, Peter Ouma, Julie Gutman, Martina Oneko, Laurence Slutsker, Dianne J Terlouw, Simon Kariuki, John Ayisi, Mwayiwawo Madanitsa, Victor Mwapasa, Per Ashorn, Kenneth Maleta, Ivo Mueller, Danielle Stanisic, Christentze Schmiegelow, John P A Lusingu, Anna Maria van Eijk, Melissa Bauserman, Linda Adair, Stephen R Cole, Daniel Westreich, Steven Meshnick and Stephen Rogerson

Volume 14, issue 7, 2017

Prescription medicine use by pedestrians and the risk of injurious road traffic crashes: A case-crossover study pp. 1-19

Mélanie Née, Marta Avalos, Audrey Luxcey, Benjamin Contrand, Louis-Rachid Salmi, Annie Fourrier-Réglat, Blandine Gadegbeku, Emmanuel Lagarde and Ludivine Orriols

Cerebrovascular pressure reactivity monitoring using wavelet analysis in traumatic brain injury patients: A retrospective study pp. 1-19

Xiuyun Liu, Joseph Donnelly, Marek Czosnyka, Marcel J H Aries, Ken Brady, Danilo Cardim, Chiara Robba, Manuel Cabeleira, Dong-Joo Kim, Christina Haubrich, Peter J Hutchinson and Peter Smielewski

Temporal profile of intracranial pressure and cerebrovascular reactivity in severe traumatic brain injury and association with fatal outcome: An observational study pp. 1-21

Hadie Adams, Joseph Donnelly, Marek Czosnyka, Angelos G Kolias, Adel Helmy, David K Menon, Peter Smielewski and Peter J Hutchinson

Patient-reported outcomes and survival in multiple sclerosis: A 10-year retrospective cohort study using the Multiple Sclerosis Impact Scale–29 pp. 1-15

Joel Raffel, Alison Wallace, Djordje Gveric, Richard Reynolds, Tim Friede and Richard Nicholas

Major scientific lessons learned in the trauma field over the last two decades pp. 1-4

John B Holcomb

Risk of hospitalization with neurodegenerative disease after moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury in the working-age population: A retrospective cohort study using the Finnish national health registries pp. 1-16

Rahul Raj, Jaakko Kaprio, Miikka Korja, Era D Mikkonen, Pekka Jousilahti and Jari Siironen

Community and health system intervention to reduce disrespect and abuse during childbirth in Tanga Region, Tanzania: A comparative before-and-after study pp. 1-16

Stephanie A Kujawski, Lynn P Freedman, Kate Ramsey, Godfrey Mbaruku, Selemani Mbuyita, Wema Moyo and Margaret E Kruk

Long-term health status and trajectories of seriously injured patients: A population-based longitudinal study pp. 1-18

Belinda J Gabbe, Pam M Simpson, Peter A Cameron, Jennie Ponsford, Ronan A Lyons, Alex Collie, Mark Fitzgerald, Rodney Judson, Warwick J Teague, Sandra Braaf, Andrew Nunn, Shanthi Ameratunga and James E Harrison

Volume 14, issue 6, 2017

Modelled health benefits of a sugar-sweetened beverage tax across different socioeconomic groups in Australia: A cost-effectiveness and equity analysis pp. 1-17

Anita Lal, Ana Maria Mantilla-Herrera, Lennert Veerman, Kathryn Backholer, Gary Sacks, Marjory Moodie, Mohammad Siahpush, Rob Carter and Anna Peeters

Contribution of cognitive performance and cognitive decline to associations between socioeconomic factors and dementia: A cohort study pp. 1-17

Jennifer Rusmaully, Aline Dugravot, Jean-Paul Moatti, Michael G Marmot, Alexis Elbaz, Mika Kivimaki, Séverine Sabia and Archana Singh-Manoux

Effectiveness and equity of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation pp. 1-4

Sanjay Basu and Kristine Madsen

Assessing process, content, and politics in developing the global health sector strategy on sexually transmitted infections 2016–2021: Implementation opportunities for policymakers pp. 1-9

Andy Seale, Nathalie Broutet and Manjulaa Narasimhan

Data Sharing Statements for Clinical Trials: A Requirement of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors pp. 1-3

Darren B Taichman, Peush Sahni, Anja Pinborg, Larry Peiperl, Christine Laine, Astrid James, Sung-Tae Hong, Abraham Haileamlak, Laragh Gollogly, Fiona Godlee, Frank A Frizelle, Fernando Florenzano, Jeffrey M Drazen, Howard Bauchner, Christopher Baethge and Joyce Backus

Malaria control adds to the evidence for health aid effectiveness pp. 1-3

Eran Bendavid

The US President’s Malaria Initiative and under-5 child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: A difference-in-differences analysis pp. 1-20

Aleksandra Jakubowski, Sally C Stearns, Margaret E Kruk, Gustavo Angeles and Harsha Thirumurthy

Estimating the causal influence of body mass index on risk of Parkinson disease: A Mendelian randomisation study pp. 1-19

Alastair J Noyce, Demis A Kia, Gibran Hemani, Aude Nicolas, T Ryan Price, Eduardo De Pablo-Fernandez, Philip C Haycock, Patrick A Lewis, Thomas Foltynie, George Davey Smith, International Parkinson Disease Genomics Consortium, Anette Schrag, Andrew J Lees, John Hardy, Andrew Singleton, Mike A Nalls, Neil Pearce, Debbie A Lawlor and Nicholas W Wood

Volume 14, issue 5, 2017

First-trimester artemisinin derivatives and quinine treatments and the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes in Africa and Asia: A meta-analysis of observational studies pp. 1-20

Stephanie Dellicour, Esperança Sevene, Rose McGready, Halidou Tinto, Dominic Mosha, Christine Manyando, Stephen Rulisa, Meghna Desai, Peter Ouma, Martina Oneko, Anifa Vala, Maria Rupérez, Eusébio Macete, Clara Menéndez, Seydou Nakanabo-Diallo, Adama Kazienga, Innocent Valéa, Gregory Calip, Orvalho Augusto, Blaise Genton, Eric M Njunju, Kerryn A Moore, Umberto d’Alessandro, Francois Nosten, Feiko ter Kuile and Andy Stergachis

Tobacco control: Developing an innovative and effective global strategy pp. 1-3

The PLOS Medicine Editors

Measuring personal beliefs and perceived norms about intimate partner violence: Population-based survey experiment in rural Uganda pp. 1-19

Alexander C Tsai, Bernard Kakuhikire, Jessica M Perkins, Dagmar Vořechovská, Amy Q McDonough, Elizabeth L Ogburn, Jordan M Downey and David R Bangsberg

Association between expansion of primary healthcare and racial inequalities in mortality amenable to primary care in Brazil: A national longitudinal analysis pp. 1-19

Thomas Hone, Davide Rasella, Mauricio L Barreto, Azeem Majeed and Christopher Millett

Estimation of the cost-effectiveness of HIV prevention portfolios for people who inject drugs in the United States: A model-based analysis pp. 1-19

Cora L Bernard, Douglas K Owens, Jeremy D Goldhaber-Fiebert and Margaret L Brandeau

Impact evaluation of different cash-based intervention modalities on child and maternal nutritional status in Sindh Province, Pakistan, at 6 mo and at 1 y: A cluster randomised controlled trial pp. 1-24

Bridget Fenn, Tim Colbourn, Carmel Dolan, Silke Pietzsch, Murtaza Sangrasi and Jeremy Shoham

Volume 14, issue 4, 2017

An open source pharma roadmap pp. 1-7

Manica Balasegaram, Peter Kolb, John McKew, Jaykumar Menon, Piero Olliaro, Tomasz Sablinski, Zakir Thomas, Matthew H Todd, Els Torreele and John Wilbanks

Risk prediction models for selection of lung cancer screening candidates: A retrospective validation study pp. 1-24

Kevin ten Haaf, Jihyoun Jeon, Martin C Tammemägi, Summer S Han, Chung Yin Kong, Sylvia K Plevritis, Eric J Feuer, Harry J de Koning, Ewout W Steyerberg and Rafael Meza

Governing multisectoral action for health in low- and middle-income countries pp. 1-9

Kumanan Rasanathan, Sara Bennett, Vincent Atkins, Robert Beschel, Gabriel Carrasquilla, Jodi Charles, Rajib Dasgupta, Kirk Emerson, Douglas Glandon, Churnrurtai Kanchanachitra, Pete Kingsley, Don Matheson, Rees Murithi Mbabu, Charles Mwansambo, Michael Myers, Jeremias Paul, Thulisile Radebe, James Smith, Orielle Solar, Agnès Soucat, Aloysius Ssennyonjo, Matthias Wismar and Shehla Zaidi

The effects of implementing a point-of-care electronic template to prompt routine anxiety and depression screening in patients consulting for osteoarthritis (the Primary Care Osteoarthritis Trial): A cluster randomised trial in primary care pp. 1-23

Christian D Mallen, Barbara I Nicholl, Martyn Lewis, Bernadette Bartlam, Daniel Green, Sue Jowett, Jesse Kigozi, John Belcher, Kris Clarkson, Zoe Lingard, Christopher Pope, Carolyn A Chew-Graham, Peter Croft, Elaine M Hay and George Peat

Silk garments plus standard care compared with standard care for treating eczema in children: A randomised, controlled, observer-blind, pragmatic trial (CLOTHES Trial) pp. 1-23

Kim S Thomas, Lucy E Bradshaw, Tracey H Sach, Jonathan M Batchelor, Sandra Lawton, Eleanor F Harrison, Rachel H Haines, Amina Ahmed, Hywel C Williams, Taraneh Dean, Nigel P Burrows, Ian Pollock, Joanne Llewellyn, Clare Crang, Jane D Grundy, Juliet Guiness, Andrew Gribbin, Eleanor J Mitchell, Fiona Cowdell, Sara J Brown, Alan A Montgomery and Dermatology Clinical Trials Network’s CLOTHES Trial Team Uk

Clinical decision tools are needed to identify HIV-positive patients at high risk for poor outcomes after initiation of antiretroviral therapy pp. 1-6

Margaret L McNairy, Elaine J Abrams, Miriam Rabkin and Wafaa M El-Sadr

Correction: Correction: The World Health Organization Fetal Growth Charts: A Multinational Longitudinal Study of Ultrasound Biometric Measurements and Estimated Fetal Weight pp. 1-1

The PLOS Medicine Staff

Fresh fruit consumption in relation to incident diabetes and diabetic vascular complications: A 7-y prospective study of 0.5 million Chinese adults pp. 1-19

Huaidong Du, Liming Li, Derrick Bennett, Yu Guo, Iain Turnbull, Ling Yang, Fiona Bragg, Zheng Bian, Yiping Chen, Junshi Chen, Iona Y Millwood, Sam Sansome, Liangcai Ma, Ying Huang, Ningmei Zhang, Xiangyang Zheng, Qiang Sun, Timothy J Key, Rory Collins, Richard Peto, Zhengming Chen and China Kadoorie Biobank Study

Changes in prices, sales, consumer spending, and beverage consumption one year after a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages in Berkeley, California, US: A before-and-after study pp. 1-19

Lynn D Silver, Shu Wen Ng, Suzanne Ryan-Ibarra, Lindsey Smith Taillie, Marta Induni, Donna R Miles, Jennifer M Poti and Barry M Popkin

Implementation science: Relevance in the real world without sacrificing rigor pp. 1-5

Elvin H Geng, David Peiris and Margaret E Kruk

Volume 14, issue 3, 2017

Age-related cognitive decline and associations with sex, education and apolipoprotein E genotype across ethnocultural groups and geographic regions: a collaborative cohort study pp. 1-21

Darren M Lipnicki, John D Crawford, Rajib Dutta, Anbupalam Thalamuthu, Nicole A Kochan, Gavin Andrews, M Fernanda Lima-Costa, Erico Castro-Costa, Carol Brayne, Fiona E Matthews, Blossom C M Stephan, Richard B Lipton, Mindy J Katz, Karen Ritchie, Jacqueline Scali, Marie-Laure Ancelin, Nikolaos Scarmeas, Mary Yannakoulia, Efthimios Dardiotis, Linda C W Lam, Candy H Y Wong, Ada W T Fung, Antonio Guaita, Roberta Vaccaro, Annalisa Davin, Ki Woong Kim, Ji Won Han, Tae Hui Kim, Kaarin J Anstey, Nicolas Cherbuin, Peter Butterworth, Marcia Scazufca, Shuzo Kumagai, Sanmei Chen, Kenji Narazaki, Tze Pin Ng, Qi Gao, Simone Reppermund, Henry Brodaty, Antonio Lobo, Raúl Lopez-Anton, Javier Santabárbara, Perminder S Sachdev and Cohort Studies of Memory in an International Consortium (cosmic)

APOE-related risk of mild cognitive impairment and dementia for prevention trials: An analysis of four cohorts pp. 1-27

Jing Qian, Frank J Wolters, Alexa Beiser, Mary Haan, M Arfan Ikram, Jason Karlawish, Jessica B Langbaum, John M Neuhaus, Eric M Reiman, J Scott Roberts, Sudha Seshadri, Pierre N Tariot, Beth McCarty Woods, Rebecca A Betensky and Deborah Blacker

Dementia in low-income and middle-income countries: Different realities mandate tailored solutions pp. 1-4

Cleusa Pinheiro Ferri and K S Jacob

Dementia and aging populations—A global priority for contextualized research and health policy pp. 1-4

Carol Brayne and Bruce Miller

Correction: The World Health Organization Fetal Growth Charts: A Multinational Longitudinal Study of Ultrasound Biometric Measurements and Estimated Fetal Weight pp. 1-4

Torvid Kiserud, Gilda Piaggio, Guillermo Carroli, Mariana Widmer, José Carvalho, Lisa Neerup Jensen, Daniel Giordano, José Guilherme Cecatti, Hany Abdel Aleem, Sameera A Talegawkar, Alexandra Benachi, Anke Diemert, Antoinette Tshefu Kitoto, Jadsada Thinkhamrop, Pisake Lumbiganon, Ann Tabor, Alka Kriplani, Rogelio Gonzalez, Kurt Hecher, Mark A Hanson, A Metin Gülmezoglu and Lawrence D Platt

Association of lifelong exposure to cognitive reserve-enhancing factors with dementia risk: A community-based cohort study pp. 1-17

Hui-Xin Wang, Stuart W S MacDonald, Serhiy Dekhtyar and Laura Fratiglioni

What’s the “Take Home” from Research on Dementia Trends? pp. 1-3

Eric B Larson and Kenneth M Langa

Volume 14, issue 2, 2017

Refining Lung Cancer Screening Criteria in the Era of Value-Based Medicine pp. 1-2

Steven D Shapiro

Renewing PLOS Medicine’s editorial board in times of global distraction pp. 1-2

The PLOS Medicine Editors

Evidence for scaling up HIV treatment in sub-Saharan Africa: A call for incorporating health system constraints pp. 1-5

Evelinn Mikkelsen, Jan A C Hontelez, Maarten P M Jansen, Till Bärnighausen, Katharina Hauck, Kjell A Johansson, Gesine Meyer-Rath, Mead Over, Sake J de Vlas, Gert J van der Wilt, Noor Tromp, Leon Bijlmakers and Rob M P M Baltussen

Performance and Cost-Effectiveness of Computed Tomography Lung Cancer Screening Scenarios in a Population-Based Setting: A Microsimulation Modeling Analysis in Ontario, Canada pp. 1-20

Kevin ten Haaf, Martin C Tammemägi, Susan J Bondy, Carlijn M van der Aalst, Sumei Gu, S Elizabeth McGregor, Garth Nicholas, Harry J de Koning and Lawrence F Paszat

Taxes and Subsidies for Improving Diet and Population Health in Australia: A Cost-Effectiveness Modelling Study pp. 1-18

Linda J Cobiac, King Tam, Lennert Veerman and Tony Blakely

Housing Improvements and Malaria Risk in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Multi-Country Analysis of Survey Data pp. 1-15

Lucy S Tusting, Christian Bottomley, Harry Gibson, Immo Kleinschmidt, Andrew J Tatem, Steve W Lindsay and Peter W Gething

Volume 14, issue 1, 2017

Using Genetic Variation to Explore the Causal Effect of Maternal Pregnancy Adiposity on Future Offspring Adiposity: A Mendelian Randomisation Study pp. 1-24

Rebecca C Richmond, Nicholas J Timpson, Janine F Felix, Tom Palmer, Romy Gaillard, George McMahon, George Davey Smith, Vincent W Jaddoe and Debbie A Lawlor

Artificially Sweetened Beverages and the Response to the Global Obesity Crisis pp. 1-9

Maria Carolina Borges, Maria Laura Louzada, Thiago Hérick de Sá, Anthony A Laverty, Diana C Parra, Josefa Maria Fellegger Garzillo, Carlos Augusto Monteiro and Christopher Millett

What Is the Purpose of the Orphan Drug Act? pp. 1-4

Matthew Herder

Sick Children Crying for Help: Fostering Adverse Event Reports pp. 1-4

Gordon D Schiff

Correction: Early Childhood Developmental Status in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: National, Regional, and Global Prevalence Estimates Using Predictive Modelling pp. 1-4

Dana Charles McCoy, Evan D Peet, Majid Ezzati, Goodarz Danaei, Maureen M Black, Christopher R Sudfeld, Wafaie Fawzi and Günther Fink

Socioeconomic Inequalities in Body Mass Index across Adulthood: Coordinated Analyses of Individual Participant Data from Three British Birth Cohort Studies Initiated in 1946, 1958 and 1970 pp. 1-20

David Bann, William Johnson, Leah Li, Diana Kuh and Rebecca Hardy

Evaluating Hospital-Based Surveillance for Outbreak Detection in Bangladesh: Analysis of Healthcare Utilization Data pp. 1-18

Birgit Nikolay, Henrik Salje, Katharine Sturm-Ramirez, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, Nusrat Homaira, Makhdum Ahmed, A Danielle Iuliano, Repon C Paul, Mahmudur Rahman, M Jahangir Hossain, Stephen P Luby, Simon Cauchemez and Emily S Gurley

Effect of a Primary Care Walking Intervention with and without Nurse Support on Physical Activity Levels in 45- to 75-Year-Olds: The Pedometer And Consultation Evaluation (PACE-UP) Cluster Randomised Clinical Trial pp. 1-19

Tess Harris, Sally M Kerry, Elizabeth S Limb, Christina R Victor, Steve Iliffe, Michael Ussher, Peter H Whincup, Ulf Ekelund, Julia Fox-Rushby, Cheryl Furness, Nana Anokye, Judith Ibison, Steve DeWilde, Lee David, Emma Howard, Rebecca Dale, Jaime Smith and Derek G Cook

Reporting Items for Updated Clinical Guidelines: Checklist for the Reporting of Updated Guidelines (CheckUp) pp. 1-14

Robin W M Vernooij, Pablo Alonso-Coello, Melissa Brouwers, Laura Martínez García and CheckUp Panel

Zika Virus Infection as a Cause of Congenital Brain Abnormalities and Guillain–Barré Syndrome: Systematic Review pp. 1-27

Fabienne Krauer, Maurane Riesen, Ludovic Reveiz, Olufemi T Oladapo, Ruth Martínez-Vega, Teegwendé V Porgo, Anina Haefliger, Nathalie J Broutet, Nicola Low and Zika Causality Working Group Who