Matthias Egger

Datos Biográficos

ID3452701
NOMBREMatthias Egger
NOMBRESMatthias
APELLIDOEgger
FIRMAEGGER M
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Bern
ORCID0000-0002-1791-1842
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS57
TOTAL DE CITAS22
TOTAL COMO AUTOR57
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1994
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H3

  • A supervised machine learning approach for assessing grant peer review reports

    Open AccessGabriel Okasa, Alberto de León et al.ARTICLEQuantitative Science Studies2025

    Peer review is essential to the research lifecycle, yet the contents of grant peer review reports remain underexplored. Our study addresses this gap by developing a pipeline to systematically analyze these reports using natural language processing and machine learning. We define 12 categories relevant to funding agencies, create an annotation codebook, fine-tune and validate transformer models, and apply these classifiers to a novel text corpus c…

  • Airborne transmission risks of tuberculosis and Covid-19 in schools in South Africa, Switzerland, and Tanzania

    Open AccessNicolas Banholzer, Remo Schmutz et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    The COVID-19 pandemic renewed interest in airborne transmission of respiratory infections, particularly in congregate indoor settings, such as schools. We modeled transmission risks of tuberculosis (caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis , Mtb ) and COVID-19 (caused by SARS-CoV-2) in South African, Swiss and Tanzanian secondary schools. We estimated the risks of infection with the Wells-Riley equation, expressed as the median with 2.5% and 97.5% qu…

  • Seven years into the North Pacific garbage patch

    Open AccessLaurent Lebreton, Robin de Vries et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    The North Pacific garbage patch has accumulated floating plastic pollution for several decades. The Ocean Cleanup, a not-for-profit organization that works to retrieve this floating plastic, has conducted systematic surveys in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre since 2015. The dataset, now spanning seven years, includes the deployment of trawls of varying sizes and the collection of aerial imagery. Here, we report a synthesis of these measurement…

  • Authorship inequalities in global health research

    Open AccessVeronika W Skrivankova, Veronika Skrivankova et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    BACKGROUND: The International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS conducts research in several regions, including in Southern Africa. We assessed authorship inequalities for the Southern African region, which is led by South African and Swiss investigators. METHODS: We analysed authorships of publications from 2007 to 2020 by gender, country income group, time and citation impact. We used 2020 World Bank categories to define income groups and…

  • Mental Health, ART Adherence, and Viral Suppression Among Adolescents and Adults Living with HIV in South Africa

    Open AccessAndreas D Haas, Raphael Lienhard et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2023

    We followed adolescents and adults living with HIV aged older than 15 years who enrolled in a South African private-sector HIV programme to examine adherence and viral non-suppression (viral load > 400 copies/mL) of participants with (20,743, 38%) and without (33,635, 62%) mental health diagnoses. Mental health diagnoses were associated with unfavourable adherence patterns. The risk of viral non-suppression was higher among patients with organic …

  • Cervical Cancer Screening Cascade for women living with HIV

    Open AccessKatayoun Taghavi, Ardele Mandiriri et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Countries with high HIV prevalence, predominantly in sub-Sahahran Africa, have the highest cervical cancer rates globally. HIV care cascades successfully facilitated the scale-up of antiretroviral therapy. A cascade approach could similarly succeed to scale-up cervical cancer screening, supporting WHO’s goal to eliminate cervical cancer. We defined a Cervical Cancer Screening Cascade for women living with HIV (WLHIV), evaluating the continuum of …

  • Integrating services for HIV and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

    Open AccessKathrin Zürcher, Samyra R Cox et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death among PLHIV and multidrug-resistant-TB (MDR-TB) is associated with high mortality. We examined the management for adult PLHIV coinfected with MDR-TB at ART clinics in lower income countries. Between 2019 and 2020, we conducted a cross-sectional survey at 29 ART clinics in high TB burden countries within the global IeDEA network. We used structured questionnaires to collect clinic-level data on the T…

  • Diagnosis and treatment of opioid-related disorders in a South African private sector medical insurance scheme

    Open AccessMpho Tlali, A Scheibe et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Drug…2022

  • A spatially variable scarcity of floating microplastics in the eastern North Pacific Ocean

    Open AccessMatthias Egger, Rein Nijhof et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Plastic waste accumulating in the global ocean is an increasingly threatening environmental issue. To date, the floating and thus most visible fraction of ocean plastic pollution has been mapped at global scale. Yet, large knowledge gaps exist in our current understanding of the transport and transformation processes of positively buoyant plastic debris at the sea surface. Observations at sea typically report an apparent scarcity of microplastics…

  • The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris

    Open AccessErik van Sebille, Stefano Aliani et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Marine plastic debris floating on the ocean surface is a major environmental problem. However, its distribution in the ocean is poorly mapped, and most of the plastic waste estimated to have entered the ocean from land is unaccounted for. Better understanding of how plastic debris is transported from coastal and marine sources is crucial to quantify and close the global inventory of marine plastics, which in turn represents critical information f…

  • Predatory journals

    Open AccessAgnes Grudniewicz, David Moher et al.ARTICLENature2019

    Leading scholars and publishers from ten countries have agreed a definition of predatory publishing that can protect scholarship. It took 12 hours of discussion, 18 questions and 3 rounds to reach. Leading scholars and publishers from ten countries have agreed a definition of predatory publishing that can protect scholarship. It took 12 hours of discussion, 18 questions and 3 rounds to reach.

  • Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 21 antidepressant drugs for the acute treatment of adults with major depressive disorder

    Open AccessAndrea Cipriani, Toshi A Furukawa et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2018

  • Contagion and Public Health in Switzerland

    Lukas Fenner, Kathrin Zürcher et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2018Referencias: 2

  • Awareness and management of elevated blood pressure among human immunodeficiency virus–infected adults receiving antiretroviral therapy in urban Zambia

    Open AccessSophie Bauer, Mwanza Wa Mwanza et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2017

    The prevalence of high blood pressure (HBP) and hypertension (HTN), awareness of the diagnoses, and use of anti-hypertensive drugs were examined among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals on antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Zambia's capital Lusaka. Within a prospective cohort based at two public sector ART clinics, BP was measured at ART initiation and every 6 months thereafter as a routine clinic procedure. Predictors of HBP (s…

  • Regional Variation of Cost of Care in the Last 12 Months of Life in Switzerland

    Open AccessRadoslaw Panczak, Xhyljeta Luta et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2017Referencias: 43

    BACKGROUND: Health care spending increases sharply at the end of life. Little is known about variation of cost of end of life care between regions and the drivers of such variation. We studied small-area patterns of cost of care in the last year of life in Switzerland. METHODS: We used mandatory health insurance claims data of individuals who died between 2008 and 2010 to derive cost of care. We used multilevel regression models to estimate diffe…

  • CD4 count at antiretroviral therapy initiation and the risk of loss to follow-up

    Anna Grimsrud, Morna Cornell et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2016Citada por: 1Referencias: 21

    BACKGROUND: Antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation is now recommended irrespective of CD4 count. However data on the relationship between CD4 count at ART initiation and loss to follow-up (LTFU) are limited and conflicting. METHODS: We conducted a cohort analysis including all adults initiating ART (2008-2012) at three public sector sites in South Africa. LTFU was defined as no visit in the 6 months before database closure. The Kaplan-Meier esti…

  • Evidence-Based Medicine

    Open AccessMatthias EggerCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Other Fronts, Other Wars?

    Joachim Bürgschwentner, Matthias Egger et al.BOOKOther fronts, other wars?2014

    Other Fronts, Other Wars? goes beyond the Western Front geographically and delves behind the trenches focusing on the social and cultural history of the First World War: it covers front experiences in the Ottoman and Russian Armies, captivity in Japan and Turkey, occupation at the Eastern war theatre, medical history (epidemics in Serbia, medical treatment in Germany) and war relief (disabled soldiers in Austria). It studies the home front from t…

  • The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) Statement

    Open AccessErik Von Elm, David G Altman et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Surgery2014

    Much biomedical research is observational. The reporting of such research is often inadequate, which hampers the assessment of its strengths and weaknesses and of a study's generalisability. The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) Initiative developed recommendations on what should be included in an accurate and complete report of an observational study. We defined the scope of the recommendations to cove…

  • Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE)

    Open AccessJan P Vandenbroucke, Erik Von Elm et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Surgery2014

    Much medical research is observational. The reporting of observational studies is often of insufficient quality. Poor reporting hampers the assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of a study and the generalisability of its results. Taking into account empirical evidence and theoretical considerations, a group of methodologists, researchers, and editors developed the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) …

  • Other fronts, other wars

    Gunda Barth-Scalmani, Joachim Bürgschwentner et al.BOOKOther fronts, other wars?2014

  • Individual and spousal education, mortality and life expectancy in Switzerland

    Adrian Spoerri, Kurt Schmidlin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2014Citada por: 4Referencias: 18

    BACKGROUND: Household measures of socioeconomic position may better account for the shared nature of material resources, lifestyle, and social position of cohabiting persons, but household measures of education are rarely used. We aimed to evaluate the association of combined educational attainment of married couples on mortality and life expectancy in Switzerland. METHODS: The study included 3,496,163 ever-married persons aged ≥30 years. The 200…

  • What does your neighbourhood say about you? A study of life expectancy in 1.3 million Swiss neighbourhoods

    André Moser, Radoslaw Panczak et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2014Citada por: 2Referencias: 43

    BACKGROUND: Switzerland had the highest life expectancy at 82.8 years among the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries in 2011. Geographical variation of life expectancy and its relation to the socioeconomic position of neighbourhoods are, however, not well understood. METHODS: We analysed the Swiss National Cohort, which linked the 2000 census with mortality records 2000-2008 to estimate life expectancy across ne…

  • Featured Graphic. The Socioeconomic Position of Swiss Neighbourhoods

    Open AccessRadoslaw Panczak, Adrian Spörri et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2013

  • Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in Selected European Countries and US States

    Nicole Steck, Matthias Egger et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2013Referencias: 9

    BACKGROUND: Legal in some European countries and US states, physician-assisted suicide and voluntary active euthanasia remain under debate in these and other countries. OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to examine numbers, characteristics, and trends over time for assisted dying in regions where these practices are legal: Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Oregon, Washington, and Montana. DESIGN: This was a systematic review of…