Thomas C Erren
Biographic Data
| ID | 229449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas C Erren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas C |
| FAMILY NAME | Erren |
| SIGNATURE | ERREN T C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University Hospital Cologne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7110-1031 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Principles of environmental medicine
Background: Understanding the nature and consequences of widespread lead poisoning is critical to protecting people from harm. Educational case study: We review the historical example of hypothesized lead poisoning in the famous composer Beethoven as an educational vector to illustrate principles of environmental medicine. We discuss what would happen if a hypothetical present-day Mr. B with comparable health complaints, clinical symptoms, or tes…
Brave (in a) new world
OPINION article Front. Public Health, 17 August 2023Sec. Digital Public Health Volume 11 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1254334
Covid-19
Total mortality and “burden of disease” in Germany and Italy and their states and regions were explored during the first COVID-19 wave by using publicly available data for 16 German states and 20 Italian regions from January 2016 to June 2020. Based on expectations from 2016 to 2019, simplified Standardized Mortality Ratios (SMRs) for deaths occurring in the first half of 2020 and the effect of changed excess mortality in terms of “burden of dise…
Covid-19
COVID-19: science must not be the boy who cried wolfDear Editor, COVID-19 mitigation and suppression strategies like physical distancing severely affect livelihoods.Jobs, education, healthcare and more continue to be disrupted or lost.'Is all this necessary?'numerous people ask as some countries are already loosening isolation measures while others proceeded with less strict measures in the first instance.Moreover, researchers identify a lack of …
Mortality and Attributable Fraction in Covid-19 Analysis
Mortality and Attributable Fraction in COVID-19 Analysis: Avoiding Research Waste and Negligence Peter Morfeld PhD, and Thomas C. Erren MD, MPH Affiliation Peter Morfeld and Thomas C. Erren are with the Institute and Policlinic for Occupational Medicine, Environmental Medicine and Prevention Research, University Hospital of Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Peter Morfeld, PhD, Schlossweide …
How to avoid haste and waste in occupational, environmental and public health research
The public requires of the medical research community success. The public ultimately provides money for medical research for one purpose only—to generate improvements in patient care. Medical researchers, editors, and peer reviewers should be under no illusions: the public does not support research for the pleasure of watching a cultural event. If improved medical care is not delivered, support for medical research—and hence for medical journals—…
Common sense
Common sense [CS], especially that of the non-scientist, can have predictive power to identify promising research avenues, as humans anywhere on Earth have always looked for causal links to understand, shape and control the world around them. CS is based on the experience of many individuals and is thus believed to hold some truths. Outcomes predicted by CS are compatible with observations made by whole populations and have survived tests conduct…
Common sense
Common sense [CS], especially that of the non-scientist, can have predictive power to identify promising research avenues, as humans anywhere on Earth have always looked for causal links to understand, shape and control the world around them. CS is based on the experience of many individuals and is thus believed to hold some truths. Outcomes predicted by CS are compatible with observations made by whole populations and have survived tests conduct…
Mortality and Attributable Fraction in Covid-19 Analysis
Mortality and Attributable Fraction in COVID-19 Analysis: Avoiding Research Waste and Negligence Peter Morfeld PhD, and Thomas C. Erren MD, MPH Affiliation Peter Morfeld and Thomas C. Erren are with the Institute and Policlinic for Occupational Medicine, Environmental Medicine and Prevention Research, University Hospital of Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Peter Morfeld, PhD, Schlossweide …
Common sense
Common sense [CS], especially that of the non-scientist, can have predictive power to identify promising research avenues, as humans anywhere on Earth have always looked for causal links to understand, shape and control the world around them. CS is based on the experience of many individuals and is thus believed to hold some truths. Outcomes predicted by CS are compatible with observations made by whole populations and have survived tests conduct…
How to avoid haste and waste in occupational, environmental and public health research
The public requires of the medical research community success. The public ultimately provides money for medical research for one purpose only—to generate improvements in patient care. Medical researchers, editors, and peer reviewers should be under no illusions: the public does not support research for the pleasure of watching a cultural event. If improved medical care is not delivered, support for medical research—and hence for medical journals—…
Covid-19
COVID-19: science must not be the boy who cried wolfDear Editor, COVID-19 mitigation and suppression strategies like physical distancing severely affect livelihoods.Jobs, education, healthcare and more continue to be disrupted or lost.'Is all this necessary?'numerous people ask as some countries are already loosening isolation measures while others proceeded with less strict measures in the first instance.Moreover, researchers identify a lack of …
Mortality and Attributable Fraction in Covid-19 Analysis
Mortality and Attributable Fraction in COVID-19 Analysis: Avoiding Research Waste and Negligence Peter Morfeld PhD, and Thomas C. Erren MD, MPH Affiliation Peter Morfeld and Thomas C. Erren are with the Institute and Policlinic for Occupational Medicine, Environmental Medicine and Prevention Research, University Hospital of Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Peter Morfeld, PhD, Schlossweide …
Covid-19
Total mortality and “burden of disease” in Germany and Italy and their states and regions were explored during the first COVID-19 wave by using publicly available data for 16 German states and 20 Italian regions from January 2016 to June 2020. Based on expectations from 2016 to 2019, simplified Standardized Mortality Ratios (SMRs) for deaths occurring in the first half of 2020 and the effect of changed excess mortality in terms of “burden of dise…
Brave (in a) new world
OPINION article Front. Public Health, 17 August 2023Sec. Digital Public Health Volume 11 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1254334
Principles of environmental medicine
Background: Understanding the nature and consequences of widespread lead poisoning is critical to protecting people from harm. Educational case study: We review the historical example of hypothesized lead poisoning in the famous composer Beethoven as an educational vector to illustrate principles of environmental medicine. We discuss what would happen if a hypothetical present-day Mr. B with comparable health complaints, clinical symptoms, or tes…
Medicine (5 works) · Psychology (3 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (2 works) · Pathology (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychiatry (2 works) · Public health (2 works) · Public relations (2 works)