An English epidemiologist and medical statistician who, with Richard Doll, conducted a long-term prospective study of the smoking habits and health of 40,701 British doctors, known as the British Doctors Study. He is also known for the Bradford Hill criteria, a set of considerations for judging whether an observed association between two things is likely to be causal. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Notable ForThe British Doctors Study establishing smoking as a cause of lung cancer, and the Bradford Hill criteria for judging causal association 1 Connections
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Austin Bradford Hill co-designed and co-led the British Doctors Study (1951 onward) with Richard Doll, establishing the smoking-lung cancer link.
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Sir Austin Bradford Hill (8 July 1897 – 18 April 1991) was an English epidemiologist who pioneered the modern randomised clinical trial and, together with Richard Doll, demonstrated the connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer.
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an investigation of the smoking habits and health of 40,701 British doctors for several years (British doctors study)
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(8 July 1897 - 18 April 1991)
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an English epidemiologist
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was an English epidemiologist
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Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, University of OxfordMilestones Credited: Doll and Hill British Doctors Study, Study overviewQuote, Milestones Credited: Doll and Hill British Doctors Study, Study overview
In October 1951, Sir Richard Doll and Sir Austin Bradford Hill sent a questionnaire on smoking habits to all registered British doctors.
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