List of works by Abraham D Flaxman

A Novel Method for Verifying War Mortality while Estimating Iraqi Deaths for the Iran-Iraq War through Operation Desert Storm (1980-1993).

scientific article

A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

scientific article published in December 2012

A de-identified database of 11,979 verbal autopsy open-ended responses

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A shortened verbal autopsy instrument for use in routine mortality surveillance systems

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A two-stage cluster sampling method using gridded population data, a GIS, and Google Earth(TM) imagery in a population-based mortality survey in Iraq

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Adversarial Deletion in a Scale-Free Random Graph Process

Analysis of causes of death using verbal autopsies and vital registration in Hidalgo, Mexico

scientific article published on 03 July 2019

Assessing surgeon behavior change after anastomotic leak in colorectal surgery.

scientific article published on 4 July 2016

Assessing the global burden of ischemic heart disease, part 2: analytic methods and estimates of the global epidemiology of ischemic heart disease in 2010

scientific article published on 5 December 2012

Born to fail: flaws in replication design produce intended results

scientific article published on 26 March 2020

Cigarette smoking prevalence in US counties: 1996-2012.

scientific article published on 24 March 2014

Collecting verbal autopsies: improving and streamlining data collection processes using electronic tablets

scientific article published in February 2018

Common values in assessing health outcomes from disease and injury: disability weights measurement study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

scientific article

Correction: Efficiency of Health Care Production in Low-Resource Settings: A Monte-Carlo Simulation to Compare the Performance of Data Envelopment Analysis, Stochastic Distance Functions, and an Ensemble Model

scientific article published on 25 February 2016

Correction: Robust metrics for assessing the performance of different verbal autopsy cause assignment methods in validation studies

scientific article published on 10 April 2014

Diagnosed and Undiagnosed Diabetes Prevalence by County in the U.S., 1999-2012.

scientific article published on September 2016

Differential privacy in the 2020 US census: what will it do? Quantifying the accuracy/privacy tradeoff

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

Direct estimation of cause-specific mortality fractions from verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

scientific article published on 04 August 2011

Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

scientific article (publication date: 15 December 2012)

Drinking Patterns in US Counties From 2002 to 2012

Effective coverage: a metric for monitoring Universal Health Coverage

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Efficiency of Health Care Production in Low-Resource Settings: A Monte-Carlo Simulation to Compare the Performance of Data Envelopment Analysis, Stochastic Distance Functions, and an Ensemble Model

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Efficient communication in an ad-hoc network

Ensemble modelling in descriptive epidemiology: burden of disease estimation

scientific article published on 13 November 2019

Epidemiological modelling of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

scientific article published on 04 October 2013

Error and bias in under-5 mortality estimates derived from birth histories with small sample sizes

scientific article published on 26 July 2013

Estimation of district-level under-5 mortality in Zambia using birth history data, 1980-2010.

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Fall injuries in Baghdad from 2003 to 2014: Results of a randomised household cluster survey

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Five Community-wide Approaches to Physical Activity Promotion: A Cluster Analysis of These Activities in Local Health Jurisdictions in 6 States

scientific article published on 10 May 2017

Funding and services needed to achieve universal health coverage: applications of global, regional, and national estimates of utilisation of outpatient visits and inpatient admissions from 1990 to 2016, and unit costs from 1995 to 2016

GBD 2010: a multi-investigator collaboration for global comparative descriptive epidemiology

scientific article published in December 2012

GBD 2010: design, definitions, and metrics

scientific article

Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

journal article published in 2012

Global burden of disease attributable to illicit drug use and dependence: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

scientific article published on 29 August 2013

Global burden of disease attributable to mental and substance use disorders: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

scientific article published on 29 August 2013

Global burden of oral conditions in 1990-2010: a systematic analysis.

scientific article published on 29 May 2013

Global distribution and prevalence of hepatitis C virus genotypes

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Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

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Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013: quantifying the epidemiological transition

journal article published in 2015

Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.

scientific article published on 22 July 2014

Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

scientific article (publication date: 30 August 2014)

Healthy life expectancy for 187 countries, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden Disease Study 2010.

scientific article published in December 2012

How to estimate (and not to estimate) war deaths: A reply to van Weezel and Spagat

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Impact of traffic, poverty and facility ownership on travel time to emergency care in Nairobi, Kenya

scientific article published on 14 January 2020

Implementing the PHMRC shortened questionnaire: Survey duration of open and closed questions in three sites

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Improving Hospital Performance Rankings Using Discrete Patient Diagnoses for Risk Adjustment of Outcomes

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Improving performance of the Tariff Method for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies

scientific article published on 8 December 2015

Indirect Rotavirus Vaccine Effectiveness for the Prevention of Rotavirus Hospitalization: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

Injuries, Death, and Disability Associated with 11 Years of Conflict in Baghdad, Iraq: A Randomized Household Cluster Survey

scientific article published on 7 August 2015

Machine learning in population health: Opportunities and threats

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Maintenance Dialysis throughout the World in Years 1990 and 2010.

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Mapping under-5 and neonatal mortality in Africa, 2000-15: a baseline analysis for the Sustainable Development Goals

scientific article published on 25 September 2017

Measuring causes of death in populations: a new metric that corrects cause-specific mortality fractions for chance

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Mortality in Iraq associated with the 2003-2011 war and occupation: findings from a national cluster sample survey by the university collaborative Iraq Mortality Study

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Neonatal, postneonatal, childhood, and under-5 mortality for 187 countries, 1970-2010: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 4.

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New WHO prevalence estimates of mental disorders in conflict settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 12 June 2019

New challenges for verbal autopsy: Considering the ethical and social implications of verbal autopsy methods in routine health information systems.

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On the Average Case Performance of Some Greedy Approximation Algorithms For the Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem

On the average case performance of some greedy approximation algorithms for the uncapacitated facility location problem

On the random 2-stage minimum spanning tree

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Performance of InSilicoVA for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards.

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Performance of InterVA for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

scientific article published on 05 August 2011

Performance of physician-certified verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

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Performance of the Tariff Method: validation of a simple additive algorithm for analysis of verbal autopsies

scientific article (publication date: 4 August 2011)

Population Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy validation study: design, implementation, and development of analysis datasets

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Post-traumatic stress disorder and major depression in conflict-affected populations: an epidemiological model and predictor analysis

scientific article published on 10 February 2016

Predicting Future Elective Colon Resection for Diverticulitis Using Patterns of Health Care Utilization.

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Projected growth of the adult congenital heart disease population in the United States to 2050: an integrative systems modeling approach

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Proportional multistate lifetable modelling of preventive interventions: concepts, code and worked examples

scientific article published on 10 October 2020

Random forests for verbal autopsy analysis: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards

scientific article published on 04 August 2011

Randomly coloring sparse random graphs with fewer colors than the maximum degree

scholarly article by Martin Dyer et al published 2006 in Random Structures and Algorithms

Rapid Scaling Up of Insecticide-Treated Bed Net Coverage in Africa and Its Relationship with Development Assistance for Health: A Systematic Synthesis of Supply, Distribution, and Household Survey Data ⬇️

scientific article published on August 17, 2010

Road traffic injuries in Baghdad from 2003 to 2014: results of a randomised household cluster survey

scientific article published on 5 February 2016

Robust metrics for assessing the performance of different verbal autopsy cause assignment methods in validation studies

scientific article

Robustness of the Tariff method for diagnosing verbal autopsies: impact of additional site data on the relationship between symptom and cause

scientific article published on 09 December 2019

Small area estimation of under-5 mortality in Bangladesh, Cameroon, Chad, Mozambique, Uganda, and Zambia using spatially misaligned data

scholarly article by Laura Dwyer-Lindgren et al published 13 August 2018 in Population Health Metrics

The WHO 2016 verbal autopsy instrument: An international standard suitable for automated analysis by InterVA, InSilicoVA, and Tariff 2.0.

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

The diameter of randomly perturbed digraphs and some applications

scholarly article by Abraham D Flaxman & Alan M. Frieze published 2007 in Random Structures and Algorithms

The epidemiological modelling of dysthymia: application for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

scientific article published on 24 June 2013

The epidemiological modelling of major depressive disorder: application for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

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The epidemiological transition in Papua New Guinea: new evidence from verbal autopsy studies

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

The epidemiology of 32 selected communicable diseases in Iraq, 2004-2016

scientific article published on 24 September 2019

The global burden of viral hepatitis from 1990 to 2013: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

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The global epidemiology and burden of opioid dependence: results from the global burden of disease 2010 study

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The global epidemiology and burden of psychostimulant dependence: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

scientific article published on 27 January 2014

The global epidemiology and contribution of cannabis use and dependence to the global burden of disease: results from the GBD 2010 study

scientific article published on 24 October 2013

The paradox of verbal autopsy in cause of death assignment: symptom question unreliability but predictive accuracy

scientific article published on 18 October 2016

The potential to expand antiretroviral therapy by improving health facility efficiency: evidence from Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia

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The regional distribution of anxiety disorders: implications for the Global Burden of Disease Study, 2010.

scientific article published on 22 July 2014

Tracking the random surfer: empirically measured teleportation parameters in PageRank

scientific article (publication date: 2010)

UK health performance: findings of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

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US County-Level Trends in Mortality Rates for Major Causes of Death, 1980-2014.

scientific article published on December 2016

US Health Care Spending by Payer and Health Condition, 1996-2016

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

US Spending on Personal Health Care and Public Health, 1996-2013.

scientific article published on December 2016

Understanding clinical and non-clinical decisions under uncertainty: a scenario-based survey

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Using verbal autopsy to measure causes of death: the comparative performance of existing methods

scientific article published on 09 January 2014

Validating estimates of prevalence of non-communicable diseases based on household surveys: the symptomatic diagnosis study

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Variation in life expectancy and mortality by cause among neighbourhoods in King County, WA, USA, 1990-2014: a census tract-level analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015.

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What is the optimal recall period for verbal autopsies? Validation study based on repeat interviews in three populations

scientific article published on 18 October 2016

Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

scholarly article

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