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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
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  • 1997 - Bradford Hill Medal, Royal Statistical Society (UK)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Lifetime achievement award, British Medical Journal (BMJ)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Lifetime achievement award, British Medical Journal (BMJ)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Lifetime achievement award, British Medical Journal (BMJ)

Overview

Douglas G. Altman was affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research broadly focused on decision sciences, with particular emphasis on statistical methods and applications in healthcare and clinical research. Altman's work covered several subfields including statistics, probability and uncertainty, public health, environmental and occupational health, economics and econometrics, and general health professions.

Throughout their career, Altman contributed notably to topics such as meta-analysis and systematic reviews, health systems, economic evaluations and quality of life, ethics in clinical research, clinical practice guidelines implementation, reliability and agreement in measurement, healthcare cost and quality, and statistical methods in clinical trials.

Altman published research in various journals and platforms, frequently contributing to:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Вопросы современной педиатрии
  • Digital Diagnostics
  • Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
  • British Journal of Sports Medicine

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Altman include:

  • "A CHecklist for statistical Assessment of Medical Papers (the CHAMP statement): explanation and elaboration" (2021), British Journal of Sports Medicine
  • "The Adaptive designs CONSORT Extension (ACE) statement: a checklist with explanation and elaboration guideline for reporting randomised trials that use an adaptive design" (2020), BMJ
  • "Bland-Altman methods for comparing methods of measurement and response to criticisms" (2020), Global Epidemiology
  • "Reporting guidelines of health research studies are frequently used inappropriately" (2020), Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
  • "CHecklist for statistical Assessment of Medical Papers: the CHAMP statement" (2021), British Journal of Sports Medicine

Frequent co-authors included:

  • David Moher
  • Kenneth F. Schulz
  • Matthias Egger
  • Cynthia D. Mulrow
  • Gary S. Collins

Altman received several awards over their career. These included the Bradford Hill Medal from the Royal Statistical Society (UK) in 1997, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Medical Journal, and fellowship in The Academy of Medical Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: The PRISMA statement

    David Moher;David Moher;Alessandro Liberati;Jennifer Tetzlaff;Douglas G. Altman

  • Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement

    David Moher;David Moher;Alessandro Liberati;Jennifer Tetzlaff;Douglas G. Altman

  • The PRISMA Statement for Reporting Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Studies That Evaluate Health Care Interventions: Explanation and Elaboration

    Alessandro Liberati;Douglas G. Altman;Jennifer Tetzlaff;Cynthia Mulrow

  • Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical measurement.

    J M Bland;J M Bland;D G Altman;D G Altman

  • Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses

    Julian P T Higgins;Simon G Thompson;Jonathan J Deeks;Douglas G Altman

  • The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies

    E von Elm;D G Altman;M Egger;M Egger;S J Pocock

  • Assessing Risk of Bias in Included Studies

    Julian Pt Higgins;Douglas G Altman

  • The Cochrane Collaboration’s tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials

    Julian P T Higgins;Douglas G Altman;Peter C Gøtzsche;Peter Jüni

  • [The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies].

    Erik von Elm;Douglas G. Altman;Matthias Egger;Matthias Egger;Stuart J. Pocock

  • Practical statistics for medical research

    Douglas G. Altman

  • The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies that evaluate healthcare interventions: explanation and elaboration

    Alessandro Liberati;Douglas G Altman;Jennifer Tetzlaff;Cynthia Mulrow

  • Practical Statistics for Medical Research.

    S. D. Walter;D. G. Altman

  • CONSORT 2010 statement: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials

    K F Schulz;D G Altman;D Moher

  • ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions.

    Jonathan A. C. Sterne;Miguel A Hernan;Barnaby C Reeves;Jelena Savovic;Jelena Savovic

  • CONSORT 2010 statement: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials.

    Kenneth F Schulz;Douglas G Altman;David Moher;David Moher

  • Transparent Reporting of a multivariable prediction model for Individual Prognosis Or Diagnosis (TRIPOD): the TRIPOD Statement.

    G S Collins;J B Reitsma;D G Altman;K G M Moons

  • Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement

    D Moher;A Liberati;J Tetzlaff;D G Altman

  • Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical measurement

    J. Martin Bland;J. Martin Bland;Douglas G. Altman;Douglas G. Altman

  • Strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies

    Erik von Elm;Douglas G Altman;Matthias Egger;Stuart J Pocock

  • METHODS OF SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS AND META-ANALYSIS Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement

    David Moher;Alessandro Liberati;Jennifer Tetzlaff;Douglas G. Altman

Frequent Co-Authors

David Moher
David Moher Ottawa Hospital
Kenneth F. Schulz
Kenneth F. Schulz University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gary S. Collins
Gary S. Collins University of Oxford
Matthias Egger
Matthias Egger University of Bern
Sally Hopewell
Sally Hopewell University of Oxford
Mike Clarke
Mike Clarke Queen's University Belfast
Karel G.M. Moons
Karel G.M. Moons Utrecht University
Isabelle Boutron
Isabelle Boutron Université Paris Cité
Jonathan J Deeks
Jonathan J Deeks University of Birmingham

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