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1960-1976 (Creation)
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1 folder of textual records
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Throughout his professional life, David Sackett published 9 books, chapters for 54 others, and over 300 papers in medical and scientific journals.
This file consists of records documenting Dr. Sackett’s early writing and publishing activities from the 1960’s to mid 1970’s. Most of the records are annotated with comments and notes. File includes a reprint of his “first publication” entitled, Multiplication of Vaccinia virus in serum-free and serum-containing cell cultures (1960), when his was pursuing his M.D. degree at University of Illinois College of Medicine. Also included is a manuscript and a reprint of his “first solo publication” based on his post-doctoral research fellowship project at Illinois entitled, Adaptation of monodirectional high-voltage electrophoresis on long papers to the rapid qualitative identification of urinary amino acids (1964). During his time at the State University of New York at Buffalo, his interest shifted from laboratory to clinical medicine, particularly clinical epidemiology. There are manuscripts and reprints from this period of time that reflect the change, including a reprint of his “first epidemiology publication” entitled, The epidemiology of aortic and peripheral atherosclerosis, A selective review (1965), a reprint of his “first original epidemiologic research” entitled, The Relationship Between Cigarette Usage and Aortic Atherosclerosis (1966), and a reprint of his “first paper in a major clinical journal”, which was published on The New England Journal of Medicine in 1968.
File also consists of reprints and photocopied publications that reflect a broad range of topics in clinical epidemiology, including benefits of aspirin for patients with threatened stroke and threatened heart attack, the ability of nurse practitioners to provide effective primary care, the futility of traditional health education in helping hypertensive patients take their medicine, ways to detect and reduce bias in clinical research, and ways to design, conduct, and report randomized clinical trials. Also included is one of his publications on the education of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics.