Jan Paul Vandenbroucke - Selected publications#

From 460+ publications, authored or co-authored by Jan P. Vandenbroucke, the following 10 were selected, not because these are his publications with the highest impact or citation scores, but because they represent topics of continuing interest.

• Vandenbroucke JP, Koster T, Briet E, Reitsma PH, Bertina RM, Rosendaal FR. Increased risk of venous thrombosis in oral-contraceptive users who are carriers of factor V Leiden mutation. Lancet 1994;344:1453-7.
  
• Vandenbroucke JP. 175th anniversary lecture. Medical journals and the shaping of medical knowledge. Lancet 1998;352:2001-6.
  
• Vandenbroucke JP. In defense of case reports and case series. Ann Intern Med 2001;134:330-4.
  
• Vandenbroucke JP, de Craen AJ. Alternative medicine: a "mirror image" for scientific reasoning in conventional medicine. Ann Intern Med 2001;135:507-13
  
• Vandenbroucke JP. When are observational studies as credible as randomised trials? Lancet 2004;363:1728-31
  
• Vandenbroucke JP, von Elm E, Altman DG, Gøtzsche PC, Mulrow CD, Pocock SJ, Poole C, Schlesselman JJ, Egger M; STROBE Initiative. Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE): explanation and elaboration. PLoS Med. 2007 Oct 16;4(10):e297.
  
• Vandenbroucke JP. Observational research, randomised trials, and two views of medical science. PLoS Med. 2008 Mar 11;5(3):e67.
  
• Knol MJ, Vandenbroucke JP, Scott P, Egger M. What do case-control studies estimate? Survey of methods and assumptions in published case-control research. Am J Epidemiol. 2008 Nov 1;168(9):1073-81.
  
• Vandenbroucke JP, Psaty BM. Benefits and risks of drug treatments: how to combine the best evidence on benefits with the best data about adverse effects. JAMA. 2008 Nov 26;300(20):2417-9.
  
• Dekkers OM, Egger M, Altman DG, Vandenbroucke JP. Distinguishing case series from cohort studies. Ann Intern Med. 2012 Jan 3;156(1 Pt 1):37-40