Issue 1/2016
Content (169 Articles)
Creating a literature database of low-calorie sweeteners and health studies: evidence mapping
- Open Access
- Research article
Ding Ding Wang, Marissa Shams-White, Oliver John M. Bright, J. Scott Parrott, Mei Chung
Estimating time-varying exposure-outcome associations using case-control data: logistic and case-cohort analyses
- Open Access
- Research article
Ruth H. Keogh, Punam Mangtani, Laura Rodrigues, Patrick Nguipdop Djomo
Early diagnosis of gestational trophoblastic neoplasia based on trajectory classification with compartment modeling
- Open Access
- Research article
Claire Burny, Muriel Rabilloud, François Golfier, Jérôme Massardier, Touria Hajri, Anne-Marie Schott, Fabien Subtil
Addressing challenges of validity and internal consistency of mental health measures in a 27- year longitudinal cohort study – the Northern Swedish Cohort study
- Open Access
- Research article
Anne Hammarström, Hugo Westerlund, Kaisa Kirves, Karina Nygren, Pekka Virtanen, Bruno Hägglöf
Crude incidence in two-phase designs in the presence of competing risks
- Open Access
- TECHNICAL ADVANCE
Paola Rebora, Laura Antolini, David V. Glidden, Maria Grazia Valsecchi
Assessing variability in results in systematic reviews of diagnostic studies
- Open Access
- Research article
Christiana A. Naaktgeboren, Eleanor A. Ochodo, Wynanda A. Van Enst, Joris A. H. de Groot, Lotty Hooft, Mariska M. G. Leeflang, Patrick M. Bossuyt, Karel G. M. Moons, Johannes B. Reitsma
Meta-analytic estimation of measurement variability and assessment of its impact on decision-making: the case of perioperative haemoglobin concentration monitoring
- Open Access
- Research Article
Emmanuel Charpentier, Vincent Looten, Björn Fahlgren, Alexandre Barna, Loïc Guillevin
The existence of standard-biased mortality ratios due to death certificate misclassification - a simulation study based on a true story
- Open Access
- Research article
Andreas Deckert
Propensity score to detect baseline imbalance in cluster randomized trials: the role of the c-statistic
- Open Access
- Research Article
Clémence Leyrat, Agnès Caille, Yohann Foucher, Bruno Giraudeau
Patient responses to research recruitment and follow-up surveys: findings from a diverse multicultural health care setting in Qatar
- Open Access
- Research article
Amal Khidir, Humna Asad, Huda Abdelrahim, Maha Elnashar, Amal Killawi, Maya Hammoud, Abdul Latif Al-Khal, Pascale Haddad, Michael D. Fetters
Mixed-strain housing for female C57BL/6, DBA/2, and BALB/c mice: validating a split-plot design that promotes refinement and reduction
- Open Access
- Research article
Michael Walker, Carole Fureix, Rupert Palme, Jonathan A. Newman, Jamie Ahloy Dallaire, Georgia Mason
The quality and diagnostic value of open narratives in verbal autopsy: a mixed-methods analysis of partnered interviews from Malawi
- Open Access
- Research article
C. King, C. Zamawe, M. Banda, N. Bar-Zeev, J. Beard, J. Bird, A. Costello, P. Kazembe, D. Osrin, E. Fottrell
Predicting analysis times in randomized clinical trials with cancer immunotherapy
- Open Access
- Research article
Tai-Tsang Chen
Eliciting parental support for the use of newborn blood spots for pediatric research
- Open Access
- Research article
Edwina H. Yeung, Germaine Buck Louis, David Lawrence, Kurunthachalam Kannan, Alexander C. McLain, Michele Caggana, Charlotte Druschel, Erin Bell
A scoping review on the conduct and reporting of scoping reviews
- Open Access
- Research article
Andrea C. Tricco, Erin Lillie, Wasifa Zarin, Kelly O’Brien, Heather Colquhoun, Monika Kastner, Danielle Levac, Carmen Ng, Jane Pearson Sharpe, Katherine Wilson, Meghan Kenny, Rachel Warren, Charlotte Wilson, Henry T. Stelfox, Sharon E. Straus
Augmenting the logrank test in the design of clinical trials in which non-proportional hazards of the treatment effect may be anticipated
- Open Access
- Research Article
Patrick Royston, Mahesh K.B. Parmar
BMC Medical Research Methodology reviewer acknowledgement 2015
- Open Access
- Reviewer acknowledgement
Giulia Mangiameli
The matching quality of experimental and control interventions in blinded pharmacological randomised clinical trials: a methodological systematic review
- Open Access
- Research article
Segun Bello, Maoling Wei, Jørgen Hilden, Asbjørn Hróbjartsson
Applicable or non-applicable: investigations of clinical heterogeneity in systematic reviews
- Open Access
- Research article
Laura E. Chess, Joel J. Gagnier
Subgroup analyses in confirmatory clinical trials: time to be specific about their purposes
- Open Access
- Research article
Julien Tanniou, Ingeborg van der Tweel, Steven Teerenstra, Kit C. B. Roes
The use of purposeful sampling in a qualitative evidence synthesis: A worked example on sexual adjustment to a cancer trajectory
- Open Access
- Technical advance
Charlotte Benoot, Karin Hannes, Johan Bilsen
Head to head comparison of the propensity score and the high-dimensional propensity score matching methods
- Open Access
- Research article
Jason R. Guertin, Elham Rahme, Colin R. Dormuth, Jacques LeLorier
Developing a system that can automatically detect health changes using transfer times of older adults
- Open Access
- Research Article
Greet Baldewijns, Stijn Luca, Bart Vanrumste, Tom Croonenborghs
The art and science of study identification: a comparative analysis of two systematic reviews
- Open Access
- Research article
Laura Rosen, Ruth Suhami
Take the money and run? Redemption of a gift card incentive in a clinician survey
- Open Access
- Research article
Jane S. Chen, Brian L. Sprague, Carrie N. Klabunde, Anna N. A. Tosteson, Asaf Bitton, Tracy Onega, Charles D. MacLean, Kimberly Harris, Marilyn M. Schapira, Jennifer S. Haas
Comparison of predictive modeling approaches for 30-day all-cause non-elective readmission risk
- Open Access
- Research article
Liping Tong, Cole Erdmann, Marina Daldalian, Jing Li, Tina Esposito
Mechanisms and mediation in survival analysis: towards an integrated analytical framework
- Open Access
- Research article
Jonathan Pratschke, Trutz Haase, Harry Comber, Linda Sharp, Marianna de Camargo Cancela, Howard Johnson
A new statistical method for curve group analysis of longitudinal gene expression data illustrated for breast cancer in the NOWAC postgenome cohort as a proof of principle
- Open Access
- Research article
Eiliv Lund, Lars Holden, Hege Bøvelstad, Sandra Plancade, Nicolle Mode, Clara-Cecilie Günther, Gregory Nuel, Jean-Christophe Thalabard, Marit Holden
Can the buck always be passed to the highest level of clustering?
- Open Access
- Research Article
Christian Bottomley, Matthew J. Kirby, Steve W. Lindsay, Neal Alexander
Erratum to: The use of the Godin-Shephard Leisure-Time Physical Activity Questionnaire in oncology research: a systematic review
- Open Access
- Erratum
Steve Amireault, Gaston Godin, Jason Lacombe, Catherine M. Sabiston
Confidence intervals construction for difference of two means with incomplete correlated data
- Open Access
- Research Article
Hui-Qiong Li, Nian-Sheng Tang, Jie-Yi Yi
Methods for conducting systematic reviews of risk factors in low- and middle-income countries
- Open Access
- Research article
Yulia Shenderovich, Manuel Eisner, Christopher Mikton, Frances Gardner, Jianghong Liu, Joseph Murray
Young people’s views about consenting to data linkage: findings from the PEARL qualitative study
- Open Access
- Research article
Suzanne Audrey, Lindsey Brown, Rona Campbell, Andy Boyd, John Macleod
Meta-analyses including non-randomized studies of therapeutic interventions: a methodological review
- Open Access
- Research article
Timor Faber, Philippe Ravaud, Carolina Riveros, Elodie Perrodeau, Agnes Dechartres
Bias and precision of methods for estimating the difference in restricted mean survival time from an individual patient data meta-analysis
- Open Access
- Research article
Béranger Lueza, Federico Rotolo, Julia Bonastre, Jean-Pierre Pignon, Stefan Michiels
Academic pediatric clinical research: factors associated with study implementation duration
- Open Access
- Research article
Delphine Meier-Girard, Annick Tibi, Hendy Abdoul, Sonia Prot-Labarthe, Françoise Brion, Olivier Bourdon, Corinne Alberti
On the use of propensity scores in case of rare exposure
- Open Access
- Research Article
David Hajage, Florence Tubach, Philippe Gabriel Steg, Deepak L. Bhatt, Yann De Rycke
Validation and reliability of a guideline appraisal mini-checklist for daily practice use
- Open Access
- Research article
Andrea Siebenhofer, Thomas Semlitsch, Thomas Herborn, Ulrich Siering, Ina Kopp, Johannes Hartig
Utilizing distributional analytics and electronic records to assess timeliness of inpatient blood glucose monitoring in non-critical care wards
- Open Access
- Research article
Ying Chen, Shih Ling Kao, E-Shyong Tai, Hwee Lin Wee, Eric Yin Hao Khoo, Yilin Ning, Mark Kevin Salloway, Xiaodong Deng, Chuen Seng Tan
Regression models for linking patterns of growth to a later outcome: infant growth and childhood overweight
- Open Access
- Research article
Andrew K. Wills, Bjørn Heine Strand, Kari Glavin, Richard J. Silverwood, Ragnhild Hovengen
A comparison of methods to adjust for continuous covariates in the analysis of randomised trials
- Open Access
- Research article
Brennan C. Kahan, Helen Rushton, Tim P. Morris, Rhian M. Daniel
Single time point comparisons in longitudinal randomized controlled trials: power and bias in the presence of missing data
- Open Access
- Research article
Erin L. Ashbeck, Melanie L. Bell
Bias of health estimates obtained from chronic disease and risk factor surveillance systems using telephone population surveys in Australia: results from a representative face-to-face survey in Australia from 2010 to 2013
- Open Access
- Research article
Eleonora Dal Grande, Catherine R. Chittleborough, Stefano Campostrini, Anne W. Taylor
Exploring how individuals complete the choice tasks in a discrete choice experiment: an interview study
- Open Access
- Research article
Jorien Veldwijk, Domino Determann, Mattijs S. Lambooij, Janine A. van Til, Ida J. Korfage, Esther W. de Bekker-Grob, G. Ardine de Wit
Identification of risk factors for hospital admission using multiple-failure survival models: a toolkit for researchers
- Open Access
- Technical advance
Leo D. Westbury, Holly E. Syddall, Shirley J. Simmonds, Cyrus Cooper, Avan Aihie Sayer
A scoping review of indirect comparison methods and applications using individual patient data
- Open Access
- Research article
Areti Angeliki Veroniki, Sharon E. Straus, Charlene Soobiah, Meghan J. Elliott, Andrea C. Tricco
The validity of socioeconomic status measures among adolescents based on self-reported information about parents occupations, FAS and perceived SES; implication for health related quality of life studies
- Open Access
- Research article
P. Svedberg, J. M. Nygren, C. Staland-Nyman, M. Nyholm
Reliability and criterion validity of self-measured waist, hip, and neck circumferences
- Open Access
- Research article
Pamela Barrios, Jennifer Martin-Biggers, Virginia Quick, Carol Byrd-Bredbenner
Patient enrollment and logistical problems top the list of difficulties in clinical research: a cross-sectional survey
- Open Access
- Research article
Stéphane Cullati, Delphine S. Courvoisier, Angèle Gayet-Ageron, Guy Haller, Olivier Irion, Thomas Agoritsas, Sandrine Rudaz, Thomas V. Perneger
Complex intervention modelling should capture the dynamics of adaptation
- Open Access
- Debate
James Greenwood-Lee, Penelope Hawe, Alberto Nettel-Aguirre, Alan Shiell, Deborah A. Marshall
Implementing a complex rehabilitation intervention in a stroke trial: a qualitative process evaluation of AVERT
- Open Access
- Research article
Julie A Luker, Louise E Craig, Leanne Bennett, Fiona Ellery, Peter Langhorne, Olivia Wu, Julie Bernhardt
Factors relating to participation in follow-up to the 45 and up study in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal individuals
- Open Access
- Research article
Lina Gubhaju, Emily Banks, Rona Macniven, Grace Joshy, Bridgette J. McNamara, Adrian Bauman, Sandra J. Eades
Identification of confounder in epidemiologic data contaminated by measurement error in covariates
- Open Access
- Research article
Paul H. Lee, Igor Burstyn
Cross-cultural adaptation of the drug-taking confidence questionnaire drug version for use in Brazil
- Open Access
- Research article
Selene Cordeiro Vasconcelos, Everton Botelho Sougey, Iracema da Silva Frazão, Nigel Ernest Turner, Vânia Pinheiro Ramos, Murilo Duarte da Costa Lima
Using the modified Delphi method to establish clinical consensus for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with rotator cuff pathology
- Open Access
- Research article
Breda H. Eubank, Nicholas G. Mohtadi, Mark R. Lafave, J. Preston Wiley, Aaron J. Bois, Richard S. Boorman, David M. Sheps
Investigating increased admissions to neonatal intensive care in England between 1995 and 2006: data linkage study using Hospital Episode Statistics
- Open Access
- Research Article
Andrei S. Morgan, Neil Marlow, Kate Costeloe, Elizabeth S. Draper
An evaluation of computerized adaptive testing for general psychological distress: combining GHQ-12 and Affectometer-2 in an item bank for public mental health research
- Open Access
- Research article
Jan Stochl, Jan R. Böhnke, Kate E. Pickett, Tim J. Croudace
Comparison of non-parametric methods for ungrouping coarsely aggregated data
- Open Access
- Research Article
Silvia Rizzi, Mikael Thinggaard, Gerda Engholm, Niels Christensen, Tom Børge Johannesen, James W. Vaupel, Rune Lindahl-Jacobsen
Validating the generic quality of life tool “QOL10” in a substance use disorder treatment cohort exposes a unique social construct
- Open Access
- Research article
Ashley E. Muller, Svetlana Skurtveit, Thomas Clausen
Cochrane plain language summaries are highly heterogeneous with low adherence to the standards
- Open Access
- Research article
Antonia Jelicic Kadic, Mahir Fidahic, Milan Vujcic, Frano Saric, Ivana Propadalo, Ivana Marelja, Svjetlana Dosenovic, Livia Puljak
Minimal important differences for fatigue patient reported outcome measures—a systematic review
- Open Access
- Research article
Åsa Nordin, Charles Taft, Åsa Lundgren-Nilsson, Anna Dencker
Measurement and control of bias in patient reported outcomes using multidimensional item response theory
- Open Access
- Research Article
N. Maritza Dowling, Daniel M. Bolt, Sien Deng, Chenxi Li
Potential use of telephone surveys for non-communicable disease surveillance in developing countries: evidence from a national household survey in Lebanon
- Open Access
- Research article
Abla M. Sibai, Lilian A. Ghandour, Rawan Chaaban, Ali H. Mokdad
ODMedit: uniform semantic annotation for data integration in medicine based on a public metadata repository
- Open Access
- Research article
Martin Dugas, Alexandra Meidt, Philipp Neuhaus, Michael Storck, Julian Varghese
Modeling the oxygen uptake kinetics during exercise testing of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases using nonlinear mixed models
- Open Access
- Research Article
Florent Baty, Christian Ritz, Arnoldus van Gestel, Martin Brutsche, Daniel Gerhard
Evaluation of a multi-arm multi-stage Bayesian design for phase II drug selection trials – an example in hemato-oncology
- Open Access
- Research article
Louis Jacob, Maria Uvarova, Sandrine Boulet, Inva Begaj, Sylvie Chevret
Time to publication among completed diagnostic accuracy studies: associated with reported accuracy estimates
- Open Access
- Research article
Daniël A. Korevaar, Nick van Es, Aeilko H. Zwinderman, Jérémie F. Cohen, Patrick M. M. Bossuyt
Stepped wedge cluster randomised trials: a review of the statistical methodology used and available
- Open Access
- Research article
D. Barker, P. McElduff, C. D’Este, M. J. Campbell
Should we embed randomized controlled trials within action research: arguing from a case study of telemonitoring
- Open Access
- Research article
Karen Day, Timothy W. Kenealy, Nicolette F. Sheridan
Erratum to: Bias and precision of methods for estimating the difference in restricted mean survival time from an individual patient data meta-analysis
- Open Access
- Erratum
Béranger Lueza, Federico Rotolo, Julia Bonastre, Jean-Pierre Pignon, Stefan Michiels
Preparing linked population data for research: cohort study of prisoner perinatal health outcomes
- Open Access
- Research article
Lisa Hilder, Jane R. Walker, Michael H. Levy, Elizabeth A. Sullivan
A simplified approach to estimating the distribution of occasionally-consumed dietary components, applied to alcohol intake
- Open Access
- Research Article
Julia Chernova, Ivonne Solis-Trapala
How large are the consequences of covariate imbalance in cluster randomized trials: a simulation study with a continuous outcome and a binary covariate at the cluster level
- Open Access
- Research article
Mirjam Moerbeek, Sander van Schie
“A place at the table:” a qualitative analysis of community board members’ experiences with academic HIV/AIDS research
- Open Access
- Research article
Stella Safo, Chinazo Cunningham, Alice Beckman, Lorlette Haughton, Joanna L. Starrels
Exploring functional data analysis and wavelet principal component analysis on ecstasy (MDMA) wastewater data
- Open Access
- Research article
Stefania Salvatore, Jørgen G. Bramness, Jo Røislien
Evaluation of the effects of an offer of a monetary incentive on the rate of questionnaire return during follow-up of a clinical trial: a randomised study within a trial
- Open Access
- Research article
Pollyanna Hardy, Jennifer L. Bell, Peter Brocklehurst, Debra Bick, Annette Briley, Edmund Juszczak, Lynn Lynch, Christine MacArthur, Phillip Moore, Mary Nolan, Felicity Plaat, Julia Sanders, Andrew Shennan, Matt Wilson, Steve Hibbert, Elizabeth Howden, Sawretse Leslie, Amber Gibney, Claire Nelis
How to deal with missing longitudinal data in cost of illness analysis in Alzheimer’s disease—suggestions from the GERAS observational study
- Open Access
- Research article
Mark Belger, Josep Maria Haro, Catherine Reed, Michael Happich, Kristin Kahle-Wrobleski, Josep Maria Argimon, Giuseppe Bruno, Richard Dodel, Roy W Jones, Bruno Vellas, Anders Wimo
A virtual experimenter to increase standardization for the investigation of placebo effects
- Open Access
- Study protocol
Bjoern Horing, Nathan D. Newsome, Paul Enck, Sabarish V. Babu, Eric R. Muth
A comparison of two methods for expert elicitation in health technology assessments
- Open Access
- Research article
Bogdan Grigore, Jaime Peters, Christopher Hyde, Ken Stein
“I am yet to encounter any survey that actually reflects my life”: a qualitative study of inclusivity in sexual health research
- Open Access
- Research article
Elise R. Carrotte, Alyce M. Vella, Anna L. Bowring, Caitlin Douglass, Margaret E. Hellard, Megan S. C. Lim
Two new methods to fit models for network meta-analysis with random inconsistency effects
- Open Access
- Research Article
Martin Law, Dan Jackson, Rebecca Turner, Kirsty Rhodes, Wolfgang Viechtbauer
The development of PubMed search strategies for patient preferences for treatment outcomes
- Open Access
- Research article
Ralph van Hoorn, Wietske Kievit, Andrew Booth, Kati Mozygemba, Kristin Bakke Lysdahl, Pietro Refolo, Dario Sacchini, Ansgar Gerhardus, Gert Jan van der Wilt, Marcia Tummers
How do researchers determine the difference to be detected in superiority trials? Results of a survey from a panel of researchers
- Open Access
- Research article
Angèle Gayet-Ageron, Anne-Sophie Jannot, Thomas Agoritsas, Sandrine Rudaz, Christophe Combescure, Thomas Perneger
Minimax and admissible adaptive two-stage designs in phase II clinical trials
- Open Access
- Research Article
Guogen Shan, Hua Zhang, Tao Jiang
Dose-response meta-analysis of differences in means
- Open Access
- Research Article
Alessio Crippa, Nicola Orsini
Testing for carryover effects after cessation of treatments: a design approach
- Open Access
- Research Article
S. Gwynn Sturdevant, Thomas Lumley
Measuring inter-rater reliability for nominal data – which coefficients and confidence intervals are appropriate?
- Open Access
- Research article
Antonia Zapf, Stefanie Castell, Lars Morawietz, André Karch
The effect of a monetary incentive for administrative assistants on the survey response rate: a randomized controlled trial
- Open Access
- Research article
Arnav Agarwal, Dany Raad, Victor Kairouz, John Fudyma, Anne B. Curtis, Holger J. Schünemann, Elie A. Akl
Once a clinician, always a clinician: a systematic review to develop a typology of clinician-researcher dual-role experiences in health research with patient-participants
- Open Access
- Research article
E. Jean C. Hay-Smith, Melanie Brown, Lynley Anderson, Gareth J. Treharne
Specialist nurses’ perceptions of inviting patients to participate in clinical research studies: a qualitative descriptive study of barriers and facilitators
- Open Access
- Research article
Caroline French, Charitini Stavropoulou
Modelling multiple thresholds in meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies
- Open Access
- Research Article
Susanne Steinhauser, Martin Schumacher, Gerta Rücker
Regional differences in the validity of self-reported use of health care in Belgium: selection versus reporting bias
- Open Access
- Research article
J. Van der Heyden, R. Charafeddine, D. De Bacquer, J. Tafforeau, K. Van Herck
A systematic review to investigate the measurement properties of goal attainment scaling, towards use in drug trials
- Open Access
- Research article
Charlotte M. W. Gaasterland, Marijke C. Jansen-van der Weide, Stephanie S. Weinreich, Johanna H. van der Lee
Network or regression-based methods for disease discrimination: a comparison study
- Open Access
- Research article
Xiaoshuai Zhang, Zhongshang Yuan, Jiadong Ji, Hongkai Li, Fuzhong Xue
Establishing the Canadian HIV Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Cohort Study (CHIWOS): Operationalizing Community-based Research in a Large National Quantitative Study
- Open Access
- Correspondence
Mona Loutfy, Saara Greene, V. Logan Kennedy, Johanna Lewis, Jamie Thomas-Pavanel, Tracey Conway, Alexandra de Pokomandy, Nadia O’Brien, Allison Carter, Wangari Tharao, Valerie Nicholson, Kerrigan Beaver, Danièle Dubuc, Jacqueline Gahagan, Karène Proulx-Boucher, Robert S. Hogg, Angela Kaida, Aranka Anema, Denise Becker, Lori Brotto, Allison Carter, Claudette Cardinal, Guillaume Colley, Erin Ding, Janice Duddy, Nada Gataric, Robert S. Hogg, Terry Howard, Shahab Jabbari, Evin Jones, Mary Kestler, Andrea Langlois, Viviane Lima, Elisa Lloyd-Smith, Melissa Medjuck, Cari Miller, Deborah Money, Valerie Nicholson, Gina Ogilvie, Sophie Patterson, Neora Pick, Eric Roth, Kate Salters, Margarite Sanchez, Jacquie Sas, Paul Sereda, Marcie Summers, Christina Tom, Clara Wang, Kath Webster, Wendy Zhang, Rahma Abdul-Noor, Jonathan Angel, Fatimatou Barry, Greta Bauer, Kerrigan Beaver, Anita Benoit, Breklyn Bertozzi, Sheila Borton, Tammy Bourque, Jason Brophy, Ann Burchell, Allison Carlson, Lynne Cioppa, Jeffrey Cohen, Tracey Conway, Curtis Cooper, Jasmine Cotnam, Janette Cousineau, Marisol Desbiens, Annette Fraleigh, Brenda Gagnier, Claudine Gasingirwa, Saara Greene, Trevor Hart, Shazia Islam, Charu Kaushic, Logan Kennedy, Desiree Kerr, Maxime Kiboyogo, Gladys Kwaramba, Lynne Leonard, Johanna Lewis, Carmen Logie, Shari Margolese, Marvelous Muchenje, Mary (Muthoni) Ndung’u, Kelly O’Brien, Charlene Ouellette, Jeff Powis, Corinna Quan, Janet Raboud, Anita Rachlis, Edward Ralph, Sean Rourke, Sergio Rueda, Roger Sandre, Fiona Smaill, Stephanie Smith, Tsitsi Tigere, Wangari Tharao, Sharon Walmsley, Wendy Wobeser, Jessica Yee, Mark Yudin, Dada Mamvula Bakombo, Jean-Guy Baril, Nora Butler Burke, Pierrette Clément, Janice Dayle, Danièle Dubuc, Mylène Fernet, Danielle Groleau, Aurélie Hot, Marina Klein, Carrie Martin, Lyne Massie, Brigitte Ménard, Nadia O’Brien, Joanne Otis, Doris Peltier, Alie Pierre, Karène Proulx-Boucher, Danielle Rouleau, Édénia Savoie, Cécile Tremblay, Benoit Trottier, Sylvie Trottier, Christos Tsoukas, Jacqueline Gahagan, Catherine Hankins, Renee Masching, Susanna Ogunnaike-Cooke
A simulation study on matched case-control designs in the perspective of causal diagrams
- Open Access
- Research article
Hongkai Li, Zhongshang Yuan, Ping Su, Tingting Wang, Yuanyuan Yu, Xiaoru Sun, Fuzhong Xue
The case-crossover design via penalized regression
- Open Access
- Research article
Sam Doerken, Maja Mockenhaupt, Luigi Naldi, Martin Schumacher, Peggy Sekula
Population cardiovascular health and urban environments: the Heart Healthy Hoods exploratory study in Madrid, Spain
- Open Access
- Research article
Usama Bilal, Julia Díez, Silvia Alfayate, Pedro Gullón, Isabel del Cura, Francisco Escobar, María Sandín, Manuel Franco
Rasch modelling to deal with changes in the questionnaires used during long-term follow-up of cohort studies: a simulation study
- Open Access
- Research article
Alexandra Rouquette, Sylvana M. Côté, Jean-Benoit Hardouin, Bruno Falissard
Intention-to-treat and transparency of related practices in randomized, controlled trials of anti-infectives
- Open Access
- Research article
Robert D. Beckett, Kathryn C. Loeser, Kathryn R. Bowman, Trent G. Towne
A computational approach to compare regression modelling strategies in prediction research
- Open Access
- Research article
Romin Pajouheshnia, Wiebe R. Pestman, Steven Teerenstra, Rolf H. H. Groenwold
The use of rapid review methods in health technology assessments: 3 case studies
- Open Access
- Research article
Eva Kaltenthaler, Katy Cooper, Abdullah Pandor, Marrissa Martyn-St. James, Robin Chatters, Ruth Wong
Cohort Multiple Randomised Controlled Trials (cmRCT) design: efficient but biased? A simulation study to evaluate the feasibility of the Cluster cmRCT design
- Open Access
- Research article
Alexander Pate, Jane Candlish, Matthew Sperrin, Tjeerd Pieter Van Staa
Adapting the nominal group technique for priority setting of evidence-practice gaps in implementation science
- Open Access
- Research article
Nicole M. Rankin, Deborah McGregor, Phyllis N. Butow, Kate White, Jane L. Phillips, Jane M. Young, Sallie A. Pearson, Sarah York, Tim Shaw
Resuming the discussion of AMSTAR: What can (should) be made better?
- Open Access
- Debate
Uta Wegewitz, Beate Weikert, Alba Fishta, Anja Jacobs, Dawid Pieper
Time-varying SMART design and data analysis methods for evaluating adaptive intervention effects
- Open Access
- Research article
Tianjiao Dai, Sanjay Shete
Performance of models for estimating absolute risk difference in multicenter trials with binary outcome
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- Research Article
Claudia Pedroza, Van Thi Truong
A systematic approach to designing statistically powerful heteroscedastic 2 × 2 factorial studies while minimizing financial costs
- Open Access
- Research article
Show-Li Jan, Gwowen Shieh
Managing distance and covariate information with point-based clustering
- Open Access
- Research article
Peter A. Whigham, Brandon de Graaf, Rashmi Srivastava, Paul Glue
Multiple time scales in modeling the incidence of infections acquired in intensive care units
- Open Access
- Research Article
Martin Wolkewitz, Ben S. Cooper, Mercedes Palomar-Martinez, Francisco Alvarez-Lerma, Pedro Olaechea-Astigarraga, Adrian G. Barnett, Martin Schumacher
Joint modelling of time-to-event and multivariate longitudinal outcomes: recent developments and issues
- Open Access
- Research article
Graeme L. Hickey, Pete Philipson, Andrea Jorgensen, Ruwanthi Kolamunnage-Dona
Confidence intervals for the between-study variance in random-effects meta-analysis using generalised heterogeneity statistics: should we use unequal tails?
- Open Access
- Research Article
Dan Jackson, Jack Bowden
Searching for the optimal measuring frequency in longitudinal studies -- an example utilizing short message service (SMS) to collect repeated measures among patients with low back pain
- Open Access
- Research article
Iben Axén, Lennart Bodin
IDGenerator: unique identifier generator for epidemiologic or clinical studies
- Open Access
- Software
Matthias Olden, Rolf Holle, Iris M. Heid, Klaus Stark
Combined models for pre- and post-treatment longitudinal biomarker data: an application to CD4 counts in HIV-patients
- Open Access
- Research Article
Oliver T. Stirrup, Abdel G. Babiker, Andrew J. Copas
Onset of persistent pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in children with cystic fibrosis with interval censored data
- Open Access
- Research Article
Wenjie Wang, Ming-Hui Chen, Sy Han Chiou, Hui-Chuan Lai, Xiaojing Wang, Jun Yan, Zhumin Zhang
Predictor characteristics necessary for building a clinically useful risk prediction model: a simulation study
- Open Access
- Research article
Laura Schummers, Katherine P. Himes, Lisa M. Bodnar, Jennifer A. Hutcheon
Feasibility and validity of a statistical adjustment to reduce self-report bias of height and weight in wave 1 of the Add Health study
- Open Access
- Research article
Janet M. Liechty, Xuan Bi, Annie Qu
Description and initial evaluation of incorporating electronic follow-up of study participants in a longstanding multisite cohort study
- Open Access
- Research article
Kiarri N. Kershaw, Kiang Liu, David C. Goff Jr., Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, Laura J. Rasmussen-Torvik, Jared P. Reis, Pamela J. Schreiner, Daniel B. Garside, Stephen Sidney
The use of relative incidence ratios in self-controlled case series studies: an overview
- Open Access
- Research article
Steven Hawken, Beth K. Potter, Julian Little, Eric I. Benchimol, Salah Mahmud, Robin Ducharme, Kumanan Wilson
The contribution of databases to the results of systematic reviews: a cross-sectional study
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