Issue 1/2021
Content (287 Articles)
COVID-19-related medical research: a meta-research and critical appraisal
Marc Raynaud, Huanxi Zhang, Kevin Louis, Valentin Goutaudier, Jiali Wang, Quentin Dubourg, Yongcheng Wei, Zeynep Demir, Charlotte Debiais, Olivier Aubert, Yassine Bouatou, Carmen Lefaucheur, Patricia Jabre, Longshan Liu, Changxi Wang, Xavier Jouven, Peter Reese, Jean-Philippe Empana, Alexandre Loupy
Alternative adjustment for seasonality and long-term time-trend in time-series analysis for long-term environmental exposures and disease counts
Honghyok Kim, Jong-Tae Lee, Kelvin C. Fong, Michelle L. Bell
Virtual controls as an alternative to randomized controlled trials for assessing efficacy of interventions
Joseph M. Strayhorn Jr.
Ordinal outcome analysis improves the detection of between-hospital differences in outcome
I. E. Ceyisakar, N. van Leeuwen, Diederik W. J. Dippel, Ewout W. Steyerberg, H. F. Lingsma
Multiple imputation validation study: addressing unmeasured survey data in a longitudinal design
Claire A. Kolaja, Ben Porter, Teresa M. Powell, Rudolph P. Rull, Richard Armenta, Satbir Boparai, Felicia Carey, Toni Rose Geronimo, Isabel Jacobson, Cynthia LeardMann, Rayna Matsuno, Deanne Millard, Chiping Nieh, Anna Rivera, Beverly Sheppard, Daniel Trone, Jennifer Walstrom, Steven Warner
Quantifying the under-reporting of uncorrelated longitudal data: the genital warts example
David Moriña, Amanda Fernández-Fontelo, Alejandra Cabaña, Pedro Puig, Laura Monfil, Maria Brotons, Mireia Diaz
Improved selection of participants in genetic longevity studies: family scores revisited
Mar Rodríguez-Girondo, Niels van den Berg, Michel H. Hof, Marian Beekman, Eline Slagboom
Development and validation of prediction model to estimate 10-year risk of all-cause mortality using modern statistical learning methods: a large population-based cohort study and external validation
Olesya Ajnakina, Deborah Agbedjro, Ryan McCammon, Jessica Faul, Robin M. Murray, Daniel Stahl, Andrew Steptoe
Re-evaluation of the comparative effectiveness of bootstrap-based optimism correction methods in the development of multivariable clinical prediction models
Katsuhiro Iba, Tomohiro Shinozaki, Kazushi Maruo, Hisashi Noma
Methodology in core outcome set (COS) development: the impact of patient interviews and using a 5-point versus a 9-point Delphi rating scale on core outcome selection in a COS development study
Alexandria Remus, Valerie Smith, Francesca Wuytack
Incorporating and addressing testing bias within estimates of epidemic dynamics for SARS-CoV-2
Yasir Suhail, Junaid Afzal, Kshitiz
Pattern-mixture model in network meta-analysis of binary missing outcome data: one-stage or two-stage approach?
Loukia M. Spineli, Katerina Papadimitropoulou, Chrysostomos Kalyvas
Missing not at random in end of life care studies: multiple imputation and sensitivity analysis on data from the ACTION study
Giulia Carreras, Guido Miccinesi, Andrew Wilcock, Nancy Preston, Daan Nieboer, Luc Deliens, Mogensm Groenvold, Urska Lunder, Agnes van der Heide, Michela Baccini, Agnes van der Heide, Ida J. Korfage, Judith A. C. Rietjens, Lea J. Jabbarian, Suzanne Polinder, Hans van Delden, Marijke Kars, Marieke Zwakman, Luc Deliens, Mariëtte N. Verkissen, Kim Eecloo, Kristof Faes, Kristian Pollock, Jane Seymour, Glenys Caswell, Andrew Wilcock, Louise Bramley, Sheila Payne, Nancy Preston, Lesley Dunleavy, Eleanor Sowerby, Guido Miccinesi, Francesco Bulli, Francesca Ingravallo, Giulia Carreras, Alessandro Toccafondi, Giuseppe Gorini, Urška Lunder, Branka Červ, Anja Simonič, Alenka Mimić, Hana Kodba-Čeh, Polona Ozbič, Mogens Groenvold, Caroline Arnfeldt, Anna Thit Johnsen
Impact of time-varying cumulative bevacizumab exposures on survival: re-analysis of data from randomized clinical trial in patients with metastatic colo-rectal cancer
Adrien Guilloteau, Michal Abrahamowicz, Olayide Boussari, Valérie Jooste, Thomas Aparicio, Catherine Quantin, Karine Le Malicot, Christine Binquet
Short-term real-time prediction of total number of reported COVID-19 cases and deaths in South Africa: a data driven approach
Tarylee Reddy, Ziv Shkedy, Charl Janse van Rensburg, Henry Mwambi, Pravesh Debba, Khangelani Zuma, Samuel Manda
Relaxing the assumption of constant transition rates in a multi-state model in hospital epidemiology
Micki Hill, Paul C. Lambert, Michael J. Crowther
Flexible modelling of risk factors on the incidence of pneumonia in young children in South Africa using piece-wise exponential additive mixed modelling
Jordache Ramjith, Kit C.B. Roes, Heather J. Zar, Marianne A. Jonker
Fitting a shared frailty illness-death model to left-truncated semi-competing risks data to examine the impact of education level on incident dementia
Catherine Lee, Paola Gilsanz, Sebastien Haneuse
Understanding participation in European cohort studies of preterm children: the views of parents, healthcare professionals and researchers
Sandra C. S. Marques, Julia Doetsch, Georgia Abate, Anne Brødsgaard, Grazia Colombo, Marina Cuttini, Pernille Pedersen, Henrique Barros, Sandra C. S. Marques, Julia Doetsch, Raquel Teixeira, Georgia Abate, Grazia Colombo, Marina Cuttini, Anne Brødsgaard, Elizabeth S. Draper, Sylvia van der Pal, Ilona Wildeman, Pernille Pedersen, Kari Anne I. Evensen, Ann-Mari Brubakk, Marit S. Indredavik, Eero Kajantie, Eeva Virtanen, Jo Lebeer, Vicky Hennissen, Iemke Sarrechia, Henrique Barros
Informing the research agenda for optimizing audit and feedback interventions: results of a prioritization exercise
Heather L. Colquhoun, Kelly Carroll, Kevin W. Eva, Jeremy M. Grimshaw, Noah Ivers, Susan Michie, Jamie C. Brehaut
When does the use of individual patient data in network meta-analysis make a difference? A simulation study
Steve Kanters, Mohammad Ehsanul Karim, Kristian Thorlund, Aslam Anis, Nick Bansback
Using electronic health records to inform trial feasibility in a rare autoimmune blistering skin disease in England
M. S. M. Persson, K. E. Harman, K. S. Thomas, J. R. Chalmers, Y. Vinogradova, S. M. Langan, J. Hippisley-Cox, S. Gran
National surveillance of stroke quality of care and outcomes by applying post-stratification survey weights on the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke patient registry
Boback Ziaeian, Haolin Xu, Roland A. Matsouaka, Ying Xian, Yosef Khan, Lee S. Schwamm, Eric E. Smith, Gregg C. Fonarow
Methodological approaches to imputing early-pregnancy weight based on weight measures collected during pregnancy
Jiaxi Yang, Dongqing Wang, Anne Marie Darling, Enju Liu, Nandita Perumal, Wafaie W. Fawzi, Molin Wang
Telephone peer recruitment and interviewing during a respondent-driven sampling (RDS) survey: feasibility and field experience from the first phone-based RDS survey among men who have sex with men in Côte d’Ivoire
Maxime Inghels, Arsène Kra Kouassi, Serge Niangoran, Anne Bekelynck, Séverine Carillon, Lazare Sika, Mariatou Koné, Christine Danel, Annabel Desgrées du Loû, Joseph Larmarange, Nelly ASSOUMOU, Anne BEKELYNCK, Christine DANEL, Mohamed DOUMBIA, Mariatou KONE, Alexis KOUADIO, Arsène Kra Kouassi, Serge NIANGORAN, Honoré OUANTCHI, Lazare SIKA, Séverine CARILLON, Maxime INGHELS, Joseph LARMARANGE
Psychometric validation techniques applied to the IND-VFQ-33 visual function questionnaire: the Hyderabad ocular morbidity in the elderly study (HOMES)
William Mitchell, Srinivas Marmamula, Nazlee Zebardast, Weiwen Ng, Joseph J. Locascio, Thirupathi Kumbam, Satya Brahmanandam, Navya Rekha Barrenkala
The STS case study: an analysis method for longitudinal qualitative research for implementation science
Jennifer M. Van Tiem, Heather Schacht Reisinger, Julia E. Friberg, Jaime R. Wilson, Lynn Fitzwater, Ralph J. Panos, Jane Moeckli
The unintended consequences of COVID-19 mitigation measures matter: practical guidance for investigating them
Anne-Marie Turcotte-Tremblay, Idriss Ali Gali Gali, Valéry Ridde
Revisiting methods for modeling longitudinal and survival data: Framingham Heart Study
Julius S. Ngwa, Howard J. Cabral, Debbie M. Cheng, David R. Gagnon, Michael P. LaValley, L. Adrienne Cupples
Inferencing superspreading potential using zero-truncated negative binomial model: exemplification with COVID-19
Shi Zhao, Mingwang Shen, Salihu S. Musa, Zihao Guo, Jinjun Ran, Zhihang Peng, Yu Zhao, Marc K. C. Chong, Daihai He, Maggie H. Wang
Examining the effectiveness of telemonitoring with routinely acquired blood pressure data in primary care: challenges in the statistical analysis
Richard A. Parker, Paul Padfield, Janet Hanley, Hilary Pinnock, John Kennedy, Andrew Stoddart, Vicky Hammersley, Aziz Sheikh, Brian McKinstry
Conceptualising natural and quasi experiments in public health
Frank de Vocht, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Cheryl McQuire, Kate Tilling, Matthew Hickman, Peter Craig
There is still room for improvement in the completeness of abstract reporting according to the PRISMA-A checklist: a cross-sectional study on systematic reviews in periodontology
Milagros Adobes Martin, Sala Santamans Faustino, Inmaculada Llario Almiñana, Riccardo Aiuto, Roberto Rotundo, Daniele Garcovich
Causal inference concepts applied to three observational studies in the context of vaccine development: from theory to practice
Emilia Gvozdenović, Lucio Malvisi, Elisa Cinconze, Stijn Vansteelandt, Phoebe Nakanwagi, Emmanuel Aris, Dominique Rosillon
Regression models for interval censored data using parametric pseudo-observations
Martin Nygård Johansen, Søren Lundbye-Christensen, Jacob Moesgaard Larsen, Erik Thorlund Parner
A framework for exploring non-response patterns over time in health surveys
Famke J. M. Mölenberg, Chris de Vries, Alex Burdorf, Frank J. van Lenthe
Conducting household surveys on reproductive health in urban settings: lessons from Karachi, Pakistan
Mir Baz Khan, Sidrah Nausheen, Imtiaz Hussain, Kristy Hackett, Kaneez Zehra, Khalid Feroze, David Canning, Iqbal Shah, Sajid Bashir Soofi
A scoping review of studies using observational data to optimise dynamic treatment regimens
Robert K. Mahar, Myra B. McGuinness, Bibhas Chakraborty, John B. Carlin, Maarten J. IJzerman, Julie A. Simpson
Body mass index changes: an assessment of the effects of age and gender using the e-norms method
Joe F. Jabre, Jeremy D.P. Bland
Using a distribution-based approach and systematic review methods to derive minimum clinically important differences
Jennifer A. Watt, Areti Angeliki Veroniki, Andrea C. Tricco, Sharon E. Straus
Analysis of clinical and methodological characteristics of early COVID-19 treatment clinical trials: so much work, so many lost opportunities
Beatrice Mainoli, Tiago Machado, Gonçalo S. Duarte, Luísa Prada, Nilza Gonçalves, Joaquim J. Ferreira, João Costa
A data visualisation method for assessing exposure misclassification in case-crossover studies: the example of tricyclic antidepressants and the risk of hip fracture in older people
Michael J. Leach, Elizabeth E. Roughead, Nicole L. Pratt
Design and implementation of a massive open online course on enhancing the recruitment of minorities in clinical trials – Faster Together
Sheila V. Kusnoor, Victoria Villalta-Gil, Margo Michaels, Yvonne Joosten, Tiffany L. Israel, Marcia I. Epelbaum, Patricia Lee, Elizabeth T. Frakes, Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, Stephanie A. Mayers, Sarah C. Stallings, Nunzia B. Giuse, Paul A. Harris, Consuelo H. Wilkins
Minimal important difference and patient acceptable symptom state for pain, Constant-Murley score and Simple Shoulder Test in patients with subacromial pain syndrome
Kari Kanto, Tuomas Lähdeoja, Mika Paavola, Pasi Aronen, Teppo L. N. Järvinen, Jarkko Jokihaara, Clare L. Ardern, Teemu V. Karjalainen, Simo Taimela
Investigating psychometric properties of the arm activity measure – Thai version (ArmA-TH) sub‐scales using the Rasch model
Montana Buntragulpoontawee, Jeeranan Khunachiva, Patreeya Euawongyarti, Nahathai Wongpakaran, Tinakon Wongpakaran, Atcharee Kaewma, Stephen Ashford
Waist circumference prediction for epidemiological research using gradient boosted trees
Weihong Zhou, Spencer Eckler, Andrew Barszczyk, Alex Waese-Perlman, Yingjie Wang, Xiaoping Gu, Zhong-Ping Feng, Yuzhu Peng, Kang Lee
Reduction in number to treat versus number needed to treat
Chenyang Zhang, Guosheng Yin
Population segmentation of type 2 diabetes mellitus patients and its clinical applications - a scoping review
Jun Jie Benjamin Seng, Amelia Yuting Monteiro, Yu Heng Kwan, Sueziani Binte Zainudin, Chuen Seng Tan, Julian Thumboo, Lian Leng Low
Outbreaks of publications about emerging infectious diseases: the case of SARS-CoV-2 and Zika virus
Aziz Mert Ipekci, Diana Buitrago-Garcia, Kaspar Walter Meili, Fabienne Krauer, Nirmala Prajapati, Shabnam Thapa, Lea Wildisen, Lucia Araujo-Chaveron, Lukas Baumann, Sanam Shah, Tessa Whiteley, Gonzalo Solís-García, Foteini Tsotra, Ivan Zhelyazkov, Hira Imeri, Nicola Low, Michel Jacques Counotte
Measuring test-retest reliability (TRR) of AMSTAR provides moderate to perfect agreement – a contribution to the discussion of the importance of TRR in relation to the psychometric properties of assessment tools
Stefanie Bühn, Peggy Ober, Tim Mathes, Uta Wegewitz, Anja Jacobs, Dawid Pieper
Estimating restricted mean survival time and expected life-years lost in the presence of competing risks within flexible parametric survival models
Sarwar I. Mozumder, Mark J. Rutherford, Paul C. Lambert
Accounting for confounding by time, early intervention adoption, and time-varying effect modification in the design and analysis of stepped-wedge designs: application to a proposed study design to reduce opioid-related mortality
Lior Rennert, Moonseong Heo, Alain H. Litwin, Victor De Gruttola
Challenges, facilitators and barriers to screening study participants in early disease stages-experience from the MACUSTAR study
Jan Henrik Terheyden, Charlotte Behning, Anna Lüning, Ludmila Wintergerst, Pier G. Basile, Diana Tavares, Beatriz A. Melício, Sergio Leal, George Weissgerber, Ulrich F. O. Luhmann, David P. Crabb, Adnan Tufail, Carel Hoyng, Moritz Berger, Matthias Schmid, Rufino Silva, Cecília V. Martinho, José Cunha-Vaz, Frank G. Holz, Robert P. Finger, H. Agostini, F. Bandello, P. Basile, C. Behning, M. Berger, A. Binns, M. Böttger, C. Bouchet, J. E. Brazier, T. Butt, C. Carapezzi, J. Carlton, A. Carneiro, A. Charil, R. Coimbra, D. P. Crabb, J. Cunha-Vaz, C. Dahlke, H. Dunbar, M. Durbin, R. P. Finger, E. Fletcher, H. Floyd, R. Hogg, F. G. Holz, C. Hoyng, J. Krätzschmar, L. Kühlewein, M. Larsen, S. Leal, U. Luhmann, A. Lüning, C. Martinho, B. Melício, S. Mohand-Said, S. Nunes, M. Parravano, D. Pauleikhoff, M. Pfau, S. Pondorfer, S. Poor, S. Priglinger, D. Rowen, G. S. Rubin, J. Sahel, D. Sanches Fernandes, C. Sánchez, M. Saßmannshausen, M. Schmid, S. Schmitz-Valckenberg, H. Schrinner-Fenske, R. Silva, A. Skelly, E. Souied, G. Staurenghi, L. Stöhr, D. Tavares, D. J. Taylor, J. H. Terheyden, S. Thiele, A. Tufail, J. Werner, G. Weissgerber, L. Wintergerst, C. Wojek, N. Zakaria
Group testing can improve the cost-efficiency of prospective-retrospective biomarker studies
Wei Zhang, Zhiwei Zhang, Julia Krushkal, Aiyi Liu
Time dependent hazard ratio estimation using instrumental variables without conditioning on an omitted covariate
Todd A. MacKenzie, Pablo Martinez-Camblor, A. James O’Malley
International representation of authors, editors and research in neurology journals
Teodora Bojanic, Aidan Christopher Tan
Interrupted time series analysis using autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models: a guide for evaluating large-scale health interventions
Andrea L. Schaffer, Timothy A. Dobbins, Sallie-Anne Pearson
Estimates of the mean difference in orthopaedic randomized trials: obligatory yet obscure
Lauri Raittio, Antti Launonen, Ville M. Mattila, Aleksi Reito
Comparing the use of aggregate data and various methods of integrating individual patient data to network meta-analysis and its application to first-line ART
Steve Kanters, Mohammad Ehsanul Karim, Kristian Thorlund, Aslam H. Anis, Michael Zoratti, Nick Bansback
Recruiting general practitioners and patients with dementia into a cluster randomised controlled trial: strategies, barriers and facilitators
Sonia Lech, Julie L. O’Sullivan, Leonard Wellmann, Juliana Supplieth, Susanne Döpfmer, Paul Gellert, Adelheid Kuhlmey, Johanna Nordheim
Fast and optimal algorithm for case-control matching using registry data: application on the antibiotics use of colorectal cancer patients
Pavlos Mamouris, Vahid Nassiri, Geert Molenberghs, Marjan van den Akker, Joep van der Meer, Bert Vaes
Facilitating harmonized data quality assessments. A data quality framework for observational health research data collections with software implementations in R
Carsten Oliver Schmidt, Stephan Struckmann, Cornelia Enzenbach, Achim Reineke, Jürgen Stausberg, Stefan Damerow, Marianne Huebner, Börge Schmidt, Willi Sauerbrei, Adrian Richter
Deep generative models in DataSHIELD
Stefan Lenz, Moritz Hess, Harald Binder
Type I error control for cluster randomized trials under varying small sample structures
Joshua R. Nugent, Ken P. Kleinman
Impact of comorbidity assessment methods to predict non-cancer mortality risk in cancer patients: a retrospective observational study using the National Health Insurance Service claims-based data in Korea
Sanghee Lee, Yoon Jung Chang, Hyunsoon Cho
Comparative diagnostic accuracy studies with an imperfect reference standard – a comparison of correction methods
Chinyereugo M. Umemneku Chikere, Kevin J. Wilson, A. Joy Allen, Luke Vale
A risk assessment tool for resumption of research activities during the COVID-19 pandemic for field trials in low resource settings
Suzanne M. Simkovich, Lisa M. Thompson, Maggie L. Clark, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Alejandra Bussalleu, William Checkley, Thomas Clasen, Victor G. Davila-Roman, Anaite Diaz-Artiga, Ephrem Dusabimana, Lisa de las Fuentes, Steven Harvey, Miles A. Kirby, Amy Lovvorn, Eric D. McCollum, Erick E. Mollinedo, Jennifer L. Peel, Ashlinn Quinn, Ghislaine Rosa, Lindsay J. Underhill, Kendra N. Williams, Bonnie N. Young, Joshua Rosenthal, Vigneswari Aravindalochanan, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Dana Boyd Barr, Vanessa Burrowes, Devan Campbell, Julia Mc Peek Campbell, Eduardo Canuz, Adly Castañaza, Howard Chang, William Checkley, Yunyun Chen, Marilú Chiang, Maggie L. Clark, Thomas Clasen, Rachel Craik, Mary Crocker, Victor Dávila-Román, Lisa de las Fuentes, Oscar De Léon, Anaité Diaz-Artiga, Ephrem Dusabimana, Lisa Elon, Juan Gabriel Espinoza, Irma Sayury Pineda Fuentes, Sarada Garg, Dina Goodman, Savannah Gupton, Meghan Hardison, Stella Hartinger, Steven A. Harvey, Mayari Hengstermann, Phabiola Herrera, Shakir Hossen, Penelope Howards, Lindsay Jaacks, Shirin Jabbarzadeh, Michael A. Johnson, Abigail Jones, Katherine Kearns, Miles Kirby, Jacob Kremer, Margaret Laws, Patricia M. Lenzen, Jiawen Liao, Amy Lovvorn, Fiona Majorin, Eric McCollum, John P. McCracken, Rachel M. Meyers, J. Jaime Miranda, Erick Mollinedo, Lawrence Moulton, Krishnendu Mukhopadhyay, Luke Naeher, Abidan Nambajimana, Florien Ndagijimana, Azhar Nizam, Jean de Dieu Ntivuguruzwa, Aris Papageorghiou, Jennifer Peel, Ricardo Piedrahita, Ajay Pillarisetti, Naveen Puttaswamy, Elisa Puzzolo, Ashlinn Quinn, Sarah Rajkumar, Usha Ramakrishnan, Davis Reardon, Ghislaine Rosa, Joshua Rosenthal, P. Barry Ryan, Zoe Sakas, Sankar Sambandam, Jeremy Sarnat, Suzanne Simkovich, Sheela Sinharoy, Kirk R. Smith, Kyle Steenland, Damien Swearing, Gurusamy Thangavel, Lisa M. Thompson, Ashley K. Toenjes, Lindsay Underhill, Jean Damascene Uwizeyimana, Viviane Valdes, Amit Verma, Lance Waller, Megan Warnock, Kendra Williams, Wenlu Ye, Bonnie N. Young
Phase I dose-escalation oncology trials with sequential multiple schedules
Burak Kürsad Günhan, Sebastian Weber, Abdelkader Seroutou, Tim Friede
The impact of grey zones on the accuracy of agreement measures for ordinal tables
Quoc Duyet Tran, Anil Dolgun, Haydar Demirhan
Investigating factors affecting the interval between a burn and the start of treatment using data mining methods and logistic regression
Touraj Ahmadi-Jouybari, Somayeh Najafi-Ghobadi, Reza Karami-Matin, Saeid Najafian-Ghobadi, Khadijeh Najafi-Ghobadi,
A review of the use of controlled multiple imputation in randomised controlled trials with missing outcome data
Ping-Tee Tan, Suzie Cro, Eleanor Van Vogt, Matyas Szigeti, Victoria R. Cornelius
A demonstration of using formal consensus methods within guideline development; a case study
P. Carter, K. J. M. O’Donoghue, K. Dworzynski, L. O’Shea, V. Roberts, T. Reeves, A. Bastounis, M. A. Mugglestone, J. Fawke, S. Pilling
Utilizing machine learning dimensionality reduction for risk stratification of chest pain patients in the emergency department
Nan Liu, Marcel Lucas Chee, Zhi Xiong Koh, Su Li Leow, Andrew Fu Wah Ho, Dagang Guo, Marcus Eng Hock Ong
Intention-to-treat analysis may be more conservative than per protocol analysis in antibiotic non-inferiority trials: a systematic review
Anthony D. Bai, Adam S. Komorowski, Carson K. L. Lo, Pranav Tandon, Xena X. Li, Vaibhav Mokashi, Anna Cvetkovic, Aidan Findlater, Laurel Liang, George Tomlinson, Mark Loeb, Dominik Mertz
Guidelines are needed for studies of pre-treatment HIV drug resistance: a methodological study
Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Clémence Ongolo-Zogo, Olivia C. Mendoza, Babalwa Zani, Frederick Morfaw, Agatha Nyambi, Annie Wang, Michel Kiflen, Hussein El-Kechen, Alvin Leenus, Mark Youssef, Nadia Rehman, Lucas Hermans, Virginia MacDonald, Silvia Bertagnolio
Characteristics and patient-reported outcomes associated with dropout in severely affected oncological patients: an exploratory study
Pimrapat Gebert, Daniel Schindel, Johann Frick, Liane Schenk, Ulrike Grittner
Generative adversarial networks for imputing missing data for big data clinical research
Weinan Dong, Daniel Yee Tak Fong, Jin-sun Yoon, Eric Yuk Fai Wan, Laura Elizabeth Bedford, Eric Ho Man Tang, Cindy Lo Kuen Lam
Growth mixture models: a case example of the longitudinal analysis of patient‐reported outcomes data captured by a clinical registry
Jae-Yung Kwon, Richard Sawatzky, Jennifer Baumbusch, Sandra Lauck, Pamela A. Ratner
Shifting research culture to address the mismatch between where trials recruit and where populations with the most disease live: a qualitative study
Tanvi Rai, Sharon Dixon, Sue Ziebland
The use of experimental vignette studies to identify drivers of variations in the delivery of health care: a scoping review
Jessica Sheringham, Isla Kuhn, Jenni Burt
Instruments to measure fear of COVID-19: a diagnostic systematic review
Ashley Elizabeth Muller, Jan Peter William Himmels, Stijn Van de Velde
LASSO type penalized spline regression for binary data
Muhammad Abu Shadeque Mullah, James A. Hanley, Andrea Benedetti
Direct modelling of age standardized marginal relative survival through incorporation of time-dependent weights
Paul C. Lambert, Elisavet Syriopoulou, Mark R. Rutherford
Development of a temporally harmonized asset index: evidence from across 50 years of follow up of a birth cohort in Guatemala
Jithin Sam Varghese, John A. Maluccio, Solveig A. Cunningham, Manuel Ramirez-Zea, Aryeh D. Stein
Neutral theory: applicability and neutrality of using generic health-related quality of life tools in diseases or conditions where specific tools are available
Ravi Jandhyala
Using logic regression to characterize extreme heat exposures and their health associations: a time-series study of emergency department visits in Atlanta
Shan Jiang, Joshua L. Warren, Noah Scovronick, Shannon E. Moss, Lyndsey A. Darrow, Matthew J. Strickland, Andrew J. Newman, Yong Chen, Stefanie T. Ebelt, Howard H. Chang
Crowdsourcing citation-screening in a mixed-studies systematic review: a feasibility study
Anna H. Noel-Storr, Patrick Redmond, Guillaume Lamé, Elisa Liberati, Sarah Kelly, Lucy Miller, Gordon Dooley, Andy Paterson, Jenni Burt
A systematic review of the quality of conduct and reporting of survival analyses of tuberculosis outcomes in Africa
Moses M. Ngari, Susanne Schmitz, Christopher Maronga, Lazarus K. Mramba, Michel Vaillant
Data quality assessment and subsampling strategies to correct distributional bias in prevalence studies
A. D’Ambrosio, J. Garlasco, F. Quattrocolo, C. Vicentini, C. M. Zotti
Clinical research activities during COVID-19: the point of view of a promoter of academic clinical trials
Linda Valmorri, Bernadette Vertogen, Chiara Zingaretti, Anna Miserocchi, Roberta Volpi, Alberto Clemente, Isabella Bondi, Irene Valli, Britt Rudnas, Giovanni Martinelli, Oriana Nanni
Stakeholder-engaged process for refining the design of a clinical trial in home hospice
Jennifer Tjia, Margaret Clayton, Germán Chiriboga, Brooke Staples, Geraldine Puerto, Lynley Rappaport, Susan DeSanto-Madeya
Sampling strategies to evaluate the prognostic value of a new biomarker on a time-to-event end-point
Francesca Graziano, Maria Grazia Valsecchi, Paola Rebora
Database selection and data gathering methods in systematic reviews of qualitative research regarding diabetes mellitus - an explorative study
Tobias Justesen, Josefine Freyberg, Anders N. Ø. Schultz
Intra-database validation of case-identifying algorithms using reconstituted electronic health records from healthcare claims data
Nicolas H. Thurin, Pauline Bosco-Levy, Patrick Blin, Magali Rouyer, Jérémy Jové, Stéphanie Lamarque, Séverine Lignot, Régis Lassalle, Abdelilah Abouelfath, Emmanuelle Bignon, Pauline Diez, Marine Gross-Goupil, Michel Soulié, Mathieu Roumiguié, Sylvestre Le Moulec, Marc Debouverie, Bruno Brochet, Francis Guillemin, Céline Louapre, Elisabeth Maillart, Olivier Heinzlef, Nicholas Moore, Cécile Droz-Perroteau
Application of machine learning in predicting hospital readmissions: a scoping review of the literature
Yinan Huang, Ashna Talwar, Satabdi Chatterjee, Rajender R. Aparasu
Dealing with missing delirium assessments in prospective clinical studies of the critically ill: a simulation study and reanalysis of two delirium studies
Rameela Raman, Wencong Chen, Michael O. Harhay, Jennifer L. Thompson, E. Wesley Ely, Pratik P. Pandharipande, Mayur B. Patel
Evaluation by simulation of clinical trial designs for evaluation of treatment during a viral haemorrhagic fever outbreak
Pauline Manchon, Drifa Belhadi, France Mentré, Cédric Laouénan
Using the geometric average hazard ratio in sample size calculation for time-to-event data with composite endpoints
Jordi Cortés Martínez, Ronald B. Geskus, KyungMann Kim, Guadalupe Gómez Melis
A strategy for optimal fitting of multiplicative and additive hazards regression models
François Lefebvre, Roch Giorgi
Quality assessment tools used in systematic reviews of in vitro studies: A systematic review
Linh Tran, Dao Ngoc Hien Tam, Abdelrahman Elshafay, Thao Dang, Kenji Hirayama, Nguyen Tien Huy
Using random forests to model 90-day hometime in people with stroke
Jessalyn K. Holodinsky, Amy Y. X. Yu, Moira K. Kapral, Peter C. Austin
How to specify healthcare process improvements collaboratively using rapid, remote consensus-building: a framework and a case study of its application
Jan W. van der Scheer, Matthew Woodward, Akbar Ansari, Tim Draycott, Cathy Winter, Graham Martin, Karolina Kuberska, Natalie Richards, Ruth Kern, Mary Dixon-Woods, André Sartori, Andy Paterson, Doro Unger-Lee, Joann Leeding, Luke Steer, Amanda Andrews, Rita Arya, Sarah F. Bell, Denise Chaffer, Andrew Cooney, Rachel Corry, Mair G. P. Davies, Lisa Duffy, Caroline Everden, Theresa Fitzpatrick, Courtney Grant, Mark Hellaby, Tracey A. Herlihey, Sue Hignett, Sarah Hookes, Fran R. Ives, Gyuchan T. Jun, Owen J. Marsh, Tanya R. Matthews, Celine McKeown, Alexandra Merriman, Giulia Miles, Susan Millward, Neil Muchatata, David Newton, Valerie G. Noble, Pamela Page, Vincent Pargade, Sharon P. Pickering, Laura Pickup, Dale Richards, Cerys Scarr, Jyoti Sidhu, James Stevenson, Ben Tipney, Stephen Tipper, Jo Wailling, Susan P. Whalley-Lloyd, Christian Wilhelm, Juliet J. Wood
Dynamic prediction based on variability of a longitudinal biomarker
Kristen R. Campbell, Rui Martins, Scott Davis, Elizabeth Juarez-Colunga
A population‐based study to develop juvenile arthritis case definitions for administrative health data using model‐based dynamic classification
Allison Feely, Lily SH Lim, Depeng Jiang, Lisa M. Lix
Methodology of the DCCSS later fatigue study: a model to investigate chronic fatigue in long-term survivors of childhood cancer
Adriaan Penson, Sylvia van Deuren, Ewald Bronkhorst, Ellen Keizer, Tom Heskes, Marieke J. H. Coenen, Judith G. M. Rosmalen, Wim J. E. Tissing, Helena J. H. van der Pal, Andrica C. H. de Vries, Marry M. van den Heuvel-Eibrink, Sebastian Neggers, Birgitta A. B. Versluys, Marloes Louwerens, Margriet van der Heiden-van der Loo, Saskia M. F. Pluijm, Martha Grootenhuis, Nicole Blijlevens, Leontien C. M. Kremer, Eline van Dulmen-den Broeder, Hans Knoop, Jacqueline Loonen
Classifying information-sharing methods
Georgios F. Nikolaidis, Beth Woods, Stephen Palmer, Marta O. Soares
Classification of PR-positive and PR-negative subtypes in ER-positive and HER2-negative breast cancers based on pathway scores
Taobo Hu, Yan Chen, Yiqiang Liu, Danhua Zhang, Jiankang Pan, Mengping Long
Applied comparison of large‐scale propensity score matching and cardinality matching for causal inference in observational research
Stephen P. Fortin, Stephen S Johnston, Martijn J Schuemie
Randomized test-treatment studies with an outlook on adaptive designs
Amra Hot, Patrick M. Bossuyt, Oke Gerke, Simone Wahl, Werner Vach, Antonia Zapf
IPDfromKM: reconstruct individual patient data from published Kaplan-Meier survival curves
Na Liu, Yanhong Zhou, J. Jack Lee
An ego-centred approach for the evaluation of spatial effects on health in urban areas based on parametric semi-variogram models: concept and validation
Odile Sauzet, Janne H. Breiding, Kim A. Zolitschka, Jürgen Breckenkamp, Oliver Razum
A method for assessing robustness of the results of a star-shaped network meta-analysis under the unidentifiable consistency assumption
Jeong-Hwa Yoon, Sofia Dias, Seokyung Hahn
Incorporating single-arm studies in meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials: a simulation study
Janharpreet Singh, Keith R. Abrams, Sylwia Bujkiewicz
Validity of using mobile phone surveys to evaluate community health worker program in Mali
Xiaomeng Chen, Diwakar Mohan, Abdoulaye Maïga, Emily Frost, Djeneba Coulibaly, Luay Basil, Birahim Yaguemar Gueye, Mariam Traore Guindo, Assa Sidibé Keita, Haoua Dembelé Keita, Melissa A. Marx
Discovering the underlying typology of emergency departments
Marine Demarquet, Laurie Fraticelli, Julie Freyssenge, Clément Claustre, Mikaël Martinez, Jonathan Duchenne, Carlos El Khoury, Abdesslam Redjaline, Karim Tazarourte
Open science saves lives: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
Lonni Besançon, Nathan Peiffer-Smadja, Corentin Segalas, Haiting Jiang, Paola Masuzzo, Cooper Smout, Eric Billy, Maxime Deforet, Clémence Leyrat
Strategies for assessing the impact of loss to follow-up on estimates of neurodevelopmental impairment in a very preterm cohort at 2 years of age
Aurélie Piedvache, Stef van Buuren, Henrique Barros, Ana Isabel Ribeiro, Elizabeth Draper, Jennifer Zeitlin, E. Martens, G. Martens, P. Van Reempts, K. Boerch, A. Hasselager, L. D. Huusom, O. Pryds, T. Weber, L. Toome, H. Varendi, Ile-de France, P. Y. Ancel, B. Blondel, A. Burguet, P. H. Jarreau, P. Truffert, R. F. Maier, B. Misselwitz, S. Schmidt, L. Gortner, D. Baronciani, G. Gargano, R. Agostino, D. DiLallo, F. Franco, V. Carnielli, C. Koopman-Esseboom, A. van Heijst, J. Nijman, J. Gadzinowski, J. Mazela, L. M. Graça, M. C. Machado, Carina Rodrigues, T. Rodrigues, A. K. Bonamy, M. Norman, E. Wilson E Boyle, E. S. Draper, B. N. Manktelow, A. C. Fenton, D. W. A. Milligan, J. Zeitlin, M. Bonet, A. Piedvache
Social media attention and citations of published outputs from re-use of clinical trial data: a matched comparison with articles published in the same journals
N. Anthony, C. Pellen, C. Ohmann, D. Moher, F. Naudet
Delays in reporting and publishing trial results during pandemics: cross sectional analysis of 2009 H1N1, 2014 Ebola, and 2016 Zika clinical trials
Christopher W. Jones, Amanda C. Adams, Elizabeth Murphy, Rachel P. King, Benjamin Saracco, Karen R. Stesis, Susan Cavanaugh, Brian W. Roberts, Timothy F. Platts-Mills
Development of a clinical tool for rating the body function categories of the ICF generic-30/rehabilitation set in Japanese rehabilitation practice and examination of its interrater reliability
Yuki Senju, Masahiko Mukaino, Birgit Prodinger, Melissa Selb, Yuki Okouchi, Kouji Mizutani, Megumi Suzuki, Shin Yamada, Shin-Ichi Izumi, Shigeru Sonoda, Yohei Otaka, Eiichi Saitoh, Gerold Stucki
Systematic review and meta analysis of differential attrition between active and control arms in randomized controlled trials of lifestyle interventions in chronic disease
Bevens W, Shoushtari A, Jelinek P, Jelinek GA, Weiland TJ
Most published meta-regression analyses based on aggregate data suffer from methodological pitfalls: a meta-epidemiological study
Michael Geissbühler, Cesar A. Hincapié, Soheila Aghlmandi, Marcel Zwahlen, Peter Jüni, Bruno R. da Costa
Modelling hospital outcome: problems with endogeneity
John L. Moran, John D. Santamaria, Graeme J. Duke
A scoping review of Q-methodology in healthcare research
Kate Churruca, Kristiana Ludlow, Wendy Wu, Kate Gibbons, Hoa Mi Nguyen, Louise A. Ellis, Jeffrey Braithwaite
Development and validation of a risk index to predict kidney graft survival: the kidney transplant risk index
Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Helen Healy, Nicholas Graves, Keshwar Baboolal, Matthew P. Sypek, Adrian Barnett
The minimal perceived change: a formal model of the responder definition according to the patient’s meaning of change for patient-reported outcome data analysis and interpretation
Antoine Vanier, Véronique Sébille, Myriam Blanchin, Jean-Benoit Hardouin
Psychometric properties of instruments to measure parenting practices and children’s movement behaviors in low-income families from Brazil
Widjane Sheila Ferreira Goncalves, Rebecca Byrne, Pedro Israel Cabral de Lira, Marcelo Tavares Viana, Stewart G. Trost
How to analyze work productivity loss due to health problems in randomized controlled trials? A simulation study
Wei Zhang, Huiying Sun
The INSPIRE Population Survey: development, dissemination and respondent characteristics
Flaka Siqeca, Katrina Obas, Olivia Yip, Samuel Stenz, Penelope Vounatsou, Matthias Briel, Matthias Schwenkglenks, Carlos Quinto, Eva Blozik, Andreas Zeller, Leah L. Zullig, Sabina De Geest, Mieke Deschodt
Multiple imputation to quantify misclassification in observational studies of the cognitively impaired: an application for pain assessment in nursing home residents
Anthony P. Nunes, Danni Zhao, William M. Jesdale, Kate L. Lapane
Strengthening methods for tracking adaptations and modifications to implementation strategies
Amber D. Haley, Byron J. Powell, Callie Walsh-Bailey, Molly Krancari, Inga Gruß, Christopher M. Shea, Arwen Bunce, Miguel Marino, Leah Frerichs, Kristen Hassmiller Lich, Rachel Gold
Comparison of six statistical methods for interrupted time series studies: empirical evaluation of 190 published series
Simon L. Turner, Amalia Karahalios, Andrew B. Forbes, Monica Taljaard, Jeremy M. Grimshaw, Joanne E. McKenzie
Risk prediction in multicentre studies when there is confounding by cluster or informative cluster size
Menelaos Pavlou, Gareth Ambler, Rumana Z. Omar
Noncollapsibility and its role in quantifying confounding bias in logistic regression
Noah A. Schuster, Jos W. R. Twisk, Gerben ter Riet, Martijn W. Heymans, Judith J. M. Rijnhart
Bayesian updating: increasing sample size during the course of a study
Mirjam Moerbeek
Comparing regression modeling strategies for predicting hometime
Jessalyn K. Holodinsky, Amy Y. X. Yu, Moira K. Kapral, Peter C. Austin
Consequences of ignoring clustering in linear regression
Georgia Ntani, Hazel Inskip, Clive Osmond, David Coggon
Managing overlap of primary study results across systematic reviews: practical considerations for authors of overviews of reviews
Carole Lunny, Dawid Pieper, Pierre Thabet, Salmaan Kanji
Translation, transcultural adaptation and validation to Brazilian Portuguese of tools for adverse drug reaction assessment in children
Elisangela da Costa Lima, Thais de Barros Fernandes, Adair Freitas, Juliana Freire de Lima Sias, Marcelo Gerardin Poirot Land, Mariana Tschoepke Aires, Louise Bracken, Matthew Peak
Evaluating the relationship between citation set size, team size and screening methods used in systematic reviews: a cross-sectional study
Katie O’Hearn, Cameron MacDonald, Anne Tsampalieros, Leo Kadota, Ryan Sandarage, Supun Kotteduwa Jayawarden, Michele Datko, John M. Reynolds, Thanh Bui, Shagufta Sultan, Margaret Sampson, Misty Pratt, Nick Barrowman, Nassr Nama, Matthew Page, James Dayre McNally
RITS: a toolbox for assessing complex interventions via interrupted time series models
Maricela Cruz, Marco A. Pinto-Orellana, Daniel L. Gillen, Hernando C. Ombao
A new likelihood model for analyses of pharmacoepidemiologic case–control studies which avoids decision rules for determining latent exposure status
Henrik Støvring, Anton Pottegård, Jesper Hallas
Survey design and analysis considerations when utilizing misclassified sampling strata
Aya A. Mitani, Nathaniel D. Mercaldo, Sebastien Haneuse, Jonathan S. Schildcrout
Absolute mortality risk assessment of COVID-19 patients: the Khorshid COVID Cohort (KCC) study
Hamid Reza Marateb, Maja von Cube, Ramin Sami, Shaghayegh Haghjooy Javanmard, Marjan Mansourian, Babak Amra, Forogh Soltaninejad, Mojgan Mortazavi, Peyman Adibi, Nilufar Khademi, Nastaran Sadat Hosseini, Arash Toghyani, Razieh Hassannejad, Miquel Angel Mañanas, Harald Binder, Martin Wolkewitz
Need of care in interpreting Google Trends-based COVID-19 infodemiological study results: potential risk of false-positivity
Kenichiro Sato, Tatsuo Mano, Atsushi Iwata, Tatsushi Toda
Assessing the risk of performance and detection bias in Cochrane reviews as a joint domain is less accurate compared to two separate domains
Ognjen Barcot, Matija Boric, Svjetlana Dosenovic, Livia Puljak
Statistical analysis of two arm randomized pre-post designs with one post-treatment measurement
Fei Wan
High performance implementation of the hierarchical likelihood for generalized linear mixed models: an application to estimate the potassium reference range in massive electronic health records datasets
Cristian G. Bologa, Vernon Shane Pankratz, Mark L. Unruh, Maria Eleni Roumelioti, Vallabh Shah, Saeed Kamran Shaffi, Soraya Arzhan, John Cook, Christos Argyropoulos
Characteristics and practices of school-based cluster randomised controlled trials for improving health outcomes in pupils in the United Kingdom: a methodological systematic review
Kitty Parker, Michael Nunns, ZhiMin Xiao, Tamsin Ford, Obioha C. Ukoumunne
A multiyear systematic survey of the quality of reporting for randomised trials in dentistry, neurology and geriatrics published in journals of Spain and Latin America
Vivienne C. Bachelet, María S. Navarrete, Constanza Barrera-Riquelme, Víctor A. Carrasco, Matías Dallaserra, Rubén A. Díaz, Álvaro A. Ibarra, Francisca J. Lizana, Nicolás Meza-Ducaud, Macarena G. Saavedra, Camila Tapia-Davegno, Alonso F. Vergara, Julio Villanueva
Overcoming the problems caused by collinearity in mixed-effects logistic model: determining the contribution of various types of violence on depression in pregnant women
Sanaz Khalili, Javad Faradmal, Hossein Mahjub, Babak Moeini, Khadijeh Ezzati-Rastegar
A new hybrid record linkage process to make epidemiological databases interoperable: application to the GEMO and GENEPSO studies involving BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers
Yue Jiao, Fabienne Lesueur, Chloé-Agathe Azencott, Maïté Laurent, Noura Mebirouk, Lilian Laborde, Juana Beauvallet, Marie-Gabrielle Dondon, Séverine Eon-Marchais, Anthony Laugé, Nadia Boutry-Kryza, Alain Calender, Sophie Giraud, Mélanie Léone, Brigitte Bressac-de-Paillerets, Olivier Caron, Marine Guillaud-Bataille, Yves-Jean Bignon, Nancy Uhrhammer, Valérie Bonadona, Christine Lasset, Pascaline Berthet, Laurent Castera, Dominique Vaur, Violaine Bourdon, Catherine Noguès, Tetsuro Noguchi, Cornel Popovici, Audrey Remenieras, Hagay Sobol, Isabelle Coupier, Pierre-Olivier Harmand, Pascal Pujol, Paul Vilquin, Aurélie Dumont, Françoise Révillion, Danièle Muller, Emmanuelle Barouk-Simonet, Françoise Bonnet, Virginie Bubien, Michel Longy, Nicolas Sévenet, Laurence Gladieff, Rosine Guimbaud, Viviane Feillel, Christine Toulas, Hélène Dreyfus, Dominique Leroux, Magalie Peysselon, Christine Rebischung, Amandine Baurand, Geoffrey Bertolone, Fanny Coron, Laurence Faivre, Vincent Goussot, Caroline Jacquot, Caroline Sawka, Caroline Kientz, Marine Lebrun, Fabienne Prieur, Sandra Fert-Ferrer, Véronique Mari, Laurence Vénat-Bouvet, Stéphane Bézieau, Capucine Delnatte, Isabelle Mortemousque, Florence Coulet, Florent Soubrier, Mathilde Warcoin, Myriam Bronner, Sarab Lizard, Johanna Sokolowska, Marie-Agnès Collonge-Rame, Alexandre Damette, Paul Gesta, Hakima Lallaoui, Jean Chiesa, Denise Molina-Gomes, Olivier Ingster, Sylvie Manouvrier-Hanu, Sophie Lejeune, Catherine Noguès, Lilian Laborde, Pauline Pontois, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Marion Gauthier-Villars, Bruno Buecher, Olivier Caron, Emmanuelle Mouret-Fourme, Jean-Pierre Fricker, Christine Lasset, Valérie Bonadona, Pascaline Berthet, Laurence Faivre, Elisabeth Luporsi, Marc Frénay, Laurence Gladieff, Paul Gesta, Hagay Sobol, François Eisinger, Jessica Moretta, Michel Longy, Catherine Dugast, Chrystelle Colas, Florent Soubrier, Isabelle Coupier, Pascal Pujol, Alain Lortholary, Philippe Vennin, Claude Adenis, Tan Dat Nguyen, Capucine Delnatte, Annick Rossi, Julie Tinat, Isabelle Tennevet, Jean-Marc Limacher, Christine Maugard, Yves-Jean Bignon, Liliane Demange, Hélène Dreyfus, Odile Cohen-Haguenauer, Brigitte Gilbert, Dominique Leroux, Hélène Zattara-Cannoni, Catherine Noguès, Nadine Andrieu, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Sandrine M. Caputo
Correction to: How to specify healthcare process improvements collaboratively using rapid, remote consensus-building: a frame work and a case study of its application
Jan W. van der Scheer, Matthew Woodward, Akbar Ansari, Tim Draycott, Cathy Winter, Graham Martin, Karolina Kuberska, Natalie Richards, Ruth Kern, Mary Dixon-Woods
A new method for testing reproducibility in systematic reviews was developed, but needs more testing
Dawid Pieper, Simone Heß, Clovis Mariano Faggion Jr.
Machine learning in medicine: a practical introduction to natural language processing
Conrad J. Harrison, Chris J. Sidey-Gibbons
Use of machine learning techniques to identify HIV predictors for screening in sub-Saharan Africa
Charles K. Mutai, Patrick E. McSharry, Innocent Ngaruye, Edouard Musabanganji
Central data monitoring in the multicentre randomised SafeBoosC-III trial – a pragmatic approach
Markus Harboe Olsen, Mathias Lühr Hansen, Sanam Safi, Janus Christian Jakobsen, Gorm Greisen, Christian Gluud, Adelina Pellicer, Agata Bargiel, Andrew Hopper, Anita Truttmann, Anja Klamer, Anne Marie Heuchan, Asli Memisoglu, Barbara Krolak-Olejnik, Beata Rzepecka, Bergona Loureiro, Chantal Lecart, Cornelia Hagmann, Ebru Ergenekon, Eleftheria Hatzidaki, Emmanuele Mastretta, Eugene Dempsey, Evangelina Papathoma, Fang Lou, Gabriel Dimitriou, Gerhard Pichler, Giovanni Vento, Gitte Holst Hahn, Gunnar Naulaers, Guoqiang Cheng, Hans Fuchs, Hilal Ozkan, Isabel De Las Cuevas, Iwona Sadowska-Krawczenko, Jakub Tkaczyk, Jan Sirc, Jinhua Zhang, Jonathan Mintzer, Julie De Buyst, Karen McCall, Klaudiusz Bober, Kosmas Sarafidis, Lars Bender, Laura Serrano Lopez, Lina Chalak, Ling Yang, Luc Cornette, Luis Arruza, Mariana Baserga, Martin Stocker, Massimo Agosti, Merih Cetinkaya, Miguel Alsina, Monica Fumagalli, Olalla Lóepez Suarez, Olalla Otero, Olivier Baud, Pamela Zafra, Peter Agergaard, Pierre Maton, Renaud Viellevoye, Ruth del Rio Florentino, Ryszard Lauterbach, Salvador Piris Borregas, Saudamini Nesargi, Segundo Rite, Shashidhar Rao, Shujuan Zeng, Silvia Pisoni, Simon Hyttel-Sørensen, Siv Fredly, Suna Oguz, Tanja Karen, Tomasz Szczapa, Xiaoyan Gao, Xin Xu, Zhaoqing Yin
Predisposing factors of long-term responsiveness in a cardio-metabolic cohort: Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study
Leila Cheraghi, Parisa Amiri, Golnaz Vahedi-Notash, Sara Jalali-Farahani, Davood Khalili, Fereidoun Azizi
Comparison of prevalence and exposure-disease associations using self-report and hospitalization data among enrollees of the world trade center health registry
Howard E. Alper, Jennifer Brite, James E. Cone, Robert M. Brackbill
Hospital workers mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: methods of data collection and characteristics of study sample in a university hospital in Milan (Italy)
A Fattori, F Cantù, A Comotti, V Tombola, E Colombo, C Nava, L Bordini, L Riboldi, M Bonzini, P Brambilla
Quantifying and communicating the burden of COVID-19
Maja von Cube, Jéan-Francois Timsit, Andreas Kammerlander, Martin Schumacher
Negative SARS-CoV-2 PCR or rapid antigen test result and the subsequent risk of being infectious: a mathematical simulation study
Ralf Krumkamp, Benno Kreuels, Veronika K. Jaeger, Jürgen May, Rafael Mikolajczyk, André Karch
Symptom clusters among cancer survivors: what can machine learning techniques tell us?
Koen I. Neijenhuijs, Carel F. W. Peeters, Henk van Weert, Pim Cuijpers, Irma Verdonck-de Leeuw
Evaluation of a geriatrics primary care model using prospective matching to guide enrollment
Valerie A. Smith, Courtney Harold Van Houtven, Jennifer H. Lindquist, Susan N. Hastings
A roadmap to using randomization in clinical trials
Vance W. Berger, Louis Joseph Bour, Kerstine Carter, Jonathan J. Chipman, Colin C. Everett, Nicole Heussen, Catherine Hewitt, Ralf-Dieter Hilgers, Yuqun Abigail Luo, Jone Renteria, Yevgen Ryeznik, Oleksandr Sverdlov, Diane Uschner, Robert A Beckman
Creating efficiencies in the extraction of data from randomized trials: a prospective evaluation of a machine learning and text mining tool
Allison Gates, Michelle Gates, Shannon Sim, Sarah A. Elliott, Jennifer Pillay, Lisa Hartling
Modeling of atrophy size trajectories: variable transformation, prediction and age-of-onset estimation
Charlotte Behning, Monika Fleckenstein, Maximilian Pfau, Christine Adrion, Lukas Goerdt, Moritz Lindner, Steffen Schmitz-Valckenberg, Frank G Holz, Matthias Schmid
Using web conferencing to engage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people in research: a feasibility study
Kate Anderson, Alana Gall, Tamara Butler, Brian Arley, Kirsten Howard, Alan Cass, Gail Garvey
Two-stage sampling in the estimation of growth parameters and percentile norms: sample weights versus auxiliary variable estimation
George Vamvakas, Courtenay Norbury, Andrew Pickles
Correction to: Applied comparison of large-scale propensity score matching and cardinality matching for causal inference in observational research
Stephen P. Fortin, Stephen S. Johnston, Martijn J. Schuemie
Use of research electronic data capture (REDCap) in a COVID-19 randomized controlled trial: a practical example
Sina Kianersi, Maya Luetke, Christina Ludema, Alexander Valenzuela, Molly Rosenberg
The effect of home visits as an additional recruitment step on the composition of the final sample: a cross-sectional analysis in two study centers of the German National Cohort (NAKO)
Lilian Krist, Ahmed Bedir, Julia Fricke, Alexander Kluttig, Rafael Mikolajczyk
Impact of a non-constant baseline hazard on detection of time-dependent treatment effects: a simulation study
Kim Jachno, Stephane Heritier, Rory Wolfe
Recruitment principles and strategies for supportive care research in pediatric oncology
Natalie Bradford, Christine Cashion, Paula Condon, Shelley Rumble, Alison Bowers
Predicting postoperative surgical site infection with administrative data: a random forests algorithm
Yelena Petrosyan, Kednapa Thavorn, Glenys Smith, Malcolm Maclure, Roanne Preston, Carl van Walravan, Alan J. Forster
Evaluating the impact of covariate lookback times on performance of patient-level prediction models
Jill Hardin, Jenna M. Reps
Evaluation of statistical methods used in the analysis of interrupted time series studies: a simulation study
Simon L. Turner, Andrew B. Forbes, Amalia Karahalios, Monica Taljaard, Joanne E. McKenzie
Investigator initiated trials versus industry sponsored trials - translation of randomized controlled trials into clinical practice (IMPACT)
Anette Blümle, Katharina Wollmann, Karin Bischoff, Philipp Kapp, Szimonetta Lohner, Edris Nury, Kai Nitschke, Jasmin Zähringer, Gerta Rücker, Martin Schumacher
Applying a novel approach to scoping review incorporating artificial intelligence: mapping the natural history of gonorrhoea
Jane Whelan, Mohammad Ghoniem, Nicolas Médoc, Mike Apicella, Ekkehard Beck
A meta-review demonstrates improved reporting quality of qualitative reviews following the publication of COREQ- and ENTREQ-checklists, regardless of modest uptake
Y. de Jong, E. M. van der Willik, J. Milders, C. G. N. Voorend, Rachael L. Morton, F. W. Dekker, Y. Meuleman, M. van Diepen
Strategies to maximise study retention and limit attrition bias in a prospective cohort study of men reporting a history of injecting drug use released from prison: the prison and transition health study
Ashleigh Cara Stewart, Reece Cossar, Shelley Walker, Anna Lee Wilkinson, Brendan Quinn, Paul Dietze, Rebecca Winter, Amy Kirwan, Michael Curtis, James R. P. Ogloff, Stuart Kinner, Campbell Aitken, Tony Butler, Emma Woods, Mark Stoové
A Bayesian latent class mixture model with censoring for correlation analysis in antimicrobial resistance across populations
Min Zhang, Chong Wang, Annette M. O’Connor
Clinical researchers’ lived experiences with data quality monitoring in clinical trials: a qualitative study
Lauren Houston, Ping Yu, Allison Martin, Yasmine Probst
Patient-centered infertility questionnaire for female clients (PCIQ-F): part I: questionnaire development
Hana Hasan Webair, Tengku Alina Tengku Ismail, Shaiful Bahari Ismail, Azza Jameel Khaffaji, Nik Hazlina Nik Hussain, Azidah Abdul Kadir, Rosediani Muhamad, Fatin Aina Abu Bakar, Nur Raihan Ismail, Nagwa Badri
Conducting proportional meta-analysis in different types of systematic reviews: a guide for synthesisers of evidence
Timothy Hugh Barker, Celina Borges Migliavaca, Cinara Stein, Verônica Colpani, Maicon Falavigna, Edoardo Aromataris, Zachary Munn
Minimizing bias in massive multi-arm observational studies with BCAUS: balancing covariates automatically using supervision
Chinmay Belthangady, Will Stedden, Beau Norgeot
Mitigating selection bias in organ allocation models
Erin M. Schnellinger, Edward Cantu III, Michael O. Harhay, Douglas E. Schaubel, Stephen E. Kimmel, Alisa J. Stephens-Shields
An improved method for the effect estimation of the intermediate event on the outcome based on the susceptible pre-identification
Haixia Hu, Ling Wang, Chen Li, Wei Ge, Jielai Xia
A comparative study of forest methods for time-to-event data: variable selection and predictive performance
Yingxin Liu, Shiyu Zhou, Hongxia Wei, Shengli An
Measuring advance care planning behavior in Dutch adults: translation, cultural adaptation and validation of the Advance Care Planning Engagement Survey
Doris van der Smissen, Agnes van der Heide, Rebecca L. Sudore, Judith A. C. Rietjens, Ida J. Korfage
Can the adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) checklist be utilized to predict emergency department visits among children and adolescents?
Asmita Bhattarai, Gina Dimitropoulos, Brian Marriott, Jaime Paget, Andrew G. M. Bulloch, Suzanne C. Tough, Scott B. Patten
Statistical model building: Background “knowledge” based on inappropriate preselection causes misspecification
Lorena Hafermann, Heiko Becher, Carolin Herrmann, Nadja Klein, Georg Heinze, Geraldine Rauch
Analytical challenges in estimating the effect of exposures that are bounded by follow-up time: experiences from the Blood Stream Infection—Focus on Outcomes study
Rebecca Evans, Katie Pike, Alasdair MacGowan, Chris A. Rogers
Joint latent class model: Simulation study of model properties and application to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis disease
Maéva Kyheng, Génia Babykina, Camille Ternynck, David Devos, Julien Labreuche, Alain Duhamel
To tune or not to tune, a case study of ridge logistic regression in small or sparse datasets
Hana Šinkovec, Georg Heinze, Rok Blagus, Angelika Geroldinger
Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) to identify optimal sequences of telemedicine interventions for improving initiation of insulin therapy: A simulation study
Xiaoxi Yan, David B. Matchar, Nirmali Sivapragasam, John P. Ansah, Aastha Goel, Bibhas Chakraborty
Chi-square test under indeterminacy: an application using pulse count data
Muhammad Aslam
Patient-centered practices for engaging transgender and gender diverse patients in clinical research studies
Andrew Asquith, Lauren Sava, Alexander B. Harris, Asa E. Radix, Dana J. Pardee, Sari L. Reisner
Embedding mentoring to support trial processes and implementation fidelity in a randomised controlled trial of vocational rehabilitation for stroke survivors
Kristelle Craven, Jain Holmes, Katie Powers, Sara Clarke, Rachel L. Cripps, Rebecca Lindley, Julie Phillips, Ruth Tyerman, Christopher McKevitt, David Clarke, Kathryn Radford
Assessing the hospital volume-outcome relationship in surgery: a scoping review
Mathieu Levaillant, Romaric Marcilly, Lucie Levaillant, Philippe Michel, Jean-François Hamel-Broza, Benoît Vallet, Antoine Lamer
Quantifying parent engagement in the randomized Fuel for Fun impact study identified design considerations and BMI relationships
Barbara Lohse, Leslie Cunningham-Sabo
Effects of different invitation strategies on participation in a cohort study of Iranian public sector employees: a cluster randomized trial
Rezvan Rajabzadeh, Leila Janani, Seyed Abbas Motevalian
Methods for the inclusion of real-world evidence in network meta-analysis
David A. Jenkins, Humaira Hussein, Reynaldo Martina, Pascale Dequen-O’Byrne, Keith R. Abrams, Sylwia Bujkiewicz
Joint modelling of multivariate longitudinal clinical laboratory safety outcomes, concomitant medication and clinical adverse events: application to artemisinin-based treatment during pregnancy clinical trial
Noel Patson, Mavuto Mukaka, Umberto D’Alessandro, Gertrude Chapotera, Victor Mwapasa, Don Mathanga, Lawrence Kazembe, Miriam K. Laufer, Tobias Chirwa
What do stroke survivors’ value about participating in research and what are the most important research problems related to stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA)? A survey
Ishanka Weerasekara, Jasmine Baye, Meredith Burke, Gary Crowfoot, Gillian Mason, Rachael Peak, Dawn Simpson, Frederick Rohan Walker, Michael Nilsson, Michael Pollack, Coralie English
Determining diagnosis date of diabetes using structured electronic health record (EHR) data: the SEARCH for diabetes in youth study
Kristin M. Lenoir, Lynne E. Wagenknecht, Jasmin Divers, Ramon Casanova, Dana Dabelea, Sharon Saydah, Catherine Pihoker, Angela D. Liese, Debra Standiford, Richard Hamman, Brian J. Wells
Employing multiple synchronous outcome samples per subject to improve study efficiency
Roger P. A’Hern
Are morbidity and mortality estimates from randomized controlled trials externally valid? A comparison of outcomes among infants enrolled into an RCT or a cohort study in Botswana
Neil Thivalapill, Shahin Lockman, Kathleen Powis, Rebecca Zash, Jean Leidner, Gbolahan Ajibola, Mompati Mmalane, Joseph Makhema, Roger L. Shapiro
Predictive P-score for treatment ranking in Bayesian network meta-analysis
Kristine J. Rosenberger, Rui Duan, Yong Chen, Lifeng Lin
A novel weighting method to remove bias from within-subject exposure dependency in case-crossover studies
Kiyoshi Kubota, Thu-Lan Kelly, Tsugumichi Sato, Nicole Pratt, Elizabeth Roughead, Takuhiro Yamaguchi
Analysis of COVID-19 data using neutrosophic Kruskal Wallis H test
Rehan Ahmad Khan Sherwani, Huma Shakeel, Wajiha Batool Awan, Maham Faheem, Muhammad Aslam
Random survival forests for dynamic predictions of a time-to-event outcome using a longitudinal biomarker
Kaci L Pickett, Krithika Suresh, Kristen R Campbell, Scott Davis, Elizabeth Juarez-Colunga
GoodReports: developing a website to help health researchers find and use reporting guidelines
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Statistical reanalysis of vascular event outcomes in primary and secondary vascular prevention trials
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