Ausgabe 1/2004
Inhalt (30 Artikel)
Erratum to: A simple method for analyzing data from a randomized trial with a missing binary outcome
Stuart G Baker, Laurence S Freedman
Cluster randomized trial of an active, multifaceted information dissemination intervention based on The WHO Reproductive health library to change obstetric practices: methods and design issues [ISRCTN14055385]
A Metin Gülmezoglu, José Villar, Jeremy Grimshaw, Gilda Piaggio, Pisake Lumbiganon, Ana Langer
Composition of the editorial boards of leading medical education journals
Oktay Tutarel
Can the caged bird sing? Reflections on the application of qualitative research methods to case study design in homeopathic medicine
Trevor DB Thompson
Finding qualitative research: an evaluation of search strategies
Rachel L Shaw, Andrew Booth, Alex J Sutton, Tina Miller, Jonathan A Smith, Bridget Young, David R Jones, Mary Dixon-Woods
The role of the clinical research coordinator – data manager – in oncology clinical trials
Fernando Rico-Villademoros, Teresa Hernando, Juan-Luis Sanz, Antonio López-Alonso, Oscar Salamanca, Carlos Camps, Rafael Rosell
Binary classification of dyslipidemia from the waist-to-hip ratio and body mass index: a comparison of linear, logistic, and CART models
Michael C Costanza, Fred Paccaud
Patient recruitment to a randomized clinical trial of behavioral therapy for chronic heart failure
Bei-Hung Chang, Ann M Hendricks, Mara T Slawsky, Joseph S Locastro
Intracluster correlation coefficients in cluster randomized trials: empirical insights into how should they be reported
Marion K Campbell, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Diana R Elbourne
What is the value of social values? The uselessness of assessing health-related quality of life through preference measures
Luis Prieto, José A Sacristán
Comparing breast cancer mortality rates before-and-after a change in availability of screening in different regions: Extension of the paired availability design
Stuart G Baker, Barrett S Kramer, Philip C Prorok
Incongruence between test statistics and P values in medical papers
Emili García-Berthou, Carles Alcaraz
The level of non-citation of articles within a journal as a measure of quality: a comparison to the impact factor
Andy R Weale, Mick Bailey, Paul A Lear
The Platino project: methodology of a multicenter prevalence survey of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in major Latin American cities
Ana MB Menezes, Cesar G Victora, Rogelio Perez-Padilla
WHO systematic review of maternal mortality and morbidity: methodological issues and challenges
A Metin Gülmezoglu, Lale Say, Ana P Betrán, Jose Villar, Gilda Piaggio
Meta-analytic methods for pooling rates when follow-up duration varies: a case study
James P Guevara, Jesse A Berlin, Fredric M Wolf
Evaluating heterogeneity in cumulative meta-analyses
Elmer V Villanueva, Silva Zavarsek
Assessing harmful effects in systematic Reviews
Heather M McIntosh, Nerys F Woolacott, Anne-Marie Bagnall
Cluster randomised trials in the medical literature: two bibliometric surveys
J Martin Bland
A systematic review of the content of critical appraisal tools
Persis Katrak, Andrea E Bialocerkowski, Nicola Massy-Westropp, VS Saravana Kumar, Karen A Grimmer
Participant characteristics associated with withdrawal from a large randomized trial of spermicide effectiveness
Elizabeth G Raymond, Pai Lien Chen, Bosny Pierre-Louis, Joanne Luoto, Kurt T Barnhart, Lynn Bradley, Mitchell D Creinin, Alfred Poindexter, Livia Wan, Mark Martens, Robert Schenken, Cate F Nicholas, Richard Blackwell
The fallacy of enrolling only high-risk subjects in cancer prevention trials: Is there a "free lunch"?
Stuart G Baker, Barnett S Kramer, Donald Corle
"Any other comments?" Open questions on questionnaires – a bane or a bonus to research?
Alicia O'Cathain, Kate J Thomas
Random allocation software for parallel group randomized trials
Mahmood Saghaei
Proportional odds ratio model for comparison of diagnostic tests in meta-analysis
Mir Said Siadaty, Jianfen Shu
A survey of statistics in three UK general practice journal
Alan S Rigby, Gillian K Armstrong, Michael J Campbell, Nick Summerton
A suite of web applications to streamline the interdisciplinary collaboration in secondary data analyses
Ricardo Pietrobon, Ulrich Guller, Henrique Martins, Andreia P Menezes, Laurence D Higgins, Danny O Jacobs
Observed intra-cluster correlation coefficients in a cluster survey sample of patient encounters in general practice in Australia
Stephanie A Knox, Patty Chondros