Ausgabe 1/2006
Inhalt (58 Artikel)
Sequential boundaries approach in clinical trials with unequal allocation ratios
Peyman Jafari, Seyyed Mohammad Taghi Ayatollahi, Javad Behboodian
Protocol of the COSMIN study: COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments
LB Mokkink, CB Terwee, DL Knol, PW Stratford, J Alonso, DL Patrick, LM Bouter, HCW de Vet
Room for improvement? A survey of the methods used in systematic reviews of adverse effects
Su Golder, Yoon Loke, Heather M McIntosh
Searching for observational studies: what does citation tracking add to PubMed? A case study in depression and coronary heart disease
Hannah Kuper, Amanda Nicholson, Harry Hemingway
Maximising response to postal questionnaires – A systematic review of randomised trials in health research
Rachel A Nakash, Jane L Hutton, Ellen C Jørstad-Stein, Simon Gates, Sarah E Lamb
Does sampling using random digit dialling really cost more than sampling from telephone directories: Debunking the myths
Baohui Yang, Margo Eyeson-Annan
Can electronic search engines optimize screening of search results in systematic reviews: an empirical study
Margaret Sampson, Nicholas J Barrowman, David Moher, Tammy J Clifford, Robert W Platt, Andra Morrison, Terry P Klassen, Li Zhang
CUSUM: A tool for early feedback about performance?
Winston R Chang, Ian P McLean
Evaluation of QUADAS, a tool for the quality assessment of diagnostic accuracy studies
Penny F Whiting, Marie E Weswood, Anne WS Rutjes, Johannes B Reitsma, Patrick NM Bossuyt, Jos Kleijnen
Methodological quality of systematic reviews of animal studies: a survey of reviews of basic research
Luciano E Mignini, Khalid S Khan
An investigation of minimisation criteria
Angie Wade, Huiqi Pan, Simon Eaton, Agostino Pierro, Evelyn Ong
Reproducibility of the STARD checklist: an instrument to assess the quality of reporting of diagnostic accuracy studies
Nynke Smidt, Anne WS Rutjes, Daniëlle AWM van der Windt, Raymond WJG Ostelo, Patrick M Bossuyt, Johannes B Reitsma, Lex M Bouter, Henrica CW de Vet
Beyond logistic regression: structural equations modelling for binary variables and its application to investigating unobserved confounders
Emil Kupek
Reviewer agreement trends from four years of electronic submissions of conference abstract
Brian H Rowe, Trevor L Strome, Carol Spooner, Sandra Blitz, Eric Grafstein, Andrew Worster
How good is probabilistic record linkage to reconstruct reproductive histories? Results from the Aberdeen children of the 1950s study
Dorothea Nitsch, Susan Morton, Bianca L DeStavola, Heather Clark, David A Leon
Using intervention time series analyses to assess the effects of imperfectly identifiable natural events: a general method and example
Stuart Gilmour, Louisa Degenhardt, Wayne Hall, Carolyn Day
Planning a cluster randomized trial with unequal cluster sizes: practical issues involving continuous outcomes
Lydia Guittet, Philippe Ravaud, Bruno Giraudeau
Multivariable risk prediction can greatly enhance the statistical power of clinical trial subgroup analysis
Rodney A Hayward, David M Kent, Sandeep Vijan, Timothy P Hofer
Scratch lottery tickets are a poor incentive to respond to mailed questionnaires
Vilhjalmur Finsen, Andreas H Storeheier
Intra-cluster correlation coefficients in adults with diabetes in primary care practices: the Vermont Diabetes Information System field survey
Benjamin Littenberg, Charles D MacLean
The impact of imprecisely measured covariates on estimating gene-environment interactions
Darren C Greenwood, Mark S Gilthorpe, Janet E Cade
Identifying systematic reviews of the adverse effects of health care interventions
Su Golder, Heather M McIntosh, Yoon Loke
Optimizing search strategies to identify randomized controlled trials in MEDLINE
Li Zhang, Isola Ajiferuke, Margaret Sampson
Interval estimation and optimal design for the within-subject coefficient of variation for continuous and binary variables
Mohamed M Shoukri, Nasser Elkum, Stephen D Walter
The fading of reported effectiveness. A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
Bernhard T Gehr, Christel Weiss, Franz Porzsolt
Motor function in Parkinson's disease and supranuclear palsy: simultaneous factor analysis of a clinical scale in several populations
Pieter M Kroonenberg, Frans J Oort, Glenn T Stebbins, Sue E Leurgans, Esther Cubo, Christopher G Goetz
Does updating improve the methodological and reporting quality of systematic reviews?
Beverley Shea, Maarten Boers, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Candyce Hamel, Lex M Bouter
How much does pre-trial testing influence complex intervention trials and would more testing make any difference? An email survey
Shaun Treweek, Frank Sullivan
Circular instead of hierarchical: methodological principles for the evaluation of complex interventions
Harald Walach, Torkel Falkenberg, Vinjar Fønnebø, George Lewith, Wayne B Jonas
The demise of the randomised controlled trial: bibliometric study of the German-language health care literature, 1948 to 2004
Daniel Galandi, Guido Schwarzer, Gerd Antes
Meta-DiSc: a software for meta-analysis of test accuracy data
Javier Zamora, Victor Abraira, Alfonso Muriel, Khalid Khan, Arri Coomarasamy
Calculating confidence intervals for impact numbers
Mandy Hildebrandt, Ralf Bender, Ulrich Gehrmann, Maria Blettner
An alternative to the hand searching gold standard: validating methodological search filters using relative recall
Margaret Sampson, Li Zhang, Andra Morrison, Nicholas J Barrowman, Tammy J Clifford, Robert W Platt, Terry P Klassen, David Moher
Increasing recruitment to randomised trials: a review of randomised controlled trials
Judith M Watson, David J Torgerson
Conducting a critical interpretive synthesis of the literature on access to healthcare by vulnerable groups
Mary Dixon-Woods, Debbie Cavers, Shona Agarwal, Ellen Annandale, Antony Arthur, Janet Harvey, Ron Hsu, Savita Katbamna, Richard Olsen, Lucy Smith, Richard Riley, Alex J Sutton
Identification of candidate categories of the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF) for a Generic ICF Core Setbased on regression modelling
Alarcos Cieza, Szilvia Geyh, Somnath Chatterji, Nenad Kostanjsek, Bedirhan T Üstün, Gerold Stucki
Country development and manuscript selection bias: a review of published studies
Reza Yousefi-Nooraie, Behnam Shakiba, Soroush Mortaz-Hejri
Estimation of dynamical model parameters taking into account undetectable marker values
Rodolphe Thiébaut, Jérémie Guedj, Hélène Jacqmin-Gadda, Geneviève Chêne, Pascale Trimoulet, Didier Neau, Daniel Commenges
UVB phototherapy in an outpatient setting or at home: a pragmatic randomised single-blind trial designed to settle the discussion. The PLUTO study
Mayke BG Koek, Erik Buskens, Paul HA Steegmans, Huib van Weelden, Carla AFM Bruijnzeel-Koomen, Vigfús Sigurdsson
Fungal infection-related mortality versus total mortality as an outcome in trials of antifungal agents
Anne K Due, Helle K Johansen, Peter C Gøtzsche
Identifying observational studies of surgical interventions in MEDLINE and EMBASE
Cynthia Fraser, Alison Murray, Jennifer Burr
The relationship between quality of research and citation frequency
Pentti Nieminen, James Carpenter, Gerta Rucker, Martin Schumacher
Patient acceptability of larval therapy for leg ulcer treatment: a randomised survey to inform the sample size calculation of a randomised trial
ES Petherick, S O'Meara, K Spilsbury, CP Iglesias, EA Nelson, DJ Torgerson
Does a "Level I Evidence" rating imply high quality of reporting in orthopaedic randomised controlled trials?
Rudolf W Poolman, Peter AA Struijs, Rover Krips, Inger N Sierevelt, Kristina H Lutz, Mohit Bhandari
Methodological standards in non-inferiority AIDS trials: moving from adherence to compliance
Jean-Jacques Parienti, Renaud Verdon, Véronique Massari
An instrument to measure job satisfaction of nursing home administrators
Nicholas G Castle
Joint distribution approaches to simultaneously quantifying benefit and risk
Michele L Shaffer, Kristi L Watterberg
Structural equation and log-linear modeling: a comparison of methods in the analysis of a study on caregivers' health
Bin Zhu, Stephen D Walter, Peter L Rosenbaum, Dianne J Russell, Parminder Raina
Development and validation of MIX: comprehensive free software for meta-analysis of causal research data
Leon Bax, Ly-Mee Yu, Noriaki Ikeda, Harukazu Tsuruta, Karel GM Moons
Re-interpreting conventional interval estimates taking into account bias and extra-variation
Michael Höfler, Shaun R Seaman
A system for rating the stability and strength of medical evidence
Jonathan R Treadwell, Stephen J Tregear, James T Reston, Charles M Turkelson
Performance of statistical models to predict mental health and substance abuse cost
Maria Montez-Rath, Cindy L Christiansen, Susan L Ettner, Susan Loveland, Amy K Rosen
The stepped wedge trial design: a systematic review
Celia A Brown, Richard J Lilford
Economics methods in Cochrane systematic reviews of health promotion and public health related interventions
Ian Shemilt, Miranda Mugford, Michael Drummond, Eric Eisenstein, Jacqueline Mallender, David McDaid, Luke Vale, Damian Walker
Checklist for the qualitative evaluation of clinical studies with particular focus on external validity and model validity
Gudrun Bornhöft, Stefanie Maxion-Bergemann, Ursula Wolf, Gunver S Kienle, Andreas Michalsen, Horst C Vollmar, Simon Gilbertson, Peter F Matthiessen
Dealing with missing data in a multi-question depression scale: a comparison of imputation methods
Fiona M Shrive, Heather Stuart, Hude Quan, William A Ghali
Dropout in a longitudinal, cohort study of urologic disease in community men
Naomi M Gades, Debra J Jacobson, Michaela E McGree, Michael M Lieber, Rosebud O Roberts, Cynthia J Girman, Steven J Jacobsen