Ausgabe 1/2008
Inhalt (80 Artikel)
An administrative data merging solution for dealing with missing data in a clinical registry: adaptation from ICD-9 to ICD-10
Danielle A Southern, Colleen M Norris, Hude Quan, Fiona M Shrive, P Diane Galbraith, Karin Humphries, Min Gao, Merril L Knudtson, William A Ghali
Towards socially inclusive research: An evaluation of telephone questionnaire administration in a multilingual population
Elizabeth Dormandy, Katrina Brown, Erin P Reid, Theresa M Marteau
Content and communication: How can peer review provide helpful feedback about the writing?
Karen Shashok
Negative pressure wound therapy: Potential publication bias caused by lack of access to unpublished study results data
Frank Peinemann, Natalie McGauran, Stefan Sauerland, Stefan Lange
Examining assumptions regarding valid electronic monitoring of medication therapy: development of a validation framework and its application on a European sample of kidney transplant patients
Kris Denhaerynck, Petra Schäfer-Keller, James Young, Jürg Steiger, Andreas Bock, Sabina De Geest
Applications of Bayesian approach in modelling risk of malaria-related hospital mortality
Lawrence N Kazembe, Tobias F Chirwa, Jupiter S Simbeye, Jimmy J Namangale
A methodological framework to distinguish spectrum effects from spectrum biases and to assess diagnostic and screening test accuracy for patient populations: Application to the Papanicolaou cervical cancer smear test
Caroline Elie, Joël Coste
The harvest plot: A method for synthesising evidence about the differential effects of interventions
David Ogilvie, Debra Fayter, Mark Petticrew, Amanda Sowden, Sian Thomas, Margaret Whitehead, Gill Worthy
A comparison of two methods for estimating prevalence ratios
Martin R Petersen, James A Deddens
Differential response effects of data collection mode in a cancer screening study of unmarried women ages 40–75 years: A randomized trial
Melissa A Clark, Michelle L Rogers, Gene F Armstrong, William Rakowski, Frederick J Kviz
Assessing the order of magnitude of outcomes in single-arm cohorts through systematic comparison with corresponding cohorts: An example from the AMOS study
Harald J Hamre, Anja Glockmann, Wilfried Tröger, Gunver S Kienle, Helmut Kiene
The use of interim data and Data Monitoring Committee recommendations in randomized controlled trial reports: frequency, implications and potential sources of bias
Puvan Tharmanathan, Melanie Calvert, John Hampton, Nick Freemantle
Demonstrating the robustness of population surveillance data: implications of error rates on demographic and mortality estimates
Edward Fottrell, Peter Byass, Yemane Berhane
Abstracts in high profile journals often fail to report harm
Enrique Bernal-Delgado, Elliot S Fisher
The impact of consent on observational research: a comparison of outcomes from consenters and non consenters to an observational study
Una Macleod, Graham CM Watt
The statistical analysis of a clinical trial when a protocol amendment changed the inclusion criteria
Christian Lösch, Markus Neuhäuser
Motives for (not) participating in a lifestyle intervention trial
Jeroen Lakerveld, Wilhelmina IJzelenberg, Maurits W van Tulder, Irene M Hellemans, Jan A Rauwerda, Albert C van Rossum, Jaap C Seidell
Reducing the probability of false positive research findings by pre-publication validation – Experience with a large multiple sclerosis database
Martin Daumer, Ulrike Held, Katja Ickstadt, Moritz Heinz, Siegfried Schach, George Ebers
Unit-specific calibration of Actigraph accelerometers in a mechanical setup – Is it worth the effort? The effect on random output variation caused by technical inter-instrument variability in the laboratory and in the field
Niels C Moeller, Lars Korsholm, Peter L Kristensen, Lars B Andersen, Niels Wedderkopp, Karsten Froberg
Graphical presentation of diagnostic information
Penny F Whiting, Jonathan AC Sterne, Marie E Westwood, Lucas M Bachmann, Roger Harbord, Matthias Egger, Jonathan J Deeks
Conducting a meta-ethnography of qualitative literature: Lessons learnt
Salla Atkins, Simon Lewin, Helen Smith, Mark Engel, Atle Fretheim, Jimmy Volmink
Recommendations by Cochrane Review Groups for assessment of the risk of bias in studies
Andreas Lundh, Peter C Gøtzsche
A markov model to evaluate hospital readmission
Nicola Bartolomeo, Paolo Trerotoli, Annamaria Moretti, Gabriella Serio
Comparison of two dependent within subject coefficients of variation to evaluate the reproducibility of measurement devices
Mohamed M Shoukri, Dilek Colak, Namik Kaya, Allan Donner
Retrivability in The Danish National Hospital Registry of HIV and hepatitis B and C coinfection diagnoses of patients managed in HIV centers 1995–2004
Niels Obel, Hanne Reinholdt, Lars H Omland, Frederik Engsig, Henrik T Sørensen, Ann-Brit E Hansen
Responsiveness of five condition-specific and generic outcome assessment instruments for chronic pain
Felix Angst, Martin L Verra, Susanne Lehmann, André Aeschlimann
Determinants of participation in a longitudinal two-stage study of the health consequences of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant accident
Lin T Guey, Evelyn J Bromet, Semyon F Gluzman, Victoria Zakhozha, Vlodomyr Paniotto
Comparison of generalized estimating equations and quadratic inference functions using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) database
Adefowope Odueyungbo, Dillon Browne, Noori Akhtar-Danesh, Lehana Thabane
Examining intra-rater and inter-rater response agreement: A medical chart abstraction study of a community-based asthma care program
Teresa To, Eileen Estrabillo, Chengning Wang, Lisa Cicutto
Bayes rules for optimally using Bayesian hierarchical regression models in provider profiling to identify high-mortality hospitals
Peter C Austin
Reporting of Human Genome Epidemiology (HuGE) association studies: An empirical assessment
Ajay Yesupriya, Evangelos Evangelou, Fotini K Kavvoura, Nikolaos A Patsopoulos, Melinda Clyne, Matthew C Walsh, Bruce K Lin, Wei Yu, Marta Gwinn, John PA Ioannidis, Muin J Khoury
The ratio of means method as an alternative to mean differences for analyzing continuous outcome variables in meta-analysis: A simulation study
Jan O Friedrich, Neill KJ Adhikari, Joseph Beyene
Rasch fit statistics and sample size considerations for polytomous data
Adam B Smith, Robert Rush, Lesley J Fallowfield, Galina Velikova, Michael Sharpe
Simpson's paradox visualized: The example of the Rosiglitazone meta-analysis
Gerta Rücker, Martin Schumacher
On reporting results from randomized controlled trials with recurrent events
Lisa Kuramoto, Boris G Sobolev, Meghan G Donaldson
The changing causal foundations of cancer-related symptom clustering during the final month of palliative care: A longitudinal study
Karin Olson, Leslie Hayduk, Marilyn Cree, Ying Cui, Hue Quan, John Hanson, Peter Lawlor, Florian Strasser
Challenges of self-reported medical conditions and electronic medical records among members of a large military cohort
Besa Smith, Laura K Chu, Tyler C Smith, Paul J Amoroso, Edward J Boyko, Tomoko I Hooper, Gary D Gackstetter, Margaret AK Ryan
Estimates of adherence and error analysis of physical activity data collected via accelerometry in a large study of free-living adults
David R Paul, Matthew Kramer, Kim S Stote, Karen E Spears, Alanna J Moshfegh, David J Baer, William V Rumpler
Workplace restructurings in intervention studies – a challenge for design, analysis and interpretation
Ole Olsen, Karen Albertsen, Martin Lindhardt Nielsen, Kjeld Børge Poulsen, Sisse Malene Frydendal Gron, Hans Lennart Brunnberg
Integrated analysis of incidence, progression, regression and disappearance probabilities
Guan-Hua Huang
Disagreement in primary study selection between systematic reviews on negative pressure wound therapy
Frank Peinemann, Natalie McGauran, Stefan Sauerland, Stefan Lange
Does it matter whether the recipient of patient questionnaires in general practice is the general practitioner or an independent researcher? The REPLY randomised trial
James A Desborough, Peter Butters, Debi Bhattacharya, Richard C Holland, David J Wright
Relative performance of different exposure modeling approaches for sulfur dioxide concentrations in the air in rural western Canada
Igor Burstyn, Nicola M Cherry, Yutaka Yasui, Hyang-Mi Kim
Language and rigour in qualitative research: Problems and principles in analyzing data collected in Mandarin
Helen J Smith, Jing Chen, Xiaoyun Liu
Methods for the thematic synthesis of qualitative research in systematic reviews
James Thomas, Angela Harden
A coarsened multinomial regression model for perinatal mother to child transmission of HIV
Charlotte C Gard, Elizabeth R Brown
Reliability and validity of two frequently used self-administered physical activity questionnaires in adolescents
Vegar Rangul, Turid Lingaas Holmen, Nanna Kurtze, Koenraad Cuypers, Kristian Midthjell
Advantages of the nested case-control design in diagnostic research
Cornelis J Biesheuvel, Yvonne Vergouwe, Ruud Oudega, Arno W Hoes, Diederick E Grobbee, Karel GM Moons
Testing for differences in distribution tails to test for differences in 'maximum' lifespan
Guimin Gao, Wen Wan, Sijian Zhang, David T Redden, David B Allison
Vignette studies of medical choice and judgement to study caregivers' medical decision behaviour: systematic review
Lucas M Bachmann, Andrea Mühleisen, Annekatrin Bock, Gerben ter Riet, Ulrike Held, Alfons GH Kessels
Experiences of a long-term randomized controlled prevention trial in a maiden environment: Estonian Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy trial
Sirpa-Liisa Hovi, Piret Veerus, Mati Rahu, Elina Hemminki
Regression toward the mean – a detection method for unknown population mean based on Mee and Chua's algorithm
Thomas Ostermann, Stefan N Willich, Rainer Lüdtke
The efficiency and effectiveness of utilizing diagrams in interviews: an assessment of participatory diagramming and graphic elicitation
Muriah J Umoquit, Mark J Dobrow, Louise Lemieux-Charles, Paul G Ritvo, David R Urbach, Walter P Wodchis
Non-response to a life course socioeconomic position indicator in surveillance: comparison of telephone and face-to-face modes
Catherine R Chittleborough, Anne W Taylor, Fran E Baum, Janet E Hiller
Engaging participants in a complex intervention trial in Australian General Practice
David Perkins, Mark F Harris, Jocelyn Tan, Bettina Christl, Jane Taggart, Mahnaz Fanaian
Performing meta-analysis with incomplete statistical information in clinical trials
Jianbing Ma, Weiru Liu, Anthony Hunter, Weiya Zhang
Sampling 'hard-to-reach' populations in health research: yield from a study targeting Americans living in Canada
Danielle A Southern, Steven Lewis, Colleen J Maxwell, James R Dunn, Tom W Noseworthy, Gail Corbett, Karen Thomas, William A Ghali
Pooling overdispersed binomial data to estimate event rate
Yinong Young-Xu, K Arnold Chan
Alternative regression models to assess increase in childhood BMI
Andreas Beyerlein, Ludwig Fahrmeir, Ulrich Mansmann, André M Toschke
Industry-supported meta-analyses compared with meta-analyses with non-profit or no support: Differences in methodological quality and conclusions
Anders W Jørgensen, Katja L Maric, Britta Tendal, Annesofie Faurschou, Peter C Gøtzsche
Data management for prospective research studies using SAS®software
Robin L Kruse, David R Mehr
The HCV Synthesis Project: Scope, methodology, and preliminary results
Rebecca K Stern, Holly Hagan, Corina Lelutiu-Weinberger, Don Des Jarlais, Roberta Scheinmann, Shiela Strauss, Enrique R Pouget, Peter Flom
Reliability and validity of the international physical activity questionnaire in the Nord-Trøndelag health study (HUNT) population of men
Nanna Kurtze, Vegar Rangul, Bo-Egil Hustvedt
Intervention, recruitment and evaluation challenges in the Bangladeshi community: Experience from a peer lead educational course
SM Choudhury, S Brophy, MA Fareedi, B Zaman, P Ahmed, DRR Williams
Double–blind control of the data manager doesn't have any impact on data entry reliability and should be considered as an avoidable cost
Davide Mauri, Vasiliki Karampoiki, Jacopo Mauri, Konstantinos Kamposioras, Georgios Alexiou, Georgios Ferentinos, Lamprini Tsali, Ioanna Karathanasi, Christina Peponi
Simple estimators of the intensity of seasonal occurrence
M Alan Brookhart, Kenneth J Rothman
Alternative methods to analyse the impact of HIV mutations on virological response to antiviral therapy
Linda Wittkop, Daniel Commenges, Isabelle Pellegrin, Dominique Breilh, Didier Neau, Denis Lacoste, Jean-Luc Pellegrin, Geneviève Chêne, François Dabis, Rodolphe Thiébaut
Accuracy of self-reported body weight, height and waist circumference in a Dutch overweight working population
Johanna C Dekkers, Marieke F van Wier, Ingrid JM Hendriksen, Jos WR Twisk, Willem van Mechelen
Maximising response rates in household telephone surveys
Joanne O'Toole, Martha Sinclair, Karin Leder
Use of the Oxford Handicap Scale at hospital discharge to predict Glasgow Outcome Scale at 6 months in patients with traumatic brain injury
Pablo Perel, Phil Edwards, Haleema Shakur, Ian Roberts
Using reflexivity to enhance in-depth interviewing skills for the clinician researcher
Ruth McNair, Angela Taft, Kelsey Hegarty
Accuracy of death certification and hospital record linkage for identification of incident stroke
Shubhada Sinha, Phyo K Myint, Robert N Luben, Kay-Tee Khaw
Statistical methods to correct for verification bias in diagnostic studies are inadequate when there are few false negatives: a simulation study
Angel M Cronin, Andrew J Vickers
Estimating preferences for a dermatology consultation using Best-Worst Scaling: Comparison of various methods of analysis
Terry N Flynn, Jordan J Louviere, Tim J Peters, Joanna Coast
Improving quality indicator report cards through Bayesian modeling
Byron J Gajewski, Jonathan D Mahnken, Nancy Dunton
A comparison of two methods for estimating odds ratios: Results from the National Health Survey
Enayatollah Bakhshi, Mohammad R Eshraghian, Kazem Mohammad, Behjat Seifi
Undue reliance on I 2 in assessing heterogeneity may mislead
Gerta Rücker, Guido Schwarzer, James R Carpenter, Martin Schumacher
Estimating adjusted prevalence ratio in clustered cross-sectional epidemiological data
Carlos Antônio ST Santos, Rosemeire L Fiaccone, Nelson F Oliveira, Sérgio Cunha, Maurício L Barreto, Maria Beatriz B do Carmo, Ana-Lucia Moncayo, Laura C Rodrigues, Philip J Cooper, Leila D Amorim