Ausgabe 1/2012
Inhalt (190 Artikel)
Risk groups defined by Recursive Partitioning Analysis of patients with colorectal adenocarcinoma treated with colorectal resection
Yun-Jau Chang, Li-Ju Chen, Yao-Jen Chang, Kuo-Piao Chung, Mei-Shu Lai
Comparing multiple competing interventions in the absence of randomized trials using clinical risk-benefit analysis
Alejandro Lazo-Langner, Marc A Rodger, Nicholas J Barrowman, Tim Ramsay, Philip S Wells, Douglas A Coyle
Prediction intervals for future BMI values of individual children - a non-parametric approach by quantile boosting
Andreas Mayr, Torsten Hothorn, Nora Fenske
The association between survey timing and patient-reported experiences with hospitals: results of a national postal survey
Oyvind A Bjertnaes
A simple method for estimating relative risk using logistic regression
Fredi A Diaz-Quijano
Graphical modeling of binary data using the LASSO: a simulation study
Ralf Strobl, Eva Grill, Ulrich Mansmann
'You give us rangoli, we give you talk': using an art-based activity to elicit data from a seldom heard group
Sabi Redwood, Nicola K Gale, Sheila Greenfield
An empirical comparison of methods for analyzing correlated data from a discrete choice survey to elicit patient preference for colorectal cancer screening
Ji Cheng, Eleanor Pullenayegum, Deborah A Marshall, John K Marshall, Lehana Thabane
Quality assessment of expert answers to lay questions about cystic fibrosis from various language zones in Europe: the ECORN-CF project
Daniela d'Alquen, Kris De Boeck, Judy Bradley, Věra Vávrová, Birgit Dembski, Thomas OF Wagner, Annette Pfalz, Helge Hebestreit
Enhanced secondary analysis of survival data: reconstructing the data from published Kaplan-Meier survival curves
Patricia Guyot, AE Ades, Mario JNM Ouwens, Nicky J Welton
Using patient management as a surrogate for patient health outcomes in diagnostic test evaluation
Lukas P Staub, Sarah J Lord, R John Simes, Suzanne Dyer, Nehmat Houssami, Robert YM Chen, Les Irwig
Using a single question to assess physical activity in older adults: a reliability and validity study
Dawn P Gill, Gareth R Jones, Guangyong Zou, Mark Speechley
Ongoing monitoring of data clustering in multicenter studies
Lauren B Guthrie, Emily Oken, Jonathan AC Sterne, Matthew W Gillman, Rita Patel, Konstantin Vilchuck, Natalia Bogdanovich, Michael S Kramer, Richard M Martin
Improvement of maternal Aboriginality in NSW birth data
Fenglian Xu, Elizabeth A Sullivan, Richard C Madden, Deborah Black, Lisa R Jackson Pulver
A proof of principle for using adaptive testing in routine Outcome Monitoring: the efficiency of the Mood and Anxiety Symptoms Questionnaire -Anhedonic Depression CAT
Niels Smits, Frans G Zitman, Pim Cuijpers, Margien E den Hollander-Gijsman, Ingrid VE Carlier
Crisis-repair sequences - considerations on the classification and assessment of breaches in the therapeutic relationship
Antje Gumz, Elmar Brähler, Michael Geyer, Rainer Erices
Telephone follow-up to a mail survey: when to offer an interview compared to a reminder call
Jeanette Y Ziegenfuss, Kelly R Burmeister, Ann Harris, Stefan D Holubar, Timothy J Beebe
Alternative analyses for handling incomplete follow-up in the intention-to-treat analysis: the randomized controlled trial of balloon kyphoplasty versus non-surgical care for vertebral compression fracture (FREE)
Jonas Ranstam, Aleksandra Turkiewicz, Steven Boonen, Jan Van Meirhaeghe, Leonard Bastian, Douglas Wardlaw
Reasons for and against participation in studies of medicinal therapies for women with breast cancer: a debate
Gero Luschin, Marion Habersack, Irmina-Anna Gerlich
Assessment of public health impact of work-related asthma
Maritta S Jaakkola, Jouni JK Jaakkola
Determination of inflammatory biomarkers in patients with COPD: a comparison of different assays
José L López-Campos, Elena Arellano, Carmen Calero, Ana Delgado, Eduardo Márquez, Pilar Cejudo, Francisco Ortega, Francisco Rodríguez-Panadero, Ana Montes-Worboys
Results from a blind and a non-blind randomised trial run in parallel: experience from the Estonian Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy (EPHT) Trial
Piret Veerus, Krista Fischer, Matti Hakama, Elina Hemminki
Comparative effectiveness research on patients with acute ischemic stroke using Markov decision processes
Darong Wu, Yefeng Cai, Jianxiong Cai, Qiuli Liu, Yuanqi Zhao, Jingheng Cai, Min Zhao, Yonghui Huang, Liuer Ye, Yubo Lu, Xianping Guo
Recruitment using mobile telephones in an Irish general population sexual health survey: challenges and practical solutions
Orla McBride, Karen Morgan, Hannah McGee
Assessment of reporting quality of conference abstracts in sports injury prevention according to CONSORT and STROBE criteria and their subsequent publication rate as full papers
Uzung Yoon, Karsten Knobloch
Should policy-makers and managers trust PSI? An empirical validation study of five patient safety indicators in a national health service
Enrique Bernal-Delgado, Sandra García-Armesto, Natalia Martínez-Lizaga, Begoña Abadía-Taira, Joaquín Beltrán-Peribañez, Salvador Peiró
Getting physicians to open the survey: little evidence that an envelope teaser increases response rates
Jeanette Y Ziegenfuss, Kelly Burmeister, Katherine M James, Lindsey Haas, Jon C Tilburt, Timothy J Beebe
Factor structure and psychometric properties of the trier inventory for chronic stress (TICS) in a representative german sample
Katja Petrowski, Sören Paul, Cornelia Albani, Elmar Brähler
The ARIC predictive model reliably predicted risk of type II diabetes in Asian populations
Calvin Woon-Loong Chin, Elian Hui San Chia, Stefan Ma, Derrick Heng, Maudrene Tan, Jeanette Lee, E Shyong Tai, Agus Salim
Non-linear mixed models in the analysis of mediated longitudinal data with binary outcomes
Emily A Blood, Debbie M Cheng
Forecasts of COPD mortality in Australia: 2006-2025
Bircan Erbas, Shahid Ullah, Rob J Hyndman, Michelle Scollo, Michael Abramson
Validation of the diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia (DHL) knowledge instrument in Malaysia
Pauline SM Lai, Siew Siang Chua, Ching Hooi Tan, Siew Pheng Chan
Against quantiles: categorization of continuous variables in epidemiologic research, and its discontents
Caroline Bennette, Andrew Vickers
Analysis of human immune responses in quasi-experimental settings: tutorial in biostatistics
Rajiv Sarkar, Sitara S Ajjampur, Honorine D Ward, Gagandeep Kang, Elena N Naumova
Bias and imprecision in posture percentile variables estimated from short exposure samples
Svend Erik Mathiassen, Jens Wahlström, Mikael Forsman
Measuring sidewalk distances using Google Earth
Ian Janssen, Andrei Rosu
Validation of activity questionnaires in patients with cystic fibrosis by accelerometry and cycle ergometry
Katharina C Ruf, Sonja Fehn, Michèle Bachmann, Alexander Moeller, Kristina Roth, Susi Kriemler, Helge Hebestreit
Is it possible to estimate the minimal clinically important treatment effect needed to change practice in preterm birth prevention? Results of an obstetrician survey used to support the design of a trial
Sue Ross, Jill Milne, Shannon Dwinnell, Selphee Tang, Stephen Wood
Effect of misclassification of antiretroviral treatment status on the prevalence of transmitted HIV-1 drug resistance
Hannah Castro, Deenan Pillay, Caroline Sabin, David T Dunn
Quality of life of Chinese urban community residents: a psychometric study of the mainland Chinese version of the WHOQOL-BREF
Ping Xia, Ningxiu Li, Kit-Tai Hau, Chaojie Liu, Yubo Lu
Hospital-level associations with 30-day patient mortality after cardiac surgery: a tutorial on the application and interpretation of marginal and multilevel logistic regression
Masoumeh Sanagou, Rory Wolfe, Andrew Forbes, Christopher Michael Reid
Childhood body mass index trajectories: modeling, characterizing, pairwise correlations and socio-demographic predictors of trajectory characteristics
Xiaozhong Wen, Ken Kleinman, Matthew W Gillman, Sheryl L Rifas-Shiman, Elsie M Taveras
Multiple imputation for estimating hazard ratios and predictive abilities in case-cohort surveys
Helena Marti, Laure Carcaillon, Michel Chavance
Comparison of uniaxial and triaxial accelerometry in the assessment of physical activity among adolescents under free-living conditions: the HELENA study
Jérémy Vanhelst, Laurent Béghin, Alain Duhamel, Patrick Bergman, Michael Sjöström, Frédéric Gottrand
Accuracy and precision of variance components in occupational posture recordings: a simulation study of different data collection strategies
Per Liv, Svend Erik Mathiassen, Susanne Wulff Svendsen
Method for appraising model validity of randomised controlled trials of homeopathic treatment: multi-rater concordance study
Robert T Mathie, Helmut Roniger, Michel Van Wassenhoven, Joyce Frye, Jennifer Jacobs, Menachem Oberbaum, Marie-France Bordet, Chaturbhuja Nayak, Gilles Chaufferin, John A Ives, Flávio Dantas, Peter Fisher
The selection of search sources influences the findings of a systematic review of people’s views: a case study in public health
Claire Stansfield, Josephine Kavanagh, Rebecca Rees, Alan Gomersall, James Thomas
Is blood pressure reduction a valid surrogate endpoint for stroke prevention? an analysis incorporating a systematic review of randomised controlled trials, a by-trial weighted errors-in-variables regression, the surrogate threshold effect (STE) and the biomarker-surrogacy (BioSurrogate) evaluation schema (BSES)
Marissa N Lassere, Kent R Johnson, Michal Schiff, David Rees
Definitions and methods of measuring and reporting on injurious falls in randomised controlled fall prevention trials: a systematic review
Michael Schwenk, Andreas Lauenroth, Christian Stock, Raquel Rodriguez Moreno, Peter Oster, Gretl McHugh, Chris Todd, Klaus Hauer
Individual patient data meta-analysis of survival data using Poisson regression models
Michael J Crowther, Richard D Riley, Jan A Staessen, Jiguang Wang, Francois Gueyffier, Paul C Lambert
Multiple imputation of missing covariates with non-linear effects and interactions: an evaluation of statistical methods
Shaun R Seaman, Jonathan W Bartlett, Ian R White
Analysis of decisions made in meta-analyses of depression screening and the risk of confirmation bias: A case study
Felicity A Goodyear-Smith, Mieke L van Driel, Bruce Arroll, Chris Del Mar
Validating self-reported strokes in a longitudinal UK cohort study (Whitehall II): Extracting information from hospital medical records versus the Hospital Episode Statistics database
Annie Britton, Beverly Milne, Therese Butler, Adelaida Sanchez-Galvez, Martin Shipley, Anthony Rudd, Charles DA Wolfe, Ajay Bhalla, Eric J Brunner
Validation of colorectal cancer surgery data from administrative data sources
Xue Li, Charlotte King, Christopher deGara, Jonathon White, Marcy Winget
Assessment of performance of survival prediction models for cancer prognosis
Hung-Chia Chen, Ralph L Kodell, Kuang Fu Cheng, James J Chen
A review of the reporting and handling of missing data in cohort studies with repeated assessment of exposure measures
Amalia Karahalios, Laura Baglietto, John B Carlin, Dallas R English, Julie A Simpson
Individual participant data meta-analysis of prognostic factor studies: state of the art?
Ghada Abo-Zaid, Willi Sauerbrei, Richard D Riley
Enhanced reporting of deaths among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples using linked administrative health datasets
Lee K Taylor, Jason Bentley, Jennifer Hunt, Richard Madden, Sybille McKeown, Peter Brandt, Deborah Baker
On summary measure analysis of linear trend repeated measures data: performance comparison with two competing methods
Mehrdad Vossoughi, SMT Ayatollahi, Mina Towhidi, Farzaneh Ketabchi
Using record linkage to monitor equity and variation in screening programmes
Dermot O’Reilly, Heather Kinnear, Michael Rosato, Adrian Mairs, Clare Hall
Quality of DNA extracted from saliva samples collected with the Oragene™ DNA self-collection kit
Ana P Nunes, Isabel O Oliveira, Betânia R Santos, Cristini Millech, Liziane P Silva, David A González, Pedro C Hallal, Ana M B Menezes, Cora L Araújo, Fernando C Barros
The quality of the evidence base for clinical pathway effectiveness: Room for improvement in the design of evaluation trials
Thomas Rotter, Leigh Kinsman, Erica James, Andreas Machotta, Ewout W Steyerberg
Improving response rate and quality of survey data with a scratch lottery ticket incentive
Frank Olsen, Birgit Abelsen, Jan Abel Olsen
Brokered dialogue: A new research method for controversial health and social issues
Janet A Parsons, James V Lavery
Parental compliance - an emerging problem in Liverpool community child health surveys 1991-2006
Gibby Koshy, Bernard J Brabin
Bridging knowledge translation gap in health in developing countries: visibility, impact and publishing standards in journals from the Eastern Mediterranean
Ana Utrobičić, Nauman Chaudhry, Abdul Ghaffar, Ana Marušić
Development and psychometric properties of the health-risk behavior inventory for Chinese adolescents
Mengcheng Wang, Jinyao Yi, Lin Cai, Muli Hu, Xiongzhao Zhu, Shuqiao Yao, Randy P Auerbach
Lost productivity due to premature mortality in developed and emerging countries: an application to smoking cessation
Joseph Menzin, Jeno P Marton, Jordan A Menzin, Richard J Willke, Rebecca M Woodward, Victoria Federico
Analyzing repeated data collected by mobile phones and frequent text messages. An example of Low back pain measured weekly for 18 weeks
Iben Axén, Lennart Bodin, Alice Kongsted, Niels Wedderkopp, Irene Jensen, Gunnar Bergström
Linked versus unlinked hospital discharge data on hip fractures for estimating incidence and comorbidity profiles
Trang Vu, Lesley Day, Caroline F Finch
Mokken scale analysis of mental health and well-being questionnaire item responses: a non-parametric IRT method in empirical research for applied health researchers
Jan Stochl, Peter B Jones, Tim J Croudace
Validity of two simple measures for estimating life-course socio-economic position in cross-sectional postal survey data in an older population: results from the North Staffordshire Osteoarthritis Project (NorStOP)
Rosie J Lacey, John Belcher, Peter R Croft
Transformations of summary statistics as input in meta-analysis for linear dose-response models on a logarithmic scale: a methodology developed within EURRECA
Olga W Souverein, Carla Dullemeijer, Pieter van `t Veer, Hilko van der Voet
Data collection costs in industrial environments for three occupational posture exposure assessment methods
Catherine Trask, Svend Erik Mathiassen, Jens Wahlström, Marina Heiden, Mahmoud Rezagholi
Translation equations to compare ActiGraph GT3X and Actical accelerometers activity counts
Leon Straker, Amity Campbell
Reliability of self-reported health risk factors and chronic conditions questions collected using the telephone in South Australia, Australia
Eleonora Dal Grande, Simon Fullerton, Anne W Taylor
The probability of being identified as an outlier with commonly used funnel plot control limits for the standardised mortality ratio
Sarah E Seaton, Bradley N Manktelow
Validating and updating a risk model for pneumonia – a case study
Ulrike Held, Daniel Sabanes Bové, Johann Steurer, Leonhard Held
Predicting waist circumference from body mass index
Samuel R Bozeman, David C Hoaglin, Tanya M Burton, Chris L Pashos, Rami H Ben-Joseph, Christopher S Hollenbeak
To test or not to test: Preliminary assessment of normality when comparing two independent samples
Justine Rochon, Matthias Gondan, Meinhard Kieser
Refining developmental coordination disorder subtyping with multivariate statistical methods
Christophe Lalanne, Bruno Falissard, Bernard Golse, Laurence Vaivre-Douret
Including mixed methods research in systematic reviews: Examples from qualitative syntheses in TB and malaria control
Salla Atkins, Annika Launiala, Alexander Kagaha, Helen Smith
Data preparation techniques for a perinatal psychiatric study based on linked data
Fenglian Xu, Lisa Hilder, Marie-Paule Austin, Elizabeth A Sullivan
t-tests, non-parametric tests, and large studies—a paradox of statistical practice?
Morten W Fagerland
Evaluating current automatic de-identification methods with Veteran’s health administration clinical documents
Oscar Ferrández, Brett R South, Shuying Shen, F Jeffrey Friedlin, Matthew H Samore, Stéphane M Meystre
What inference for two-stage phase II trials?
Raphaël Porcher, Kristell Desseaux
Assessing measurement invariance of familism and parental respect across race/ethnicity in adolescents
Jeremy NV Miles, Regina A Shih, Joan S Tucker, Annie Zhou, Elizabeth J D’Amico
Choice of observational study design impacts on measurement of antipsychotic risks in the elderly: a systematic review
Nicole Pratt, Elizabeth E Roughead, Amy Salter, Philip Ryan
Scanning for satisfaction or digging for dismay? Comparing findings from a postal survey with those from a focus group-study
Benedicte Carlsen, Claire Glenton
Selecting a comparison group for 5-year oral and pharyngeal cancer survivors: Two methods
Henrietta L Logan, Scott L Tomar, Myron Chang, Glenn E Turner, William M Mendenhall, Charles E Riggs Jr
From theory to 'measurement' in complex interventions: Methodological lessons from the development of an e-health normalisation instrument
Tracy L Finch, Frances S Mair, Catherine O’Donnell, Elizabeth Murray, Carl R May
When is it rational to participate in a clinical trial? A game theory approach incorporating trust, regret and guilt
Benjamin Djulbegovic, Iztok Hozo
Using two on-going HIV studies to obtain clinical data from before, during and after pregnancy for HIV-positive women
Susie E Huntington, Loveleen K Bansi, Claire Thorne, Jane Anderson, Marie-Louise Newell, Graham P Taylor, Deenan Pillay, Teresa Hill, Pat A Tookey, Caroline A Sabin
How pragmatic or explanatory is the randomized, controlled trial? The application and enhancement of the PRECIS tool to the evaluation of a smoking cessation trial
Peter Selby, Gerald Brosky, Paul I Oh, Vincent Raymond, Suzanne Ranger
What is the most appropriate knowledge synthesis method to conduct a review? Protocol for a scoping review
Monika Kastner, Andrea C Tricco, Charlene Soobiah, Erin Lillie, Laure Perrier, Tanya Horsley, Vivian Welch, Elise Cogo, Jesmin Antony, Sharon E Straus
An evaluation of the quality of statistical design and analysis of published medical research: results from a systematic survey of general orthopaedic journals
Nick R Parsons, Charlotte L Price, Richard Hiskens, Juul Achten, Matthew L Costa
The feasibility of cell phone based electronic diaries for STI/HIV research
Devon J Hensel, James D Fortenberry, Jaroslaw Harezlak, Dorothy Craig
Who does not participate in a follow-up postal study? a survey of infertile couples treated by in vitro fertilization
Penelope Troude, Estelle Bailly, Juliette Guibert, Jean Bouyer, Elise de La Rochebrochard
Patient, caregiver, health professional and researcher views and experiences of participating in research at the end of life: a critical interpretive synthesis of the literature
Marjolein H Gysels, Catherine Evans, Irene J Higginson
Estimating and validating disability-adjusted life years at the global level: a methodological framework for cancer
Isabelle Soerjomataram, Joannie Lortet-Tieulent, Jacques Ferlay, David Forman, Colin Mathers, D Maxwell Parkin, Freddie Bray
Adjusting for under-identification of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander births in time series produced from birth records: Using record linkage of survey data and administrative data sources
David Lawrence, Daniel Christensen, Francis Mitrou, Glenn Draper, Geoff Davis, Sybille McKeown, Daniel McAullay, Glenn Pearson, Stephen R Zubrick
Intraindividual long term stability and response corridors of cytokines in healthy volunteers detected by a standardized whole-blood culture system for bed-side application
Silke C Mueller, Reinhard März, Manfred Schmolz, Bernd Drewelow
Weight change in control group participants in behavioural weight loss interventions: a systematic review and meta-regression study
Lauren Waters, Alexis St George, Tien Chey, Adrian Bauman
Positive predictive value of a case definition for diabetes mellitus using automated administrative health data in children and youth exposed to antipsychotic drugs or control medications: a Tennessee Medicaid study
William V Bobo, William O Cooper, C Michael Stein, Mark Olfson, Jackie Mounsey, James Daugherty, Wayne A Ray
Melanocortin-1 receptor, skin cancer and phenotypic characteristics (M-SKIP) project: study design and methods for pooling results of genetic epidemiological studies
Sara Raimondi, Sara Gandini, Maria Concetta Fargnoli, Vincenzo Bagnardi, Patrick Maisonneuve, Claudia Specchia, Rajiv Kumar, Eduardo Nagore, Jiali Han, Johan Hansson, Peter A Kanetsky, Paola Ghiorzo, Nelleke A Gruis, Terry Dwyer, Leigh Blizzard, Ricardo Fernandez-de-Misa, Wojciech Branicki, Tadeusz Debniak, Niels Morling, Maria Teresa Landi, Giuseppe Palmieri, Gloria Ribas, Alexander Stratigos, Lynn Cornelius, Tomonori Motokawa, Sumiko Anno, Per Helsing, Terence H Wong, Philippe Autier, José C García-Borrón, Julian Little, Julia Newton-Bishop, Francesco Sera, Fan Liu, Manfred Kayser, Tamar Nijsten
Comparison of response rates and cost-effectiveness for a community-based survey: postal, internet and telephone modes with generic or personalised recruitment approaches
Martha Sinclair, Joanne O’Toole, Manori Malawaraarachchi, Karin Leder
Determinants of non- response to a second assessment of lifestyle factors and body weight in the EPIC-PANACEA study
Anne M May, Lotte E Adema, Dora Romaguera, Anne-Claire Vergnaud, Antonio Agudo, Ulf Ekelund, Annika Steffen, Philippos Orfanos, Nadia Slimani, Sabina Rinaldi, Traci Mouw, Sabine Rohrmann, Silke Hermann, Heiner Boeing, Manuela M Bergmann, Marianne Uhre Jakobsen, Kim Overvad, Nicholas J Wareham, Carlos Gonzalez, Anne Tjonneland, Jytte Halkjaer, Timothy J Key, Elizabeth A Spencer, Veronica Hellstrom, Jonas Manjer, Bo Hedblad, Eiliv Lund, Tonje Braaten, Françoise Clavel-Chapelon, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Laudina Rodríguez, Maria J Sánchez, Miren Dorronsoro, Aurelio Barricarte, Jose Maria Huerta, Androniki Naska, Antonia Trichopoulou, Domenico Palli, Valeria Pala, Teresa Norat, Amalia Mattiello, Rosario Tumino, Daphne van der A, H Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Elio Riboli, Petra HM Peeters
Constructing episodes of inpatient care: data infrastructure for population-based research
Randy Fransoo, Marina Yogendran, Kendiss Olafson, Clare Ramsey, Kari-Lynne McGowan, Allan Garland
Do health care institutions value research? A mixed methods study of barriers and facilitators to methodological rigor in pediatric randomized trials
Michele P Hamm, Shannon D Scott, Terry P Klassen, David Moher, Lisa Hartling
Validity of information on atopic disease and other illness in young children reported by parents in a prospective birth cohort study
Nadja Hawwa Vissing, Signe Marie Jensen, Hans Bisgaard
Designing cost-efficient randomized trials by using flexible recruitment strategies
Menggang Yu, Jingwei Wu, Debra S Burns, Janet S Carpenter
Construct validity of 2 measures to assess reasons for antipsychotic discontinuation and continuation from patients’ and clinicians’ perspectives in a clinical trial
Douglas Faries, Haya Ascher-Svanum, Glenn Phillips, Allen W Nyhuis, Tomoko Sugihara, Virginia Stauffer, Bruce J Kinon
Predictors of two forms of attrition in a longitudinal health study involving ageing participants: An analysis based on the Whitehall II study
Gill Mein, Suneeta Johal, Robert L Grant, Clive Seale, Richard Ashcroft, Anthea Tinker
Should researchers use single indicators, best indicators, or multiple indicators in structural equation models?
Leslie A Hayduk, Levente Littvay
An exploration of the missing data mechanism in an Internet based smoking cessation trial
Dan Jackson, Dan Mason, Ian R White, Stephen Sutton
30-day in-hospital mortality after acute myocardial infarction in Tuscany (Italy): An observational study using hospital discharge data
Chiara Seghieri, Stefano Mimmi, Jacopo Lenzi, Maria Pia Fantini
Evaluation of the Propensity score methods for estimating marginal odds ratios in case of small sample size
Romain Pirracchio, Matthieu Resche-Rigon, Sylvie Chevret
Tracking type specific prevalence of human Papillomavirus in cervical pre-cancer: a novel sampling strategy
Edward K Waters, John Kaldor, Andrew J Hamilton, Anthony MA Smith, David J Philp, Basil Donovan, David G Regan
Statistical adjustment of genotyping error in a case–control study of childhood leukaemia
Matthew N Cooper, Nicholas H de Klerk, Kathryn R Greenop, Sarra E Jamieson, Denise Anderson, Frank M van Bockxmeer, Bruce K Armstrong, Elizabeth Milne
The HUNT study: participation is associated with survival and depends on socioeconomic status, diseases and symptoms
Arnulf Langhammer, Steinar Krokstad, Pål Romundstad, Jon Heggland, Jostein Holmen
Vascular disease in women: comparison of diagnoses in hospital episode statistics and general practice records in England
F Lucy Wright, Jane Green, Dexter Canoy, Benjamin J Cairns, Angela Balkwill, Valerie Beral
An optimal search filter for retrieving systematic reviews and meta-analyses
Edwin Lee, Maureen Dobbins, Kara DeCorby, Lyndsey McRae, Daiva Tirilis, Heather Husson
A review of statistical estimators for risk-adjusted length of stay: analysis of the Australian and new Zealand intensive care adult patient data-base, 2008–2009
John L Moran, Patricia J Solomon
Simulation evaluation of statistical properties of methods for indirect and mixed treatment comparisons
Fujian Song, Allan Clark, Max O Bachmann, Jim Maas
Systematic review of methods used in meta-analyses where a primary outcome is an adverse or unintended event
Fiona C Warren, Keith R Abrams, Su Golder, Alex J Sutton
Interpreting the concordance statistic of a logistic regression model: relation to the variance and odds ratio of a continuous explanatory variable
Peter C Austin, Ewout W Steyerberg
Partitioning of excess mortality in population-based cancer patient survival studies using flexible parametric survival models
Sandra Eloranta, Paul C Lambert, Therese ML Andersson, Kamila Czene, Per Hall, Magnus Björkholm, Paul W Dickman
Bayesian structured additive regression modeling of epidemic data: application to cholera
Frank B Osei, Alfred A Duker, Alfred Stein
Two assessments to evaluate imagery ability: translation, test-retest reliability and concurrent validity of the German KVIQ and Imaprax
Corina Schuster, Anina Lussi, Brigitte Wirth, Thierry Ettlin
Learning from failure - rationale and design for a study about discontinuation of randomized trials (DISCO study)
Benjamin Kasenda, Erik B von Elm, John You, Anette Blümle, Yuki Tomonaga, Ramon Saccilotto, Alain Amstutz, Theresa Bengough, Jörg Meerpohl, Mihaela Stegert, Kari A O Tikkinen, Ignacio Neumann, Alonso Carrasco-Labra, Markus Faulhaber, Sohail Mulla, Dominik Mertz, Elie A Akl, Dirk Bassler, Jason W Busse, Ignacio Ferreira-González, Francois Lamontagne, Alain Nordmann, Rachel Rosenthal, Stefan Schandelmaier, Xin Sun, Per O Vandvik, Bradley C Johnston, Martin A Walter, Bernard Burnand, Matthias Schwenkglenks, Heiner C Bucher, Gordon H Guyatt, Matthias Briel
Longitudinal beta regression models for analyzing health-related quality of life scores over time
Matthias Hunger, Angela Döring, Rolf Holle
Reliability, validity and administrative burden of the community reintegration of injured service members computer adaptive test (CRIS-CAT)”
Linda Resnik, Matthew Borgia, Pensheng Ni, Paul A Pirraglia, Alan Jette
Methods for the Drug Effectiveness Review Project
Marian S McDonagh, Daniel E Jonas, Gerald Gartlehner, Alison Little, Kim Peterson, Susan Carson, Mark Gibson, Mark Helfand
Randomised trial investigating the relationship of response rate for blood sample donation to site of biospecimen collection, fasting status and reminder letter: The 45 and Up Study
Emily Banks, Nicol Herbert, Kris Rogers, Tanya Mather, Louisa Jorm
The effect of changes in intraocular pressure on the risk of primary open-angle glaucoma in patients with ocular hypertension: an application of latent class analysis
Feng Gao, J Philip Miller, Stefano Miglior, Julia A Beiser, Valter Torri, Michael A Kass, Mae O Gordon
Investigating linkage rates among probabilistically linked birth and hospitalization records
Jason P Bentley, Jane B Ford, Lee K Taylor, Katie A Irvine, Christine L Roberts
Illness Mapping: a time and cost effective method to estimate healthcare data needed to establish community-based health insurance
Erika Binnendijk, Meenakshi Gautham, Ruth Koren, David M Dror
Internet trials: participant experiences and perspectives
Erin Mathieu, Alexandra Barratt, Stacy M Carter, Gro Jamtvedt
Reporting guidelines for modelling studies
Carol Bennett, Douglas G Manuel
An ultra-short screening version of the Recalled Parental Rearing Behavior questionnaire (FEE-US) and its factor structure in a representative German sample
Katja Petrowski, Sören Paul, Markus Zenger, Elmar Brähler
Self-reported adherence with the use of a device in a clinical trial as validated by electronic monitors: the VIBES study
Brianne A Jeffrey, Marian T Hannan, Emily K Quinn, Sheryl Zimmerman, Bruce A Barton, Clinton T Rubin, Douglas P Kiel
The use of individual cut points from treadmill walking to assess free-living moderate to vigorous physical activity in obese subjects by accelerometry: is it useful?
Eivind Aadland, Jostein Steene-Johannessen
Supplementing claims data with outpatient laboratory test results to improve confounding adjustment in effectiveness studies of lipid-lowering treatments
Sebastian Schneeweiss, Jeremy A Rassen, Robert J Glynn, Jessica Myers, Gregory W Daniel, Joseph Singer, Daniel H Solomon, SeoYoung Kim, Kenneth J Rothman, Jun Liu, Jerry Avorn
Spatio-temporal Rasch analysis of quality of life outcomes in the French general population. Measurement invariance and group comparisons
Jean-Benoit Hardouin, Etienne Audureau, Alain Leplège, Joël Coste
Intraclass reliability for assessing how well Taiwan constrained hospital-provided medical services using statistical process control chart techniques
Tsair-Wei Chien, Ming-Ting Chou, Wen-Chung Wang, Li-Shu Tsai, Weir-Sen Lin
Comparison of approaches to estimate confidence intervals of post-test probabilities of diagnostic test results in a nested case-control study
Bas van Zaane, Yvonne Vergouwe, A Rogier T Donders, Karel GM Moons
Inclusion of mobile phone numbers into an ongoing population health survey in New South Wales, Australia: design, methods, call outcomes, costs and sample representativeness
Margo L Barr, Jason J van Ritten, David G Steel, Sarah V Thackway
Attrition in longitudinal randomized controlled trials: home visits make a difference
Janey C Peterson, Paul A Pirraglia, Martin T Wells, Mary E Charlson
Practical considerations for sensitivity analysis after multiple imputation applied to epidemiological studies with incomplete data
Vanina Héraud-Bousquet, Christine Larsen, James Carpenter, Jean-Claude Desenclos, Yann Le Strat
Investigating hospital heterogeneity with a multi-state frailty model: application to nosocomial pneumonia disease in intensive care units
Benoit Liquet, Jean-François Timsit, Virginie Rondeau
Bureaucracy stifles medical research in Britain: a tale of three trials
Helen Snooks, Hayley Hutchings, Anne Seagrove, Sarah Stewart-Brown, John Williams, Ian Russell
Adjustment for reporting bias in network meta-analysis of antidepressant trials
Ludovic Trinquart, Gilles Chatellier, Philippe Ravaud
What does a modified-Fibonacci dose-escalation actually correspond to?
Nicolas Penel, Andrew Kramar
Fitting parametric random effects models in very large data sets with application to VHA national data
Mulugeta Gebregziabher, Leonard Egede, Gregory E Gilbert, Kelly Hunt, Paul J Nietert, Patrick Mauldin
The implications of biomarker evidence for systematic reviews
Miew Keen Choong, Guy Tsafnat
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Artificial neural networks versus proportional hazards Cox models to predict 45-year all-cause mortality in the Italian Rural Areas of the Seven Countries Study
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Quality assessment of systematic reviews or meta-analyses of nursing interventions conducted by Korean reviewers
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Systematic reviews need to consider applicability to disadvantaged populations: inter-rater agreement for a health equity plausibility algorithm
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Bias-corrected estimator for intraclass correlation coefficient in the balanced one-way random effects model
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Bayesian model selection techniques as decision support for shaping a statistical analysis plan of a clinical trial: An example from a vertigo phase III study with longitudinal count data as primary endpoint
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Intervention dose estimation in health promotion programmes: a framework and a tool. Application to the diet and physical activity promotion PRALIMAP trial
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Investigating clinical heterogeneity in systematic reviews: a methodologic review of guidance in the literature
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Validity of verbal autopsy method to determine causes of death among adults in the urban setting of Ethiopia
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The Manchester Color Wheel: validation in secondary school pupils
Helen R Carruthers, Linda Magee, Susan Osborne, Linda K Hall, Peter J Whorwell
Maternal recall of breastfeeding duration twenty years after delivery
Siv Tone Natland, Lene Frost Andersen, Tom Ivar Lund Nilsen, Siri Forsmo, Geir W Jacobsen
Combining directed acyclic graphs and the change-in-estimate procedure as a novel approach to adjustment-variable selection in epidemiology
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Meta-regression models to address heterogeneity and inconsistency in network meta-analysis of survival outcomes
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Bayesian methods in clinical trials: a Bayesian analysis of ECOG trials E1684 and E1690
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A framework for organizing and selecting quantitative approaches for benefit-harm assessment
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Modeling gradually changing seasonal variation in count data using state space models: a cohort study of hospitalization rates of stroke in atrial fibrillation patients in Denmark from 1977 to 2011
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Comparing marginal structural models to standard methods for estimating treatment effects of antihypertensive combination therapy
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The use of continuous data versus binary data in MTC models: A case study in rheumatoid arthritis
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Benefits of extensive recruitment effort persist during follow-ups and are consistent across age group and survey method. The TRAILS study
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Social interactions of eating behaviour among high school students: a cellular automata approach
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Simultaneous evaluation of abstinence and relapse using a Markov chain model in smokers enrolled in a two-year randomized trial
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A cross-sectional and semantic investigation of self-rated health in the northern Sweden MONICA-study
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