Ausgabe 1/2018
Inhalt (180 Artikel)
Evaluating screening approaches for hepatocellular carcinoma in a cohort of HCV related cirrhosis patients from the Veteran’s Affairs Health Care System
Nabihah Tayob, Peter Richardson, Donna L. White, Xiaoying Yu, Jessica A. Davila, Fasiha Kanwal, Ziding Feng, Hashem B. El-Serag
A systematic comparison of recurrent event models for application to composite endpoints
Ann-Kathrin Ozga, Meinhard Kieser, Geraldine Rauch
Effects of pre-notification, invitation length, questionnaire length and reminder on participation rate: a quasi-randomised controlled trial
Marie Koitsalu, Martin Eklund, Jan Adolfsson, Henrik Grönberg, Yvonne Brandberg
A comparison of estimators from self-controlled case series, case-crossover design, and sequence symmetry analysis for pharmacoepidemiological studies
Yoshinori Takeuchi, Tomohiro Shinozaki, Yutaka Matsuyama
What kind of systematic review should I conduct? A proposed typology and guidance for systematic reviewers in the medical and health sciences
Zachary Munn, Cindy Stern, Edoardo Aromataris, Craig Lockwood, Zoe Jordan
Structure formats of randomised controlled trial abstracts: a cross-sectional analysis of their current usage and association with methodology reporting
Fang Hua, Tanya Walsh, Anne-Marie Glenny, Helen Worthington
Comparison of nuisance parameters in pediatric versus adult randomized trials: a meta-epidemiologic empirical evaluation
Ben Vandermeer, Ingeborg van der Tweel, Marijke C. Jansen-van der Weide, Stephanie S. Weinreich, Despina G. Contopoulos-Ioannidis, Dirk Bassler, Ricardo M. Fernandes, Lisa Askie, Haroon Saloojee, Paola Baiardi, Susan S. Ellenberg, Johanna H. van der Lee
A multiple imputation method based on weighted quantile regression models for longitudinal censored biomarker data with missing values at early visits
MinJae Lee, Mohammad H. Rahbar, Matthew Brown, Lianne Gensler, Michael Weisman, Laura Diekman, John D. Reveille
A systematic review of comparisons between protocols or registrations and full reports in primary biomedical research
Guowei Li, Luciana P. F. Abbade, Ikunna Nwosu, Yanling Jin, Alvin Leenus, Muhammad Maaz, Mei Wang, Meha Bhatt, Laura Zielinski, Nitika Sanger, Bianca Bantoto, Candice Luo, Ieta Shams, Hamnah Shahid, Yaping Chang, Guangwen Sun, Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Zainab Samaan, Mitchell A. H. Levine, Jonathan D. Adachi, Lehana Thabane
Reporting of heterogeneity of treatment effect in cohort studies: a review of the literature
Meryl Dahan, Caroline Scemama, Raphael Porcher, David J. Biau
Development and validation of self-reported line drawings of the modified Beighton score for the assessment of generalised joint hypermobility
Dale J. Cooper, Brigitte E. Scammell, Mark E. Batt, Debbie Palmer
Getting messier with TIDieR: embracing context and complexity in intervention reporting
Sarah Cotterill, Sarah Knowles, Anne-Marie Martindale, Rebecca Elvey, Susan Howard, Nia Coupe, Paul Wilson, Michael Spence
Does different information disclosure on placebo control affect blinding and trial outcomes? A case study of participant information leaflets of randomized placebo-controlled trials of acupuncture
Soyeon Cheon, Hi-Joon Park, Younbyoung Chae, Hyangsook Lee
Assessing the effect of a partly unobserved, exogenous, binary time-dependent covariate on survival probabilities using generalised pseudo-values
Ulrike Pötschger, Harald Heinzl, Maria Grazia Valsecchi, Martina Mittlböck
Studying medical communication with video vignettes: a randomized study on how variations in video-vignette introduction format and camera focus influence analogue patients’ engagement
Leonie N. C. Visser, Nadine Bol, Marij A. Hillen, Mathilde G. E. Verdam, Hanneke C. J. M. de Haes, Julia C. M. van Weert, Ellen M. A. Smets
Defeat and entrapment: more than meets the eye? Applying network analysis to estimate dimensions of highly correlated constructs
Thomas Forkmann, Tobias Teismann, Jana-Sophie Stenzel, Heide Glaesmer, Derek de Beurs
Correction to: On the use of the outcome variable “small for gestational age” when gestational age is a potential mediator: a maternal asthma perspective
Geneviève Lefebvre, Mariia Samoilenko
Factor structure and psychometric properties of the english version of the trier inventory for chronic stress (TICS-E)
Katja Petrowski, Sören Kliem, Michael Sadler, Alicia E. Meuret, Thomas Ritz, Elmar Brähler
Using an onset-anchored Bayesian hierarchical model to improve predictions for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis disease progression
Alex G. Karanevich, Jeffrey M. Statland, Byron J. Gajewski, Jianghua He
Value of information methods to design a clinical trial in a small population to optimise a health economic utility function
Michael Pearce, Siew Wan Hee, Jason Madan, Martin Posch, Simon Day, Frank Miller, Sarah Zohar, Nigel Stallard
Correction to: Multiple Score Comparison: a network meta-analysis approach to comparison and external validation of prognostic scores
Sarah R. Haile, Beniamino Guerra, Joan B. Soriano, Milo A. Puhan
The management of children with bronchiolitis in the Australasian hospital setting: development of a clinical practice guideline
Sharon O’Brien, Sally Wilson, Fenella J. Gill, Elizabeth Cotterell, Meredith L Borland, Edward Oakley, Stuart R Dalziel
Advantages of a multi-state approach in surgical research: how intermediate events and risk factor profile affect the prognosis of a patient with locally advanced rectal cancer
G. Manzini, T. J. Ettrich, M. Kremer, M. Kornmann, D. Henne-Bruns, D. A. Eikema, P. Schlattmann, L. C. de Wreede
DeepSurv: personalized treatment recommender system using a Cox proportional hazards deep neural network
Jared L. Katzman, Uri Shaham, Alexander Cloninger, Jonathan Bates, Tingting Jiang, Yuval Kluger
Dealing with missing standard deviation and mean values in meta-analysis of continuous outcomes: a systematic review
Christopher J. Weir, Isabella Butcher, Valentina Assi, Stephanie C. Lewis, Gordon D. Murray, Peter Langhorne, Marian C. Brady
Pragmatism in practice: lessons learned during screening and enrollment for a randomised controlled trial in rural northern Ethiopia
Meseret Molla, Henok Negussie, Moses Ngari, Esther Kivaya, Patricia Njuguna, Fikre Enqueselassie, James A. Berkley, Gail Davey
An application of restricted mean survival time in a competing risks setting: comparing time to ART initiation by injection drug use
Keri L. Calkins, Chelsea E. Canan, Richard D. Moore, Catherine R. Lesko, Bryan Lau
Methodological and clinical implications of a three-in-one Russian doll design for tracking health trajectories and improving health and function through innovative exercise treatments in adults with disability
James H. Rimmer, Cassandra Herman, Brooks Wingo, Kevin Fontaine, Tapan Mehta
Psychometric properties and population norms of the positive mental health instrument in a representative multi-ethnic Asian population
Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar, Mythily Subramaniam, Linda Wei Lin Tan, Edimansyah Abdin, Wei Yen Lim, Hwee Lin Wee, Siow Ann Chong, Rob Martinus van Dam
Quality assessment of systematic reviews on total hip or knee arthroplasty using mod-AMSTAR
Xinyu Wu, Huan Sun, Xiaoqin Zhou, Ji Wang, Jing Li
Using bundle embeddings to predict daily cortisol levels in human subjects
Roelof B. Toonen, Klaas J. Wardenaar, Elisabeth H. Bos, Sonja L. van Ockenburg, Peter de Jonge
Sample size determination for mediation analysis of longitudinal data
Haitao Pan, Suyu Liu, Danmin Miao, Ying Yuan
Correction to: joint models for longitudinal and time-to-event data: a review of reporting quality with a view to meta-analysis
Maria Sudell, Ruwanthi Kolamunnage-Dona, Catrin Tudur-Smith
Writing a discussion section: how to integrate substantive and statistical expertise
Michael Höfler, John Venz, Sebastian Trautmann, Robert Miller
Nature and reporting characteristics of UK health technology assessment systematic reviews
Christopher Carroll, Eva Kaltenthaler
Colliding ideals – an interview study of how intervention researchers address adherence and adaptations in replication studies
Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz, Ulrika Förberg, Knut Sundell, Henna Hasson
Comparison of methodological quality rating of systematic reviews on neuropathic pain using AMSTAR and R-AMSTAR
Svjetlana Dosenovic, Antonia Jelicic Kadic, Katarina Vucic, Nikolina Markovina, Dawid Pieper, Livia Puljak
Measuring colorectal cancer incidence: the performance of an algorithm using administrative health data
Mamadou Diop, Erin C. Strumpf, Geetanjali D. Datta
Validating the use of veterans affairs tobacco health factors for assessing change in smoking status: accuracy, availability, and approach
Anne C. Melzer, Erika A. Pinsker, Barbara Clothier, Siamak Noorbaloochi, Diana J. Burgess, Elisheva R. Danan, Steven S. Fu
Informative graphing of continuous safety variables relative to normal reference limits
Christopher D. Breder
Simulation-based power calculations for planning a two-stage individual participant data meta-analysis
Joie Ensor, Danielle L. Burke, Kym I. E. Snell, Karla Hemming, Richard D. Riley
Influence of blinding on treatment effect size estimate in randomized controlled trials of oral health interventions
Humam Saltaji, Susan Armijo-Olivo, Greta G. Cummings, Maryam Amin, Bruno R. da Costa, Carlos Flores-Mir
Validation of verbal autopsy methods using hospital medical records: a case study in Vietnam
Hong Thi Tran, Hoa Phuong Nguyen, Sue M. Walker, Peter S. Hill, Chalapati Rao
Methods to systematically review and meta-analyse observational studies: a systematic scoping review of recommendations
Monika Mueller, Maddalena D’Addario, Matthias Egger, Myriam Cevallos, Olaf Dekkers, Catrina Mugglin, Pippa Scott
The appropriateness of Bland-Altman’s approximate confidence intervals for limits of agreement
Gwowen Shieh
List randomization for eliciting HIV status and sexual behaviors in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a randomized experiment using known true values for validation
Noah Haber, Guy Harling, Jessica Cohen, Tinofa Mutevedzi, Frank Tanser, Dickman Gareta, Kobus Herbst, Deenan Pillay, Till Bärnighausen, Günther Fink
A realist approach to eliciting the initial programme theory of the antiretroviral treatment adherence club intervention in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
Ferdinand C. Mukumbang, Bruno Marchal, Sara Van Belle, Brian van Wyk
Analysis of randomised trials with long-term follow-up
Robert D. Herbert, Jessica Kasza, Kari Bø
Bias due to censoring of deaths when calculating extra length of stay for patients acquiring a hospital infection
Shahina Rahman, Maja von Cube, Martin Schumacher, Martin Wolkewitz
joineRML: a joint model and software package for time-to-event and multivariate longitudinal outcomes
Graeme L. Hickey, Pete Philipson, Andrea Jorgensen, Ruwanthi Kolamunnage-Dona
Rapid response in health technology assessment: a Delphi study for a Brazilian guideline
Marcus Tolentino Silva, Everton Nunes da Silva, Jorge Otávio Maia Barreto
Effectiveness of motivational interviewing, health education and brief advice in a population of smokers who are not ready to quit
Majid Bani-Yaghoub, Abdellatif Elhomani, Delwyn Catley
Cost-effectiveness of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions for chronic hepatitis C: a systematic review of model-based analyses
Rodolfo Castro, Louise Crathorne, Hugo Perazzo, Julio Silva, Chris Cooper, Jo Varley-Campbell, Daniel Savignon Marinho, Marcela Haasova, Valdilea G. Veloso, Rob Anderson, Chris Hyde
Outlier classification performance of risk adjustment methods when profiling multiple providers
Timo B. Brakenhoff, Kit C. B. Roes, Karel G. M. Moons, Rolf H. H. Groenwold
Factors associated with missed assessments in a 2-year longitudinal study of acute respiratory distress syndrome survivors
Sara E. Heins, Amy W. Wozniak, Elizabeth Colantuoni, Kristin A. Sepulveda, Pedro A. Mendez-Tellez, Cheryl Dennison-Himmelfarb, Dale M. Needham, Victor D. Dinglas
How is AMSTAR applied by authors – a call for better reporting
Dawid Pieper, Nadja Koensgen, Jessica Breuing, Long Ge, Uta Wegewitz
Access to primary care for socio-economically disadvantaged older people in rural areas: exploring realist theory using structural equation modelling in a linked dataset
John A. Ford, Andy Jones, Geoff Wong, Allan Clark, Tom Porter, Nick Steel
Modelling memory decay after injuries using household survey data from Khartoum State, Sudan
Ivar Heuch, Safa Abdalla, Sally El Tayeb
Comparison of response rates on invitation mode of a web-based survey on influenza vaccine adverse events among healthcare workers: a pilot study
Xiaochen Tai, Alanna M. Smith, Allison J. McGeer, Eve Dubé, Dorothy Linn Holness, Kevin Katz, Linda McGillis Hall, Shelly A. McNeil, Jeff Powis, Brenda L. Coleman
Modelling attrition and nonparticipation in a longitudinal study of prostate cancer
Samantha Spiers, Evrim Oral, Elizabeth T. H. Fontham, Edward S. Peters, James L. Mohler, Jeannette T. Bensen, Christine S. Brennan
Instrumental variable analysis in the context of dichotomous outcome and exposure with a numerical experiment in pharmacoepidemiology
Babagnidé François Koladjo, Sylvie Escolano, Pascale Tubert-Bitter
A preference-based item response theory model to measure health: concept and mathematics of the multi-attribute preference response model
Catharina G. M. Groothuis-Oudshoorn, Edwin R. van den Heuvel, Paul F. M. Krabbe
Comparing performance between log-binomial and robust Poisson regression models for estimating risk ratios under model misspecification
Wansu Chen, Lei Qian, Jiaxiao Shi, Meredith Franklin
Evaluation of surrogate measures of insulin sensitivity - correlation with gold standard is not enough
Anna Rudvik, Marianne Månsson
Estimation of delay to diagnosis and incidence in HIV using indirect evidence of infection dates
Oliver T. Stirrup, David T. Dunn
The use of single armed observational data to closing the gap in otherwise disconnected evidence networks: a network meta-analysis in multiple myeloma
Susanne Schmitz, Áine Maguire, James Morris, Kai Ruggeri, Elisa Haller, Isla Kuhn, Joy Leahy, Natalia Homer, Ayesha Khan, Jack Bowden, Vanessa Buchanan, Michael O’Dwyer, Gordon Cook, Cathal Walsh
Estimating causal effects of time-dependent exposures on a binary endpoint in a high-dimensional setting
Vahé Asvatourian, Clélia Coutzac, Nathalie Chaput, Caroline Robert, Stefan Michiels, Emilie Lanoy
Community Assessment of COPD Health Care (COACH) study: a clinical audit on primary care performance variability in COPD care
María Abad-Arranz, Ana Moran-Rodríguez, Enrique Mascarós Balaguer, Carmen Quintana Velasco, Laura Abad Polo, Sara Núñez Palomo, Jaime Gonzálvez Rey, Ana María Fernández Vargas, Antonio Hidalgo Requena, Jose Manuel Helguera Quevedo, Marina García Pardo, Jose Luis Lopez-Campos, Jose Luis Lopez-Campos, Ana Morán Rodríguez, Enrique Mascarós Balaguer, María Abad Arranz, Ana M. Fernández Vargas, Antonio Hidalgo Requena, José Manuel Helguera Quevedo, Sara Núñez Palomo, Ana María Fernández Vargas, Beatriz Elorza Maza, Cristina Pulido Vázquez, Eloy de Haro Muñoz, Enrique Pérez Ortiz, Fernando López Verde, Francisco José Guirado Hidalgo, Irene Martínez Ríos, Jose María Lopez López, Juan Antonio Lara González, Juan Carlos Navarro González, Manolo Del Rey Pérez, Manuel Resa Alcalá, Ramon Nicolas Franco Reins, Raúl Rabaneda Bueno, José Galván Espinosa, José Miguel Cerón, Antonio Núñez Montenegro, Eugenio Contreras, Andra Crisán, Bárbara Quevedo Benyto, Beatriz Sanchís Yago, Carmen Quintana Velasco, Clara Cañardo Alastuey, Clara Lanuzzelli Barroso, Clara López Mas, Daniel Rubio Castro, Laura Abad Polo, Marina García Pardo, Arancha Rojo Calderón, Carmen Toca Incera, Esperanza Rueda Alonso, Helena Bermejo Ruiz, Juan Carlos López Caro, Luis Sainz de Rozas Arpide, María Jesús Fernández Lerones, Jaime Gonzálvez Rey, Gabriel Romero de Ávila Cabezón, Carlos Chapela Villa, Ruth Otero González, Jose Ramón Parada Jorgal, Irene Valle González, Maite Espantoso Romero, Susana Friande Pereira, Alejandra Montero Costa, Alicia Jorge Formariz, Ana Isabel Hernández Regalado, Ana Maria Rey López, Ángel Alonso Val, Ángel Luis Laguna, Ángel Quijada Monso, Ángeles Casado Aguado, Beata Bordzynska Michalska, Beatriz Orozco Carratalá, Beatriz Solans Aisa, Carmen Mateo Pascual, Carmen Vieira Pascual, Cristina Alvarez Alonso, Cristina García Lombardia, David González Gallardo, Dolores Morata Perelló, Eleonora Valinoti, Elisabet Astorga García, Encarnación Santos Montealegre, Enrique Rodríguez de Mingo, Francisco Sánchez Martín, Gloria Viñas Fernández, Guillermina López Fernández, Itziar Valero Infantes, Jaime Marín Cañada, José Luis Martínez Carrasco, José Ramón Sánchez Picón, Juan Carlos Moreno Fernández, Juan Miguel Pinar Manzanet, Julia Caballer Rodilla, Juncal Martínez Irazusta, Leticia Pérez Esteban, Luis Toledano Rubio, Maria Belén García Benito, Maria Belén Ortega Trompeta, María Cruz Díez Pérez, María Dolores Tuñón Leiva, María José Lougedo Calderón, María Sol Lorenzo Borda, Margarita Jimeno Rodríguez, Maria Carmen Lobón Agúndez, Maria Dolores García Granado, Marta Ruesga Estébanez, Mercedes Adriaá Sanz, Mercedes Capitán Caldas, Mercedes Marinas Barba, Miguel Ángel Delgado Nicolás, Miriam Sánchez Herraínz, Mirian Sánchez Herráiz, María Belén Martinez Urroz, María del Pino Calderín Morales, Montserrat Uriel Martínez, Norma Doria Carlín, Nuria de la Peña Antón, Paloma López-Hermosa Seseña, Pilar Aranda Arias, Pilar Blanco García, Raquel García Arriola, Raquel Martínez Bernardos, Raquel Sanjurjo Navarro, Raúl de Simón Gutiérrez, Sergio Heras Criado, Sonia Carmon aGranados, Teresa Gómez Rodríguez, Teresa Troyano Rivas
Correction for retest effects across repeated measures of cognitive functioning: a longitudinal cohort study of postoperative delirium
Annie M. Racine, Yun Gou, Tamara G. Fong, Edward R. Marcantonio, Eva M. Schmitt, Thomas G. Travison, Sharon K. Inouye, Richard N. Jones
Meta-analysis of binary outcomes via generalized linear mixed models: a simulation study
Ilyas Bakbergenuly, Elena Kulinskaya
Animal experimental research design in critical care
Justin S. Merkow, Janine M. Hoerauf, Angela F. Moss, Jason Brainard, Lena M. Mayes, Ana Fernandez-Bustamante, Susan K. Mikulich-Gilbertson, Karsten Bartels
Towards integrated surveillance of zoonoses: spatiotemporal joint modeling of rodent population data and human tularemia cases in Finland
C. Rotejanaprasert, A. Lawson, H. Rossow, J. Sane, O. Huitu, H. Henttonen, V. J. Del Rio Vilas
Development and validation of a MEDLINE search filter/hedge for degenerative cervical myelopathy
Benjamin M. Davies, Samuel Goh, Keonwoo Yi, Isla Kuhn, Mark R. N. Kotter
Reference effect measures for quantifying, comparing and visualizing variation from random and fixed effects in non-normal multilevel models, with applications to site variation in medical procedure use and outcomes
Thomas J. Glorioso, Gary K. Grunwald, P. Michael Ho, Thomas M. Maddox
The “RCT augmentation”: a novel simulation method to add patient heterogeneity into phase III trials
Helene Karcher, Shuai Fu, Jie Meng, Mikkel Zöllner Ankarfeldt, Orestis Efthimiou, Mark Belger, Josep Maria Haro, Lucien Abenhaim, Clementine Nordon
The importance of including aliases in data linkage with vulnerable populations
Holly Tibble, Hsei Di Law, Matthew J. Spittal, Rosemary Karmel, Rohan Borschmann, Katie Hail-Jares, Laura A. Thomas, Stuart A. Kinner
Creation of a new clinical framework – why women choose mastectomy versus breast conserving therapy
Jeffrey Gu, Gary Groot
Is recession bad for your mental health? The answer could be complex: evidence from the 2008 crisis in Spain
Joaquín Moncho, Pamela Pereyra-Zamora, Nayara Tamayo-Fonseca, Manuel Giron, Manuel Gómez-Beneyto, Andreu Nolasco
Simulation shows undesirable results for competing risks analysis with time-dependent covariates for clinical outcomes
Inga Poguntke, Martin Schumacher, Jan Beyersmann, Martin Wolkewitz
Self-reported measures in health research for people with intellectual disabilities: an inclusive pilot study on suitability and reliability
Kristel Vlot-van Anrooij, Hilde Tobi, Thessa I. M. Hilgenkamp, Geraline L. Leusink, Jenneken Naaldenberg
Bonferroni-Holm and permutation tests to compare health data: methodological and applicative issues
Massimiliano Giacalone, Zirilli Agata, Paolo Carmelo Cozzucoli, Angela Alibrandi
A dynamic Bayesian Markov model for health economic evaluations of interventions in infectious disease
Katrin Haeussler, Ardo van den Hout, Gianluca Baio
Prediction models for clustered data with informative priors for the random effects: a simulation study
Haifang Ni, Rolf H. H. Groenwold, Mirjam Nielen, Irene Klugkist
Self-selection in a population-based cohort study: impact on health service use and survival for bowel and lung cancer assessed using data linkage
Nicola Creighton, Stuart Purdie, Matthew Soeberg, Richard Walton, Deborah Baker, Jane Young
Defining the process to literature searching in systematic reviews: a literature review of guidance and supporting studies
Chris Cooper, Andrew Booth, Jo Varley-Campbell, Nicky Britten, Ruth Garside
The effect of a voucher incentive on a survey response rate in the clinical setting: a quasi-randomized controlled trial
Dawid Pieper, Nina Kotte, Peggy Ober
Multiple imputation for patient reported outcome measures in randomised controlled trials: advantages and disadvantages of imputing at the item, subscale or composite score level
Ines Rombach, Alastair M. Gray, Crispin Jenkinson, David W. Murray, Oliver Rivero-Arias
How can we get Iraq- and Afghanistan-deployed US Veterans to participate in health-related research? Findings from a national focus group study
Alyson J. Littman, Gala True, Emily Ashmore, Tracy Wellens, Nicholas L. Smith
Does pattern mixture modelling reduce bias due to informative attrition compared to fitting a mixed effects model to the available cases or data imputed using multiple imputation?: a simulation study
Catherine A. Welch, Séverine Sabia, Eric Brunner, Mika Kivimäki, Martin J. Shipley
Heckman imputation models for binary or continuous MNAR outcomes and MAR predictors
Jacques-Emmanuel Galimard, Sylvie Chevret, Emmanuel Curis, Matthieu Resche-Rigon
Pure intervention effect or effect in routine health care - blinded or non-blinded randomized controlled trial
Antti Malmivaara
Harmonization of delirium severity instruments: a comparison of the DRS-R-98, MDAS, and CAM-S using item response theory
Alden L. Gross, Doug Tommet, Madeline D’Aquila, Eva Schmitt, Edward R. Marcantonio, Benjamin Helfand, Sharon K. Inouye, Richard N. Jones, Sharon K. Inouye, Richard N. Jones, Tamara Fong, Tammy Hshieh, Edward R. Marcantonio, Annie Racine, Eva M. Schmitt, Dena Schulman-Green, Patricia A. Tabloski, Thomas Travison, Tatiana Abrantes, Brett Armstrong, Sylvia Bertrand, Angelee Butters, Madeline D’Aquila, Jacqueline Gallagher, Jennifer Kettell, Jacqueline Nee, Katelyn Parisi, Margaret Vella, Guoquan Xu, Lauren Weiner, Yun Gou, Douglas Tommet, Charles H. Brown, Sevdenur Cizginer, Diane Clark, Joseph H. Flaherty, Anne Gleason, Ann M. Kolanowski, Karen J. Neufeld, Margaret G. O’Connor, Margaret A. Pisani, Thomas Robinson, Joe Verghese, Heidi Wald, Sharon M. Gordon
Estimation of an inter-rater intra-class correlation coefficient that overcomes common assumption violations in the assessment of health measurement scales
Carly A. Bobak, Paul J. Barr, A. James O’Malley
The Ottawa SAH search algorithms: protocol for a multi- centre validation study of primary subarachnoid hemorrhage prediction models using health administrative data (the SAHepi prediction study protocol)
S. W. English, L. McIntyre, V. Saigle, M. Chassé, D. A. Fergusson, A. F. Turgeon, F. Lauzier, D. Griesdale, A. Garland, R. Zarychanski, A. Algird, C. van Walraven
A randomized comparison of three data collection models for the measurement of parent experiences with diabetes outpatient care
Oyvind Bjertnaes, Hilde Hestad Iversen, Torild Skrivarhaug
Quality of randomized controlled trials of new generation antidepressants and antipsychotics identified in the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI): a literature and telephone interview study
Zheng Tong, Fangzhou Li, Yusuke Ogawa, Norio Watanabe, Toshi A. Furukawa
Primary versus secondary source of data in observational studies and heterogeneity in meta-analyses of drug effects: a survey of major medical journals
Guillermo Prada-Ramallal, Fatima Roque, Maria Teresa Herdeiro, Bahi Takkouche, Adolfo Figueiras
Comparing survival functions with interval-censored data in the presence of an intermediate clinical event
Sohee Kim, Jinheum Kim, Chung Mo Nam
A descriptive analysis of non-Cochrane child-relevant systematic reviews published in 2014
Michelle Gates, Sarah A Elliott, Cydney Johnson, Denise Thomson, Katrina Williams, Ricardo M Fernandes, Lisa Hartling
Sense and sensibility: on the diagnostic value of control chart rules for detection of shifts in time series data
Jacob Anhøj, Tore Wentzel-Larsen
Assessment of research waste part 2: wrong study populations- an exemplar of baseline vitamin D status of participants in trials of vitamin D supplementation
Mark J. Bolland, Andrew Grey, Alison Avenell
A transdisciplinary team approach to scoping reviews: the case of pediatric polypharmacy
Paul M Bakaki, Jennifer Staley, Rujia Liu, Neal Dawson, Negar Golchin, Alexis Horace, Hannah Johnson, Jennifer Waldron, Almut Winterstein, Lawrence C Kleinman, Shari D Bolen
Assessment of research waste part 1: an exemplar from examining study design, surrogate and clinical endpoints in studies of calcium intake and vitamin D supplementation
Mark J. Bolland, Alison Avenell, Andrew Grey
Risks and rewards of using prepaid vs. postpaid incentive checks on a survey of physicians
Kristine Wiant, Emily Geisen, Darryl Creel, Gordon Willis, Andrew Freedman, Janet de Moor, Carrie Klabunde
Appropriate statistical methods for analysing partially nested randomised controlled trials with continuous outcomes: a simulation study
Jane Candlish, M. Dawn Teare, Munyaradzi Dimairo, Laura Flight, Laura Mandefield, Stephen J. Walters
Development and validation of a search filter to identify equity-focused studies: reducing the number needed to screen
Stephanie L Prady, Eleonora P Uphoff, Madeleine Power, Su Golder
Correction to: multiple imputation for patient reported outcome measures in randomised controlled trials: advantages and disadvantages of imputing at the item, subscale or composite score level
Ines Rombach, Alastair M Gray, Crispin Jenkinson, David W Murray, Oliver Rivero-Arias
The Shiny Balancer - software and imbalance criteria for optimally balanced treatment allocation in small RCTs and cRCTs
Thomas Grischott
Systematic review of the psychometric properties of instruments to measure sexual desire
Denisse Cartagena-Ramos, Miguel Fuentealba-Torres, Flávio Rebustini, Ana Carolina Andrade Biaggi Leite, Willyane de Andrade Alvarenga, Ricardo Alexandre Arcêncio, Rosana Aparecida Spadoti Dantas, Lucila Castanheira Nascimento
A comparison of metrics and performance characteristics of different search strategies for article retrieval for a systematic review of the global epidemiology of kidney and urinary diseases
Boris Bikbov, Norberto Perico, Giuseppe Remuzzi, Boris Bikbov, Claudia Cella, Monica Cortinovis, William Couser, Patricia Veronica Espindola Estevez, Flavio Gaspari, Felipe Antonio Rodriguez de Leon, Catherine Michaud, Valeria Miglioli, Christopher Murray, Mohsen Nagavi, Bishnu Pahari, Norberto Perico, Esteban Porrini, Giuseppe Remuzzi, Andrea Alejandra Panozo Rivero, Bernadette Thomas, Marcello Tonelli, Karen Courville de Vaccaro, Theo Vos, Natasha Wiebe, Sara Wulf
Can men be trusted in population-based surveys to report couples’ medical care for infertility?
Soraya Belgherbi, Elise de La Rochebrochard
Odds ratios from logistic, geometric, Poisson, and negative binomial regression models
Christopher J. Sroka, Haikady N. Nagaraja
A new approach for sample size calculation in cost-effectiveness studies based on value of information
Clément Bader, Sébastien Cossin, Aline Maillard, Antoine Bénard
Engaging military couples in marital research: does requesting referrals from service members to recruit their spouses introduce sample bias?
Hope Seib McMaster, Valerie A. Stander, Christianna S. Williams, Kelly A. Woodall, Christopher A. O’Malley, Lauren M. Bauer, Evelyn P. Davila, Carlos Carballo, Jackie Pflieger, Cynthia LeardMann, Sabrina Richardson, Evelyn Sun
A systematic survey shows that reporting and handling of missing outcome data in networks of interventions is poor
Loukia M. Spineli, Juan J. Yepes-Nuñez, Holger J. Schünemann
Synthesising conceptual frameworks for patient and public involvement in research – a critical appraisal of a meta-narrative review
David Evans, Noreen Hopewell-Kelly, Michele Kok, Jo White
Application of the dyadic data analysis in behavioral medicine research: marital satisfaction and anxiety in infertile couples
Saman Maroufizadeh, Mostafa Hosseini, Abbas Rahimi Foroushani, Reza Omani-Samani, Payam Amini
Mediation analysis with a time-to-event outcome: a review of use and reporting in healthcare research
Lauren Lapointe-Shaw, Zachary Bouck, Nicholas A. Howell, Theis Lange, Ani Orchanian-Cheff, Peter C. Austin, Noah M. Ivers, Donald A. Redelmeier, Chaim M. Bell
Application of a new dietary pattern analysis method in nutritional epidemiology
Fengqing Zhang, Tinashe M. Tapera, Jiangtao Gou
Examiners’ influence on the measured active and passive extension deficit in finger joints affected by Dupuytren disease
Jesper Nordenskjöld, Stina Brodén, Isam Atroshi
A systematic review of the clinical application of data-driven population segmentation analysis
Shi Yan, Yu Heng Kwan, Chuen Seng Tan, Julian Thumboo, Lian Leng Low
Development and reliability assessment of a new quality appraisal tool for cross-sectional studies using biomarker data (BIOCROSS)
Jan Wirsching, Sophie Graßmann, Fabian Eichelmann, Laura Malin Harms, Matthew Schenk, Eva Barth, Alide Berndzen, Moses Olalekan, Leen Sarmini, Hedwig Zuberer, Krasimira Aleksandrova
Exploring the impact of public health teams on alcohol premises licensing in England and Scotland (ExILEnS): procotol for a mixed methods natural experiment evaluation
Niamh Fitzgerald, Matt Egan, Frank de Vocht, Colin Angus, James Nicholls, Niamh Shortt, Tim Nichols, Nason Maani Hessari, Cheryl McQuire, Richard Purves, Nathan Critchlow, Andrea Mohan, Laura Mahon, Colin Sumpter, Linda Bauld
Barriers in general practitioners’ dementia diagnostics among people with a migration background in Germany (BaDeMi) - study protocol for a cross-sectional survey
Judith Tillmann, Rieke Schnakenberg, Marie-Therese Puth, Klaus Weckbecker, Johannes Just, Eva Münster
Human papillomavirus infection: protocol for a randomised controlled trial of imiquimod cream (5%) versus podophyllotoxin cream (0.15%), in combination with quadrivalent human papillomavirus or control vaccination in the treatment and prevention of recurrence of anogenital warts (HIPvac trial)
Macey L. Murray, Jade Meadows, Caroline J. Doré, Andrew J. Copas, Lewis J. Haddow, Charles Lacey, Mark Jit, Kate Soldan, Kate Bennett, Michelle Tetlow, Mayura Nathan, Richard Gilson
Putting family into family-based obesity prevention: enhancing participant engagement through a novel integrated knowledge translation strategy
Kathryn Walton, Tory Ambrose, Angela Annis, David WL. Ma, Jess Haines
Subgroups of lifestyle patterns among hypertension patients: a latent-class analysis
Jalileh Ghanbari, Asghar Mohammadpoorasl, Leila Jahangiry, Mahdieh Abbasalizad Farhangi, Jamileh Amirzadeh, Koen Ponnet
Hypothesis testing in Bayesian network meta-analysis
Lorenz Uhlmann, Katrin Jensen, Meinhard Kieser
Multistate recursively imputed survival trees for time-to-event data analysis: an application to AIDS and mortality post-HIV infection data
Leili Tapak, Michael R. Kosorok, Majid Sadeghifar, Omid Hamidi
Bubble effect: including internet search engines in systematic reviews introduces selection bias and impedes scientific reproducibility
Marko Ćurković, Andro Košec
Are we on the cusp of a fourth research paradigm? Predicting the future for a new approach to methods-use in medical and health services research
Frances Rapport, Jeffrey Braithwaite
Methodological development of tools to measure how women are treated during facility-based childbirth in four countries: labor observation and community survey
Meghan A. Bohren, Joshua P. Vogel, Bukola Fawole, Ernest T. Maya, Thae Maung Maung, Mamadou Diouldé Baldé, Agnes A. Oyeniran, Modupe Ogunlade, Kwame Adu-Bonsaffoh, Nwe Oo Mon, Boubacar Alpha Diallo, Abou Bangoura, Richard Adanu, Sihem Landoulsi, A. Metin Gülmezoglu, Özge Tunçalp
Improving the normalization of complex interventions: part 1 - development of the NoMAD instrument for assessing implementation work based on normalization process theory (NPT)
Tim Rapley, Melissa Girling, Frances S. Mair, Elizabeth Murray, Shaun Treweek, Elaine McColl, Ian Nicholas Steen, Carl R. May, Tracy L. Finch
Development of standard clinical endpoints for use in dengue interventional trials: introduction and methodology
Thomas Jaenisch, Kim Hendrickx, Martin Erpicum, Liane Agulto, Kay M. Tomashek, Walla Dempsey, João Bosco Siqueira, Morgan A. Marks, Michael P. Fay, Catherine Laughlin, Maina L’Azou, Yee-Sin Leo, Federico Narvaez, Remy Teyssou, Stephen J. Thomas, Hasitha Tissera, Derek Wallace, Annelies Wilder-Smith, Duane J. Gubler, M. Cristina Cassetti
Improving the normalization of complex interventions: part 2 - validation of the NoMAD instrument for assessing implementation work based on normalization process theory (NPT)
Tracy L. Finch, Melissa Girling, Carl R. May, Frances S. Mair, Elizabeth Murray, Shaun Treweek, Elaine McColl, Ian Nicholas Steen, Clare Cook, Christopher R. Vernazza, Nicola Mackintosh, Samridh Sharma, Gaery Barbery, Jimmy Steele, Tim Rapley
The impact of status and social context on health service co-design: an example from a collaborative improvement initiative in UK primary care
Ian Litchfield, Louise Bentham, Ann Hill, Richard J. McManus, Richard Lilford, Sheila Greenfield
CDSS-RM: a clinical decision support system reference model
Dimitrios Zikos, Nailya DeLellis
Joint modeling of multivariate longitudinal data and survival data in several observational studies of Huntington’s disease
Jeffrey D. Long, James A. Mills
Assessing the effect of risk factors on rates of obstetric transfusion over time using two methodological approaches
Edward Jegasothy, Jillian Patterson, Deborah Randall, Tanya A. Nippita, Judy M. Simpson, David O. Irving, Jane B. Ford
A qualitative approach to guide choices for designing a diary study
Karin A. M. Janssens, Elisabeth H. Bos, Judith G. M. Rosmalen, Marieke C. Wichers, Harriëtte Riese
Reliability in evaluator-based tests: using simulation-constructed models to determine contextually relevant agreement thresholds
Dylan T. Beckler, Zachary C. Thumser, Jonathon S. Schofield, Paul D. Marasco
Parametric assumptions equate to hidden observations: comparing the efficiency of nonparametric and parametric models for estimating time to AIDS or death in a cohort of HIV-positive women
Jacqueline E. Rudolph, Stephen R. Cole, Jessie K. Edwards
Systematic review or scoping review? Guidance for authors when choosing between a systematic or scoping review approach
Zachary Munn, Micah D. J. Peters, Cindy Stern, Catalin Tufanaru, Alexa McArthur, Edoardo Aromataris
Retinal vascular tortuosity assessment: inter-intra expert analysis and correlation with computational measurements
Lucía Ramos, Jorge Novo, José Rouco, Stephanie Romeo, María D. Álvarez, Marcos Ortega
Prognostic models for intracerebral hemorrhage: systematic review and meta-analysis
Tiago Gregório, Sara Pipa, Pedro Cavaleiro, Gabriel Atanásio, Inês Albuquerque, Paulo Castro Chaves, Luís Azevedo
The challenges of recruiting cancer patient/caregiver dyads: informing randomized controlled trials
Leila Heckel, Kate M. Gunn, Patricia M. Livingston
The patient experience with treatment and self-management (PETS) questionnaire: translation and cultural adaption of the Norwegian version
Anne Marie Lunde Husebø, Ingvild Margreta Morken, Kristina Sundt Eriksen, Oda Karin Nordfonn
Characterising and justifying sample size sufficiency in interview-based studies: systematic analysis of qualitative health research over a 15-year period
Konstantina Vasileiou, Julie Barnett, Susan Thorpe, Terry Young
Which ICD-9-CM codes should be used for bronchiolitis research?
Paul Walsh, Stephen J. Rothenberg
Variable participation of knowledge users in cancer health services research: results of a multiple case study
Mary Ann O’Brien, Andrea Carson, Lisa Barbera, Melissa C. Brouwers, Craig C. Earle, Ian D. Graham, Nicole Mittmann, Eva Grunfeld
Retention strategies in longitudinal cohort studies: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Samantha Teague, George J. Youssef, Jacqui A. Macdonald, Emma Sciberras, Adrian Shatte, Matthew Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, Chris Greenwood, Jennifer McIntosh, Craig A. Olsson, Delyse Hutchinson, Sharyn Bant, Sophie Barker, Anna Booth, Tanja Capic, Laura Di Manno, Alisha Gulenc, Genevieve Le Bas, Primrose Letcher, Claire Ann Lubotzky, Jessica Opie, Melissa O’Shea, Evelyn Tan, Jo Williams
Using the Beta distribution in group-based trajectory models
Jonathan Elmer, Bobby L. Jones, Daniel S. Nagin
Periodic reflections: a method of guided discussions for documenting implementation phenomena
Erin P. Finley, Alexis K. Huynh, Melissa M. Farmer, Bevanne Bean-Mayberry, Tannaz Moin, Sabine M. Oishi, Jessica L. Moreau, Karen E. Dyer, Holly Jordan Lanham, Luci Leykum, Alison B. Hamilton
Exploring reporting quality of systematic reviews and Meta-analyses on nursing interventions in patients with Alzheimer’s disease before and after PRISMA introduction
Xiao Sun, Xiaobin Zhou, Yan Yu, Haihua Liu
The interaction of personal, contextual, and study characteristics and their effect on recruitment and participation of pregnant women in research: a qualitative study in Lebanon
Jennifer J. Ayoub, May Abiad, Michele R. Forman, Lara Nasreddine, Nahla Hwalla, Ghina Ghazeeri, Anwar Nassar, Khalid Yunis, Saadeddine Itani, Al Anoud Al Thani, Mariam Alabdulmalik, Amira Mahmoud Hassan, Hiba Bawadi, Gladys Honein-AbouHaidar, Farah Naja
Sample size calculation in multi-centre clinical trials
Markus Harden, Tim Friede
Improving the quality of reporting of systematic reviews of dose-response meta-analyses: a cross-sectional survey
Chang Xu, Tong-Zu Liu, Peng-Li Jia, Yu Liu, Ling Li, Liang-Liang Cheng, Xin Sun
Protocol for the development of a core outcome set for pelvic girdle pain, including methods for measuring the outcomes: the PGP-COS study
Francesca Wuytack, Annelie Gutke, Britt Stuge, Siv Mørkved, Christina Olsson, Hilde Stendal Robinson, Nina K. Vøllestad, Birgitta Öberg, Lena Nilsson Wikmar, Juan Jose Saldaña Mena, Valerie Smith
Lasso regularization for left-censored Gaussian outcome and high-dimensional predictors
Perrine Soret, Marta Avalos, Linda Wittkop, Daniel Commenges, Rodolphe Thiébaut
Methods for evaluating adverse drug event preventability in emergency department patients
Stephanie A. Woo, Amber Cragg, Maeve E. Wickham, David Peddie, Ellen Balka, Frank Scheuermeyer, Diane Villanyi, Corinne M. Hohl
Quantity and quality of nucleic acids extracted from archival formalin fixed paraffin embedded prostate biopsies
Jessica Carlsson, Sabina Davidsson, Jonna Fridfeldt, Francesca Giunchi, Valentina Fiano, Chiara Grasso, Renata Zelic, Lorenzo Richiardi, Ove Andrén, Andreas Pettersson, Michelangelo Fiorentino, Olof Akre
Methods for trustworthy nutritional recommendations NutriRECS (Nutritional Recommendations and accessible Evidence summaries Composed of Systematic reviews): a protocol
Bradley C. Johnston, Pablo Alonso-Coello, Malgorzata M. Bala, Dena Zeraatkar, Montserrat Rabassa, Claudia Valli, Catherine Marshall, Regina El Dib, Robin W. M. Vernooij, Per O. Vandvik, Gordon H. Guyatt
Determinants of the willingness to participate in biobanking among Malaysian stakeholders in the Klang Valley
Latifah Amin, Hasrizul Hashim, Zurina Mahadi, Khaidzir Ismail
Norm values and psychometric properties of the brief symptom inventory-18 regarding individuals between the ages of 60 and 95
Katja Petrowski, Bjarne Schmalbach, Melanie Jagla, Gabriele Helga Franke, Elmar Brähler
Impact of linkage quality on inferences drawn from analyses using data with high rates of linkage errors in rural Tanzania
Christopher T. Rentsch, Katie Harron, Mark Urassa, Jim Todd, Georges Reniers, Basia Zaba
Use of predicted vital status to improve survival analysis of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis cohorts
Meredith B. Brooks, Salmaan Keshavjee, Irina Gelmanova, Nataliya A. Zemlyanaya, Carole D. Mitnick, Justin Manjourides
Participatory action research, mixed methods, and research teams: learning from philosophically juxtaposed methodologies for optimal research outcomes
Marguerite C. Sendall, Laura K. McCosker, Alison Brodie, Melissa Hill, Phil Crane
A comparison of multiple imputation methods for missing data in longitudinal studies
Md Hamidul Huque, John B. Carlin, Julie A. Simpson, Katherine J. Lee
Discrepancies in endpoints between clinical trial protocols and clinical trial registration in randomized trials in oncology
Victoria J. Serpas, Kanwal P. Raghav, Daniel M. Halperin, James Yao, Michael J. Overman
Analysis of self-report and biochemically verified tobacco abstinence outcomes with missing data: a sensitivity analysis using two-stage imputation
Yiwen Zhang, Xianghua Luo, Chap T. Le, Jasjit S. Ahluwalia, Janet L. Thomas
Study filters for non-randomized studies of interventions consistently lacked sensitivity upon external validation
Elke Hausner, Maria-Inti Metzendorf, Bernd Richter, Fabian Lotz, Siw Waffenschmidt
A nonparametric Bayesian continual reassessment method in single-agent dose-finding studies
Niansheng Tang, Songjian Wang, Gen Ye
Strategies and challenges associated with recruiting retirement village communities and residents into a group exercise intervention
Rachel L. Duckham, Jamie L. Tait, Caryl A. Nowson, Kerrie M. Sanders, Dennis R. Taaffe, Keith D. Hill, Robin M. Daly
Adjustment for unmeasured confounding through informative priors for the confounder-outcome relation
Rolf H. H. Groenwold, Inbal Shofty, Milica Miočević, Maarten van Smeden, Irene Klugkist
Evaluation of the quality and value of data sources for postmarket surveillance of the safety of cough and cold medications in children
Jody L. Green, Kate M. Reynolds, William Banner, G. Randall Bond, Ralph E. Kauffman, Robert B. Palmer, Ian M. Paul, Richard C. Dart
Validity of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) for assessing moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and sedentary behaviour of older adults in the United Kingdom
Claire Cleland, Sara Ferguson, Geraint Ellis, Ruth F. Hunter
Factors associated with retention in a smoking cessation trial for persons with a mental illness: a descriptive study
Alexandra P. Metse, Nur Ashikin Noor Hizam, John Wiggers, Paula Wye, Jenny A. Bowman
Mechanisms, contexts and points of contention: operationalizing realist-informed research for complex health interventions
James Shaw, Carolyn Steele Gray, G. Ross Baker, Jean-Louis Denis, Mylaine Breton, Jennifer Gutberg, Gaya Embuldeniya, Peter Carswell, Annette Dunham, Ann McKillop, Timothy Kenealy, Nicolette Sheridan, Walter Wodchis
Machine learning methodologies versus cardiovascular risk scores, in predicting disease risk
Alexandros C. Dimopoulos, Mara Nikolaidou, Francisco Félix Caballero, Worrawat Engchuan, Albert Sanchez-Niubo, Holger Arndt, José Luis Ayuso-Mateos, Josep Maria Haro, Somnath Chatterji, Ekavi N. Georgousopoulou, Christos Pitsavos, Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos
The generation of consensus guidelines for carrying out process evaluations in rehabilitation research
P. Masterson-Algar, C. R. Burton, J. Rycroft-Malone