Ausgabe 1/2022
Inhalt (339 Artikel)
The impact of lookback windows on the prevalence and incidence of chronic diseases among people living with HIV: an exploration in administrative health data in Canada
Ni Gusti Ayu Nanditha, Xinzhe Dong, Taylor McLinden, Paul Sereda, Jacek Kopec, Robert S. Hogg, Julio S. G. Montaner, Viviane D. Lima
Non-parametric estimation of reference adjusted, standardised probabilities of all-cause death and death due to cancer for population group comparisons
Mark J. Rutherford, Therese M.-L. Andersson, Tor Åge Myklebust, Bjørn Møller, Paul C. Lambert
A validation study of data in the National Tonsil Surgery Register in Sweden: high agreement with medical records ensures that data can be used to monitor clinical practices and outcomes
Filip Lundström, Erik Odhagen, Fredrik Alm, Claes Hemlin, Pia Nerfeldt, Ola Sunnergren
Simple Excel and ICD-10 based dataset calculator for the Charlson and Elixhauser comorbidity indices
Pärt Prommik, Kaspar Tootsi, Toomas Saluse, Eiki Strauss, Helgi Kolk, Aare Märtson
Oncologic patients’ misconceptions may impede enrollment into clinical trials: a cross-sectional study
Nethanel Asher, Ari Raphael, Ido Wolf, Sharon Pelles, Ravit Geva
Reporting of abstracts in studies that used routinely collected data for exploring drug treatment effects: a cross-sectional survey
Mei Liu, Wen Wang, Mingqi Wang, Qiao He, Ling Li, Guowei Li, Lin He, Kang Zou, Xin Sun
Identification of causal effects in case-control studies
Bas B. L. Penning de Vries, Rolf H. H. Groenwold
Development of a data classification system for preterm birth cohort studies: the RECAP Preterm project
Deborah Bamber, Helen E. Collins, Charlotte Powell, Gonçalo Campos Gonçalves, Samantha Johnson, Bradley Manktelow, José Pedro Ornelas, João Correia Lopes, Artur Rocha, Elizabeth S. Draper
Leveraging pleiotropic association using sparse group variable selection in genomics data
Matthew Sutton, Pierre-Emmanuel Sugier, Therese Truong, Benoit Liquet
Stacked survival models for residual lifetime data
James H. McVittie, David B. Wolfson, Vittorio Addona, Zhaoheng Li
Completeness of reporting of clinical prediction models developed using supervised machine learning: a systematic review
Constanza L. Andaur Navarro, Johanna A. A. Damen, Toshihiko Takada, Steven W. J. Nijman, Paula Dhiman, Jie Ma, Gary S. Collins, Ram Bajpai, Richard D. Riley, Karel G. M. Moons, Lotty Hooft
Spatiotemporal variations in exposure: Chagas disease in Colombia as a case study
Julia Ledien, Zulma M. Cucunubá, Gabriel Parra-Henao, Eliana Rodríguez-Monguí, Andrew P. Dobson, María-Gloria Basáñez, Pierre Nouvellet
Sample attrition analysis in a prospective cohort study of medical graduates in China
Mingyue Li, Ziyue Wang, Baisong Zhang, Tiantian Wei, Dan Hu, Xiaoyun Liu
COVID-19 impact on mental health
Jingyu Cui, Jingwei Lu, Yijia Weng, Grace Y. Yi, Wenqing He
Are there non-linear relationships between alcohol consumption and long-term health?: a systematic review of observational studies employing approaches to improve causal inference
Rachel Visontay, Matthew Sunderland, Tim Slade, Jack Wilson, Louise Mewton
Developing a toolkit for increasing the participation of black, Asian and minority ethnic communities in health and social care research
Azhar Farooqi, Karan Jutlla, Raghu Raghavan, Andrew Wilson, Mohammud Shams Uddin, Carol Akroyd, Naina Patel, Pamela Peggy Campbell-Morris, Aaisha Tasneem Farooqi
Prediction of acute appendicitis among patients with undifferentiated abdominal pain at emergency department
Dai Su, Qinmengge Li, Tao Zhang, Philip Veliz, Yingchun Chen, Kevin He, Prashant Mahajan, Xingyu Zhang
A proportional odds model of risk behaviors associated with recurrent road traffic crashes among young adults in Kuwait
Saeed Akhtar, Eisa Aldhafeeri, Farah Alshammari, Hana Jafar, Haya Malhas, Marina Botras, Noor Alnasrallah
Left-censored recurrent event analysis in epidemiological studies: a proposal for when the number of previous episodes is unknown
Gilma Hernández-Herrera, David Moriña, Albert Navarro
Reporting methodological issues of the mendelian randomization studies in health and medical research: a systematic review
Shabab Noor Islam, Tanvir Ahammed, Aniqua Anjum, Olayan Albalawi, Md. Jamal Uddin
A blinded evaluation of privacy preserving record linkage with Bloom filters
Sean Randall, Helen Wichmann, Adrian Brown, James Boyd, Tom Eitelhuber, Alexandra Merchant, Anna Ferrante
Poor reporting quality of observational clinical studies comparing treatments of COVID-19 – a retrospective cross-sectional study
Sebastian Ziemann, Irina Paetzolt, Linda Grüßer, Mark Coburn, Rolf Rossaint, Ana Kowark
Comparison of statistical methods for the analysis of recurrent adverse events in the presence of non-proportional hazards and unobserved heterogeneity: a simulation study
Noel Patson, Mavuto Mukaka, Lawrence Kazembe, Marinus J. C. Eijkemans, Don Mathanga, Miriam K. Laufer, Tobias Chirwa
Practical recommendations for implementing a Bayesian adaptive phase I design during a pandemic
Sean Ewings, Geoff Saunders, Thomas Jaki, Pavel Mozgunov
Feasibility study for interactive reporting of network meta-analysis: experiences from the development of the MetaInsight COVID-19 app for stakeholder exploration, re-analysis and sensitivity analysis from living systematic reviews
Yiqiao Xin, Clareece R. Nevill, Janion Nevill, Ewan Gray, Nicola J. Cooper, Naomi Bradbury, Alex J. Sutton
Study retention and attrition in a longitudinal cohort study including patient-reported outcomes, fieldwork and biobank samples: results of the Netherlands quality of life and Biomedical cohort study (NET-QUBIC) among 739 head and neck cancer patients and 262 informal caregivers
Femke Jansen, Ruud H. Brakenhoff, Rob J. Baatenburg de Jong, Johannes A. Langendijk, C. René Leemans, Robert P. Takes, Chris H. J. Terhaard, Jan H. Smit, Irma M. Verdonck-de Leeuw
Unifying the analysis of continuous and categorical measures of weight loss and incorporating group effect: a secondary re-analysis of a large cluster randomized clinical trial using Bayesian approach
Fengming Tang, Christie A. Befort, Jo Wick, Byron J. Gajewski
Correction to: Moving beyond the classic diferencein-diferences model: a simulation study comparing statistical methods for estimating efectiveness of state-level policies
Beth Ann Grifn, Megan S. Schuler, Elizabeth A. Stuart, Stephen Patrick, Elizabeth McNeer, Rosanna Smart, David Powell, Bradley D. Stein, Terry L. Schell, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
Sex-specific analysis of traumatic brain injury events: applying computational and data visualization techniques to inform prevention and management
Tatyana Mollayeva, Andrew Tran, Vincy Chan, Angela Colantonio, Michael D. Escobar
Health and study dropout: health aspects differentially predict attrition
Johannes Beller, Siegfried Geyer, Jelena Epping
Comparisons of statistical distributions for cluster sizes in a developing pandemic
M. J. Faddy, A. N. Pettitt
A new infodemiological approach through Google Trends: longitudinal analysis of COVID-19 scientific and infodemic names in Italy
Alessandro Rovetta, Lucia Castaldo
Which test for crossing survival curves? A user’s guideline
Ina Dormuth, Tiantian Liu, Jin Xu, Menggang Yu, Markus Pauly, Marc Ditzhaus
Seek COVER: using a disease proxy to rapidly develop and validate a personalized risk calculator for COVID-19 outcomes in an international network
Ross D. Williams, Aniek F. Markus, Cynthia Yang, Talita Duarte-Salles, Scott L. DuVall, Thomas Falconer, Jitendra Jonnagaddala, Chungsoo Kim, Yeunsook Rho, Andrew E. Williams, Amanda Alberga Machado, Min Ho An, María Aragón, Carlos Areia, Edward Burn, Young Hwa Choi, Iannis Drakos, Maria Tereza Fernandes Abrahão, Sergio Fernández-Bertolín, George Hripcsak, Benjamin Skov Kaas-Hansen, Prasanna L. Kandukuri, Jan A. Kors, Kristin Kostka, Siaw-Teng Liaw, Kristine E. Lynch, Gerardo Machnicki, Michael E. Matheny, Daniel Morales, Fredrik Nyberg, Rae Woong Park, Albert Prats-Uribe, Nicole Pratt, Gowtham Rao, Christian G. Reich, Marcela Rivera, Tom Seinen, Azza Shoaibi, Matthew E. Spotnitz, Ewout W. Steyerberg, Marc A. Suchard, Seng Chan You, Lin Zhang, Lili Zhou, Patrick B. Ryan, Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Jenna M. Reps, Peter R. Rijnbeek
Stroke survivors’ preferences regarding study participation in rehabilitation research
Emma Carlstedt, Eva Månsson Lexell, Agneta Ståhl, Arne Lindgren, Susanne Iwarsson
Responsiveness of different pain measures and recall periods in people undergoing surgery after a period of splinting for basal thumb joint osteoarthritis
Jenni Pajari, Jarkko Jokihaara, Eero Waris, Simo Taimela, Teppo L. N. Järvinen, Rachelle Buchbinder, Teemu Karjalainen
Weighted composite time to event endpoints with recurrent events: comparison of three analytical approaches
Ann-Kathrin Ozga, Geraldine Rauch
Approaches to multiplicity in publicly funded pragmatic randomised controlled trials: a survey of clinical trials units and a rapid review of published trials
Katie Pike, Barnaby C. Reeves, Chris A. Rogers
Statistical methods for evaluating the fine needle aspiration cytology procedure in breast cancer diagnosis
Carolla El Chamieh, Philippe Vielh, Sylvie Chevret
Registration and primary outcome reporting in behavioral health trials
Nicholas J. Taylor, Dennis M. Gorman
Recruitment methods and yield rates in a clinical trial of physical exercise for older adults with hypertension—HAEL Study: a study within a trial
Cíntia E. Botton, Lucas P. Santos, Bruna G. Moraes, Raíssa B. Monteiro, Maria Laura B. Gomes, Eurico N. Wilhelm, Stephanie S. Pinto, Daniel Umpierre
Robust meta-analysis for large-scale genomic experiments based on an empirical approach
Sinjini Sikdar
Converting from face-to-face to postal follow-up and its effects on participant retention, response rates and errors: lessons from the EQUAL study in the UK
Emer Gates, Barnaby Hole, Samantha Hayward, Nicholas C. Chesnaye, Yvette Meuleman, Friedo W. Dekker, Marie Evans, Olof Heimburger, Claudia Torino, Gaetana Porto, Maciej Szymczak, Christiane Drechsler, Christoph Wanner, Kitty J. Jager, Paul Roderick, Fergus Caskey
Inverse probability weighting to handle attrition in cohort studies: some guidance and a call for caution
Marie-Astrid Metten, Nathalie Costet, Luc Multigner, Jean-François Viel, Guillaume Chauvet
Analysis approaches to address treatment nonadherence in pragmatic trials with point-treatment settings: a simulation study
Md. Belal Hossain, Lucy Mosquera, Mohammad Ehsanul Karim
Answering complex hierarchy questions in network meta-analysis
Theodoros Papakonstantinou, Georgia Salanti, Dimitris Mavridis, Gerta Rücker, Guido Schwarzer, Adriani Nikolakopoulou
Borrowing information across patient subgroups in clinical trials, with application to a paediatric trial
Rebecca M. Turner, Anna Turkova, Cecilia L. Moore, Alasdair Bamford, Moherndran Archary, Linda N. Barlow-Mosha, Mark F. Cotton, Tim R. Cressey, Elizabeth Kaudha, Abbas Lugemwa, Hermione Lyall, Hilda A. Mujuru, Veronica Mulenga, Victor Musiime, Pablo Rojo, Gareth Tudor-Williams, Steven B. Welch, Diana M. Gibb, Deborah Ford, Ian R. White
Adaptive treatment allocation and selection in multi-arm clinical trials: a Bayesian perspective
Elja Arjas, Dario Gasbarra
Assessing transferability in systematic reviews of health economic evaluations – a review of methodological guidance
Alina Weise, Roland Brian Büchter, Dawid Pieper, Tim Mathes
Comparative analysis of explainable machine learning prediction models for hospital mortality
Eline Stenwig, Giampiero Salvi, Pierluigi Salvo Rossi, Nils Kristian Skjærvold
Enrichment Bayesian design for randomized clinical trials using categorical biomarkers and a binary outcome
Valentin Vinnat, Sylvie Chevret
Interchangeability and optimization of heart rate methods for estimating oxygen uptake in ergometer cycling, level treadmill walking and running
Karin Sofia Elisabeth Olsson, Hans Rosdahl, Peter Schantz
Distributional regression in clinical trials: treatment effects on parameters other than the mean
Gillian Z. Heller, Kristy P. Robledo, Ian C. Marschner
Locating and testing the healthy context paradox: examples from the INCLUSIVE trial
G. J. Melendez-Torres, Emily Warren, Obioha C Ukoumunne, Russell Viner, Chris Bonell
What is the empirical basis for converting banded ordinal data on numbers of sex partners among MSM into a continuous scale level variable? A secondary analysis of 13 surveys across 17 countries
Ana Mendez-Lopez, Ford Hickson, Klaus Jansen, Nathan Lachowsky, Fiona Burns, Cinta Folch, Annie Velter, Peter Weatherburn, Ulrich Marcus, Ursula von Rüden, Massimo Mirandola, Lorenzo Gios, Jamie Frankis, David J. Brennan, Axel J. Schmidt
Detecting the patient’s need for help with machine learning based on expressions
Lauri Lahti
Impact of different cover letter content and incentives on non-response bias in a sample of Veterans applying for Department of Veterans Affairs disability benefits: a randomized, 3X2X2 factorial trial
Maureen Murdoch, Barbara A. Clothier, Timothy J. Beebe, Ann K. Bangerter, Siamak Noorbaloochi
Individual-specific networks for prediction modelling – A scoping review of methods
Mariella Gregorich, Federico Melograna, Martina Sunqvist, Stefan Michiels, Kristel Van Steen, Georg Heinze
Should samples be weighted to decrease selection bias in online surveys during the COVID-19 pandemic? Data from seven datasets
Chadia Haddad, Hala Sacre, Rony M. Zeenny, Aline Hajj, Marwan Akel, Katia Iskandar, Pascale Salameh
Documenting patients’ and providers’ preferences when proposing a randomized controlled trial: a qualitative exploration
Devesh Oberoi, Cynthia Kwok, Yong Li, Cindy Railton, Susan Horsman, Kathleen Reynolds, Anil A. Joy, Karen Marie King, Sasha Michelle Lupichuk, Michael Speca, Nicole Culos-Reed, Linda E. Carlson, Janine Giese-Davis
The effect of personalised versus non-personalised study invitations on recruitment within the ENGAGE feasibility trial: an embedded randomised controlled recruitment trial
Ella Thiblin, Joanne Woodford, Mattias Öhman, Louise von Essen
Using a consistency check during data collection to identify invalid responding in an online cannabis screening survey
Christina Schell, Alexandra Godinho, John A. Cunningham
Using linear and natural cubic splines, SITAR, and latent trajectory models to characterise nonlinear longitudinal growth trajectories in cohort studies
Ahmed Elhakeem, Rachael A. Hughes, Kate Tilling, Diana L. Cousminer, Stefan A. Jackowski, Tim J. Cole, Alex S. F. Kwong, Zheyuan Li, Struan F. A. Grant, Adam D. G. Baxter-Jones, Babette S. Zemel, Deborah A. Lawlor
The first step is recognizing there is a problem: a methodology for adjusting for variability in disease severity when estimating clinician performance
Meagan Bechel, Adam R. Pah, Stephen D. Persell, Curtis H. Weiss, Luís A. Nunes Amaral
Adjusting for verification bias in diagnostic accuracy measures when comparing multiple screening tests - an application to the IP1-PROSTAGRAM study
Emily Day, David Eldred-Evans, A. Toby Prevost, Hashim U. Ahmed, Francesca Fiorentino
Analyzing differences between restricted mean survival time curves using pseudo-values
Federico Ambrogi, Simona Iacobelli, Per Kragh Andersen
Ripple effects mapping: capturing the wider impacts of systems change efforts in public health
James Nobles, Jessica Wheeler, Kirsty Dunleavy-Harris, Richard Holmes, Alan Inman-Ward, Alexandra Potts, Jennifer Hall, Sabi Redwood, Russell Jago, Charlie Foster
Implications of analysing time-to-event outcomes as binary in meta-analysis: empirical evidence from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Theodosia Salika, Rebecca M. Turner, David Fisher, Jayne F. Tierney, Ian R. White
Research monitoring practices in critical care research: a survey of current state and attitudes
Renate Le Marsney, Tara Williams, Kerry Johnson, Shane George, Kristen S. Gibbons
Methodological approaches to measuring the incidence of unplanned emergency department presentations by cancer patients receiving systemic anti-cancer therapy: a systematic review
P. H. Dufton, M. F. Gerdtz, R. Jarden, M. Krishnasamy
Functional principal component analysis for identifying the child growth pattern using longitudinal birth cohort data
Reka Karuppusami, Belavendra Antonisamy, Prasanna S. Premkumar
Big data ordination towards intensive care event count cases using fast computing GLLVMS
Rezzy Eko Caraka, Rung-Ching Chen, Su-Wen Huang, Shyue-Yow Chiou, Prana Ugiana Gio, Bens Pardamean
Developing a tool to assess the skills to perform a health technology assessment
Julia Bidonde, Jose Francisco Meneses-Echavez, Brian Asare, Lumbwe Chola, Mohamed Gad, Lieke Fleur Heupink, Elizabeth Fleur Peacocke, Angela Ackon, Akuba Dolphyne, Francis Ruiz, Ingvil Sæterdal, Anne Lien Espeland, Eia Elena Skjønsberg, Marit Johansen
Development and validation of search filters to identify articles on deprescribing in Medline and Embase
Thomas Morel, Jérôme Nguyen-Soenen, Wade Thompson, Jean-Pascal Fournier
MedMinas project: design and use of mixed methods in the evaluation of pharmaceutical services in primary health care in Minas Gerais, Brazil
Tatiana Chama Borges Luz, Noemia Urruth Leão Tavares, Ana Karine Sarvel de Castro, Isabela Cristina Marques, Elizabeth Moreira dos Santos, Betania Barros Cota
The effect of missing data and imputation on the detection of bias in cognitive testing using differential item functioning methods
E. Nichols, J. A. Deal, B. K. Swenor, A. G. Abraham, N. M. Armstrong, K. Bandeen-Roche, M. C. Carlson, M. Griswold, F. R. Lin, T. H. Mosley, P. Y. Ramulu, N. S. Reed, A. R. Sharrett, A. L. Gross
Developing a dynamic simulation model to support the nationwide implementation of whole genome sequencing in lung cancer
Michiel van de Ven, Maarten IJzerman, Valesca Retèl, Wim van Harten, Hendrik Koffijberg
Using group model building to frame the commercial determinants of dietary behaviour in adolescence – proposed methods for online system mapping workshops
Yanaina Chavez-Ugalde, Zoi Toumpakari, Martin White, Frank De Vocht, Russell Jago
Estimation of invasive Group B Streptococcus disease risk in young infants from case-control serological studies
Alane Izu, Gaurav Kwatra, Shabir A. Madhi, Fabio Rigat
Immortal time bias for life-long conditions in retrospective observational studies using electronic health records
Freya Tyrer, Krishnan Bhaskaran, Mark J. Rutherford
Evaluation of multiple imputation approaches for handling missing covariate information in a case-cohort study with a binary outcome
Melissa Middleton, Cattram Nguyen, Margarita Moreno-Betancur, John B. Carlin, Katherine J. Lee
The impact of moderator by confounder interactions in the assessment of treatment effect modification: a simulation study
Antonia Mary Marsden, William G. Dixon, Graham Dunn, Richard Emsley
Methodology and experiences of rapid advice guideline development for children with COVID-19: responding to the COVID-19 outbreak quickly and efficiently
Qi Zhou, Qinyuan Li, Janne Estill, Qi Wang, Zijun Wang, Qianling Shi, Jingyi Zhang, Xiaobo Zhang, Joseph L. Mathew, Rosalind L. Smyth, Detty Nurdiati, Zhou Fu, Hongmei Xu, Xianlan Zheng, Xiaodong Zhao, Quan Lu, Hui Liu, Yangqin Xun, Weiguo Li, Shu Yang, Xixi Feng, Mengshu Wang, Junqiang Lei, Xiaoping Luo, Liqun Wu, Xiaoxia Lu, Myeong Soo Lee, Shunying Zhao, Edwin Shih-Yen Chan, Yuan Qian, Wenwei Tu, Xiaoyan Dong, Guobao Li, Ruiqiu Zhao, Zhihui He, Siya Zhao, Xiao Liu, Qiu Li, Kehu Yang, Zhengxiu Luo, Enmei Liu, Yaolong Chen
Comparing single and multiple imputation strategies for harmonizing substance use data across HIV-related cohort studies
Marjan Javanbakht, Johnny Lin, Amy Ragsdale, Soyeon Kim, Suzanne Siminski, Pamina Gorbach
|tPRiors |: a tool for prior elicitation and obtaining posterior distributions of true disease prevalence
Konstantinos Pateras, Polychronis Kostoulas
BivRec: an R package for the nonparametric and semiparametric analysis of bivariate alternating recurrent events
Sandra Castro-Pearson, Aparajita Sur, Chi Hyun Lee, Chiung-Yu Huang, Xianghua Luo
KMSubtraction: reconstruction of unreported subgroup survival data utilizing published Kaplan-Meier survival curves
Joseph J. Zhao, Nicholas L. Syn, Benjamin Kye Jyn Tan, Dominic Wei Ting Yap, Chong Boon Teo, Yiong Huak Chan, Raghav Sundar
Moving towards a single-frame cell phone design in random digit dialing surveys: considerations from a French general population health survey
Noémie Soullier, Stéphane Legleye, Jean-Baptiste Richard
Bayesian variable selection and survival modeling: assessing the Most important comorbidities that impact lung and colorectal cancer survival in Spain
Francisco Javier Rubio, Danilo Alvares, Daniel Redondo-Sanchez, Rafael Marcos-Gragera, María-José Sánchez, Miguel Angel Luque-Fernandez
Evaluating the psychometric properties of the German adaptation of the client attachment to therapist scale
Katja Petrowski, Bjarne Schmalbach, Joram Ronel, Ileana Schmalbach, Elisabeth Olliges
Adaptive design for identifying maximum tolerated dose early to accelerate dose-finding trial
Masahiro Kojima
Investigating treatment-effect modification by a continuous covariate in IPD meta-analysis: an approach using fractional polynomials
Willi Sauerbrei, Patrick Royston
Identification of tools used to assess the external validity of randomized controlled trials in reviews: a systematic review of measurement properties
Andres Jung, Julia Balzer, Tobias Braun, Kerstin Luedtke
Methodological conduct of prognostic prediction models developed using machine learning in oncology: a systematic review
Paula Dhiman, Jie Ma, Constanza L. Andaur Navarro, Benjamin Speich, Garrett Bullock, Johanna A. A. Damen, Lotty Hooft, Shona Kirtley, Richard D. Riley, Ben Van Calster, Karel G. M. Moons, Gary S. Collins
The validity, reliability and feasibility of four instruments for assessing the consciousness of stroke patients in a neurological intensive care unit compared
Xiaoxiang Yan, Lingjun Xiao, Meixin Liao, Jiajian Huang, Zhijie He, Tiebin Yan
Estimation of treatment effects in observational stroke care data: comparison of statistical approaches
Marzyeh Amini, Nikki van Leeuwen, Frank Eijkenaar, Rob van de Graaf, Noor Samuels, Robert van Oostenbrugge, Ido R. van den Wijngaard, Pieter Jan van Doormaal, Yvo B. W. E. M. Roos, Charles Majoie, Bob Roozenbeek, Diederik Dippel, James Burke, Hester F. Lingsma, Diederik W. J. Dippel, Aad van der Lugt, Charles B. L. M. Majoie, Yvo B. W. E. M. Roos, Robert J. van Oostenbrugge, Wim H. van Zwam, Jelis Boiten, Jan Albert Vos, Josje Brouwer, Sanne J. den Hartog, Wouter H. Hinsenveld, Manon Kappelhof, Kars C. J. Compagne, Robert-Jan B. Goldhoorn, Maxim J. H. L. Mulder, Ivo G. H. Jansen, Diederik W. J. Dippel, Bob Roozenbeek, Aad van der Lugt, Adriaan C. G. M. van Es, Charles B. L. M. Majoie, Yvo B. W. E. M. Roos, Bart J. Emmer, Jonathan M. Coutinho, Wouter J. Schonewille, Jan Albert Vos, Marieke J. H. Wermer, Marianne A. A. van Walderveen, Julie Staals, Robert J. van Oostenbrugge, Wim H. van Zwam, Jeannette Hofmeijer, Jasper M. Martens, Geert J. Lycklama à Nijeholt, Jelis Boiten, Sebastiaan F. de Bruijn, Lukas C. van Dijk, H. Bart van der Worp, Rob H. Lo, Ewoud J. van Dijk, Hieronymus D. Boogaarts, J. de Vries, Paul L. M. de Kort, Julia van Tuijl, Jo Jo P. Peluso, Puck Fransen, Jan S. P. van den Berg, Boudewijn A. A. M. van Hasselt, Leo A. M. Aerden, René J. Dallinga, Maarten Uyttenboogaart, Omid Eschgi, Reinoud P. H. Bokkers, Tobien H. C. M. L. Schreuder, Roel J. J. Heijboer, Koos Keizer, Lonneke S. F. Yo, Heleen M. den Hertog, Emiel J. C. Sturm, Paul Brouwers, Charles B. L. M. Majoie, Wim H. van Zwam, Aad van der Lugt, Geert J. Lycklama à Nijeholt, Marianne A. A. van Walderveen, Marieke E. S. Sprengers, Sjoerd F. M. Jenniskens, René van den Berg, Albert J. Yoo, Ludo F. M. Beenen, Alida A. Postma, Stefan D. Roosendaal, Bas F. W. van der Kallen, Ido R. van den Wijngaard, Adriaan C. G. M. van Es, Bart J. Emmer, Jasper M. Martens, Lonneke S. F. Yo, Jan Albert Vos, Joost Bot, Pieter-Jan van Doormaal, Anton Meijer, Elyas Ghariq, Reinoud P. H. Bokkers, Marc P. van Proosdij, G. Menno Krietemeijer, Jo P. Peluso, Hieronymus D. Boogaarts, Rob Lo, Dick Gerrits, Wouter Dinkelaar, Auke P. A. Appelman, Bas Hammer, Sjoert Pegge, Anouk van der Hoorn, Saman Vinke, Diederik W. J. Dippel, Aad van der Lugt, Charles B. L. M. Majoie, Yvo B. W. E. M. Roos, Robert J. van Oostenbrugge, Wim H. van Zwam, Geert J. Lycklama à Nijeholt, Jelis Boiten, Jan Albert Vos, Wouter J. Schonewille, Jeannette Hofmeijer, Jasper M. Martens, H. Bart van der Worp, Rob H. Lo, Robert J. van Oostenbrugge, Jeannette Hofmeijer, H. Zwenneke Flach, Hester F. Lingsma, Naziha el Ghannouti, Martin Sterrenberg, Corina Puppels, Wilma Pellikaan, Rita Sprengers, Marjan Elfrink, Michelle Simons, Marjolein Vossers, Joke de Meris, Tamara Vermeulen, Annet Geerlings, Gina van Vemde, Tiny Simons, Cathelijn van Rijswijk, Gert Messchendorp, Nynke Nicolaij, Hester Bongenaar, Karin Bodde, Sandra Kleijn, Jasmijn Lodico, Hanneke Droste, Maureen Wollaert, Sabrina Verheesen, D. Jeurrissen, Erna Bos, Yvonne Drabbe, Michelle Sandiman, Marjan Elfrink, Nicoline Aaldering, Berber Zweedijk, Mostafa Khalilzada, Jocova Vervoort, Hanneke Droste, Nynke Nicolaij, Michelle Simons, Eva Ponjee, Sharon Romviel, Karin Kanselaar, Erna Bos, Denn Barning, Esmee Venema, Vicky Chalos, Ralph R. Geuskens, Tim van Straaten, Saliha Ergezen, Roger R. M. Harmsma, Daan Muijres, Anouk de Jong, Olvert A. Berkhemer, Anna M. M. Boers, J. Huguet, P. F. C. Groot, Marieke A. Mens, Katinka R. van Kranendonk, Kilian M. Treurniet, Ivo G. H. Jansen, Manon L. Tolhuisen, Heitor Alves, Annick J. Weterings, Eleonora L. F. Kirkels, Eva J. H. F. Voogd, Lieve M. Schupp, Sabine Collette, Adrien E. D. Groot, Natalie E. LeCouffe, Praneeta R. Konduri, Haryadi Prasetya, Nerea Arrarte-Terreros, Lucas A. Ramos
Adopting AMSTAR 2 critical appraisal tool for systematic reviews: speed of the tool uptake and barriers for its adoption
Ruzica Bojcic, Mate Todoric, Livia Puljak
Systematic reviews and meta-analysis published in indexed Portuguese medical journals: time trends and critical appraisal
Luísa Prada, Ana Prada, Miguel Marques Antunes, Ricardo M. Fernandes, João Costa, Joaquim J. Ferreira, Daniel Caldeira
Comparison of reference distributions acquired by direct and indirect sampling techniques: exemplified with the Pediatric Reference Interval in China (PRINCE) study
Ruohua Yan, Kun Li, Yaqi Lv, Yaguang Peng, Nicholas Van Halm-Lutterodt, Wenqi Song, Xiaoxia Peng, Xin Ni
Development and evaluation of a search filter to identify prognostic factor studies in Ovid MEDLINE
Elena Stallings, Andrea Gaetano-Gil, Noelia Alvarez-Diaz, Ivan Solà, Jesús López-Alcalde, Daniel Molano, Javier Zamora
Clearing the air: underestimation of youth smoking prevalence associated with proxy-reporting compared to youth self-report
Eden M. Barrett, Raglan Maddox, Joanne Thandrayen, Emily Banks, Raymond Lovett, Christina Heris, Katherine A. Thurber
Correction to: Ethnographic research as an evolving method for supporting healthcare improvement skills: a scoping review
Georgia B. Black, Sandra van Os, Samantha Machen, Naomi J. Fulop
Methodological assessment of systematic reviews of in-vitro dental studies
Christopher Hammel, Nikolaos Pandis, Dawid Pieper, Clovis Mariano Faggion Jr
Mind the gap: covariate constrained randomisation can protect against substantial power loss in parallel cluster randomised trials
Caroline Kristunas, Michael Grayling, Laura J. Gray, Karla Hemming
Evaluating the performance of Bayesian and restricted maximum likelihood estimation for stepped wedge cluster randomized trials with a small number of clusters
Kelsey L. Grantham, Jessica Kasza, Stephane Heritier, John B. Carlin, Andrew B. Forbes
Estimation and inference for the mediation effect in a time-varying mediation model
Xizhen Cai, Donna L. Coffman, Megan E. Piper, Runze Li
Correction to: Big data ordination towards intensive care event count cases using fast computing GLLVMS
Rezzy Eko Caraka, Rung-Ching Chen, Su-Wen Huang, Shyue-Yow Chiou, Prana Ugiana Gio, Bens Pardamean
Blinded sample size re-estimation in a comparative diagnostic accuracy study
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Abstract screening using the automated tool Rayyan: results of effectiveness in three diagnostic test accuracy systematic reviews
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A comparison of survival models for prediction of eight-year revision risk following total knee and hip arthroplasty
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The effect of disease co-occurrence measurement on multimorbidity networks: a population-based study
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A data-driven pipeline to extract potential adverse drug reactions through prescription, procedures and medical diagnoses analysis: application to a cohort study of 2,010 patients taking hydroxychloroquine with an 11-year follow-up
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Automating risk of bias assessment in systematic reviews: a real-time mixed methods comparison of human researchers to a machine learning system
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An investigation of penalization and data augmentation to improve convergence of generalized estimating equations for clustered binary outcomes
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On estimation for accelerated failure time models with small or rare event survival data
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Investigating factors associated with the number of rehospitalizations among patients with schizophrenia disorder using penalized count regression models
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Trial-level characteristics associate with treatment effect estimates: a systematic review of meta-epidemiological studies
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Risk of selection bias assessment in the NINDS rt-PA stroke study
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Standard of care for COVID-19 in randomized clinical trials registered in trial registries and published in preprint servers and scholarly journals: a cross-sectional study
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Identifying Potential Factors Associated with High HIV viral load in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa using Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Random Forest Analysis
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The implementation and validation of the NoMAD during a complex primary care intervention
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Generating high-fidelity synthetic time-to-event datasets to improve data transparency and accessibility
Aiden Smith, Paul C. Lambert, Mark J. Rutherford
Prior test experience confounds longitudinal tracking of adolescent cognitive and motor development
Edith V. Sullivan, Wesley K. Thompson, Ty Brumback, Devin Prouty, Susan F. Tapert, Sandra A. Brown, Michael D. De Bellis, Kate B. Nooner, Fiona C. Baker, Ian M. Colrain, Duncan B. Clark, Bonnie J. Nagel, Kilian M. Pohl, Adolf Pfefferbaum
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A progressive three-state model to estimate time to cancer: a likelihood-based approach
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A novel simulation-based approach to training for recruitment of older adults to clinical trials
Harriet Fisher, Sondra Zabar, Joshua Chodosh, Aisha Langford, Chau Trinh-Shevrin, Scott Sherman, Lisa Altshuler
A comparative study on deep learning models for text classification of unstructured medical notes with various levels of class imbalance
Hongxia Lu, Louis Ehwerhemuepha, Cyril Rakovski
Empirical assessment of alternative methods for identifying seasonality in observational healthcare data
Anthony Molinaro, Frank DeFalco
Machine learning approach for the prediction of 30-day mortality in patients with sepsis-associated encephalopathy
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More than one third of clinical practice guidelines on low back pain overlap in AGREE II appraisals. Research wasted?
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Validation of remote height and weight assessment in a rural randomized clinical trial
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Bayesian network meta-analysis methods for combining individual participant data and aggregate data from single arm trials and randomised controlled trials
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Is age at menopause decreasing? – The consequences of not completing the generational cohort
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Individual dynamic prediction of clinical endpoint from large dimensional longitudinal biomarker history: a landmark approach
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Methodology for the development of National Multidisciplinary Management Recommendations using a multi-stage meta-consensus initiative
John C. Hardman, Kevin Harrington, Tom Roques, Sanjai Sood, Jemy Jose, Shane Lester, Paul Pracy, Ricard Simo, Costa Repanos, Frank Stafford, Chris Jennings, Stuart C. Winter, Hugh Wheatly, Jarrod Homer, B. Nirmal Kumar, Vinidh Paleri
Assessing the ability of an instrumental variable causal forest algorithm to personalize treatment evidence using observational data: the case of early surgery for shoulder fracture
John M. Brooks, Cole G. Chapman, Sarah B. Floyd, Brian K. Chen, Charles A. Thigpen, Michael Kissenberth
Coding linguistic elements in clinical interactions: a step-by-step guide for analyzing communication form
Inge Stortenbeker, Lisa Salm, Tim olde Hartman, Wyke Stommel, Enny Das, Sandra van Dulmen
Comparing outcomes from tailored meta-analysis with outcomes from a setting specific test accuracy study using routine data of faecal calprotectin testing for inflammatory bowel disease
Karoline Freeman, Brian H. Willis, Ronan Ryan, Sian Taylor-Phillips, Aileen Clarke
Meta-analysis using Python: a hands-on tutorial
Safoora Masoumi, Saeid Shahraz
Does group-based trajectory modeling estimate spurious trajectories?
Miceline Mésidor, Marie-Claude Rousseau, Jennifer O’Loughlin, Marie-Pierre Sylvestre
Machine learning is an effective method to predict the 90-day prognosis of patients with transient ischemic attack and minor stroke
Si-Ding Chen, Jia You, Xiao-Meng Yang, Hong-Qiu Gu, Xin-Ying Huang, Huan Liu, Jian-Feng Feng, Yong Jiang, Yong-jun Wang
The effect of high prevalence of missing data on estimation of the coefficients of a logistic regression model when using multiple imputation
Peter C. Austin, Stef van Buuren
Relationship between patient experience and hospital readmission: system-level survey with deterministic data linkage method
Eliza Lai-Yi Wong, Chin-Man Poon, Annie Wai-Ling Cheung, Frank Youhua Chen, Eng-Kiong Yeoh
Development of a factorial survey for use in an international study examining clinicians’ likelihood to support the decision to initiate invasive long-term ventilation for a child (the TechChild study)
Mary Brigid Quirke, Denise Alexander, Kate Masterson, Jo Greene, Cathal Walsh, Piet Leroy, Jay Berry, Lee Polikoff, Maria Brenner
Methodological perspectives on the study of the health effects of unemployment – reviewing the mode of unemployment, the statistical analysis method and the role of confounding factors
Fredrik Norström, Anne Hammarström
Accommodating heterogeneous missing data patterns for prostate cancer risk prediction
Matthias Neumair, Michael W. Kattan, Stephen J. Freedland, Alexander Haese, Lourdes Guerrios-Rivera, Amanda M. De Hoedt, Michael A. Liss, Robin J. Leach, Stephen A. Boorjian, Matthew R. Cooperberg, Cedric Poyet, Karim Saba, Kathleen Herkommer, Valentin H. Meissner, Andrew J. Vickers, Donna P. Ankerst
Comparing statistical methods in assessing the prognostic effect of biomarker variability on time-to-event clinical outcomes
Feng Gao, Jingqin Luo, Jingxia Liu, Fei Wan, Guoqiao Wang, Mae Gordon, Chengjie Xiong
Distributed lag interrupted time series model for unclear intervention timing: effect of a statement of emergency during COVID-19 pandemic
Daisuke Yoneoka, Takayuki Kawashima, Yuta Tanoue, Shuhei Nomura, Akifumi Eguchi
An investigation of the constancy of effect in Cochrane systematic reviews in context with the assumptions for noninferiority trials
Enass M. Duro, Steven A. Julious, Shijie Ren
Nested and multipart prospective observational studies, flaming fiasco or efficiently economical?: The Brain, Bone, Heart case study
C. Christina Mehta, Kimberly S. Hagen, Lauren F. Collins, Renee’ H. Moore, Ighovwerha Ofotokun
Sample size recalculation based on the prevalence in a randomized test-treatment study
Amra Hot, Norbert Benda, Patrick M. Bossuyt, Oke Gerke, Werner Vach, Antonia Zapf
Evaluating methods for Lasso selective inference in biomedical research: a comparative simulation study
Michael Kammer, Daniela Dunkler, Stefan Michiels, Georg Heinze
Survival prediction models: an introduction to discrete-time modeling
Krithika Suresh, Cameron Severn, Debashis Ghosh
Assessing the effectiveness of empirical calibration under different bias scenarios
Hon Hwang, Juan C. Quiroz, Blanca Gallego
Sample size calculation for prevalence studies using Scalex and ScalaR calculators
Lin Naing, Rusli Bin Nordin, Hanif Abdul Rahman, Yuwadi Thein Naing
Correction: Analysis of zero inflated dichotomous variables from a Bayesian perspective: application to occupational health
David Moriña, Pedro Puig, Albert Navarro
A comparison of statistical methods for modeling count data with an application to hospital length of stay
Gustavo A. Fernandez, Kristina P. Vatcheva
Selecting implementation models, theories, and frameworks in which to integrate intersectional approaches
Justin Presseau, Danielle Kasperavicius, Isabel Braganca Rodrigues, Jessica Braimoh, Andrea Chambers, Cole Etherington, Lora Giangregorio, Jenna C. Gibbs, Anik Giguere, Ian D. Graham, Olena Hankivsky, Alison M. Hoens, Jayna Holroyd-Leduc, Christine Kelly, Julia E. Moore, Matteo Ponzano, Malika Sharma, Kathryn M. Sibley, Sharon Straus
Developing an Unstructured Supplementary Service Data-based mobile phone app to provide adolescents with sexual reproductive health information: a human-centered design approach
Paul Macharia, Antoni Pérez-Navarro, Irene Inwani, Ruth Nduati, Carme Carrion
A simple pooling method for variable selection in multiply imputed datasets outperformed complex methods
A. M. Panken, M. W. Heymans
Pharmacokinetic parameter driven outcomes model predicts a reduction in bleeding events associated with BAY 81–8973 versus antihemophilic factor (recombinant) plasma/albumin-free method in a Chinese healthcare setting
Rong Chen, Dmitry Gultyaev, Johanna Lister, Rong Han, Nan Hu, Jean Malacan, Alexander Solms, Parth Vashi, Jamie O’Hara, Shanlian Hu
Should RECOVERY have used response adaptive randomisation? Evidence from a simulation study
Tamir Sirkis, Benjamin Jones, Jack Bowden
Urinary tract infections in children: building a causal model-based decision support tool for diagnosis with domain knowledge and prospective data
Jessica A. Ramsay, Steven Mascaro, Anita J. Campbell, David A. Foley, Ariel O. Mace, Paul Ingram, Meredith L. Borland, Christopher C. Blyth, Nicholas G. Larkins, Tim Robertson, Phoebe C. M. Williams, Thomas L. Snelling, Yue Wu
Differences between experimental and placebo arms in manual therapy trials: a methodological review
Giandomenico D’Alessandro, Nuria Ruffini, Alessandro Aquino, Matteo Galli, Mattia Innocenti, Marco Tramontano, Francesco Cerritelli
A methodologic survey on use of the GRADE approach in evidence syntheses published in high-impact factor urology and nephrology journals
Shuang Zhang, Qi-Jun Wu, Shu-Xin Liu
regCOVID: Tracking publications of registered COVID-19 studies
Craig S. Mayer, Vojtech Huser
Cluster randomised trials with a binary outcome and a small number of clusters: comparison of individual and cluster level analysis method
Jennifer A. Thompson, Clemence Leyrat, Katherine L. Fielding, Richard J. Hayes
Predicting the presence of depressive symptoms in the HIV-HCV co-infected population in Canada using supervised machine learning
Gayatri Marathe, Erica E. M. Moodie, Marie-Josée Brouillette, Joseph Cox, Curtis Cooper, Charlotte Lanièce Delaunay, Brian Conway, Mark Hull, Valérie Martel-Laferrière, Marie-Louise Vachon, Sharon Walmsley, Alexander Wong, Marina B. Klein, Lisa Barrett, Jeff Cohen, Pierre Côté, John Gill, Shariq Haider, Neora Pick, Danielle Rouleau, Steve Sanche, Roger Sandre
Evaluating the impact of calibration of patient-reported outcomes measures on results from randomized clinical trials: a simulation study based on Rasch measurement theory
Angély Loubert, Antoine Regnault, Véronique Sébille, Jean-Benoit Hardouin
Harmonized procedure coding system for surgical procedures and analysis of surgical site infections (SSI) of five European countries
Sibylle C. Mellinghoff, Caroline Bruns, Rouvier Al-Monajjed, Florian B. Cornely, Maria Grosheva, Jürgen A. Hampl, Carolin Jakob, Felix C. Koehler, Max Lechmann, Bijan Maged, Christina Otto-Lambertz, Robert Rongisch, Jule Rutz, Jon Salmanton-Garcia, Georg Schlachtenberger, Jannik Stemler, Janne Vehreschild, Sophia Wülfing, Oliver A. Cornely, Blasius J. Liss
Estimating causal effects in the presence of competing events using regression standardisation with the Stata command standsurv
Elisavet Syriopoulou, Sarwar I. Mozumder, Mark J. Rutherford, Paul C. Lambert
Measuring and controlling medical record abstraction (MRA) error rates in an observational study
Maryam Y. Garza, Tremaine Williams, Sahiti Myneni, Susan H. Fenton, Songthip Ounpraseuth, Zhuopei Hu, Jeannette Lee, Jessica Snowden, Meredith N. Zozus, Anita C. Walden, Alan E. Simon, Barbara McClaskey, Sarah G. Sanders, Sandra S. Beauman, Sara R. Ford, Lacy Malloch, Amy Wilson, Lori A. Devlin, Leslie W. Young
On model-based time trend adjustments in platform trials with non-concurrent controls
Marta Bofill Roig, Pavla Krotka, Carl-Fredrik Burman, Ekkehard Glimm, Stefan M. Gold, Katharina Hees, Peter Jacko, Franz Koenig, Dominic Magirr, Peter Mesenbrink, Kert Viele, Martin Posch
Evaluation of data imputation strategies in complex, deeply-phenotyped data sets: the case of the EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project
A. Llera, M. Brammer, B. Oakley, J. Tillmann, M. Zabihi, J. S. Amelink, T. Mei, T. Charman, C. Ecker, F. Dell’Acqua, T. Banaschewski, C. Moessnang, S. Baron-Cohen, R. Holt, S. Durston, D. Murphy, E. Loth, J. K. Buitelaar, D. L. Floris, C. F. Beckmann
Restrictions and their reporting in systematic reviews of effectiveness: an observational study
Jasmin Helbach, Dawid Pieper, Tim Mathes, Tanja Rombey, Hajo Zeeb, Katharina Allers, Falk Hoffmann
What influences communication about retention in randomised trials: a multi-trial, theory-based analysis exploring trial staff perspectives
Taylor Coffey, Eilidh Duncan, Heather Morgan, Katie Gillies
Interrater reliability estimators tested against true interrater reliabilities
Xinshu Zhao, Guangchao Charles Feng, Song Harris Ao, Piper Liping Liu
The Mann-Kendall-Sneyers test to identify the change points of COVID-19 time series in the United States
Xiang Chen, Hui Wang, Weixuan Lyu, Ran Xu
Assessing the quality of evidence on safety: specifications for application and suggestions for adaptions of the GRADE-criteria in the context of preparing a list of potentially inappropriate medications for older adults
Tim Mathes, Nina-Kristin Mann, Petra Thürmann, Andreas Sönnichsen, Dawid Pieper
Estimating effects of health policy interventions using interrupted time-series analyses: a simulation study
Huan Jiang, Xinyang Feng, Shannon Lange, Alexander Tran, Jakob Manthey, Jürgen Rehm
Measuring and exploring mental health determinants: a closer look at co-residents’ effect using a multilevel structural equations model
Hend Gabr, Mohammed Baragilly, Brian H. Willis
“We’re already doing this work”: ethical research with community-based organizations
Rebecca Fielding-Miller, Sarah Kim, Jeanette Bowles, Samantha Streuli, Peter Davidson
Informed Bayesian survival analysis
František Bartoš, Frederik Aust, Julia M. Haaf
The value of time-dependent risk predictions in a screening context - a comprehensive simulation analysis validated on German cancer registry data
Vinzenz Voelkel, Teresa Draeger, Sietse van Mossel, Sabine Siesling, Hendrik Koffijberg
Conclusiveness, linguistic characteristics and readability of Cochrane plain language summaries of intervention reviews: a cross-sectional study
Aleksandra Banić, Mahir Fidahić, Jelena Šuto, Rea Roje, Ivana Vuka, Livia Puljak, Ivan Buljan
Improving the accuracy of self-reported height and weight in surveys: an experimental study
Nina Van Dyke, Eric J. Drinkwater, Jerome N. Rachele
A descriptive study of samples sizes used in agreement studies published in the PubMed repository
Oscar Han, Hao Wei Tan, Steven Julious, Laura Sutton, Richard Jacques, Ellen Lee, Jen Lewis, Stephen Walters
Implementation fidelity in a multifaceted program to foster rational antibiotics use in primary care: an observational study
Lukas Kühn, Dorothea Kronsteiner, Petra Kaufmann-Kolle, Edith Andres, Joachim Szecsenyi, Michel Wensing, Regina Poss-Doering
A logical analysis of null hypothesis significance testing using popular terminology
Richard McNulty
Joint models for dynamic prediction in localised prostate cancer: a literature review
Harry Parr, Emma Hall, Nuria Porta
Posttraumatic growth inventory: challenges with its validation among French cancer patients
Yseulys Dubuy, Véronique Sébille, Marianne Bourdon, Jean-Benoit Hardouin, Myriam Blanchin
Evaluating sensitivity to classification uncertainty in latent subgroup effect analyses
Wen Wei Loh, Jee-Seon Kim
Development and pilot implementation of guidelines for culturally tailored research recruitment materials for African Americans and Latinos
Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, Sheila V. Kusnoor, Victoria Villalta-Gil, Sarah C. Stallings, Jabari S. Ichimura, Tiffany L. Israel, Paul A. Harris, Consuelo H. Wilkins
A photograph of the researcher on the invitation letter did not affect the participation rate of a postal survey: a randomized study within a trial (SWAT)
Barbara Prediger, Nadja Könsgen, Ana-Mihaela Bora, Anna Schlimbach, Dawid Pieper
Sensitivity analyses for data missing at random versus missing not at random using latent growth modelling: a practical guide for randomised controlled trials
Andreas Staudt, Jennis Freyer-Adam, Till Ittermann, Christian Meyer, Gallus Bischof, Ulrich John, Sophie Baumann
Prospective sampling bias in COVID-19 recruitment methods: experimental evidence from a national randomized survey testing recruitment materials
Eric B. Kennedy, Mia Charifson, Megan Jehn, Eric A. Jensen, Jenna Vikse
Impact of different unconditional monetary incentives on survey response rates in men with prostate cancer: a 2-arm randomised trial
Megan McIntosh, Melissa J. Opozda, Michael O’Callaghan, Andrew D. Vincent, Daniel A. Galvão, Camille E. Short
Item response theory and differential test functioning analysis of the HBSC-Symptom-Checklist across 46 countries
Andreas Heinz, Philipp E. Sischka, Carolina Catunda, Alina Cosma, Irene García-Moya, Nelli Lyyra, Anne Kaman, Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer, William Pickett
Case-only approach applied in environmental epidemiology: 2 examples of interaction effect using the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) datasets
Jinyoung Moon, Hwan-Cheol Kim
Qualitative longitudinal research in health research: a method study
Åsa Audulv, Elisabeth O. C. Hall, Åsa Kneck, Thomas Westergren, Liv Fegran, Mona Kyndi Pedersen, Hanne Aagaard, Kristianna Lund Dam, Mette Spliid Ludvigsen
Group sequential designs in pragmatic trials: feasibility and assessment of utility using data from a number of recent surgical RCTs
Nick R. Parsons, Nigel Stallard, Helen Parsons, Aminul Haque, Martin Underwood, James Mason, Iftekhar Khan, Matthew L. Costa, Damian R. Griffin, James Griffin, David J. Beard, Jonathan A. Cook, Loretta Davies, Jemma Hudson, Andrew Metcalfe
Prediction of congenital heart disease for newborns: comparative analysis of Holt-Winters exponential smoothing and autoregressive integrated moving average models
Weize Xu, Zehua Shao, Hongliang Lou, Jianchuan Qi, Jihua Zhu, Die Li, Qiang Shu
A dose-finding design for phase I clinical trials based on Bayesian stochastic approximation
Jin Xu, Dapeng Zhang, Rongji Mu
Statistical methods and graphical displays of quality of life with survival outcomes in oncology clinical trials for supporting the estimand framework
Kentaro Sakamaki, Takuya Kawahara
The case against censoring of progression-free survival in cancer clinical trials – A pandemic shutdown as an illustration
Corinne Jamoul, Laurence Collette, Elisabeth Coart, Koenraad D’Hollander, Tomasz Burzykowski, Everardo D. Saad, Marc Buyse
Count data models for outpatient health services utilisation
Nurul Salwana Abu Bakar, Ab Hamid Jabrullah, Mohd Nor Sham Mohd Shaiful Jefri, Mohd Nor Sham, Jailani Anis Syakira
Reporting of the safety from allergic rhinitis trials registered on ClinicalTrials.gov and in publications: An observational study
Ivan Paladin, Shelly Melissa Pranić
Network analysis for estimating standardization trends in genomics using MEDLINE
Eun Bit Bae, Sejin Nam, Sungin Lee, Sun-Ju Ahn
Joint analysis of PK and immunogenicity outcomes using factorization model − a powerful approach for PK similarity study
Halimu N. Haliduola, Fausto Berti, Heimo Stroissnig, Eric Guenzi, Hendrik Otto, Abid Sattar, Ulrich Mansmann
Infrastructure challenges to doing health research “where populations with the most disease live” in Covid times—a response to Rai et al. (2021)
Jennifer MacLellan, Joanne Turnbull, Catherine Pope
Improving outcomes for patients with lymphoma: design and development of the Australian and New Zealand Lymphoma and Related Diseases Registry
Mary Ann Anderson, Leanne Berkahn, Chan Cheah, Michael Dickinson, Maher K. Gandhi, Pratyush Giri, Eliza A. Hawkes, Anna Johnston, Colm Keane, Zoe K. McQuilten, Stephen P. Mulligan, Stephen Opat, Dipti Talaulikar, Judith Trotman, Janne Williams, Erica M. Wood, Tasman Armytage, Allison Barraclough, Duncan Carradice, Geoffrey Chong, Tara Cochrane, Nada Hamad, Matthew Ku, Denise Lee, Susan Morgan, Howard Mutsando, Manjunath Narayana, H. Miles Prince, Sumita Ratnasingam, Joel Wight, Xavier Badoux, Gavin Cull, Bryone Kuss, Paula Marlton, Constantine Tam, Joshua Casan, Tania Cushion, Aditya Tedjaseputra, Simone Birch, Christina Brown, David Ellis, Yasmin Harvey, Sam Hitchins, Sanjiv Jain, Peter Jessup, Surender Juneja, Daniel Kearney, Beena Kumar, Stephen Lade, Kenneth Lee, Connull Leslie, Eileen Long, Adrienne Morey, Lakshmi Nath, Debra Norris, Andrew Parker, Jeremy Parry, Fiona Pin-Yen Chen, Eliza Chung, Jessica Morison, Luke Rowsell, Gayathri St George, Christianto Thu, Neil Waters, Cameron Wellard, Michelle Zheng
The conduct and reporting of qualitative evidence syntheses in health and social care guidelines: a content analysis
Chris Carmona, Susan Baxter, Christopher Carroll
Comparison of unweighted and item response theory-based weighted sum scoring for the Nine-Questions Depression-Rating Scale in the Northern Thai Dialect
Suttipong Kawilapat, Benchalak Maneeton, Narong Maneeton, Sukon Prasitwattanaseree, Thoranin Kongsuk, Suwanna Arunpongpaisal, Jintana Leejongpermpoon, Supattra Sukhawaha, Patrinee Traisathit
A bayesian approach to model the underlying predictors of early recurrence and postoperative death in patients with colorectal Cancer
Leila Mahmoudi, Ramezan Fallah, Ghodratollah Roshanaei, Mohammad Asghari-Jafarabadi
A stabilized spatiotemporal kriging method for disease mapping and application to male oral cancer and female breast cancer in Taiwan
Dai-Rong Tsai, Jing-Rong Jhuang, Shih-Yung Su, Chun-Ju Chiang, Ya-Wen Yang, Wen-Chung Lee
The failure of four bootstrap procedures for estimating confidence intervals for predicted-to-expected ratios for hospital profiling
Peter C. Austin
Structured expert elicitation to inform long-term survival extrapolations using alternative parametric distributions: a case study of CAR T therapy for relapsed/ refractory multiple myeloma
Dieter Ayers, Shannon Cope, Kevin Towle, Ali Mojebi, Thomas Marshall, Devender Dhanda
Group-level comparison of brain connectivity networks
Fatemeh Pourmotahari, Hassan Doosti, Nasrin Borumandnia, Seyyed Mohammad Tabatabaei, Hamid Alavi Majd
Reliability of the evidence to guide decision-making in foot ulcer prevention in diabetes: an overview of systematic reviews
Fay Crawford, Donald J. Nicolson, Aparna E. Amanna, Marie Smith
An innovative approach based on real-world big data mining for calculating the sample size of the reference interval established using transformed parametric and non-parametric methods
Chaochao Ma, Li’an Hou, Yutong Zou, Xiaoli Ma, Danchen Wang, Yingying Hu, Ailing Song, Xinqi Cheng, Ling Qiu
How can clinicians choose between conflicting and discordant systematic reviews? A replication study of the Jadad algorithm
C Lunny, Sai Surabi Thirugnanasampanthar, S Kanji, N Ferri, D Pieper, S Whitelaw, S Tasnim, H Nelson, EK Reid, Jia He (Janet) Zhang, Banveer Kalkat, Yuan Chi, Reema Abdoulrezzak, Di Wen Zheng, Lindy R.S. Pangka, Dian (Xin Ran) Wang, Parisa Safavi, Anmol Sooch, Kevin T. Kang, Andrea C, Tricco
Mapping between headache specific and generic preference-based health-related quality of life measures
Kamran Khan, Hema Mistry, Manjit Matharu, Chloe Norman, Stavros Petrou, Kimberley Stewart, Martin Underwood, Felix Achana
A stratified adaptive two-stage design with co-primary endpoints for phase II clinical oncology trials
Bastien Cabarrou, Eve Leconte, Patrick Sfumato, Jean-Marie Boher, Thomas Filleron
Conditional wealth to estimate association of wealth mobility with health and human capital in low- and middle-income country cohorts
Jithin Sam Varghese, Clive Osmond, Aryeh D. Stein
Correction: Two-stage matching-adjusted indirect comparison
Antonio Remiro‑Azócar
Forecasting COVID-19 cases using time series modeling and association rule mining
Rachasak Somyanonthanakul, Kritsasith Warin, Watchara Amasiri, Karicha Mairiang, Chatchai Mingmalairak, Wararit Panichkitkosolkul, Krittin Silanun, Thanaruk Theeramunkong, Surapon Nitikraipot, Siriwan Suebnukarn
Machine learning in medicine: a practical introduction to techniques for data pre-processing, hyperparameter tuning, and model comparison
André Pfob, Sheng-Chieh Lu, Chris Sidey-Gibbons
Zero-augmented beta-prime model for multilevel semi-continuous data: a Bayesian inference
Naser Kamyari, Ali Reza Soltanian, Hossein Mahjub, Abbas Moghimbeigi, Maryam Seyedtabib
Dementia risk prediction in individuals with mild cognitive impairment: a comparison of Cox regression and machine learning models
Meng Wang, Matthew Greenberg, Nils D. Forkert, Thierry Chekouo, Gabriel Afriyie, Zahinoor Ismail, Eric E. Smith, Tolulope T. Sajobi
Rescaling pain intensity measures for meta-analyses of analgesic medicines for low back pain appears justified: an empirical examination from randomised trials
Michael A. Wewege, Matthew D. Jones, Sam A. Williams, Steven J. Kamper, James H. McAuley
AutoScore-Ordinal: an interpretable machine learning framework for generating scoring models for ordinal outcomes
Seyed Ehsan Saffari, Yilin Ning, Feng Xie, Bibhas Chakraborty, Victor Volovici, Roger Vaughan, Marcus Eng Hock Ong, Nan Liu
Real-world data: a brief review of the methods, applications, challenges and opportunities
Fang Liu, Demosthenes Panagiotakos
Applying the 4Ps of social marketing to retain and engage participants in longitudinal cohort studies: generation 2 Raine study participant perspectives
Leesa Costello, Julie Dare, Manon Dontje, Claire Lambert, Leon Straker
Short-form development of the specific module of the QLICD-CRF(V2.0) for assessing the quality of life of patients with chronic renal failure
Zhengqin Xiao, Yuxi Liu, Daniel Yee-Tak Fong, Xinping Huang, Min Weng, Chonghua Wan
Modelling multiple time-scales with flexible parametric survival models
Nurgul Batyrbekova, Hannah Bower, Paul W. Dickman, Anna Ravn Landtblom, Malin Hultcrantz, Robert Szulkin, Paul C. Lambert, Therese M-L. Andersson
Minimal important difference and patient acceptable symptom state for common outcome instruments in patients with a closed humeral shaft fracture - analysis of the FISH randomised clinical trial data
Thomas Ibounig, Joona Juurakko, Tuomas Lähdeoja, Bakir O. Sumrein, Teppo L. N. Järvinen, Mika Paavola, Clare L. Ardern, Teemu Karjalainen, Simo Taimela, Lasse Rämö
A proposed methodology for uncertainty extraction and verification in priority setting partnerships with the James Lind Alliance: an example from the Common Conditions Affecting the Hand and Wrist Priority Setting Partnership
D. J. C. Grindlay, T. R. C. Davis, D. Kennedy, D. Larson, D. Furniss, K. Cowan, G. Giddins, A. Jain, R. W. Trickett, A. Karantana
Prioritizing population-based nutrition-related interventions to prevent and control hypertension in Iran: a multi-criteria decision-making approach
Soghra Aliasgharzadeh, Mehrangiz Ebrahimi-Mameghani, Reza Mahdavi, Hossein Karimzadeh, Leila Nikniaz, Jafar Sadegh Tabrizi, Fathollah Pourali
Comparison of analysis methods and design choices for treatment-by-period interaction in unidirectional switch designs: a simulation study
Zhuozhao Zhan, Geertruida H. de Bock, Edwin R. van den Heuvel
Using joint models to study the association between CD4 count and the risk of death in TB/HIV data
Nobuhle N. Mchunu, Henry G. Mwambi, Dimitris Rizopoulos, Tarylee Reddy, Nonhlanhla Yende-Zuma
“The problem is that our culture is just so messed up about aging.” Recruiting older men who have sex with men (MSM) into research studies: an example from a study of aging, HIV, and anal HPV.
Alexandra L. Hernandez, Christopher Scott Weatherly, Sahai Burrowes, Jessica Lopez Jimenez, Ryan Gonzalez, Joel M. Palefsky
Methods for handling missing data in serially sampled sputum specimens for mycobacterial culture conversion calculation
Samantha Malatesta, Isabelle R. Weir, Sarah E. Weber, Tara C. Bouton, Tara Carney, Danie Theron, Bronwyn Myers, C. Robert Horsburgh, Robin M. Warren, Karen R. Jacobson, Laura F. White
A systematic review and psychometric evaluation of resilience measurement scales for people living with dementia and their carers
Gill Windle, Catherine MacLeod, Katherine Algar-Skaife, Joshua Stott, Claire Waddington, Paul M. Camic, Mary Pat Sullivan, Emilie Brotherhood, Sebastian Crutch
Using information from network meta-analyses to optimize the power and sample allocation of a subsequent trial with a new treatment
Dapeng Hu, Chong Wang, Fangshu Ye, Annette M. O’Connor
Using a cohort study of diabetes and peripheral artery disease to compare logistic regression and machine learning via random forest modeling
Andrea M. Austin, Niveditta Ramkumar, Barbara Gladders, Jonathan A. Barnes, Mark A. Eid, Kayla O. Moore, Mark W. Feinberg, Mark A. Creager, Marc Bonaca, Philip P. Goodney
Applied causal inference methods for sequential mediators
D Zugna, M Popovic, F Fasanelli, B Heude, G Scelo, L Richiardi
What do we want to get out of this? a critical interpretive synthesis of the value of process evaluations, with a practical planning framework
Caroline French, Anna Dowrick, Nina Fudge, Hilary Pinnock, Stephanie J. C. Taylor
Quality appraisal for systematic literature reviews of health state utility values: a descriptive analysis
Muchandifunga Trust Muchadeyi, Karla Hernandez-Villafuerte, Michael Schlander
Evaluating the sensitivity of jurisdictional heterogeneity and jurisdictional mixing in national level HIV prevention analyses: context of the U.S. ending the HIV epidemic plan
Hanisha Tatapudi, Chaitra Gopalappa
Laboratory-based and office-based Globorisk scores to predict 10-year risk of cardiovascular diseases among Iranians: results from the Fasa PERSIAN cohort
Leila Jahangiry, Azizallah Dehghan, Mojtaba Farjam, Dagfinn Aune, Fatemeh Rezaei
Meta-DiSc 2.0: a web application for meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy data
Maria N. Plana, Ingrid Arevalo-Rodriguez, Silvia Fernández-García, Javier Soto, Martin Fabregate, Teresa Pérez, Marta Roqué, Javier Zamora
Case study research and causal inference
Judith Green, Benjamin Hanckel, Mark Petticrew, Sara Paparini, Sara Shaw
Impact of different cover letter information and incentives on Veterans’ emotional responses to an unsolicited mailed survey about military traumas: a randomized, 3x2x2 factorial trial
Maureen Murdoch, Barbara A Clothier, Shannon Kehle-Forbes, Derek Vang, Siamak Noorbaloochi
A multisource approach to health care use: concordance between register and self-reported physician visits in the foreign-born population in Finland
Regina García-Velázquez, Valentina Kieseppä, Eero Lilja, Päivikki Koponen, Natalia Skogberg, Hannamaria Kuusio
Development and validation of paired MEDLINE and Embase search filters for cost-utility studies
Wesley Hubbard, Nicola Walsh, Thomas Hudson, Andrea Heath, Jeremy Dietz, Gabriel Rogers
External validation of existing dementia prediction models on observational health data
Luis H. John, Jan A. Kors, Egill A. Fridgeirsson, Jenna M. Reps, Peter R. Rijnbeek
Generating real-world evidence compatible with evidence from randomized controlled trials: a novel observational study design applicable to surgical transfusion research
Xiaochu Yu, Zixing Wang, Lei Wang, Yuguang Huang, Yipeng Wang, Shijie Xin, Guanghua Lei, Shengxiu Zhao, Yali Chen, Xiaobo Guo, Wei Han, Xuerong Yu, Fang Xue, Peng Wu, Wentao Gu, Jingmei Jiang
Quality of observational studies of clinical interventions: a meta-epidemiological review
Sergei Grosman, Ian A. Scott
A systematic review of randomisation method use in RCTs and association of trial design characteristics with method selection
Cydney L. Bruce, Edmund Juszczak, Reuben Ogollah, Christopher Partlett, Alan Montgomery
Correction: Laboratory-based and office-based Globorisk scores to predict 10-year risk of cardiovascular diseases among Iranians: results from the Fasa PERSIAN cohort
Leila Jahangiry, Azizallah Dehghan, Mojtaba Farjam, Dagfinn Aune, Fatemeh Rezaei
Methodological guidance for the evaluation and updating of clinical prediction models: a systematic review
M. A. E. Binuya, E. G. Engelhardt, W. Schats, M. K. Schmidt, E. W. Steyerberg
Methodology of the INVestigating traIning assoCiated blasT pAthology (INVICTA) study
Michael J. Roy, David O. Keyser, Sheilah S. Rowe, Rene S. Hernandez, Marcia Dovel, Holland Romero, Diana Lee, Matthew Menezes, Elizabeth Magee, Danielle J. Brooks, Chen Lai, Jessica Gill, Suthee Wiri, Elizabeth Metzger, J. Kent Werner, Douglas Brungart, Devon M. Kulinski, Dominic Nathan, Walter S. Carr
Inferences for current chronic graft-versus-host-disease free and relapse free survival
Xu Zhang, Scott R. Solomon, Connie Sizemore
Performance of several types of beta-binomial models in comparison to standard approaches for meta-analyses with very few studies
Moritz Felsch, Lars Beckmann, Ralf Bender, Oliver Kuss, Guido Skipka, Tim Mathes
Methodological approaches to study context in intervention implementation studies: an evidence gap map
Juliane Mielke, Thekla Brunkert, Franziska Zúñiga, Michael Simon, Leah L. Zullig, Sabina De Geest
Challenges of using external data in clinical trials- an illustration in patients with COVID-19
Sylvie Chevret, Jean-François Timsit, Lucie Biard
Machine learning computational tools to assist the performance of systematic reviews: A mapping review
Ramon Cierco Jimenez, Teresa Lee, Nicolás Rosillo, Reynalda Cordova, Ian A Cree, Angel Gonzalez, Blanca Iciar Indave Ruiz
How do study design features and participant characteristics influence willingness to participate in clinical trials? Results from a choice experiment
Caitlin Thomas, Sarah Mulnick, Nicolas Krucien, Kevin Marsh
Using group testing in a two-phase epidemiologic design to identify the effects of a large number of antibody reactions on disease risk
Tanvi Mehta, Yaakov Malinovsky, Christian C. Abnet, Paul S. Albert
Personalized prediction of incident hospitalization for cardiovascular disease in patients with hypertension using machine learning
Yuanchao Feng, Alexander A. Leung, Xuewen Lu, Zhiying Liang, Hude Quan, Robin L. Walker
Treatment of missing data in Bayesian network structure learning: an application to linked biomedical and social survey data
Xuejia Ke, Katherine Keenan, V. Anne Smith
Evaluation of two-stage designs of Phase 2 single-arm trials in glioblastoma: a systematic review
Wonsuk Yoo, Seongho Kim, Michael Garcia, Shwetal Mehta, Nader Sanai
Model selection for survival individualized treatment rules using the jackknife estimator
Gilson D. Honvoh, Hunyong Cho, Michael R. Kosorok
Intervention effect estimates in randomised controlled trials conducted in primary care versus secondary or tertiary care settings: a meta-epidemiological study
Amandine Dugard, Elsa Tavernier, Agnès Caille, Agnès Dechartres, Adeline Hoang, Bruno Giraudeau, Clarisse Dibao-Dina
Going virtual during the COVID-19 pandemic: adaptation of a mixed-methods dietary behavior study within a community-based participatory research study of African-American adults at risk for cardiovascular disease
Nicole Farmer, Ralph Thadeus Tuason, Narjis Kazmi, Sharon Flynn, Valerie Mitchell, Kimberly Middleton, Robert Cox, Kristina Franklin, Talya Gordon, Alyssa Baginski, Gwenyth R. Wallen
Machine learning-based techniques to improve lung transplantation outcomes and complications: a systematic review
Marsa Gholamzadeh, Hamidreza Abtahi, Reza Safdari
Transformation of Rasch model logits for enhanced interpretability
Joakim Ekstrand, Albert Westergren, Kristofer Årestedt, Amanda Hellström, Peter Hagell
Combinational Regularity Analysis (CORA) — a new method for uncovering complex causation in medical and health research
Alrik Thiem, Lusine Mkrtchyan, Zuzana Sebechlebská
CAT HPPR: a critical appraisal tool to assess the quality of systematic, rapid, and scoping reviews investigating interventions in health promotion and prevention
Thomas L. Heise, Andreas Seidler, Maria Girbig, Alice Freiberg, Adrienne Alayli, Maria Fischer, Wolfgang Haß, Hajo Zeeb
External control arm analysis: an evaluation of propensity score approaches, G-computation, and doubly debiased machine learning
Nicolas Loiseau, Paul Trichelair, Maxime He, Mathieu Andreux, Mikhail Zaslavskiy, Gilles Wainrib, Michael G. B. Blum
MetaAnalyst: a user-friendly tool for metagenomic biomarker detection and phenotype classification
Mustafa Alshawaqfeh, Salahelden Rababah, Abdullah Hayajneh, Ammar Gharaibeh, Erchin Serpedin
Estimation of average treatment effect based on a multi-index propensity score
Jiaqin Xu, Kecheng Wei, Ce Wang, Chen Huang, Yaxin Xue, Rui Zhang, Guoyou Qin, Yongfu Yu
The factor structure of the cardiac anxiety questionnaire, and validation in a post-MI population
Philip Leissner, Claes Held, Elisabet Rondung, Erik M. G. Olsson
Interpretable generalized neural additive models for mortality prediction of COVID-19 hospitalized patients in Hamadan, Iran
Samad Moslehi, Hossein Mahjub, Maryam Farhadian, Ali Reza Soltanian, Mojgan Mamani