Ausgabe 1/2024
Inhalt (98 Artikel)
A flexible approach to measure care coordination based on patient-sharing networks
Alexander Engels, Claudia Konnopka, Espen Henken, Martin Härter, Hans-Helmut König
Estimation of mortality rate ratios for chronic conditions with misclassification of disease status at death
Sabrina Voß, Annika Hoyer, Sandra Landwehr, Meda E. Pavkov, Edward Gregg, Ralph Brinks
Adverse events in single-arm clinical trials with non-fatal time-to-event efficacy endpoint: from clinical questions to methods for statistical analysis
Elena Tassistro, Davide Paolo Bernasconi, Maria Grazia Valsecchi, Laura Antolini
Identification of difficult laryngoscopy using an optimized hybrid architecture
XiaoXiao Liu, Colin Flanagan, Gang Li, Yiming Lei, Liaoyuan Zeng, Jingchao Fang, Xiangyang Guo, Sean McGrath, Yongzheng Han
Studying missingness in spinal cord injury data: challenges and impact of data imputation
Lucie Bourguignon, Louis P. Lukas, James D. Guest, Fred H. Geisler, Vanessa Noonan, Armin Curt, Sarah C. Brüningk, Catherine R. Jutzeler
Re-expressing coefficients from regression models for inclusion in a meta-analysis
Matthew W. Linakis, Cynthia Van Landingham, Alessandro Gasparini, Matthew P. Longnecker
Inconsistencies in self-reported diabetes in a large panel study: the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)
Bernd Kowall, Carolin Girschik, Susanne Stolpe
Prescription Sequence Symmetry Analysis (PSSA) to assess prescribing cascades: a step-by-step guide
Mandy R. S. Hendrix, Mustafa Yasar, Atiya K. Mohammad, Jacqueline G. Hugtenburg, Joost W. Vanhommerig, Ruveyda Gündoğan-Yilmaz, Patricia M. L. A. van den Bemt, Petra Denig, Fatma Karapinar-Carkıt
Comparison of effect estimates between preprints and peer-reviewed journal articles of COVID-19 trials
Mauricia Davidson, Theodoros Evrenoglou, Carolina Graña, Anna Chaimani, Isabelle Boutron
Two-step spatiotemporal anomaly detection corrected for lag reporting time with application to real-time dengue surveillance in Thailand
Chawarat Rotejanaprasert, Darin Areechokchai, Richard J. Maude
Implementing the time-to-event continual reassessment method in the presence of partial orders in a phase I head and neck cancer trial
Amit Patel, Kristian Brock, Daniel Slade, Claire Gaunt, Anthony Kong, Hisham Mehanna, Lucinda Billingham, Piers Gaunt
Seamless phase 2/3 design for trials with multiple co-primary endpoints using Bayesian predictive power
Jiaying Yang, Guochun Li, Dongqing Yang, Juan Wu, Junqin Wang, Xingsu Gao, Pei Liu
Novel linkage approach to join community-acquired and national data
Claire Tochel, Emma Pead, Alice McTrusty, Fiona Buckmaster, Tom MacGillivray, Andrew J. Tatham, Niall C. Strang, Baljean Dhillon, Miguel O. Bernabeu
Evaluation and comparison of spatial cluster detection methods for improved decision making of disease surveillance: a case study of national dengue surveillance in Thailand
Chawarat Rotejanaprasert, Kawin Chinpong, Andrew B. Lawson, Peerut Chienwichai, Richard J. Maude
Extension of a conditional performance score for sample size recalculation rules to the setting of binary endpoints
Björn Bokelmann, Geraldine Rauch, Jan Meis, Meinhard Kieser, Carolin Herrmann
Predicting lung cancer survival prognosis based on the conditional survival bayesian network
Lu Zhong, Fan Yang, Shanshan Sun, Lijie Wang, Hong Yu, Xiushan Nie, Ailing Liu, Ning Xu, Lanfang Zhang, Mingjuan Zhang, Yue Qi, Huaijun Ji, Guiyuan Liu, Huan Zhao, Yinan Jiang, Jingyi Li, Chengcun Song, Xin Yu, Liu Yang, Jinchao Yu, Hu Feng, Xiaolei Guo, Fujun Yang, Fuzhong Xue
A cautionary tale: an evaluation of the performance of treatment switching adjustment methods in a real world case study
Nicholas R Latimer, Alice Dewdney, Marco Campioni
Understanding facilitators of research participation among adults with self-reported chronic pain – a survey examining hypothetical research participation
Charles Start, Meagan McBride, Guohao Zhu, Sana Shaikh, Jennifer Pierce
Exploring trial publication and research waste in COVID-19 randomised trials of hydroxychloroquine, corticosteroids, and vitamin D: a meta-epidemiological cohort study
Lisa Fincham, Ameer Hohlfeld, Mike Clarke, Tamara Kredo, Michael McCaul
Navigating PROSPERO4animals: 10 top tips for efficient pre-registration of your animal systematic review protocol
Alexandra Bannach-Brown, Torsten Rackoll, Nurcennet Kaynak, Natascha Drude, René Aquarius, Sofija Vojvodić, Mariana Abreu, Julia M. L. Menon, Kimberley E. Wever
Estimation of place-based vulnerability scores for HIV viral non-suppression: an application leveraging data from a cohort of people with histories of using drugs
Trang Quynh Nguyen, Laken C. Roberts Lavigne, Carly Lupton Brantner, Gregory D. Kirk, Shruti H. Mehta, Sabriya L. Linton
Comparison of Pocock and Simon’s covariate-adaptive randomization procedures in clinical trials
Guogen Shan, Yulin Li, Xinlin Lu, Yahui Zhang, Samuel S. Wu
A time series driven model for early sepsis prediction based on transformer module
Yan Tang, Yu Zhang, Jiaxi Li
Health estimate differences between six independent web surveys: different web surveys, different results?
Rainer Schnell, Jonas Klingwort
Bayesian Mendelian randomization with an interval causal null hypothesis: ternary decision rules and loss function calibration
Linyi Zou, Teresa Fazia, Hui Guo, Carlo Berzuini
Gaussian process emulation to improve efficiency of computationally intensive multidisease models: a practical tutorial with adaptable R code
Sharon Jepkorir Sawe, Richard Mugo, Marta Wilson-Barthes, Brianna Osetinsky, Stavroula A. Chrysanthopoulou, Faith Yego, Ann Mwangi, Omar Galárraga
A modified Michaelis-Menten equation estimates growth from birth to 3 years in healthy babies in the USA
William A. Walters, Catherine Ley, Trevor Hastie, Ruth E. Ley, Julie Parsonnet
An empirical comparison of statistical methods for multiple cut-off diagnostic test accuracy meta-analysis of the Edinburgh postnatal depression scale (EPDS) depression screening tool using published results vs individual participant data
Zelalem F. Negeri, Brooke Levis, John P. A. Ioannidis, Brett D. Thombs, Andrea Benedetti, Ying Sun, Chen He, Ankur Krishnan, Yin Wu, Parash Mani Bhandari, Dipika Neupane, Mahrukh Imran, Danielle B. Rice, Marleine Azar, Matthew J. Chiovitti, Kira E. Riehm, Jill T. Boruff, Pim Cuijpers, Simon Gilbody, Lorie A. Kloda, Scott B. Patten, Roy C. Ziegelstein, Sarah Markham, Liane Comeau, Nicholas D. Mitchell, Simone N. Vigod, Muideen O. Bakare, Cheryl Tatano Beck, Adomas Bunevicius, Tiago Castro e Couto, Genesis Chorwe-Sungani, Nicolas Favez, Sally Field, Lluïsa Garcia-Esteve, Simone Honikman, Dina Sami Khalifa, Jane Kohlhoff, Laima Kusminskas, Zoltán Kozinszky, Sandra Nakić Radoš, Susan J. Pawlby, Tamsen J. Rochat, Deborah J. Sharp, Johanne Smith-Nielsen, Kuan-Pin Su, Meri Tadinac, S. Darius Tandon, Pavaani Thiagayson, Annamária Töreki, Anna Torres-Giménez, Thandi van Heyningen, Johann M. Vega-Dienstmaier
Designing tailored maintenance strategies for systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines using the Portfolio Maintenance by Test-Treatment (POMBYTT) framework
Michiel S. Oerbekke, Roy G. Elbers, Maarten J. van der Laan, Lotty Hooft
Estimating cutoff values for diagnostic tests to achieve target specificity using extreme value theory
Sierra Pugh, Bailey K. Fosdick, Mary Nehring, Emily N. Gallichotte, Sue VandeWoude, Ander Wilson
Comparison of statistical methods used to meta-analyse results from interrupted time series studies: an empirical study
Elizabeth Korevaar, Simon L. Turner, Andrew B. Forbes, Amalia Karahalios, Monica Taljaard, Joanne E. McKenzie
Model-based standardization using multiple imputation
Antonio Remiro-Azócar, Anna Heath, Gianluca Baio
An evaluation of the EASY instrument in a cross-sectional study
Julie Agel, Umesh Ghimire, Nicholas M. Edwards, Bradley Nelson, Todd Rockwood
A data-adaptive method for investigating effect heterogeneity with high-dimensional covariates in Mendelian randomization
Haodong Tian, Brian D. M. Tom, Stephen Burgess
Contextual effects: how to, and how not to, quantify them
Tobias Saueressig, Hugo Pedder, Patrick J Owen, Daniel L Belavy
Calibration and XGBoost reweighting to reduce coverage and non-response biases in overlapping panel surveys: application to the Healthcare and Social Survey
Luis Castro, María del Mar Rueda, Carmen Sánchez-Cantalejo, Ramón Ferri, Andrés Cabrera-León
Modeling heart rate of individual and team manual handling with one hand using generalized additive mixed models
Mohammad Hamed Hosseini, Rashid Heidarimoghaddam, Mehrdad Anbarian, Saeed Ilbeigi, Leili Tapak
Identifying biologically implausible values in big longitudinal data: an example applied to child growth data from the Brazilian food and nutrition surveillance system
Juliana Freitas de Mello e Silva, Natanael de Jesus Silva, Thaís Rangel Bousquet Carrilho, Elizabete de Jesus Pinto, Aline Santos Rocha, Jéssica Pedroso, Sara Araújo Silva, Ana Maria Spaniol, Rafaella da Costa Santin de Andrade, Gisele Ane Bortolini, Enny Paixão, Gilberto Kac, Rita de Cássia Ribeiro-Silva, Maurício L. Barreto
Comparing Bayesian hierarchical meta-regression methods and evaluating the influence of priors for evaluations of surrogate endpoints on heterogeneous collections of clinical trials
Willem Collier, Benjamin Haaland, Lesley A. Inker, Hiddo J.L. Heerspink, Tom Greene
Extraction frequent patterns in trauma dataset based on automatic generation of minimum support and feature weighting
Zahra Kohzadi, Ali Mohammad Nickfarjam, Leila Shokrizadeh Arani, Zeinab Kohzadi, Mehrdad Mahdian
Comparison of the effects of imputation methods for missing data in predictive modelling of cohort study datasets
JiaHang Li, ShuXia Guo, RuLin Ma, Jia He, XiangHui Zhang, DongSheng Rui, YuSong Ding, Yu Li, LeYao Jian, Jing Cheng, Heng Guo
Group sequential designs for pragmatic clinical trials with early outcomes: methods and guidance for planning and implementation
Nick R. Parsons, Joydeep Basu, Nigel Stallard
How do quantitative studies involving people with dementia report experiences of standardised data collection? A narrative synthesis of NIHR published studies
Kate Gridley, Kate Baxter, Yvonne Birks
Smoothed quantile residual life regression analysis with application to the Korea HIV/AIDS cohort study
Soo Min Kim, Yunsu Choi, Sangwook Kang, Korea HIV/AIDS cohort study
A scoping review on the methodological and reporting quality of scoping reviews in China
Xinyu Xue, Xintong Tang, Shanshan Liu, Ting Yu, Zhonglan Chen, Ningsu Chen, Jiajie Yu
Barriers and facilitators for recruiting and retaining male participants into longitudinal health research: a systematic review
Danielle J. Borg, Melina Haritopoulou-Sinanidou, Pam Gabrovska, Hsu-Wen Tseng, David Honeyman, Daniel Schweitzer, Kym M. Rae
Treatment effect estimation using the propensity score in clinical trials with historical control
Saki Kanamori, Masahiro Takeuchi
A parametric additive hazard model for time-to-event analysis
Dina Voeltz, Annika Hoyer, Amelie Forkel, Anke Schwandt, Oliver Kuß
Change analysis for intermediate disease markers in nutritional epidemiology: a causal inference perspective
Dan Tang, Yifan Hu, Ning Zhang, Xiong Xiao, Xing Zhao
GADNN: a revolutionary hybrid deep learning neural network for age and sex determination utilizing cone beam computed tomography images of maxillary and frontal sinuses
Omid Hamidi, Mahlagha Afrasiabi, Marjan Namaki
Revising model for end-stage liver disease from calendar-time cross-sections with correction for selection bias
H. C. de Ferrante, M. van Rosmalen, B. M. L. Smeulders, S. Vogelaar, F. C. R. Spieksma
Selecting a randomization method for a multi-center clinical trial with stochastic recruitment considerations
Oleksandr Sverdlov, Yevgen Ryeznik, Volodymyr Anisimov, Olga M. Kuznetsova, Ruth Knight, Kerstine Carter, Sonja Drescher, Wenle Zhao
Human biomonitoring without in-person interaction: public health engagements during the COVID-19 pandemic and future implications
Alyssa J. Mattson, Jiali Yu, Elizabeth M. Miller, Michael Schueller, Michael Pentella, Susie Y. Dai
A Bayesian Bernoulli-Exponential joint model for binary longitudinal outcomes and informative time with applications to bladder cancer recurrence data
Michael Safo Oduro
REDCapDM: An R package with a set of data management tools for a REDCap project
João Carmezim, Pau Satorra, Judith Peñafiel, Esther García-Lerma, Natàlia Pallarès, Naiara Santos, Cristian Tebé
Flexible Bayesian semiparametric mixed-effects model for skewed longitudinal data
Melkamu M. Ferede, Getachew A. Dagne, Samuel M. Mwalili, Workagegnehu H. Bilchut, Habtamu A. Engida, Simon M. Karanja
Power calculation for detecting interaction effect in cross-sectional stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials: an important tool for disparity research
Chen Yang, Asem Berkalieva, Madhu Mazumdar, Deukwoo Kwon
Clarifying the biological and statistical assumptions of cross-sectional biological age predictors: an elaborate illustration using synthetic and real data
Marije H. Sluiskes, Jelle J. Goeman, Marian Beekman, P. Eline Slagboom, Hein Putter, Mar Rodríguez-Girondo
Using the Super Learner algorithm to predict risk of major adverse cardiovascular events after percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with myocardial infarction
Xiang Zhu, Pin Zhang, Han Jiang, Jie Kuang, Lei Wu
The minimal important difference of patient-reported outcome measures related to female urinary incontinence: a systematic review
Jordana Barbosa-Silva, Letícia Bojikian Calixtre, Daniela Von Piekartz, Patricia Driusso, Susan Armijo-Olivo
An assessment of the informative value of data sharing statements in clinical trial registries
Christian Ohmann, Maria Panagiotopoulou, Steve Canham, Gerd Felder, Pablo Emilio Verde
Text analysis framework for identifying mutations among non-small cell lung cancer patients from laboratory data
Amman Yusuf, Devon J. Boyne, Dylan E. O’Sullivan, Darren R. Brenner, Winson Y. Cheung, Imran Mirza, Tamer N. Jarada
Distributive randomization: a pragmatic fractional factorial design to screen or evaluate multiple simultaneous interventions in a clinical trial
Skerdi Haviari, France Mentré
The methodological quality of systematic reviews regarding the Core Outcome Set (COS) development
Hong Cao, Yan Chen, Zhihao Yang, Junjie Lan, Joey Sum-wing Kwong, Rui Zhang, Huaye Zhao, Linfang Hu, Jiaxue Wang, Shuimei Sun, Songsong Tan, Jinyong Cao, Rui He, Wenyi Zheng, Jiaxing Zhang
Assessing the properties of patient-specific treatment effect estimates from causal forest algorithms under essential heterogeneity
John M. Brooks, Cole G. Chapman, Brian K. Chen, Sarah B. Floyd, Neset Hikmet
Survival analysis under imperfect record linkage using historic census data
Arielle K. Marks-Anglin, Frances K. Barg, Michelle Ross, Douglas J. Wiebe, Wei-Ting Hwang
An analysis of published study designs in PubMed prisoner health abstracts from 1963 to 2023: a text mining study
George Karystianis, Wilson Lukmanjaya, Iain Buchan, Paul Simpson, Natasha Ginnivan, Goran Nenadic, Tony Butler
Predicting health outcomes with intensive longitudinal data collected by mobile health devices: a functional principal component regression approach
Qing Yang, Meilin Jiang, Cai Li, Sheng Luo, Matthew J. Crowley, Ryan J. Shaw
Utilization of EHRs for clinical trials: a systematic review
Leila R. Kalankesh, Elham Monaghesh
Implementation and external validation of the Cambridge Multimorbidity Score in the UK Biobank cohort
Hannah Harrison, Samantha Ip, Cristina Renzi, Yangfan Li, Matthew Barclay, Juliet Usher-Smith, Georgios Lyratzopoulos, Angela Wood, Antonis C. Antoniou
An empirical evaluation of approximate and exact regression-based causal mediation approaches for a binary outcome and a continuous or a binary mediator for case-control study designs
Miguel Caubet, Kevin L’Espérance, Anita Koushik, Geneviève Lefebvre
Development of the multivariate administrative data cystectomy model and its impact on misclassification bias
James Ross, Luke T. Lavallee, Duane Hickling, Carl van Walraven
Estimating individualized treatment effects using an individual participant data meta-analysis
Florie Bouvier, Anna Chaimani, Etienne Peyrot, François Gueyffier, Guillaume Grenet, Raphaël Porcher
Socio-environmental predictors of diabetes incidence disparities in Tanzania mainland: a comparison of regression models for count data
Sauda Hatibu Mbwambo, Maurice C. Mbago, Gadde Srinivasa Rao
A database for oncological research and quality assurance: implementation and first experiences with the University Clinical Cancer Registry Regensburg
Anna Saibold, Michael Koller, Karolina Mueller, Oliver Koelbl, Veronika Vielsmeier, Tobias Pukrop, Oliver Spies, Vivian Eilers, Cathleen Brese, Denise Amann, Julia Maurer
Evaluating methods for risk prediction of Covid-19 mortality in nursing home residents before and after vaccine availability: a retrospective cohort study
Komal Aryal, Fabrice I. Mowbray, Anna Miroshnychenko, Ryan P. Strum, Darly Dash, Michael P. Hillmer, Kamil Malikov, Andrew P. Costa, Aaron Jones
Methodological insights into ChatGPT’s screening performance in systematic reviews
Mahbod Issaiy, Hossein Ghanaati, Shahriar Kolahi, Madjid Shakiba, Amir Hossein Jalali, Diana Zarei, Sina Kazemian, Mahsa Alborzi Avanaki, Kavous Firouznia
Assessment of the E-value in the presence of bias amplification: a simulation study
Eric Barrette, Lucas Higuera, Kael Wherry
Optimal futility stopping boundaries for binary endpoints
Michaela Maria Freitag, Xieran Li, Geraldine Rauch
Overcoming denominator problems in refugee settings with fragmented electronic records for health and immigration data: a prediction-based approach
Stella Erdmann, Rosa Jahn, Sven Rohleder, Kayvan Bozorgmehr
Bioequivalence trials for the approval of generic drugs in Saudi Arabia: a descriptive analysis of design aspects
Turki A. Althunian, Bader R. Alzenaidy, Raseel A. Alroba, Ohoud A. Almadani, Fahad A. Alqahtani, Albatool A. Binajlan, Amal I. Almousa, Deema K. Alamr, Malak S. Al-Mofada, Nora Y. Alsaqer, Hessa A. Alarfaj, Abdulmohsen A. Bahlewa, Mohammed A. Alharbi, Ali M. Alhomaidan, Abdulaziz A. Alsuwyeh, Abdulmohsen A. Alsaleh
Segmentation of patients with small cell lung cancer into responders and non-responders using the optimal cross-validation technique
Elham Majd, Li Xing, Xuekui Zhang
Methods of determining optimal cut-point of diagnostic biomarkers with application of clinical data in ROC analysis: an update review
Mojtaba Hassanzad, Karimollah Hajian-Tilaki
Describing the content of trial recruitment interventions using the TIDieR reporting checklist: a systematic methodology review
Natasha Hudek, Kelly Carroll, Seana Semchishen, Shelley Vanderhout, Justin Presseau, Jeremy Grimshaw, Dean A. Fergusson, Katie Gillies, Ian D. Graham, Monica Taljaard, Jamie C. Brehaut
Spatial-temporal Bayesian accelerated failure time models for survival endpoints with applications to prostate cancer registry data
Ming Wang, Zheng Li, Jun Lu, Lijun Zhang, Yimei Li, Liangliang Zhang
The potential impact fraction of population weight reduction scenarios on non-communicable diseases in Belgium: application of the g-computation approach
Ingrid Pelgrims, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Stefanie Vandevijvere, Eva M. De Clercq, Johan Van der Heyden, Stijn Vansteelandt
Bayesian modeling of spatially differentiated multivariate enamel defects of the children’s primary maxillary central incisor teeth
Everette P. Keller, Andrew B. Lawson, Carol L. Wagner, Susan G. Reed
Outlier detection in spatial error models using modified thresholding-based iterative procedure for outlier detection approach
Jiaxin Cai, Weiwei Hu, Yuhui Yang, Hong Yan, Fangyao Chen
Log odds of positive lymph nodes (LODDS)-based novel nomogram for survival estimation in patients with invasive micropapillary carcinoma of the breast
Xiangdi Meng, Furong Hao, Nan Wang, Peiyan Qin, Zhuojun Ju, Daqing Sun
Application of causal inference methods in individual-participant data meta-analyses in medicine: addressing data handling and reporting gaps with new proposed reporting guidelines
Heather Hufstedler, Nicole Mauer, Edmund Yeboah, Sinclair Carr, Sabahat Rahman, Alexander M. Danzer, Thomas P. A. Debray, Valentijn M.T. de Jong, Harlan Campbell, Paul Gustafson, Lauren Maxwell, Thomas Jaenisch, Ellicott C. Matthay, Till Bärnighausen
Interpretable machine learning in predicting drug-induced liver injury among tuberculosis patients: model development and validation study
Yue Xiao, Yanfei Chen, Ruijian Huang, Feng Jiang, Jifang Zhou, Tianchi Yang
Reporting of interventional clinical trial results in an academic center: a survey of completed studies
Anne Sophie Alix-Doucet, Constant Vinatier, Loïc Fin, Hervé Léna, Hélène Rangé, Clara Locher, Florian Naudet
Evaluation of respondent-driven sampling in seven studies of people who use drugs from rural populations: findings from the Rural Opioid Initiative
Abby E. Rudolph, Robin M. Nance, Georgiy Bobashev, Daniel Brook, Wajiha Akhtar, Ryan Cook, Hannah L. Cooper, Peter D. Friedmann, Simon D. W. Frost, Vivian F. Go, Wiley D. Jenkins, Philip T. Korthuis, William C. Miller, Mai T. Pho, Stephanie A. Ruderman, David W. Seal, Thomas J. Stopka, Ryan P. Westergaard, April M. Young, William A. Zule, Judith I. Tsui, Heidi M. Crane, Bridget M. Whitney, Joseph A. C. Delaney
Multimorbidity in middle-aged women and COVID-19: binary data clustering for unsupervised binning of rare multimorbidity features and predictive modeling
Dayana Benny, Mario Giacobini, Giuseppe Costa, Roberto Gnavi, Fulvio Ricceri
Arrhythmia detection by the graph convolution network and a proposed structure for communication between cardiac leads
Bahare Andayeshgar, Fardin Abdali-Mohammadi, Majid Sepahvand, Afshin Almasi, Nader Salari
Stability analysis and numerical evaluations of a COVID-19 model with vaccination
Mohammad Izadi, Tayebeh Waezizadeh
Ascertaining the Francophone population in Ontario: validating the language variable in health data
Ricardo Batista, Amy T. Hsu, Louise Bouchard, Michael Reaume, Emily Rhodes, Ewa Sucha, Eva Guerin, Denis Prud’homme, Douglas G. Manuel, Peter Tanuseputro
Problematic meta-analyses: Bayesian and frequentist perspectives on combining randomized controlled trials and non-randomized studies
John L. Moran, Ariel Linden