Ausgabe 1/2005
Inhalt (37 Artikel)
Structural equation model testing and the quality of natural killer cell activity measurements
Leslie A Hayduk, Hannah Pazderka-Robinson, Greta G Cummings, Merry-Jo D Levers, Melanie A Beres
Systematic reviews of epidemiology in diabetes: finding the evidence
Pamela Royle, Lynda Bain, Norman Waugh
Factors associated with reporting multiple causes of death
Melanie M Wall, Jinzhou Huang, John Oswald, Diane McCullen
Comparison of nested case-control and survival analysis methodologies for analysis of time-dependent exposure
Vidal Essebag, Robert W Platt, Michal Abrahamowicz, Louise Pilote
Effectiveness of different databases in identifying studies for systematic reviews: experience from the WHO systematic review of maternal morbidity and mortality
Ana P Betrán, Lale Say, A Metin Gülmezoglu, Tomas Allen, Lynn Hampson
Effects of the search technique on the measurement of the change in quality of randomized controlled trials over time in the field of brain injury
Mark K Borsody, Chisa Yamada
Evaluating the role of quality assessment of primary studies in systematic reviews of cancer practice guidelines
Melissa C Brouwers, Mary E Johnston, Manya L Charette, Steve E Hanna, Alejandro R Jadad, George P Browman
Reporting quality of randomized trials in the diet and exercise literature for weight loss
Cheryl A Gibson, Erik P Kirk, James D LeCheminant, Bruce W Bailey Jr, Guoyuan Huang, Joseph E Donnelly
Methodological bias in cluster randomised trials
Seokyung Hahn, Suezann Puffer, David J Torgerson, Judith Watson
Practical considerations for estimating clinical trial accrual periods: application to a multi-center effectiveness study
Rickey E Carter, Susan C Sonne, Kathleen T Brady
Who wants to join preventive trials? – Experience from the Estonian Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy Trial [ISRCTN35338757]
Sirpa-Liisa Hovi, Matti Hakama, Piret Veerus, Mati Rahu, Elina Hemminki
Estimating the mean and variance from the median, range, and the size of a sample
Stela Pudar Hozo, Benjamin Djulbegovic, Iztok Hozo
The strengths and limitations of meta-analyses based on aggregate data
Gary H Lyman, Nicole M Kuderer
Assessing subgroup effects with binary data: can the use of different effect measures lead to different conclusions?
Ian R White, Diana Elbourne
Early life factors, childhood cognition and postal questionnaire response rate in middle age: the Aberdeen Children of the 1950sstudy
Yuji Nishiwaki, Heather Clark, Susan M Morton, David A Leon
Use of re-randomized data in meta-analysis
Iztok Hozo, Benjamin Djulbegovic, Otavio Clark, Gary H Lyman
Recruitment of ethnic minority patients to a cardiac rehabilitation trial: The Birmingham Rehabilitation Uptake Maximisation (BRUM) study [ISRCTN72884263]
Kate Jolly, Gregory Y Lip, Rod S Taylor, Jonathan W Mant, Deirdre A Lane, Kaeng W Lee, Andrew J Stevens
No role for quality scores in systematic reviews of diagnostic accuracy studies
Penny Whiting, Roger Harbord, Jos Kleijnen
How does study quality affect the results of a diagnostic meta-analysis?
Marie E Westwood, Penny F Whiting, Jos Kleijnen
Empirical evaluation of prediction intervals for cancer incidence
Bjørn Møller, Harald Weedon-Fekjær, Tor Haldorsen
Oblique decision trees for spatial pattern detection: optimal algorithm and application to malaria risk
Jean Gaudart, Belco Poudiougou, Stéphane Ranque, Ogobara Doumbo
A simplified search strategy for identifying randomised controlled trials for systematic reviews of health care interventions: a comparison with more exhaustive strategies
Pamela Royle, Norman Waugh
Which resources should be used to identify RCT/CCTs for systematic reviews: a systematic review
Ellen T Crumley, Natasha Wiebe, Kristie Cramer, Terry P Klassen, Lisa Hartling
A priori postulated and real power in cluster randomized trials: mind the gap
Lydia Guittet, Bruno Giraudeau, Philippe Ravaud
The therapeutic effect of clinical trials: understanding placebo response rates in clinical trials – A secondary analysis
Harald Walach, Catarina Sadaghiani, Cornelia Dehm, Dick Bierman
Evaluation of the Total Design Method in a survey of Japanese dentists
Yukie Nakai, Peter Milgrom, Toshiko Yoshida, Chikako Ishihara, Tsutomu Shimono
Modeling repeated ordinal responses using a family of power transformations: application to neonatal hypothermia data
Farid Zayeri, Anoshirvan Kazemnejad, Navid Khanafshar, Fatemeh Nayeri
Adaptive designs based on the truncated product method
Markus Neuhäuser, Frank Bretz
Lack of interchangeability between visual analogue and verbal rating pain scales: a cross sectional description of pain etiology groups
Iréne Lund, Thomas Lundeberg, Louise Sandberg, Cecilia Norrbrink Budh, Jan Kowalski, Elisabeth Svensson
Methods for confidence interval estimation of a ratio parameter with application to location quotients
Joseph Beyene, Rahim Moineddin
Investing in updating: how do conclusions change when Cochrane systematic reviews are updated?
Simon D French, Steve McDonald, Joanne E McKenzie, Sally E Green
A randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of offering study results as an incentive to increase response rates to postal questionnaires [ISRCTN26118436]
Sarah Cockayne, David J Torgerson
Parametric versus non-parametric statistics in the analysis of randomized trials with non-normally distributed data
Andrew J Vickers
A non-parametric framework for estimating threshold limit values
Georgia Salanti, Kurt Ulm
Stability of response characteristics of a Delphi panel: application of bootstrap data expansion
Ralitsa B Akins, Homer Tolson, Bryan R Cole