Ausgabe 1/2011
Inhalt (176 Artikel)
A multidisciplinary systematic review of the use of diagrams as a means of collecting data from research subjects: application, benefits and recommendations
Muriah J Umoquit, Peggy Tso, Helen ED Burchett, Mark J Dobrow
One statistical test is sufficient for assessing new predictive markers
Andrew J Vickers, Angel M Cronin, Colin B Begg
Methodological criteria for the assessment of moderators in systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials: a consensus study
Tamar Pincus, Clare Miles, Robert Froud, Martin Underwood, Dawn Carnes, Stephanie JC Taylor
A clinical trial alert tool to recruit large patient samples and assess selection bias in general practice research
Stephanie Heinemann, Sabine Thüring, Sven Wedeken, Tobias Schäfer, Christa Scheidt-Nave, Mirko Ketterer, Wolfgang Himmel
The Australian 'FORM' approach to guideline development: The quest for the perfect system
Philipp Dahm, Benjamin Djulbegovic
Imputation strategies for missing binary outcomes in cluster randomized trials
Jinhui Ma, Noori Akhtar-Danesh, Lisa Dolovich, Lehana Thabane
Methodological issues associated with collecting sensitive information over the telephone - experience from an Australian non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) prevalence study
Anne W Taylor, Graham Martin, Eleonora Dal Grande, Sarah Swannell, Simon Fullerton, Philip Hazell, James E Harrison
Validation of a case definition to define chronic dialysis using outpatient administrative data
Fiona M Clement, Matthew T James, Rick Chin, Scott W Klarenbach, Braden J Manns, Robert R Quinn, Pietro Ravani, Marcello Tonelli, Brenda R Hemmelgarn
Comparing methods to estimate treatment effects on a continuous outcome in multicentre randomized controlled trials: A simulation study
Rong Chu, Lehana Thabane, Jinhui Ma, Anne Holbrook, Eleanor Pullenayegum, Philip James Devereaux
Dealing with substantial heterogeneity in Cochrane reviews. Cross-sectional study
Jeppe B Schroll, Rasmus Moustgaard, Peter C Gøtzsche
"Did the trial kill the intervention?" experiences from the development, implementation and evaluation of a complex intervention
Lydia Bird, Antony Arthur, Karen Cox
A pseudo-R2measure for selecting genomic markers with crossing hazards functions
Sigrid Rouam, Thierry Moreau, Philippe Broët
A worked example of "best fit" framework synthesis: A systematic review of views concerning the taking of some potential chemopreventive agents
Christopher Carroll, Andrew Booth, Katy Cooper
A simulation model approach to analysis of the business case for eliminating health care disparities
David R Nerenz, Yung-wen Liu, Keoki L Williams, Kaan Tunceli, Huiwen Zeng
Recruitment difficulties in a primary care cluster randomised trial: investigating factors contributing to general practitioners' recruitment of patients
Matthew J Page, Simon D French, Joanne E McKenzie, Denise A O'Connor, Sally E Green
Psychometric properties of two physical activity questionnaires, the AQuAA and the PASE, in cancer patients
Roberto DK Liu, Laurien M Buffart, Marie José Kersten, Marjolein Spiering, Johannes Brug, Willem van Mechelen, Mai JM Chinapaw
Large-scale, prospective, observational studies in patients with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis: A systematic and critical review
Sue Langham, Julia Langham, Hans-Peter Goertz, Mark Ratcliffe
Effect of reminders on mitigating participation bias in a case-control study
Clarence C Tam, Craig D Higgins, Laura C Rodrigues
What counts as reliable evidence for public health policy: the case of circumcision for preventing HIV infection
Reidar K Lie, Franklin G Miller
Design of cohort studies in chronic diseases using routinely collected databases when a prescription is used as surrogate outcome
Sara Lodi, James Carpenter, Peter Egger, Stephen Evans
Can type of school be used as an alternative indicator of socioeconomic status in dental caries studies? A cross-sectional study
Chaiana Piovesan, Monica Carneiro Pádua, Thiago Machado Ardenghi, Fausto Medeiros Mendes, Gabriela Cunha Bonini
The comprehensive cohort model in a pilot trial in orthopaedic trauma
Rebecca S Kearney, Juul Achten, Nick R Parsons, Matthew L Costa
Opt-out as an acceptable method of obtaining consent in medical research: a short report
Akke Vellinga, Martin Cormican, Belinda Hanahoe, Kathleen Bennett, Andrew W Murphy
Implementation of workflow engine technology to deliver basic clinical decision support functionality
Vojtech Huser, Luke V Rasmussen, Ryan Oberg, Justin B Starren
Progression of liver cirrhosis to HCC: an application of hidden Markov model
Nicola Bartolomeo, Paolo Trerotoli, Gabriella Serio
Validation of de-identified record linkage to ascertain hospital admissions in a cohort study
Alison Beauchamp, Andrew M Tonkin, Helen Kelsall, Vijaya Sundararajan, Dallas R English, Lalitha Sundaresan, Rory Wolfe, Gavin Turrell, Graham G Giles, Anna Peeters
Estimating uncertainty of alcohol-attributable fractions for infectious and chronic diseases
Gerrit Gmel, Kevin D Shield, Hannah Frick, Tara Kehoe, Gerhard Gmel, Jürgen Rehm
Good agreement between questionnaire and administrative databases for health care use and costs in patients with osteoarthritis
Daniel Pinto, M Clare Robertson, Paul Hansen, J Haxby Abbott
Parametric methods outperformed non-parametric methods in comparisons of discrete numerical variables
Morten W Fagerland, Leiv Sandvik, Petter Mowinckel
Exploratory trials, confirmatory observations: A new reasoning model in the era of patient-centered medicine
José A Sacristán
Tolerability of the Oscar 2 ambulatory blood pressure monitor among research participants: a cross-sectional repeated measures study
Anthony J Viera, Kara Lingley, Alan L Hinderliter
Representation of less-developed countries in Pharmacology journals: an online survey of corresponding authors
Dileep K Rohra
The care unit in nursing home research: Evidence in support of a definition
Carole A Estabrooks, Debra G Morgan, Janet E Squires, Anne-Marie Boström, Susan E Slaughter, Greta G Cummings, Peter G Norton
Web-based computer adaptive assessment of individual perceptions of job satisfaction for hospital workplace employees
Tsair-Wei Chien, Wen-Pin Lai, Chih-Wei Lu, Weng-Chung Wang, Shih-Chung Chen, Hsien-Yi Wang, Shih-Bin Su
Quantifying, displaying and accounting for heterogeneity in the meta-analysis of RCTs using standard and generalised Qstatistics
Jack Bowden, Jayne F Tierney, Andrew J Copas, Sarah Burdett
Methodological challenges when estimating the effects of season and seasonal exposures on birth outcomes
Linn Beate Strand, Adrian G Barnett, Shilu Tong
Do agreements between adolescent and parent reports on family socioeconomic status vary with household financial stress?
Christy Pu, Nicole Huang, Yiing-Jenq Chou
Evaluating treatments in health care: The instability of a one-legged stool
Bonnie J Kaplan, Gerald Giesbrecht, Scott Shannon, Kevin McLeod
A flexible Bayesian hierarchical model of preterm birth risk among US Hispanic subgroups in relation to maternal nativity and education
Jay S Kaufman, Richard F MacLehose, Elizabeth A Torrone, David A Savitz
A multiplicative hazard regression model to assess the risk of disease transmission at hospital during community epidemics
Nicolas Voirin, Sylvain Roche, Philippe Vanhems, Marine Giard, Sandra David-Tchouda, Béatrice Barret, René Ecochard
Effect of questionnaire length, personalisation and reminder type on response rate to a complex postal survey: randomised controlled trial
Shannon Sahlqvist, Yena Song, Fiona Bull, Emma Adams, John Preston, David Ogilvie
Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of Behçet's disease quality of life questionnaire
Zahi Touma, Lilian Ghandour, Abla Sibai, Houry Puzantian, Ayad Hamdan, Omar Hamdan, Jeanine Menassa, Imad Uthman, Thurayya Arayssi
Developing the clinical components of a complex intervention for a glaucoma screening trial: a mixed methods study
The validation of the standard Chinese version of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Core Questionnaire 30 (EORTC QLQ-C30) in pre-operative patients with brain tumor in China
Jin-xiang Cheng, Bo-lin Liu, Xiang Zhang, Yong-qiang Zhang, Wei Lin, Rui Wang, Yong-qin Zhang, Hong-ying Zhang, Li Xie, Jun-li Huo
Network meta-analysis of survival data with fractional polynomials
Jeroen P Jansen
The use of fasting vs. non-fasting triglyceride concentration for estimating the prevalence of high LDL-cholesterol and metabolic syndrome in population surveys
Jouko Sundvall, Jaana Leiviskä, Tiina Laatikainen, Markku Peltonen, Veikko Salomaa, Mauno Vanhala, Eeva Korpi-Hyövälti, Jukka Lauronen, Georg Alfthan
Adjusting a cancer mortality-prediction model for disease status-related eligibility criteria
Millennia Foy, Xing Chen, Marek Kimmel, Olga Y Gorlova
Central and East European migrant men who have sex with men in London: a comparison of recruitment methods
Alison R Evans, Graham J Hart, Richard Mole, Catherine H Mercer, Violetta Parutis, Christopher J Gerry, John Imrie, Fiona M Burns
Logistic random effects regression models: a comparison of statistical packages for binary and ordinal outcomes
Baoyue Li, Hester F Lingsma, Ewout W Steyerberg, Emmanuel Lesaffre
Comparison of three tests of homogeneity of odds ratios in multicenter trials with unequal sample sizes within and among centers
Zahra Bagheri, Seyyed Mohammad Taghi Ayatollahi, Peyman Jafari
Successful recruitment to trials: a phased approach to opening gates and building bridges
Sue Patterson, Hilary Mairs, Rohan Borschmann
Calculating unreported confidence intervals for paired data
Karim F Hirji, Morten W Fagerland
Instrumental variable meta-analysis of individual patient data: application to adjust for treatment non-compliance
Branko Miladinovic, Ambuj Kumar, Iztok Hozo, Benjamin Djulbegovic
Unravelling the effects of age, period and cohort on metabolic syndrome components in a Taiwanese population using partial least squares regression
Yu-Kang Tu, Kuo-Liong Chien, Victoria Burley, Mark S Gilthorpe
Alternative statistical methods for estimating efficacy of interferon beta-1b for multiple sclerosis clinical trials
Makiko N Mieno, Takuhiro Yamaguchi, Yasuo Ohashi
Power estimation of tests in log-linear non-uniform association models for ordinal agreement
Fabien Valet, Jean-Yves Mary
Concordance of self-reported and medical chart information on cancer diagnosis and treatment
Vinay Gupta, Kai Gu, Zhi Chen, Wei Lu, Xiao Ou Shu, Ying Zheng
Measurement properties of translated versions of neck-specific questionnaires: a systematic review
Jasper M Schellingerhout, Martijn W Heymans, Arianne P Verhagen, Henrica C de Vet, Bart W Koes, Caroline B Terwee
Bayesian adjustment for measurement error in continuous exposures in an individually matched case-control study
Gabriela Espino-Hernandez, Paul Gustafson, Igor Burstyn
Use of hospitalisation history (lookback) to determine prevalence of chronic diseases: impact on modelling of risk factors for haemorrhage in pregnancy
Jian Sheng Chen, Christine L Roberts, Judy M Simpson, Jane B Ford
Pitfalls in the statistical examination and interpretation of the correspondence between physician and patient satisfaction ratings and their relevance for shared decision making research
Oliver Hirsch, Heidemarie Keller, Christina Albohn-Kühne, Tanja Krones, Norbert Donner-Banzhoff
Design of a factorial experiment with randomization restrictions to assess medical device performance on vascular tissue
Wiebke S Diestelkamp, Carissa M Krane, Margaret F Pinnell
Using quantile regression to investigate racial disparities in medication non-adherence
Mulugeta Gebregziabher, Cheryl P Lynch, Martina Mueller, Gregory E Gilbert, Carrae Echols, Yumin Zhao, Leonard E Egede
Measurement invariance of the center for epidemiological studies depression scale (CES-D) among chinese and dutch elderly
Baoshan Zhang, Marjolein Fokkema, Pim Cuijpers, Juan Li, Niels Smits, Aartjan Beekman
Competing risk models to estimate the excess mortality and the first recurrent-event hazards
Aurélien Belot, Laurent Remontet, Guy Launoy, Valérie Jooste, Roch Giorgi
Optimizing cost-efficiency in mean exposure assessment - cost functions reconsidered
Svend Erik Mathiassen, Kristian Bolin
The predictive value of ICD-10 diagnostic coding used to assess Charlson comorbidity index conditions in the population-based Danish National Registry of Patients
Sandra K Thygesen, Christian F Christiansen, Steffen Christensen, Timothy L Lash, Henrik T Sørensen
A comparison of small monetary incentives to convert survey non-respondents: a randomized control trial
Joan M Griffin, Alisha Baines Simon, Erin Hulbert, John Stevenson, Joseph P Grill, Siamak Noorbaloochi, Melissa R Partin
How the psychosocial context of clinical trials differs from usual care: A qualitative study of acupuncture patients
Fiona Barlow, Clare Scott, Beverly Coghlan, Philippa Lee, Peter White, George T Lewith, Felicity L Bishop
Optimizing the diagnostic power with gastric emptying scintigraphy at multiple time points
Qingjiang Hou, Zhiyue Lin, Reginald Dusing, Byron J Gajewski, Richard W McCallum, Matthew S Mayo
Validation of the Edinburgh Claudication Questionnaire in 1st generation Black African-Caribbean and South Asian UK migrants: A sub-study to the Ethnic-Echocardiographic Heart of England Screening (E-ECHOES) study
Philip C Bennett, Gregory YH Lip, Stanley Silverman, Andrew D Blann, Paramjit S Gill
Using e-mail recruitment and an online questionnaire to establish effect size: A worked example
Helen M Kirkby, Sue Wilson, Melanie Calvert, Heather Draper
Novel study designs to investigate the placebo response
Paul Enck, Sibylle Klosterhalfen, Stephan Zipfel
A comparison of a new multinomial stopping rule with stopping rules of fleming and gehan in single arm phase II cancer clinical trials
John R Goffin, Greg R Pond, Dongsheng Tu
Understanding competing risks: a simulation point of view
Arthur Allignol, Martin Schumacher, Christoph Wanner, Christiane Drechsler, Jan Beyersmann
Baseline characteristics and patient reported outcome data of patients prescribed etanercept: web-based and telephone evaluation
Alan G Wade, Gordon M Crawford, Neil Pumford, Volker Koscielny, Susan Maycock, Alex McConnachie
The Global Evidence Mapping Initiative: Scoping research in broad topic areas
Peter Bragge, Ornella Clavisi, Tari Turner, Emma Tavender, Alex Collie, Russell L Gruen
The case study approach
Sarah Crowe, Kathrin Cresswell, Ann Robertson, Guro Huby, Anthony Avery, Aziz Sheikh
Additive and multiplicative hazards modeling for recurrent event data analysis
Hyun J Lim, Xu Zhang
Stratified sampling design and loss to follow-up in survival models: evaluation of efficiency and bias
Cibele C César, Marilia S Carvalho
Estimating and modelling cure in population-based cancer studies within the framework of flexible parametric survival models
Therese ML Andersson, Paul W Dickman, Sandra Eloranta, Paul C Lambert
Reported frequency of physical activity in a large epidemiological study: relationship to specific activities and repeatability over time
Miranda EG Armstrong, Benjamin J Cairns, Jane Green, Gillian K Reeves, Valerie Beral
Revisiting the dimensional structure of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS): empirical evidence for a general factor
Michael E Reichenheim, Claudia L Moraes, Alessandra SD Oliveira, Gustavo Lobato
Simulation methods to estimate design power: an overview for applied research
Benjamin F Arnold, Daniel R Hogan, John M Colford Jr, Alan E Hubbard
Telephone and face to face methods of assessment of veteran's community reintegration yield equivalent results
Linda J Resnik, Melissa A Clark, Matthew Borgia
Comparison of indicators of material circumstances in the context of an epidemiological study
Thomas Matukala Nkosi, Marie-Elise Parent, Jack Siemiatycki, Javier Pintos, Marie-Claude Rousseau
Sample size calculations for cluster randomised controlled trials with a fixed number of clusters
Karla Hemming, Alan J Girling, Alice J Sitch, Jennifer Marsh, Richard J Lilford
A review of equity issues in quantitative studies on health inequalities: the case of asthma in adults
Heather L Greenwood, Nancy Edwards, Amandah Hoogbruin, Eulalia K Kahwa, Okeyo N Odhiambo, Jack A Buong
Validation of the Turkish version of the Centre for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) in patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus
Vicky Lehmann, Ceylan Makine, Çagatay Karşıdağ, Pinar Kadıoğlu, Kubilay Karşıdağ, François Pouwer
Self-perceived quality of life predicts mortality risk better than a multi-biomarker panel, but the combination of both does best
Robin Haring, You-Shan Feng, Jörn Moock, Henry Völzke, Marcus Dörr, Matthias Nauck, Henri Wallaschofski, Thomas Kohlmann
Advancing the argument for validity of the Alberta Context Tool with healthcare aides in residential long-term care
Carole A Estabrooks, Janet E Squires, Leslie A Hayduk, Greta G Cummings, Peter G Norton
Imputation by the mean score should be avoided when validating a Patient Reported Outcomes questionnaire by a Rasch model in presence of informative missing data
Jean-Benoit Hardouin, Ronán Conroy, Véronique Sébille
A self-controlled case series to assess the effectiveness of beta blockers for heart failure in reducing hospitalisations in the elderly
Emmae N Ramsay, Elizabeth E Roughead, Ben Ewald, Nicole L Pratt, Philip Ryan
Methodological reporting of randomized controlled trials in major hepato-gastroenterology journals in 2008 and 1998: a comparative study
Ji-Lin Wang, Tian-Tian Sun, Yan-Wei Lin, Rong Lu, Jing-Yuan Fang
An accurate and efficient identification of children with psychosocial problems by means of computerized adaptive testing
Antonius GC Vogels, Gert W Jacobusse, Symen A Reijneveld
Questions asked and answered in pilot and feasibility randomized controlled trials
Milensu Shanyinde, Ruth M Pickering, Mark Weatherall
Effort, reward and self-reported mental health: a simulation study on negative affectivity bias
Marc Arial, Pascal Wild
Protocol - realist and meta-narrative evidence synthesis: Evolving Standards (RAMESES)
Trisha Greenhalgh, Geoff Wong, Gill Westhorp, Ray Pawson
Psychometric properties and longitudinal validation of the self-reporting questionnaire (SRQ-20) in a Rwandan community setting: a validation study
Willem F Scholte, Femke Verduin, Anouk van Lammeren, Theoneste Rutayisire, Astrid M Kamperman
Pre-validation methods for developing a patient reported outcome instrument
Maria E Prior, Jemaima Che Hamzah, Jillian J Francis, Craig R Ramsay, Mayret M Castillo, Susan E Campbell, Augusto Azuara-Blanco, Jennifer M Burr
Validation of the Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire with parents of 10-to-12-year-olds
Elisabeth L Melbye, Torvald Øgaard, Nina C Øverby
Multiple dimensions of health locus of control in a representative population sample: ordinal factor analysis and cross-validation of an existing three and a new four factor model
Christiane Otto, Gallus Bischof, Hans-Jürgen Rumpf, Christian Meyer, Ulfert Hapke, Ulrich John
The Box-Cox power transformation on nursing sensitive indicators: Does it matter if structural effects are omitted during the estimation of the transformation parameter?
Qingjiang Hou, Jonathan D Mahnken, Byron J Gajewski, Nancy Dunton
Developing a predictive tool for psychological well-being among Chinese adolescents in the presence of missing data
Henry S Lynn, Bill Y Tsang
Reliability of the modified child and adolescent physical activity and nutrition survey, physical activity (CAPANS-PA) questionnaire among chinese-australian youth
Claudia Strugnell, Andre Renzaho, Kate Ridley, Cate Burns
The reliability of assigning individuals to cognitive states using the Mini Mental-State Examination: a population-based prospective cohort study
Riccardo E Marioni, Mark Chatfield, Carol Brayne, Fiona E Matthews
Using qualitative synthesis to explore heterogeneity of complex interventions
Bridget Candy, Michael King, Louise Jones, Sandy Oliver
A questionnaire to measure melanoma risk, knowledge and protective behaviour: Assessing content validity in a convenience sample of Scots and Australians
Helen S Gillespie, Tony Watson, Jon D Emery, Amanda J Lee, Peter Murchie
Re-evaluating a vision-related quality of life questionnaire with item response theory (IRT) and differential item functioning (DIF) analyses
Ruth MA van Nispen, Dirk L Knol, Maaike Langelaan, Ger HMB van Rens
A randomised trial and economic evaluation of the effect of response mode on response rate, response bias, and item non-response in a survey of doctors
Anthony Scott, Sung-Hee Jeon, Catherine M Joyce, John S Humphreys, Guyonne Kalb, Julia Witt, Anne Leahy
How to do a grounded theory study: a worked example of a study of dental practices
Alexandra Sbaraini, Stacy M Carter, R Wendell Evans, Anthony Blinkhorn
Imputation of missing values of tumour stage in population-based cancer registration
Nora Eisemann, Annika Waldmann, Alexander Katalinic
Psychometric properties of the IDS-SR30 for the assessment of depressive symptoms in spanish population
Margalida Gili, Juan V Luciano, Natalia Bauzá, Jaume Aguado, María J Serrano, Silvia Armengol, Miquel Roca
Benefits of ICU admission in critically ill patients: Whether instrumental variable methods or propensity scores should be used
Romain Pirracchio, Charles Sprung, Didier Payen, Sylvie Chevret
Potential risk factors associated with human encephalitis: application of canonical correlation analysis
Jemila S Hamid, Christopher Meaney, Natasha S Crowcroft, Julia Granerod, Joseph Beyene
Reporting of loss to follow-up information in randomised controlled trials with time-to-event outcomes: a literature survey
Elke Vervölgyi, Mandy Kromp, Guido Skipka, Ralf Bender, Thomas Kaiser
A poisson regression approach for modelling spatial autocorrelation between geographically referenced observations
Mohammadreza Mohebbi, Rory Wolfe, Damien Jolley
Study protocol: the empirical investigation of methods to correct for measurement error in biobanks with dietary assessment
Derrick A Bennett, Julian Little, Lindsey F Masson, Cosetta Minelli
Application of latent semantic analysis for open-ended responses in a large, epidemiologic study
Travis D Leleu, Isabel G Jacobson, Cynthia A LeardMann, Besa Smith, Peter W Foltz, Paul J Amoroso, Marcia A Derr, Margaret AK Ryan, Tyler C Smith
Reproducibility and day time bias correction of optoelectronic leg volumetry: a prospective cohort study
Rolf P Engelberger, Claudia Blazek, Felix Amsler, Hong H Keo, Frédéric Baumann, Werner Blättler, Iris Baumgartner, Torsten Willenberg
Improved curve fits to summary survival data: application to economic evaluation of health technologies
Martin W Hoyle, William Henley
A proposed method to investigate reliability throughout a questionnaire
Tore Wentzel-Larsen, Tone M Norekvål, Bjørg Ulvik, Ottar Nygård, Are H Pripp
Development of a multi-dimensional measure of resilience in adolescents: the Adolescent Resilience Questionnaire
Deirdre Gartland, Lyndal Bond, Craig A Olsson, Simone Buzwell, Susan M Sawyer
Validity of the international physical activity questionnaire and the Singapore prospective study program physical activity questionnaire in a multiethnic urban Asian population
Ei Ei Khaing Nang, Susan Ayuko Gitau Ngunjiri, Yi Wu, Agus Salim, E Shyong Tai, Jeannette Lee, Rob M Van Dam
Prediction of intracranial findings on CT-scans by alternative modelling techniques
Tjeerd van der Ploeg, Marion Smits, Diederik W Dippel, Myriam Hunink, Ewout W Steyerberg
Response to written feedback of clinical data within a longitudinal study: a qualitative study exploring the ethical implications
Karen Lorimer, Cindy M Gray, Kate Hunt, Sally Wyke, Annie Anderson, Michaela Benzeval
Estimation of current cumulative incidence of leukaemia-free patients and current leukaemia-free survival in chronic myeloid leukaemia in the era of modern pharmacotherapy
Tomáš Pavlík, Eva Janoušová, Zdeněk Pospíšil, Jan Mužík, Daniela Žáčková, Zdeněk Ráčil, Hana Klamová, Petr Cetkovský, Marek Trněný, Jiří Mayer, Ladislav Dušek
Predicting complete loss to follow-up after a health-education program: number of absences and face-to-face contact with a researcher
MJ Park, Yoshihiko Yamazaki, Yuki Yonekura, Keiko Yukawa, Hirono Ishikawa, Takahiro Kiuchi, Joseph Green
Validation of diabetes mellitus and hypertension diagnosis in computerized medical records in primary health care
Carmen de Burgos-Lunar, Miguel A Salinero-Fort, Juan Cárdenas-Valladolid, Sonia Soto-Díaz, Carmen Y Fuentes-Rodríguez, Juan C Abánades-Herranz, Isabel del Cura-González
Suitability of measures of self-reported medication adherence for routine clinical use: A systematic review
Sara Garfield, Sarah Clifford, Lina Eliasson, Nick Barber, Alan Willson
Structuring and validating a cost-effectiveness model of primary asthma prevention amongst children
G Feljandro P Ramos, Sandra Kuiper, Edward Dompeling, Antoinette DI van Asselt, Wim JC de Grauw, J André Knottnerus, Onno CP van Schayck, Tjard RJ Schermer, Johan L Severens
How to handle mortality when investigating length of hospital stay and time to clinical stability
Guy N Brock, Christopher Barnes, Julio A Ramirez, John Myers
Funding and infrastructure among large-scale clinical trials examining cardiovascular diseases in Japan: evidence from a questionnaire survey
Hiroshi Sawata, Kiichiro Tsutani
Multivariate modeling to identify patterns in clinical data: the example of chest pain
Oliver Hirsch, Stefan Bösner, Eyke Hüllermeier, Robin Senge, Krzysztof Dembczynski, Norbert Donner-Banzhoff
The new COSMIN guidelines confront traditional concepts of responsiveness
Felix Angst
Assessing smoking status in disadvantaged populations: is computer administered self report an accurate and acceptable measure?
Jamie Bryant, Billie Bonevski, Christine Paul, Christophe Lecathelinais
The short international physical activity questionnaire: cross-cultural adaptation, validation and reliability of the Hausa language version in Nigeria
Adewale L Oyeyemi, Adetoyeje Y Oyeyemi, Babatunde O Adegoke, Fatima O Oyetoke, Habeeb N Aliyu, Salamatu U Aliyu, Adamu A Rufai
Mobile phones are a viable option for surveying young Australian women: a comparison of two telephone survey methods
Bette Liu, Julia ML Brotherton, David Shellard, Basil Donovan, Marion Saville, John M Kaldor
A population study comparing screening performance of prototypes for depression and anxiety with standard scales
Helen Christensen, Philip J Batterham, Janie Busby Grant, Kathleen M Griffiths, Andrew J Mackinnon
Positive predictive value of automated database records for diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) in children and youth exposed to antipsychotic drugs or control medications: a tennessee medicaid study
William V Bobo, William O Cooper, Richard A Epstein Jr, Patrick G Arbogast, Jackie Mounsey, Wayne A Ray
Characteristics of meta-analyses and their component studies in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: a cross-sectional, descriptive analysis
Jonathan Davey, Rebecca M Turner, Mike J Clarke, Julian PT Higgins
Minimally important difference of the Treatment Satisfaction with Medicines Questionnaire (SATMED-Q)
Javier Rejas, Miguel A Ruiz, Antonio Pardo, Javier Soto
Quality of reporting according to the CONSORT, STROBE and Timmer instrument at the American Burn Association (ABA) annual meetings 2000 and 2008
Karsten Knobloch, Uzung Yoon, Hans O Rennekampff, Peter M Vogt
Integrating historical clinical and financial data for pharmacological research
Vikrant G Deshmukh, N Brett Sower, Cheri Y Hunter, Joyce A Mitchell
Pharmacy sales data versus ward stock accounting for the surveillance of broad-spectrum antibiotic use in hospitals
Jon B Haug, Randi Myhr, Åsmund Reikvam
Selection of the appropriate method for the assessment of insulin resistance
Anwar Borai, Callum Livingstone, Ibrahim Kaddam, Gordon Ferns
The assessment of the quality of reporting of meta-analyses in diagnostic research: a systematic review
Brian H Willis, Muireann Quigley
Reliability of the Marlowe-Crowne social desirability scale in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, and Uganda
Alexander Vu, Nhan Tran, Kiemanh Pham, Saifuddin Ahmed
Stopping rules employing response rates, time to progression, and early progressive disease for phase II oncology trials
John R Goffin, Greg R Pond
Population versus hospital controls for case-control studies on cancers in Chinese hospitals
Lin Li, Min Zhang, D'Arcy Holman
Potential application of item-response theory to interpretation of medical codes in electronic patient records
Alex Dregan, Andy Grieve, Tjeerd van Staa, Martin C Gulliford
Comparison of ICD code-based diagnosis of obesity with measured obesity in children and the implications for health care cost estimates
Stefan Kuhle, Sara FL Kirk, Arto Ohinmaa, Paul J Veugelers
Successful strategies for high participation in three regional healthcare surveys: an observational study
Kristen R Elkins, Christopher M Nguyen, Diane S Kim, Hildy Meyers, Michele Cheung, Susan S Huang
Concordance of sibling's recall of measures of childhood socioeconomic position
Michael M Ward
Being a quantitative interviewer: qualitatively exploring interviewers' experiences in a longitudinal cohort study
Sarah Derrett, Sarah Colhoun
Additive scales in degenerative disease - calculation of effect sizes and clinical judgment
Matthias W Riepe, David Wilkinson, Hans Förstl, Andreas Brieden
Assessing genetic polymorphisms using DNA extracted from cells present in saliva samples
Zsofia Nemoda, Maria Horvat-Gordon, Christine K Fortunato, Emilie K Beltzer, Jessica L Scholl, Douglas A Granger
Shared component modelling as an alternative to assess geographical variations in medical practice: gender inequalities in hospital admissions for chronic diseases
Berta Ibáñez-Beroiz, Julián Librero-López, Salvador Peiró-Moreno, Enrique Bernal-Delgado
Examining the BMI-mortality relationship using fractional polynomials
Edwin S Wong, Bruce CM Wang, Louis P Garrison, Rafael Alfonso-Cristancho, David R Flum, David E Arterburn, Sean D Sullivan
Estimating the mode of inheritance in genetic association studies of qualitative traits based on the degree of dominance index
Elias Zintzaras, Mauro Santos
Conducting Online Expert panels: a feasibility and experimental replicability study
Dmitry Khodyakov, Susanne Hempel, Lisa Rubenstein, Paul Shekelle, Robbie Foy, Susanne Salem-Schatz, Sean O'Neill, Margie Danz, Siddhartha Dalal
Evaluation of exposure-specific risks from two independent samples: A simulation study
William M Reichmann, David Gagnon, C Robert Horsburgh, Elena Losina
Autism spectrum disorders and fetal hypoxia in a population-based cohort: Accounting for missing exposures via Estimation-Maximization algorithm
Igor Burstyn, Xiaoming Wang, Yutaka Yasui, Fortune Sithole, Lonnie Zwaigenbaum
Cell phone-supported cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety disorders: a protocol for effectiveness studies in frontline settings
Joakim Ekberg, Toomas Timpka, Magnus Bång, Anders Fröberg, Karin Halje, Henrik Eriksson
Assessing methods for dealing with treatment switching in randomised controlled trials: a simulation study
James P Morden, Paul C Lambert, Nicholas Latimer, Keith R Abrams, Allan J Wailoo
Recruitment of representative samples for low incidence cancer populations: Do registries deliver?
Tara Clinton-McHarg, Mariko Carey, Rob Sanson-Fisher, Elizabeth Tracey
Bikeability and methodological issues using the active commuting route environment scale (ACRES) in a metropolitan setting
Lina Wahlgren, Peter Schantz
Lifetime body size and reproductive factors: comparisons of data recorded prospectively with self reports in middle age
Benjamin J Cairns, Bette Liu, Suzanne Clennell, Rachel Cooper, Gillian K Reeves, Valerie Beral, Diana Kuh
"Do I really want to do this?" Longitudinal cohort study participants' perspectives on postal survey design: a qualitative study
Helen Harcombe, Sarah Derrett, Peter Herbison, David McBride
Developing a Dementia Research Registry: a descriptive case study from North Thames DeNDRoN and the EVIDEM programme
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Development of a heart failure filter for Medline: an objective approach using evidence-based clinical practice guidelines as an alternative to hand searching
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Methodology in conducting a systematic review of systematic reviews of healthcare interventions
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A random effects variance shift model for detecting and accommodating outliers in meta-analysis
Freedom N Gumedze, Dan Jackson
FORM: An Australian method for formulating and grading recommendations in evidence-based clinical guidelines
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What about N? A methodological study of sample-size reporting in focus group studies
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Uptake of newer methodological developments and the deployment of meta-analysis in diagnostic test research: a systematic review
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