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Melissa Norton, MD

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Jigisha Patel, MRCP PhD

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Anastasios Koutsos PhD


Welcome to BMC Medical Research Methodology published by BioMed Central
BMC Medical Research Methodology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in methodological approaches to healthcare research. Articles on the methodology of epidemiological research, clinical trials and meta-analysis/systematic review are particularly encouraged, as are empirical studies of the associations between choice of methodology and study outcomes. BMC Medical Research Methodology does not aim to publish articles describing scientific methods or techniques: these should be directed to the BMC journal covering the relevant biomedical subject area. BMC Medical Research Methodology (ISSN 1471-2288) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE, Current Contents, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.



BMC Featured articles

BMC Medical Research Methodology 2009, 9:42
In order to improve early diagnosis and management of diseases such as ovarian cancer it is imperative that all pertinent information relating to referral, investigation and diagnosis is recorded in electronic patient records.
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Assessing quality of life measurements in a panel study design subject to dropout can lead to estimation bias and potentially misleading conclusions unless appropriate methodology is applied to adjust for missing data.
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Data-integration tables provide a useful framework for the structured synthesis of information from systematic reviews, facilitate meta-synthesis based on such information, and make review findings more accessible to target audiences.


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Record linkage to obtain birth outcomes for the evaluation of screening biomarkers in pregnancy: a feasibility study
Samantha J Lain, Charles S Algert, Vitomir Tasevski, Jonathan M Morris, Christine L Roberts
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2009, 9:48 (9July2009)
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Interviewee Transcript Review: assessing the impact on qualitative research
Victoria Hagens, Mark J Dobrow, Roger Chafe
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2009, 9:47 (6July2009)
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Strategies for achieving a high response rate in a home interview survey
Kirsty Kiezebrink, Iain K Crombie, Linda Irvine, Vivien Swanson, Kevin Power, Wendy L Wrieden, Peter W Slane
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2009, 9:46 (30June2009)
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Effect of questionnaire structure on recall of drug utilization in a population of university students
Helena Gama, Sofia Correia, Nuno Lunet
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2009, 9:45 (29June2009)
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Interim data monitoring to enroll higher-risk participants in HIV prevention trials
Vera Halpern, Orikomaba Obunge, Folasade Ogunsola, Sakiru Otusanya, John Umo-Otong, Chin-Hua Wang, Neha Mehta
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2009, 9:44 (23June2009)
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Timing of surgical antibiotic prophylaxis administration: Complexities of analysis
Carrie Cartmill, Lorelei Lingard, Glenn Regehr, Sherry Espin, John Bohnen, Ross Baker, Lorne Rotstein
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2009, 9:43 (23June2009)
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Determining the date of diagnosis - is it a simple matter? The impact of different approaches to dating diagnosis on estimates of delayed care for ovarian cancer in UK primary care.
A ROSEMARY Tate, Alexander G R Martin, Tarita Murray-Thomas, Sarah R Anderson, Jackie A Cassell
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2009, 9:42 (23June2009)
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Are we drawing the right conclusions from randomised placebo-controlled trials? A post-hoc analysis of data from a randomised controlled trial
M. D van Die, Kerry M Bone, Henry G Burger, Helena J Teede
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2009, 9:41 (23June2009)
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Identifying strategies to maximise recruitment and retention of practices and patients in a multicentre randomised controlled trial of an intervention to optimise secondary prevention for coronary heart disease in primary care.
Claire S Leathem, Margaret E Cupples, Mary C Byrne, Mary O'Malley, Ailish Houlihan, Andrew W Murphy, Susan M Smith
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2009, 9:40 (19June2009)
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Design effect in multicenter studies: gain or loss of power?
Emilie Vierron, Bruno Giraudeau
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2009, 9:39 (18June2009)
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BMC Public Health 2009, 9:226 (10July2009)
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Research
A review of reporting of participant recruitment and retention in RCTs in six major journals
Merran Toerien, Sara T Brookes, Chris Metcalfe, Isabel de Salis, Zelda Tomlin, Tim J Peters, Jonathan Sterne, Jenny L Donovan
Trials 2009, 10:52 (10July2009)
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Reliability and cross-cultural validity of a Japanese version of the Dental Fear Survey
Toshiko Yoshida, Peter Milgrom, Yukako Mori, Yukie Nakai, Mari Kaji, Tsutomu Shimono, Ana Nora A Donaldson
BMC Oral Health 2009, 9:17 (10July2009)
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Study protocol
Rationales, design and recruitment of the Taizhou Longitudinal Study
Xiaofeng Wang, Ming Lu, Ji Qian, Yajun Yang, Shilin Li, Daru Lu, Shunzhang Yu, Wei Meng, Weimin Ye, Li Jin
BMC Public Health 2009, 9:223 (10July2009)
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A functional difficulty and functional pain instrument for hip and knee osteoarthritis
Alan M Jette, Christine M McDonough, Pengsheng Ni, Stephen M Haley, Ronald K Hambleton, Sippy Olarsch, David Hunter, Young-jo Kim, David Felson
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Study protocol
Effect of osteosynthesis, primary hemiarthroplasty, and non-surgical management for displaced four-part fractures of the proximal humerus in elderly: a multi-centre, randomised clinical trial
Stig Brorson, Bo Sanderhoff Olsen, Lars Henrik Frich, Steen Lund Jensen, Hans Viggo Johannsen, Anne Kathrine Sorensen, Asbjorn Hrobjartsson
Trials 2009, 10:51 (8July2009)
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Intravenous fluid restriction after major abdominal surgery: a randomized blinded clinical trial.
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The feasibility of a single-blinded fast-track pragmatic randomised controlled trial of a complex intervention for breathlessness in advanced disease.
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BMC Palliative Care 2009, 8:9 (7July2009)
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Pesticide-related illness reported to and diagnosed in Primary Care: implications for surveillance of environmental causes of ill-health
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BMC Public Health 2009, 9:219 (6July2009)
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Against pragmatism: on efficacy, effectiveness and the real world
David M Kent, Georgios Kitsios
Trials 2009, 10:48 (6July2009)
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