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Melissa Norton, MD

Medical Editor
Jigisha Patel, MRCP PhD

In-house Editor
Iratxe Puebla


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, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.



BMC Featured articles

BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8:32
The ratio of mean values method, a novel approach for pooling continous outcomes in meta-analyses, compares favorably with the weighted mean difference and the standardized mean difference and may have the advantage of easier clinical interpretation.
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8:21
Although meta-ethnography offers a useful methodology for the synthesis of qualitative research, its application to the study of adherence to tuberculosis treatment highlights a number of methodological and epistemological challenges which must still be addressed.
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8:8
The harvest plot is a novel method to graphically synthesize data for systematic reviews that include diverse groups of studies and allows the synthesis of evidence about the differential effects of population-level interventions.


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Research article
Advantages of the nested case-control design in diagnostic research
Cornelis J Biesheuvel, Yvonne Vergouwe, Ruud Oudega, Arno W Hoes, Diederick E Grobbee, Karel GM Moons
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8:48 (21July2008)
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Reliability and validity of two frequently used self-administered physical activity questionnaires in adolescents
Vegar Rangul, Turid Lingaas Holmen, Nanna Kurtze, Koenraad Cuypers, Kristian Midthjell
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8:47 (15July2008)
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A coarsened multinomial regression model for perinatal mother to child transmission of HIV
Charlotte C Gard, Elizabeth R Brown
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8:46 (15July2008)
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Methods for the thematic synthesis of qualitative research in systematic reviews
James Thomas, Angela Harden
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8:45 (10July2008)
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Correspondence
Language and rigour in qualitative research: Problems and principles in analyzing data collected in Mandarin
Helen J Smith, Jing Chen, Xiaoyun Liu
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8:44 (10July2008)
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Relative performance of different exposure modeling approaches for sulfur dioxide concentrations in the air in rural western Canada
Igor Burstyn, Nicola M Cherry, Yutaka Yasui, Hyang-Mi Kim
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8:43 (4July2008)
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Does it matter whether the recipient of patient questionnaires in general practice is the general practitioner or an independent researcher? The REPLY randomised trial
James A Desborough, Peter Butters, Debi Bhattacharya, Richard C Holland, David J Wright
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8:42 (27June2008)
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Disagreement in primary study selection between systematic reviews on negative pressure wound therapy
Frank Peinemann, Natalie McGauran, Stefan Sauerland, Stefan Lange
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8:41 (26June2008)
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Integrated analysis of incidence, progression, regression and disappearance probabilities
Guan-Hua Huang
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8:40 (25June2008)
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Workplace restructurings in intervention studies a challenge for design, analysis and interpretation
Ole Olsen, Karen Albertsen, Martin Lindhardt Nielsen, Kjeld Brge Poulsen, Sisse Malene Frydendal Gron, Hans Lennart Brunnberg
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8:39 (13June2008)
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Cases Journal 2008, 1:58 (24July2008)
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Research
Establishment of the 1st World Health Organization International Standard for Plasmodium falciparum DNA for nucleic acid amplification technique (NAT)-based assays
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Editorial
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Research article
A predictive score to identify hospitalized patients' risk of discharge to a post-acute care facility
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BMC Health Services Research 2008, 8:154 (22July2008)
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Research
Does erotic stimulus presentation design affect brain activation patterns? Event-related vs. blocked fMRI designs.
Mira Buehler, Sabine Vollstaedt-Klein, Jane Klemen, Michael N Smolka
Behavioral and Brain Functions 2008, 4:30 (22July2008)
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Study protocol
Needs-oriented discharge planning and monitoring for high utilisers of psychiatric services (NODPAM): Design and methods
Bernd Puschner, Sabine Steffen, Wolfgang Gaebel, Harald Freyberger, Helmfried E Klein, Tilman Steinert, Rainer Muche, Thomas Becker
BMC Health Services Research 2008, 8:152 (21July2008)
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Clinical case review: A method to improve identification of true clinical and radiographic pneumonia in children meeting the World Health Organization definition for pneumonia.
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BMC Infectious Diseases 2008, 8:95 (21July2008)
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BMC Geriatrics 2008, 8:16 (18July2008)
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Thai SF-36 health survey: tests of data quality, scaling assumptions, reliability and validity in healthy men and women
Lynette L Lim, Sam-ang Seubsman, Adrian Sleigh
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Commentary
Fractal parameters and vascular networks: facts & artifacts
Daniele Mancardi, Gianfranco Varetto, Enrico Bucci, Fabrizio Maniero, Caterina Guiot
Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2008, 5:12 (17July2008)
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