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Jigisha Patel, MRCP PhD

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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 Scientific (ISI) and Google Scholar.



BMC  Featured articles   

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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Comparison of data obtained from telephone interviews and self-administered questionnaires revealed that the data obtained are mostly equivalent, although there were differences in reported mental status scores depending on which survey mode was administered first.



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Research article
Bayes rules for optimally using Bayesian hierarchical regression models in provider profiling to identify high-mortality hospitals
Peter C Austin
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8:30 (12May2008)
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Research article
Examining intra-rater and inter-rater response agreement: A medical chart abstraction study of a community-based asthma care program
Teresa To, Eileen Estrabillo, Chengning Wang, Lisa Cicutto
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8:29 (9May2008)
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Comparison of Generalized Estimating Equations and Quadratic Inference Functions Using Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) Database
Adefowope Odueyungbo, Dillon Browne, Noori Akhtar-Danesh, Lehana Thabane
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8:28 (9May2008)
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Determinants of participation in a longitudinal two-stage study of the health consequences of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant accident
Lin T Guey, Evelyn J Bromet, Semyon F Gluzman, Victoria Zakhozha, Vlodomyr Paniotto
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8:27 (8May2008)
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Research article
Responsiveness of five condition-specific and generic outcome assessment instruments for chronic pain
Felix Angst, Martin L Verra, Susanne Lehmann, Andre Aeschlimann
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8:26 (25April2008)
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Retrievability in The Danish National Hospital Registry of HIV and hepatitis B and C coinfection diagnoses of patients managed in HIV centers 1995-2004.
Niels Obel, Hanne Reinholdt, Lars H. Omland, Frederik Engsig, Henrik T Sorensen, Ann-Brit E. Hansen
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8:25 (25April2008)
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Comparison of two dependent within subject coefficients of variation to evaluate the reproducibility of measurement devices
Mohamed M Shoukri, Dilek Colak, Namik Kaya, Allan Donner
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8:24 (22April2008)
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Research article
A markov model to evaluate hospital readmission
Nicola Bartolomeo, Paolo Trerotoli, Annamaria Moretti, Gabriella Serio
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8:23 (22April2008)
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Research article
Recommendations by Cochrane Review Groups for assessment of the risk of bias in studies
Andreas Lundh, Peter C Gtzsche
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8:22 (21April2008)
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Debate
Conducting a meta-ethnography of qualitative literature: Lessons learnt
Salla Atkins, Simon Lewin, Helen Smith, Mark Engel, Atle Fretheim, Jimmy Volmink
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008, 8:21 (16April2008)
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BMC Health Services Research 2008, 8:100 (8May2008)
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Estrogen and progesterone receptor levels in nonneoplastic breast epithelium of breast cancer cases versus benign breast biopsy controls
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The pregnancy-associated glycoprotein-hormones activin A and inhibin A interfere with dendritic cell maturation
Sabine E Segerer, Nora Mueller, Jens van den Brandt, Michaela Kapp, Johannes Dietl, Holger M Reichardt, Lorenz Rieger, Ulrike Kammerer
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A systematic review of tests for lymph node status in primary endometrial cancer
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Research
Pearls and perils of an implantable defibrillator trial using a common control: implications for the design of future studies
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Whole tumor antigen vaccination using dendritic cells: Comparison of RNA electroporation and pulsing with UV-irradiated tumor cells
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Journal of Translational Medicine 2008, 6:21 (29April2008)
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A high sensitivity assay for the inflammatory marker C-reactive protein employing acoustic biosensing
Jeffrey D McBride, Matthew A Cooper
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Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008, 2:129 (29April2008)
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Methodology
Determination of nitric oxide metabolites, nitrate and nitrite, in Anopheles culicifacies mosquito midgut and haemolymph by anion exchange high-performance liquid chromatography: plausible mechanism of refractoriness
Arun Sharma, Kamaraju Raghavendra, Tridibesh Adak, Aditya P Dash
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