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BMC Medical Research Methodology, Volume 3

 

 

 

Debate
Pragmatic controlled clinical trials in primary care: the struggle between external and internal validity
Marshall Godwin, Lucia Ruhland, Ian Casson, Susan MacDonald, Dianne Delva, Richard Birtwhistle, Miu Lam, Rachelle Seguin
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:28 (22December2003)
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Research article
A framework for power analysis using a structural equation modelling procedure
Jeremy Miles
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:27 (11December2003)
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Debate
Design, analysis and presentation of factorial randomised controlled trials
Alan A Montgomery, Tim J Peters, Paul Little
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:26 (24November2003)
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Research article
The development of QUADAS: a tool for the quality assessment of studies of diagnostic accuracy included in systematic reviews
Penny Whiting, Anne WS Rutjes, Johannes B Reitsma, Patrick MM Bossuyt, Jos Kleijnen
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:25 (10November2003)
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Study protocol
Recruitment of heterosexual couples in public health research: a study protocol
James M McMahon, Stephanie Tortu, Leilani Torres, Enrique R Pouget, Rahul Hamid
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:24 (31October2003)
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Correction
Correction: The transitive fallacy for randomized trials: If A bests B and B bests C in separate trials, is A better than C?
Stuart G Baker, Barnett S Kramer
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:23 (29October2003)
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Research article
How many repeated measures in repeated measures designs? Statistical issues for comparative trials
Andrew J Vickers
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:22 (27October2003)
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Research article
Alternatives for logistic regression in cross-sectional studies: an empirical comparison of models that directly estimate the prevalence ratio
Alusio JD Barros, Vnia N Hirakata
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:21 (20October2003)
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Debate
Interdisciplinary research: putting the methods under the microscope
David W Robertson, Douglas K Martin, Peter A Singer
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:20 (19October2003)
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Research article
The reporting of methods for reducing and detecting bias: an example from the WHO Misoprostol Third Stage of Labour equivalence randomised controlled trial
Gilda Piaggio, Diana Elbourne, Kenneth F Schulz, Jos Villar, Alain PY Pinol, A Metin Glmezoglu, the WHO Research Group to evaluate Misoprostol in the Management of the Third Stage of Labour
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:19 (3October2003)
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Research article
How does correlation structure differ between real and fabricated data-sets?
Noori Akhtar-Danesh, Mahshid Dehghan-Kooshkghazi
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:18 (29September2003)
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Research article
Imputation of a true endpoint from a surrogate: application to a cluster randomized controlled trial with partial information on the true endpoint
Richard M Nixon, Stephen W Duffy, Guy RK Fender
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:17 (24September2003)
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Research article
A perfect correlate does not a surrogate make
Stuart G Baker, Barnett S Kramer
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:16 (9September2003)
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Debate
Interim analyses of data as they accumulate in laboratory experimentation
John Ludbrook
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:15 (21August2003)
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Debate
Does anybody read "evidence-based" articles?
Yoon K Loke, Sheena Derry
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:14 (31July2003)
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Research article
Identifying null meta-analyses that are ripe for updating
Nicholas J Barrowman, Manchun Fang, Margaret Sampson, David Moher
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:13 (23July2003)
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Research article
More insight into the fate of biomedical meeting abstracts: a systematic review
Erik von Elm, Michael C Costanza, Bernhard Walder, Martin R Tramr
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:12 (10July2003)
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Research article
Estimating the cumulative risk of false positive cancer screenings
Stuart G Baker, Diane Erwin, Barnett S Kramer
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:11 (3July2003)
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Research article
Randomized trials, generalizability, and meta-analysis: Graphical insights for binary outcomes
Stuart G Baker, Barnett S Kramer
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:10 (16June2003)
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Debate
Quantifying errors without random sampling
Carl V Phillips, Luwanna M LaPole
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:9 (12June2003)
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Research article
A simple method for analyzing data from a randomized trial with a missing binary outcome
Stuart G Baker, Laurence S Freedman
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:8 (6May2003)
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Debate
Choosing a control intervention for a randomised clinical trial
Howard Mann, Benjamin Djulbegovic
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:7 (22April2003)
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Research article
Design of Phase II cancer trials evaluating survival probabilities
L Douglas Case, Timothy M Morgan
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:6 (3April2003)
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Research article
Estimation of the correlation coefficient using the Bayesian Approach and its applications for epidemiologic research
Enrique F Schisterman, Kirsten B Moysich, Lucinda J England, Malla Rao
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:5 (25March2003)
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Research article
Using observational data to estimate an upper bound on the reduction in cancer mortality due to periodic screening
Stuart G Baker, Diane Erwin, Barnett S Kramer, Philip C Prorok
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:4 (6March2003)
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Research article
Performance of health-status scales when used selectively or within multi-scale questionnaire
Christina Gummesson, Isam Atroshi, Charlotte Ekdahl
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:3 (13February2003)
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Research article
Development and evaluation of a quality score for abstracts
Antje Timmer, Lloyd R Sutherland, Robert J Hilsden
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:2 (11February2003)
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Debate
A proposed architecture and method of operation for improving the protection of privacy and confidentiality in disease registers
Tim Churches
BMC Medical Research Methodology 2003, 3:1 (6January2003)
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