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Commentary A tutorial on pilot studies: the what, why and how Lehana Thabane, Jinhui Ma, Rong Chu, Ji Cheng, Afisi Ismaila, Lorena P Rios, Reid Robson, Marroon Thabane, Lora Giangregorio, and Charles H Goldsmith PMCID: PMC2824145 Correspondence Primary Prevention from the Epidemiology Perspective: Three Examples from the Practice Iris Pigeot, Stefaan De Henauw, Ronja Foraita, Ingeborg Jahn, and Wolfgang Ahrens PMCID: PMC2829018 The COSMIN checklist for evaluating the methodological quality of studies on measurement properties: A clarification of its content Lidwine B Mokkink, Caroline B Terwee, Dirk L Knol, Paul W Stratford, Jordi Alonso, Donald L Patrick, Lex M Bouter, and Henrica CW de Vet PMCID: PMC2848183 Missing the forest (plot) for the trees? A critique of the systematic review in tobacco control Laura J Rosen, Michal Ben Noach, and Elliot Rosenberg PMCID: PMC2873512 Systematic reviews, systematic error and the acquisition of clinical knowledge Steffen Mickenautsch PMCID: PMC2897793 A Spoonful of Math Helps the Medicine Go Down: An Illustration of How Healthcare can Benefit from Mathematical Modeling and Analysis E Michael Foster, Michael R Hosking, and Serhan Ziya PMCID: PMC2914732 Building capacity for evidence generation, synthesis and implementation to improve the care of mothers and babies in South East Asia: methods and design of the SEA-ORCHID Project using a logical framework approach Steve McDonald, Tari Turner, Catherine Chamberlain, Pisake Lumbiganon, Jadsada Thinkhamrop, Mario R Festin, Jacqueline J Ho, Hakimi Mohammad, David J Henderson-Smart, Jacki Short, Caroline A Crowther, Ruth Martis, and Sally Green PMCID: PMC2912918 What is a pilot or feasibility study? A review of current practice and editorial policy Mubashir Arain, Michael J Campbell, Cindy L Cooper, and Gillian A Lancaster PMCID: PMC2912920 Review Automatic de-identification of textual documents in the electronic health record: a review of recent research Stephane M Meystre, F Jeffrey Friedlin, Brett R South, Shuying Shen, and Matthew H Samore PMCID: PMC2923159 Technical Advance Practical application of cure mixture model for long-term censored survivor data from a withdrawal clinical trial of patients with major depressive disorder Ichiro Arano, Tomoyuki Sugimoto, Toshimitsu Hamasaki, and Yuko Ohno PMCID: PMC2880122 Research Articles Evaluating clinical periodontal measures as surrogates for bacterial exposure: The Oral Infections and Vascular Disease Epidemiology Study (INVEST) Ryan T Demmer, Panos N Papapanou, David R Jacobs, Jr, and Moïse Desvarieux PMCID: PMC2820485 Estimates of sensitivity and specificity can be biased when reporting the results of the second test in a screening trial conducted in series Brandy M Ringham, Todd A Alonzo, Gary K Grunwald, and Deborah H Glueck PMCID: PMC2819240 A qualitative assessment of implementing a cross-cultural survey on cancer wards in Denmark - a description of barriers Maria Kristiansen, Amani Hassani, and Allan Krasnik PMCID: PMC2820029 Design, recruitment, and retention of African-American smokers in a pharmacokinetic study Babalola Faseru, Lisa S Cox, Carrie A Bronars, Isaac Opole, Gregory A Reed, Matthew S Mayo, Jasjit S Ahluwalia, and Kolawole S Okuyemi PMCID: PMC2850393 Comparison of techniques for handling missing covariate data within prognostic modelling studies: a simulation study Andrea Marshall, Douglas G Altman, Patrick Royston, and Roger L Holder PMCID: PMC2824146 Harnessing Social Networks along with Consumer-Driven Electronic Communication Technologies to Identify and Engage Members of 'Hard-to-Reach' Populations: A Methodological Case Report Melanie J Rock PMCID: PMC2824147 Retaining young people in a longitudinal sexual health survey: a trial of strategies to maintain participation Marion Henderson, Daniel Wight, Catherine Nixon, and Graham Hart PMCID: PMC2837673 Association between framing of the research question using the PICOT format and reporting quality of randomized controlled trials Lorena P Rios, Chenglin Ye, and Lehana Thabane PMCID: PMC2834676 The Manchester Color Wheel: development of a novel way of identifying color choice and its validation in healthy, anxious and depressed individuals Helen R Carruthers, Julie Morris, Nicholas Tarrier, and Peter J Whorwell PMCID: PMC2829580 Cross-cultural adaptation of research instruments: language, setting, time and statistical considerations Linn Gjersing, John RM Caplehorn, and Thomas Clausen PMCID: PMC2831007 Understanding human functioning using graphical models Markus Kalisch, Bernd AG Fellinghauer, Eva Grill, Marloes H Maathuis, Ulrich Mansmann, Peter Bühlmann, and Gerold Stucki PMCID: PMC2831907 Electronic search strategies to identify reports of cluster randomized trials in MEDLINE: low precision will improve with adherence to reporting standards Monica Taljaard, Jessie McGowan, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Jamie C Brehaut, Andrew McRae, Martin P Eccles, and Allan Donner PMCID: PMC2833170 Performance of mixed effects models in the analysis of mediated longitudinal data Emily A Blood, Howard Cabral, Timothy Heeren, and Debbie M Cheng PMCID: PMC2842282 Recruiting older people to a randomised controlled dietary intervention trial - how hard can it be? Sarah E Forster, Laura Jones, John M Saxton, Daniel J Flower, Gemma Foulds, Hilary J Powers, Stuart G Parker, A Graham Pockley, and Elizabeth A Williams PMCID: PMC2843618 Relationship between haemagglutination-inhibiting antibody titres and clinical protection against influenza: development and application of a bayesian random-effects model Laurent Coudeville, Fabrice Bailleux, Benjamin Riche, Françoise Megas, Philippe Andre, and René Ecochard PMCID: PMC2851702 Adaptive regression modeling of biomarkers of potential harm in a population of U.S. adult cigarette smokers and nonsmokers John H Warner, Qiwei Liang, Mohamadi Sarkar, Paul E Mendes, and Hans J Roethig PMCID: PMC2846953 Variables with time-varying effects and the Cox model: Some statistical concepts illustrated with a prognostic factor study in breast cancer Carine A Bellera, Gaëtan MacGrogan, Marc Debled, Christine Tunon de Lara, Véronique Brouste, and Simone Mathoulin-Pélissier PMCID: PMC2846954 A nomogram for P values Leonhard Held PMCID: PMC2851703 Can we rely on the best trial? A comparison of individual trials and systematic reviews Paul P Glasziou, Sasha Shepperd, and Jon Brassey PMCID: PMC2851704 Methodological issues regarding power of classical test theory (CTT) and item response theory (IRT)-based approaches for the comparison of patient-reported outcomes in two groups of patients - a simulation study Véronique Sébille, Jean-Benoit Hardouin, Tanguy Le Néel, Gildas Kubis, François Boyer, Francis Guillemin, and Bruno Falissard PMCID: PMC2858729 Investigation of relative risk estimates from studies of the same population with contrasting response rates and designs Nicole M Mealing, Emily Banks, Louisa R Jorm, David G Steel, Mark S Clements, and Kris D Rogers PMCID: PMC2868856 Semi-parametric risk prediction models for recurrent cardiovascular events in the LIPID study Jisheng Cui, Andrew Forbes, Adrienne Kirby, Ian Marschner, John Simes, David Hunt, Malcolm West, and Andrew Tonkin PMCID: PMC2856584 A graphical vector autoregressive modelling approach to the analysis of electronic diary data Beate Wild, Michael Eichler, Hans-Christoph Friederich, Mechthild Hartmann, Stephan Zipfel, and Wolfgang Herzog PMCID: PMC2869334 Quality of cause-of-death reporting using ICD-10 drowning codes: a descriptive study of 69 countries Tsung-Hsueh Lu, Philippe Lunetta, and Sue Walker PMCID: PMC2858216 The Total Deviation Index estimated by Tolerance Intervals to evaluate the concordance of measurement devices Geòrgia Escaramís, Carlos Ascaso, and Josep L Carrasco PMCID: PMC2859350 Global quantitative indices reflecting provider process-of-care: data-base derivation John L Moran, Patricia J Solomon, and the Adult Database Management Committee (ADMC) of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) PMCID: PMC2873511 Recruitment methods in Alzheimer's disease research: general practice versus population based screening by mail Fred Andersen, Torgeir A Engstad, Bjørn Straume, Matti Viitanen, Dag S Halvorsen, Samuel Hykkerud, and Kjell Sjøbrend PMCID: PMC2880123 Latent variables and structural equation models for longitudinal relationships: an illustration in nutritional epidemiology Michel Chavance, Sylvie Escolano, Monique Romon, Arnaud Basdevant, Blandine de Lauzon-Guillain, and Marie Aline Charles PMCID: PMC2873513 Trials within trials? Researcher, funder and ethical perspectives on the practicality and acceptability of nesting trials of recruitment methods in existing primary care trials Jonathan Graffy, Peter Bower, Elaine Ward, Paul Wallace, Brendan Delaney, Ann-Louise Kinmonth, David Collier, and Julia Miller PMCID: PMC2873514 Parametric frailty models for clustered data with arbitrary censoring: application to effect of male circumcision on HPV clearance Xiangrong Kong, Kellie J Archer, Lawrence H Moulton, Ronald H Gray, and Mei-Cheng Wang PMCID: PMC2881064 Surname lists to identify South Asian and Chinese ethnicity from secondary data in Ontario, Canada: a validation study Baiju R Shah, Maria Chiu, Shubarna Amin, Meera Ramani, Sharon Sadry, and Jack V Tu PMCID: PMC2877682 Subgroup effects despite homogeneous heterogeneity test results Rolf HH Groenwold, Maroeska M Rovers, Jacobus Lubsen, and Geert JMG van der Heijden PMCID: PMC2900281 The null hypothesis significance test in health sciences research (1995-2006): statistical analysis and interpretation Luis Carlos Silva-Ayçaguer, Patricio Suárez-Gil, and Ana Fernández-Somoano PMCID: PMC2886084 The 12-item World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule II (WHO-DAS II): a nonparametric item response analysis Juan V Luciano, José L Ayuso-Mateos, Jaume Aguado, Ana Fernandez, Antoni Serrano-Blanco, Miquel Roca, and Josep M Haro PMCID: PMC2881065 Measurement of nicotine withdrawal symptoms: linguistic validation of the Wisconsin Smoking Withdrawal Scale (WSWS) in Malay Ahmed Awaisu, Sulastri Samsudin, Nur A Amir, Che G Omar, Mohd I Hashim, Mohamed H Nik Mohamad, Asrul A Shafie, and Mohamed A Hassali PMCID: PMC2882374 Effectiveness of strategies to increase the validity of findings from association studies: size vs. replication Rolf Weitkunat, Etienne Kaelin, Grégory Vuillaume, and Gerd Kallischnigg PMCID: PMC2896945 A simulation study for comparing testing statistics in response-adaptive randomization Xuemin Gu and J Jack Lee PMCID: PMC2911470 Testing for heterogeneity among the components of a binary composite outcome in a clinical trial Janice Pogue, Lehana Thabane, PJ Devereaux, and Salim Yusuf PMCID: PMC2909251 Shortening a survey and using alternative forms of prenotification: Impact on response rate and quality Timothy J Beebe, Enrique Rey, Jeanette Y Ziegenfuss, Sarah Jenkins, Kandace Lackore, Nicholas J Talley, and Richard G Locke, III PMCID: PMC2891795 Testing survey methodology to measure patients' experiences and views of the emergency and urgent care system: telephone versus postal survey Alicia O'Cathain, Emma Knowles, and Jon Nicholl PMCID: PMC2905427 Network meta-analysis on the log-hazard scale, combining count and hazard ratio statistics accounting for multi-arm trials: A tutorial Beth S Woods, Neil Hawkins, and David A Scott PMCID: PMC2906500 A probit- log- skew-normal mixture model for repeated measures data with excess zeros, with application to a cohort study of paediatric respiratory symptoms Sadia Mahmud, WY Wendy Lou, and Neil W Johnston PMCID: PMC2902491 Successful Reach and Adoption of a workplace health promotion RCT targeting a group of high-risk workers Marie B Jørgensen, Charlotte DN Rasmussen, Dorte Ekner, and Karen Søgaard PMCID: PMC2895606 Development and validation of self-reported line drawings for assessment of knee malalignment and foot rotation: a cross-sectional comparative study Sarah L Ingham, Amanda Moody, Abhishek Abhishek, Sally A Doherty, Weiya Zhang, and Michael Doherty PMCID: PMC2896354 Analysis of an ordinal outcome in a multicentric randomized controlled trial: application to a 3- arm anti- malarial drug trial in Cameroon Solange Youdom Whegang, Leonardo K Basco, Henri Gwét, and Jean-Christophe Thalabard PMCID: PMC2908105 Dichotomization: 2 × 2 (×2 × 2 × 2...) categories: infinite possibilities Karyn K Heavner, Carl V Phillips, Igor Burstyn, and Warren Hare PMCID: PMC2902492 A systematic review of models to predict recruitment to multicentre clinical trials Katharine D Barnard, Louise Dent, and Andrew Cook PMCID: PMC2908107 The importance of adjusting for potential confounders in Bayesian hierarchical models synthesising evidence from randomised and non-randomised studies: an application comparing treatments for abdominal aortic aneurysms C Elizabeth McCarron, Eleanor M Pullenayegum, Lehana Thabane, Ron Goeree, and Jean-Eric Tarride PMCID: PMC2916004 Response rates to a mailed survey of a representative sample of cancer patients randomly drawn from the Pennsylvania Cancer Registry: a randomized trial of incentive and length effects Bridget J Kelly, Taressa K Fraze, and Robert C Hornik PMCID: PMC2912919 A life-course and time perspective on the construct validity of psychological distress in women and men. Measurement invariance of the K6 across gender Aline Drapeau, Dominic Beaulieu-Prévost, Alain Marchand, Richard Boyer, Michel Préville, and Sylvia Kairouz PMCID: PMC2916897 Joint modeling of multivariate longitudinal data and the dropout process in a competing risk setting: application to ICU data Emmanuelle Deslandes and Sylvie Chevret PMCID: PMC2923158 The impact of attrition on the representativeness of cohort studies of older people Samuel L Brilleman, Nancy A Pachana, and Annette J Dobson PMCID: PMC2927605 Using Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) codes to classify Computed Tomography (CT) features in the Marshall System Mehdi M Lesko, Maralyn Woodford, Laura White, Sarah J O'Brien, Charmaine Childs, and Fiona E Lecky PMCID: PMC2927606 Test-retest reliability of selected items of Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey questionnaire in Beijing, China Yang Liu, Mei Wang, Jorma Tynjälä, Yan Lv, Jari Villberg, Zhouyang Zhang, and Lasse Kannas PMCID: PMC2927607 Study Protocol Design of a randomized trial to evaluate the influence of mobile phone reminders on adherence to first line antiretroviral treatment in South India - the HIVIND study protocol Ayesha De Costa, Anita Shet, Nagalingeswaran Kumarasamy, Per Ashorn, Bo Eriksson, Lennart Bogg, Vinod K Diwan, and the HIVIND study team PMCID: PMC2858730 The Jamaica asthma and allergies national prevalence survey: rationale and methods Eulalia K Kahwa, Novie O Younger, Yvonne B Wint, Norman K Waldron, Hermi H Hewitt, Jennifer M Knight-Madden, Kay A Bailey, Nancy C Edwards, Laurel R Talabere, and Karen N Lewis-Bell PMCID: PMC2861068 Mental health in the aged: prevalence, covariates and related neuroendocrine, cardiovascular and inflammatory factors of successful aging Maria E Lacruz, Rebecca T Emeny, Horst Bickel, Barbara Cramer, Alexander Kurz, Martin Bidlingmaier, Dorothea Huber, Günther Klug, Annette Peters, and Karl H Ladwig PMCID: PMC2876177 Methods for determining disease burden and calibrating national surveillance data in the United Kingdom: the second study of infectious intestinal disease in the community (IID2 study) Sarah J O'Brien, Greta Rait, Paul R Hunter, James J Gray, Frederick J Bolton, David S Tompkins, Jim McLauchlin, Louise H Letley, Goutam K Adak, John M Cowden, Meirion R Evans, Keith R Neal, Gillian E Smith, Brian Smyth, Clarence C Tam, and Laura C Rodrigues PMCID: PMC2886083 Protocol for a mixed methods study investigating the impact of investment in housing, regeneration and neighbourhood renewal on the health and wellbeing of residents: the GoWell programme Matt Egan, Ade Kearns, Phil Mason, Carol Tannahill, Lyndal Bond, Jennie Coyle, Sheila Beck, Fiona Crawford, Phil Hanlon, Louise Lawson, Jennifer McLean, Mark Petticrew, Elena Sautkina, Hilary Thomson, and David Walsh PMCID: PMC2876178 Pan-Canadian assessment of pandemic immunization data collection: study methodology Jennifer A Pereira, Susan Quach, Christine Heidebrecht, Julie Foisy, Sherman Quan, Michael Finkelstein, Christopher A Sikora, Julie A Bettinger, David L Buckeridge, Anne McCarthy, Shelley Deeks, and Jeffrey C Kwong PMCID: PMC2896946 Debates Water displacement leg volumetry in clinical studies - A discussion of error sources Eberhard Rabe, Markus Stücker, and Bertram Ottillinger PMCID: PMC2820486 Research methods for subgrouping low back pain Peter Kent, Jennifer L Keating, and Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde PMCID: PMC2908106 Measures and models for causal inference in cross-sectional studies: arguments for the appropriateness of the prevalence odds ratio and related logistic regression Michael E Reichenheim and Evandro SF Coutinho PMCID: PMC2919549 Other Issues: Journal List
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