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LOST to follow-up Information in Trials (LOST-IT): a protocol on the potential impact.

Akl EA, Briel M, You JJ, Lamontagne F, Gangji A, Cukierman-Yaffe T, Alshurafa M, Sun X, Nerenberg KA, Johnston BC, Vera C, Mills EJ, Bassler D, Salazar A, Bhatnagar N, Busse JW, Khalid Z, Walter S, Cook DJ, Schünemann HJ, Altman DG, Guyatt GH.

Trials. 2009 Jun 11;10:40.PMID: 19519891 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of bariatric (weight loss) surgery for obesity: a systematic review and economic evaluation.

Picot J, Jones J, Colquitt JL, Gospodarevskaya E, Loveman E, Baxter L, Clegg AJ.

Health Technol Assess. 2009 Sep;13(41):1-190, 215-357, iii-iv. Review.PMID: 19726018 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

A review of reporting of participant recruitment and retention in RCTs in six major journals.

Toerien M, Brookes ST, Metcalfe C, de Salis I, Tomlin Z, Peters TJ, Sterne J, Donovan JL.

Trials. 2009 Jul 10;10:52.PMID: 19591685 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Threats to applicability of randomised trials: exclusions and selective participation.

Britton A, McKee M, Black N, McPherson K, Sanderson C, Bain C.

J Health Serv Res Policy. 1999 Apr;4(2):112-21. Review.PMID: 10387403 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Randomized trials stopped early for benefit: a systematic review.

Montori VM, Devereaux PJ, Adhikari NK, Burns KE, Eggert CH, Briel M, Lacchetti C, Leung TW, Darling E, Bryant DM, Bucher HC, Schünemann HJ, Meade MO, Cook DJ, Erwin PJ, Sood A, Sood R, Lo B, Thompson CA, Zhou Q, Mills E, Guyatt GH.

JAMA. 2005 Nov 2;294(17):2203-9. Review.PMID: 16264162 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Subgroup Analysis of Trials Is Rarely Easy (SATIRE): a study protocol for a systematic review to characterize the analysis, reporting, and claim of subgroup effects in randomized trials.

Sun X, Briel M, Busse JW, Akl EA, You JJ, Mejza F, Bala M, Diaz-Granados N, Bassler D, Mertz D, Srinathan SK, Vandvik PO, Malaga G, Alshurafa M, Dahm P, Alonso-Coello P, Heels-Ansdell DM, Bhatnagar N, Johnston BC, Wang L, Walter SD, Altman DG, Guyatt GH.

Trials. 2009 Nov 9;10:101. Review.PMID: 19900273 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Calculation of NNTs in RCTs with time-to-event outcomes: a literature review.

Hildebrandt M, Vervölgyi E, Bender R.

BMC Med Res Methodol. 2009 Mar 20;9:21. Review.PMID: 19302699 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Reporting the recruitment process in clinical trials: who are these patients and how did they get there?

Gross CP, Mallory R, Heiat A, Krumholz HM.

Ann Intern Med. 2002 Jul 2;137(1):10-6.PMID: 12093240 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

The external validity of published randomized controlled trials in primary care.

Jones R, Jones RO, McCowan C, Montgomery AA, Fahey T.

BMC Fam Pract. 2009 Jan 19;10:5.PMID: 19152681 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions.

O'Connor AM, Bennett CL, Stacey D, Barry M, Col NF, Eden KB, Entwistle VA, Fiset V, Holmes-Rovner M, Khangura S, Llewellyn-Thomas H, Rovner D.

Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2009 Jul 8;(3):CD001431. Review.PMID: 19588325 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Sources and handling of losses to follow-up in parallel-group randomized clinical trials in dogs and cats: 63 trials (2000-2005).

Brown DC.

Am J Vet Res. 2007 Jul;68(7):694-8.PMID: 17605602 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Randomized trials published in some Chinese journals: how many are randomized?

Wu T, Li Y, Bian Z, Liu G, Moher D.

Trials. 2009 Jul 2;10:46.PMID: 19573242 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Systematic review to determine whether participation in a trial influences outcome.

Vist GE, Hagen KB, Devereaux PJ, Bryant D, Kristoffersen DT, Oxman AD.

BMJ. 2005 May 21;330(7501):1175. Review.PMID: 15905256 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Stopping randomized trials early for benefit: a protocol of the Study Of Trial Policy Of Interim Truncation-2 (STOPIT-2).

Briel M, Lane M, Montori VM, Bassler D, Glasziou P, Malaga G, Akl EA, Ferreira-Gonzalez I, Alonso-Coello P, Urrutia G, Kunz R, Culebro CR, da Silva SA, Flynn DN, Elamin MB, Strahm B, Murad MH, Djulbegovic B, Adhikari NK, Mills EJ, Gwadry-Sridhar F, Kirpalani H, Soares HP, Abu Elnour NO, You JJ, Karanicolas PJ, Bucher HC, Lampropulos JF, Nordmann AJ, Burns KE, Mulla SM, Raatz H, Sood A, Kaur J, Bankhead CR, Mullan RJ, Nerenberg KA, Vandvik PO, Coto-Yglesias F, Schünemann H, Tuche F, Chrispim PP, Cook DJ, Lutz K, Ribic CM, Vale N, Erwin PJ, Perera R, Zhou Q, Heels-Ansdell D, Ramsay T, Walter SD, Guyatt GH.

Trials. 2009 Jul 6;10:49.PMID: 19580665 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Improving the quality of reporting of randomized controlled trials evaluating herbal interventions: implementing the CONSORT statement [corrected]

Gagnier J, Boon H, Rochon P, Barnes J, Moher D, Bombardier C; CONSORT Group.

Explore (NY). 2006 Mar;2(2):143-9. Erratum in: Explore (NY). 2006 Jul-Aug;2(4):293. PMID: 16781628 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Improvement in the quality of randomized controlled trials among general anesthesiology journals 2000 to 2006: a 6-year follow-up.

Greenfield ML, Mhyre JM, Mashour GA, Blum JM, Yen EC, Rosenberg AL.

Anesth Analg. 2009 Jun;108(6):1916-21.PMID: 19448222 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Randomized consent designs in randomized controlled trials: systematic literature search.

Schellings R, Kessels AG, ter Riet G, Knottnerus JA, Sturmans F.

Contemp Clin Trials. 2006 Aug;27(4):320-32. Epub 2006 Jan 4. Review.PMID: 16388991 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Sample size calculations in acute stroke trials: a systematic review of their reporting, characteristics, and relationship with outcome.

Weaver CS, Leonardi-Bee J, Bath-Hextall FJ, Bath PM.

Stroke. 2004 May;35(5):1216-24. Epub 2004 Mar 18. Review.PMID: 15031455 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

What is the quality of reporting in weight loss intervention studies? A systematic review of randomized controlled trials.

Thabane L, Chu R, Cuddy K, Douketis J.

Int J Obes (Lond). 2007 Oct;31(10):1554-9. Epub 2007 Apr 24. Review.PMID: 17452988 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Quality of reporting in randomized trials published in high-quality surgical journals.

Sinha S, Sinha S, Ashby E, Jayaram R, Grocott MP.

J Am Coll Surg. 2009 Nov;209(5):565-571.e1. Epub 2009 Sep 11.PMID: 19854395 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles