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• A Comparison of Several Point Estimators of the Odds Ratio in a Single 2 X 2 Contingency Table  Academic Article
• A Comparison of Two Bias-Corrected Covariance Estimators for Generalized Estimating Equations  Academic Article
• A Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials Comparing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With Medical Therapy in Stable Angina Pectoris  Academic Article
• A Systematic Review of Surgical Randomized Controlled Trials  Academic Article
• A guide for assessing pharmacoepidemiologic studies.  Academic Article
• A guide to interpreting discordant systematic reviews.  Academic Article
• A practical approach to evidence-based dentistry: III  Academic Article
• A practical approach to evidence-based dentistry: V  Academic Article
• A protocol for a systematic review on the impact of unpublished studies and studies published in the gray literature in meta-analyses  Academic Article
• A stochastic model for survival of early prostate cancer with adjustments for leadtime, length bias, and over-detection  Academic Article
• A systematic review and meta-analysis of nut consumption and incident risk of CVD and all-cause mortality  Academic Article
• A systematic review of psychoeducational intervention trials for the management of chronic stable angina  Academic Article
• A systematic review of screening questionnaires for obstructive sleep apnea  Academic Article
• A systematic survey of the methods literature on the reporting quality and optimal methods of handling participants with missing outcome data for continuous outcomes in randomized controlled trials  Academic Article
• AHRQ Series Paper 4: Assessing harms when comparing medical interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health-Care Program  Academic Article
• Accuracy of Three Dry-Chemistry Methods for Lipid Profiling and Risk Factor Classification  Academic Article
• Addressing continuous data for participants excluded from trial analysis: a guide for systematic reviewers  Academic Article
• Addressing the Unit of Analysis in Medical Care Studies  Academic Article
• Adjusted Analyses in Studies Addressing Therapy and Harm  Academic Article
• Adjusting for nonresponse bias corrects overestimates of food allergy prevalence  Academic Article
• Adjustment for baseline measurement error in randomized controlled trials induces bias  Academic Article
• After adjusting for bias in meta-analysis seasonal influenza vaccine remains effective in community-dwelling elderly  Academic Article
• An evidence-based approach to earlier initiation of dialysis  Academic Article
• An international survey indicated that unpublished systematic reviews exist  Conference Paper
• An observational study found that authors of randomized controlled trials frequently use concealment of randomization and blinding, despite the failure to report these methods  Academic Article
• An opportunity cost approach to sample size calculation in cost-effectiveness analysis  Academic Article
• Analysis of Observational Studies: A Guide to Understanding Statistical Methods  Academic Article
• Applying the Grades of Recommendation for Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy  Academic Article
• Are current standards of reporting quality for clinical trials sufficient in addressing important sources of bias?  Academic Article
• Aspirin in the prevention of cancer  Academic Article
• Association Between Unreported Outcomes and Effect Size Estimates in Cochrane Meta-analyses  Academic Article
• Attention should be given to multiplicity issues in systematic reviews  Academic Article
• Author self-citation in the diabetes literature  Academic Article
• Bayesian Hierarchical Models Combining Different Study Types and Adjusting for Covariate Imbalances: A Simulation Study to Assess Model Performance  Academic Article
• Believing Is Seeing  Academic Article
• Best (but oft-forgotten) practices: sensitivity analyses in randomized controlled trials  Academic Article
• Bias in progression-free survival analysis due to intermittent assessment of progression  Academic Article
• Bias in the evaluation of DNA-amplification tests for detecting Chlamydia trachomatis.  Academic Article
• Bias in transfusion research: from study design to result reporting  Academic Article
• Bias-corrected estimator for intraclass correlation coefficient in the balanced one-way random effects model  Academic Article
• Biases in Evaluating Research: Are They All Bad?  Academic Article
• Blinded interpretation of study results can feasibly and effectively diminish interpretation bias  Academic Article
• Body-mass index, abdominal adiposity, and cardiovascular risk  Academic Article
• Bone Densitometry: Applications and Limitations  Academic Article
• Breaking up is Hard to Do: The Heartbreak of Dichotomizing Continuous Data  Academic Article
• Breast cancer and hormone replacement therapy: collaborative reanalysis of data from 51 epidemiological studies of 52 705 women with breast cancer and 108 411 women without breast cancer  Academic Article
• CONSORT comes to TRANSFUSION  Academic Article
• Calidad y fuerza: el sistema GRADE para la formulación de recomendaciones en las guías de práctica clínica  Academic Article
• Can We Learn Anything from Small Trials?  Academic Article
• Carrying Capacity and Demographic Stochasticity: Scaling Behavior of the Stochastic Logistic Model  Academic Article
• Challenges in evaluating surgical innovation  Academic Article
• Chapter 5: Assessing Risk of Bias as a Domain of Quality in Medical Test Studies  Academic Article
• Characteristics of Good Causation Studies  Academic Article
• Choice of clinical outcomes in randomized trials of heart failure therapies: Disease-specific or overall outcomes?  Academic Article
• Classifying ethnicity utilizing the Canadian mortality data base  Academic Article
• Clinical experts or methodologists to write clinical guidelines?  Academic Article
• Clinical practice guidelines: the need for greater transparency in formulating recommendations.  Academic Article
• Clinical prediction models for bronchopulmonary dysplasia: a systematic review and external validation study  Academic Article
• Clinical trials and haemophilia: does the Bayesian approach make the ideal and desirable good friends?  Academic Article
• Commentary: The Once and Future Psychiatry  Academic Article
• Comparing methods to estimate treatment effects on a continuous outcome in multicentre randomized controlled trials: A simulation study  Academic Article
• Comparison of population-averaged and cluster-specific models for the analysis of cluster randomized trials with missing binary outcomes: a simulation study  Academic Article
• Comparison of reported prevalences of recent asthma in longitudinal and cross-sectional studies  Academic Article
• Comprehensiveness and bias in reporting clinical trials. Study of reviews of pneumococcal vaccine effectiveness.  Academic Article
• Concerns about the critical appraisal of the role of H pylori in dyspepsia.  Academic Article
• Conducting quantitative synthesis when comparing medical interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program  Academic Article
• Confidence intervals for intraclass correlation coefficients in a nonlinear dose-response meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Confronting the Confounders: The Meaning, Detection, and Treatment of Confounders in Research  Academic Article
• Critical appraisal of review articles.  Academic Article
• Critical appraisal of the health research literature: prevalence or incidence of a health problem.  Academic Article
• Data based medicine and clinical judgement.  Academic Article
• Defining publication bias: protocol for a systematic review of highly cited articles and proposal for a new framework  Academic Article
• Detecting, quantifying and adjusting for publication bias in meta-analyses: protocol of a systematic review on methods  Academic Article
• Determining optimal sample sizes for multi-stage randomized clinical trials using value of information methods  Academic Article
• Diagnostic tests for deep vein thrombosis. Clinical usefulness depends on probability of disease  Academic Article
• Differences between notifiable and administrative health information in the spatial–temporal surveillance of enteric infections  Academic Article
• Diurnal variation of testosterone and estradiol: a source of bias in comparative studies on breast cancer  Academic Article
• Do individuals with and without depression value depression differently? And if so, why?  Academic Article
• Doctors and Patients’ Susceptibility to Framing Bias: A Randomized Trial  Academic Article
• Does quality of reports of randomised trials affect estimates of intervention efficacy reported in meta-analyses?  Academic Article
• Does smoking cause rheumatoid arthritis?  Academic Article
• Early stopping of randomized clinical trials for overt efficacy is problematic  Academic Article
• Effect of dependent errors in the assessment of diagnostic or screening test accuracy when the reference standard is imperfect  Conference Paper
• Effect of exposure misclassification on the mean squared error of population attributable risk and prevented fraction estimates  Academic Article
• Effect of numbering of return envelopes on participation, explicit refusals, and bias: experiment and meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression in Patients Receiving Disability Benefits: A Systematic Review and Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis  Academic Article
• Effectiveness of percutaneous laser revascularization therapy for refractory angina  Academic Article
• Effects of dependent errors in the assessment of diagnostic test performance  Academic Article
• Effects of misclassification on estimates of relative risk in family history studies.  Academic Article
• Eligibility Criteria of Randomized Controlled Trials Published in High-Impact General Medical Journals  Academic Article
• Empirical evidence of bias in infertility research: overestimation of treatment effect in crossover trials using pregnancy as the outcome measure  Academic Article
• Energy-Minimization Bias: Compensating for Intrinsic Influence of Energy-Minimization Mechanisms  Academic Article
• Epidemiologic Evidence Linking Antioxidant Vitamins to Pulmonary Function and Airway Obstruction  Academic Article
• Equity in health care: Methodological contributions to the analysis of hospital utilization within Canada  Academic Article
• Estimating the number needed to treat (NNT) index when the data are subject to error  Academic Article
• Estimating treatment effects in randomised controlled trials with non-compliance: a simulation study  Academic Article
• Ethical Issues in Stopping Randomized Trials Early Because of Apparent Benefit  Academic Article
• Evaluating effects of treatment in subgroups of patients within a clinical trial: The case of non-Q-wave myocardial infarction and beta blockers  Academic Article
• Exploring design-related bias in clinical studies on receptor genetic polymorphism of hypertension  Academic Article
• Female specialists were more likely to respond to a postal questionnaire about drug treatments for Alzheimer disease  Academic Article
• Fenoterol and fatal asthma  Academic Article
• Forearm pronation and supination: reliability of absolute torques and nondominant/dominant ratios.  Academic Article
• Forty-two systematic reviews generated 23 items for assessing the risk of bias in values and preferences' studies  Academic Article
• Frequency-specific modulation of population-level frequency tuning in human auditory cortex  Academic Article
• From the Corrections Officer: Why We Correct for Multiple Tests  Academic Article
• Frontal brain electrical asymmetry and cardiac vagal tone predict biased attention to social threat  Academic Article
• Fruit and vegetable intake and bone health in women aged 45 years and over: a systematic review  Academic Article
• GRADE guidelines 17: assessing the risk of bias associated with missing participant outcome data in a body of evidence  Academic Article
• GRADE guidelines: 8. Rating the quality of evidence—indirectness  Academic Article
• GRADE-Leitlinien: 4. Bewertung der Qualität der Evidenz – Studienlimitationen (Risiko für Bias)  Academic Article
• General population versus disease-specific event rate and cost estimates: potential bias for economic appraisals  Academic Article
• Glottic cancer in Ontario, Canada and the SEER areas of the United States  Academic Article
• Goal Attainment Scaling as a Measure of Change in Infants with Motor Delays  Academic Article
• Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations for diagnostic tests and strategies  Academic Article
• Handling trial participants with missing outcome data when conducting a meta-analysis: a systematic survey of proposed approaches  Academic Article
• Heuristics and biases - a biased perspective on clinical reasoning  Academic Article
• Hoehler's adjusted kappa is equivalent to Yule's Y  Academic Article
• How Many Patients? How Many Limbs? Analysis of Patients or Limbs in the Orthopaedic Literature: A Systematic Review  Academic Article
• How to Read a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis and Apply the Results to Patient Care  Academic Article
• How to Use an Article Reporting a Multiple Treatment Comparison Meta-analysis  Academic Article
• How to interpret a meta-analysis and judge its value as a guide for clinical practice  Academic Article
• Human papillomavirus testing for primary screening of cervical cancer precursors.  Academic Article
• Impact of missing participant data for dichotomous outcomes on pooled effect estimates in systematic reviews: a protocol for a methodological study  Academic Article
• Implications of using a prognostic index to select therapy for patients with aggressive histology lymphoma.  Academic Article
• In the dark The reporting of blinding status in randomized controlled trials  Academic Article
• Incorporation bias in studies of diagnostic tests: how to avoid being biased about bias  Academic Article
• Independent design and conduct of clinical trials  Academic Article
• Ineffectiveness of cognitive forcing strategies to reduce biases in diagnostic reasoning: a controlled trial  Academic Article
• Influence of maternal depressive symptoms on ratings of childhood behavior.  Academic Article
• Influence of reporting effects on the association between maternal depression and child autism spectrum disorder behaviors  Academic Article
• Influence of sex on risk of bleeding in anticoagulated patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Influenza Vaccination and Major Adverse Vascular Events in High-Risk Patients  Academic Article
• Interference, intimidation, and measuring mortality in war  Academic Article
• Interpreting trial results following use of different intention-to-treat approaches for preventing attrition bias: a meta-epidemiological study protocol  Academic Article
• Investigator experiences with financial conflicts of interest in clinical trials  Academic Article
• Investigator-initiated trials are more impartial  Academic Article
• Issues in the planning and conduct of randomised trials  Academic Article
• Limiting loss to follow-up in a multicenter randomized trial in orthopedic surgery  Academic Article
• Limiting the playing field: does restricting the number of possible diagnoses reduce errors due to diagnosis-specific feature identification?  Academic Article
• Loss of Follow-Up in Orthopaedic Trauma  Academic Article
• Magnitude and direction of missing confounders had different consequences on treatment effect estimation in propensity score analysis  Academic Article
• Marginal Analysis of Incomplete Longitudinal Binary Data: A Cautionary Note on LOCF Imputation  Academic Article
• Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Ratings of Emotional Disorder Symptoms in Children and Adolescents  Academic Article
• Measurement of torque of trunk flexors at different velocities.  Academic Article
• Measuring Collagen Fiber Orientation: A Two-Dimensional Quantitative Macroscopic Technique  Academic Article
• Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Tests With Imperfect Reference Standards  Academic Article
• Meta-analysis of randomized trials on first line and adjunctive levetiracetam  Academic Article
• Meta-analysis: Anticoagulant Prophylaxis to Prevent Symptomatic Venous Thromboembolism in Hospitalized Medical Patients  Academic Article
• Methodologic discussions for using and interpreting composite endpoints are limited, but still identify major concerns  Academic Article
• Methodological Issues in Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Observational Studies in Orthopaedic Research  Academic Article
• Methodological idiosyncracies, frameworks and challenges of non-pharmaceutical and non-technical treatment interventions  Academic Article
• Methodology for Guideline Development for the Seventh American College of Chest Physicians Conference on Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy  Academic Article
• Misspecification of Cox regression models with composite endpoints  Academic Article
• Modified intention-to-treat analysis did not bias trial results  Academic Article
• Modifying interpretation biases: Effects on symptomatology, behavior, and physiological reactivity in social anxiety  Academic Article
• Mortality and indicators of traffic-related air pollution  Academic Article
• Observational studies in systemic reviews of comparative effectiveness: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program  Academic Article
• Ontario Child Health Study Follow-up: Evaluation of Sample Loss  Academic Article
• Ovarian ablation as adjuvant therapy for early-stage breast cancer.  Academic Article
• PRevalence of Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence Surgical Evaluation (P.R.A.I.S.E.): rationale and design of a multi-center cross-sectional study.  Academic Article
• Parent as Proxy Reporting  Academic Article
• Passive smoking and the use of noncigarette tobacco products in association with risk for pancreatic cancer  Academic Article
• Patient education materials for mental health problems in family practice: does location matter?  Academic Article
• Patient-reported outcomes in meta-analyses – Part 1: assessing risk of bias and combining outcomes  Academic Article
• Patient-triggered ventilation of the newborn  Academic Article
• Perception-action and the M�ller-Lyer illusion: amplitude or endpoint bias?  Academic Article
• Performance of logistic regression modeling: beyond the number of events per variable, the role of data structure  Academic Article
• Pharmacologic Interventions for Painful Diabetic Neuropathy  Academic Article
• Postthrombolysis Intracranial Hemorrhage Risk of Cerebral Microbleeds in Acute Stroke Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis  Academic Article
• Pre-trial evaluation of the potential for unblinding in drug trials: A prototype example  Academic Article
• Pregnancy in patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura: assessing the risks for the infant at delivery.  Academic Article
• Probabilistic retroactive interference: The role of accessibility bias in interference effects.  Academic Article
• Procedures that assess inconsistency in meta-analyses can assess the likelihood of response bias in multiwave surveys  Academic Article
• Random left censoring: a second look at bone lead concentration measurements  Academic Article
• Randomized trials published in higher vs. lower impact journals differ in design, conduct, and analysis  Academic Article
• Ratio of means for analyzing continuous outcomes in meta-analysis performed as well as mean difference methods  Academic Article
• Reassessment of HIV-1 Acute Phase Infectivity: Accounting for Heterogeneity and Study Design with Simulated Cohorts  Academic Article
• Recall bias in case-control studies: An empirical analysis and theoretical framework  Academic Article
• Recall of recent and more remote depressive episodes in a prospective cohort study  Academic Article
• Regression toward the Mean: Its Etiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment  Academic Article
• Repeated measures analysis of binary outcomes: Applications to injury research  Academic Article
• Reporting of Clinical Details in Randomized Controlled Trials of Acupuncture for the Treatment of Migraine/Headaches and Nausea/Vomiting  Academic Article
• Research Methods for Obtaining Primary Evidence  Academic Article
• Risk of bias of randomized trials over time  Academic Article
• Sample size and robust marginal methods for cluster-randomized trials with censored event times  Academic Article
• Screening of ARDS patients using standardized ventilator settings: influence on enrollment in a clinical trial  Academic Article
• Searching for Reliable Relationships With Statistics Packages: An Empirical Example of the Potential Problems  Academic Article
• Seasonal influenza vaccination campaigns for health care personnel: systematic review  Academic Article
• Selection of patients for randomized controlled trials: Implications of wide or narrow eligibility criteria  Academic Article
• Sex and Gender Subgroup Analyses of Randomized Trials  Academic Article
• Shadow and substance: values and knowledge.  Academic Article
• Shadow and substance: values and knowledge. 1996.  Academic Article
• Simple randomization did not protect against bias in smaller trials  Academic Article
• Simpson's paradox and calculation of number needed to treat from meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Simulation Models of Misclassification Error for Single Thresholds of High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I Due to Assay Bias and Imprecision  Academic Article
• Sources of error in the quantitative analysis of MRI scans  Academic Article
• Sources of heterogeneity in the meta-analysis of observational studies The example of SIDS and sleeping position  Academic Article
• Specific instructions for estimating unclearly reported blinding status in randomized trials were reliable and valid  Academic Article
• Standard Setting in a Small Scale OSCE: A Comparison of the Modified Borderline-Group Method and the Borderline Regression Method  Academic Article
• Statistical methods for designing and assessing the effectiveness of community-based interventions with small numbers  Academic Article
• Stopping Randomized Trials Early for Benefit and Estimation of Treatment EffectsSystematic Review and Meta-regression Analysis  Academic Article
• Stopping randomized trials early for benefit: a protocol of the Study Of Trial Policy Of Interim Truncation-2 (STOPIT-2)  Academic Article
• Strengths and limitations of meta-analysis: Larger studies may be more reliable  Academic Article
• Striking the balance  Academic Article
• Survival rates in extremely low birthweight infants depend on the denominator: avoiding potential for bias by specifying denominators  Academic Article
• Systematic Reviews: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly  Academic Article
• Systematic evaluation of the methodology of randomized controlled trials of anticoagulation in patients with cancer  Academic Article
• Systematic reviewers neglect bias that results from trials stopped early for benefit  Academic Article
• Systematic reviews supporting practice guideline recommendations lack protection against bias  Academic Article
• Teaching Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine: 2. A Conceptual Approach to Causation—Part 1  Academic Article
• Teaching Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine: 2. A Conceptual Approach to Causation—Part 2  Academic Article
• The Aldosterone-Renin Ratio and Primary Aldosteronism  Academic Article
• The Quality of Reporting of Orthopaedic Randomized Trials with Use of a Checklist for Nonpharmacological Therapies  Academic Article
• The Science of Reviewing Research  Academic Article
• The Secret of Immortal Time Bias in Epidemiologic Studies  Academic Article
• The analysis of treatment effects for recurring episodic conditions  Academic Article
• The art and science of marketing medications.  Academic Article
• The distribution of foodborne disease by risk setting--Ontario.  Academic Article
• The effect of response uncertainty on illusory biases of perception and action  Academic Article
• The effect of selection criteria on outcome studies of children with pervasive developmental disorders (PDD)  Academic Article
• The end of evidence-based medicine?  Academic Article
• The importance of quality of primary studies in producing unbiased systematic reviews  Academic Article
• The influence of distress on mothers' and fathers' reports of childhood emotional and behavioral problems.  Academic Article
• The number needed to treat (NNT) can be adjusted for bias when the outcome is measured with error  Academic Article
• The paradox of evidence-based medicine. Commentary on Gupta (2003), A critical appraisal of evidence-based medicine: some ethical considerations.Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice9, 111-121  Academic Article
• The philosophy of health-related quality of life translation  Academic Article
• The problem of imperfect reference standards  Academic Article
• The ratio of means method as an alternative to mean differences for analyzing continuous outcome variables in meta-analysis: A simulation study  Academic Article
• The reliability of self-assessed health status  Academic Article
• The sirens are singing: The perils of trusting trials stopped early and subgroup analyses*  Academic Article
• The type of visual information mediates eye and hand movement bias when aiming to a Müller–Lyer illusion  Academic Article
• The ‘Cinderella effect’ is no fairy tale  Academic Article
• Tips on overlapping confidence intervals and univariate linear models  Academic Article
• Treatment crossovers in time-to-event non-inferiority randomised trials of radiotherapy in patients with breast cancer  Academic Article
• Treatment of proximal vein thrombosis with subcutaneous low-molecular-weight heparin vs intravenous heparin. An economic perspective  Academic Article
• Underestimation of pain by health-care providers: towards a model of the process of inferring pain in others.  Academic Article
• Use of GRADE for assessment of evidence about prognosis: rating confidence in estimates of event rates in broad categories of patients  Academic Article
• Users' guide to evidence-based surgery: how to use an article evaluating surgical interventions. Evidence-Based Surgery Working Group.  Academic Article
• Using Ethnicity as a Classification Variable in Health Research: Perpetuating the myth of biological determinism, serving socio-political agendas, or making valuable contributions to medical sciences?  Academic Article
• Using standardized survey items with older adults hospitalized for chronic illness  Academic Article
• When Do the "Dollars" Make Sense?  Academic Article
• When experience meets language statistics: Individual variability in processing English compound words.  Academic Article
• When should one adjust for measurement error in baseline variables in observational studies?  Academic Article
• [Risk of ovarian cancer in women treated for infertility].  Academic Article
• [Risk of ovarian cancer in women treated for infertility].  Academic Article
• n-of-1 Randomized Controlled Trials: An Opportunity for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Evaluation  Academic Article