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• 'Functional status of extremely preterm infants at kindergarten entry'.  Academic Article
• A CONTROLLED PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF ENDURANCE TRAINING ON THE RECURRENCE RATE OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION  Academic Article
• A Canadian Critical Care Trials Group project in collaboration with the international forum for acute care trialists - Collaborative H1N1 Adjuvant Treatment pilot trial (CHAT): study protocol and design of a randomized controlled trial  Academic Article
• A Checklist for Reporting Valuation Studies of Multi-Attribute Utility-Based Instruments (CREATE)  Academic Article
• A Comparison of Methods for Capturing Patient Preferences for Delivery of Mental Health Services to Low-Income Hispanics Engaged in Primary Care  Academic Article
• A Consumer's Guide to Subgroup Analyses  Academic Article
• A Critical Analysis of Studies of State Drug Reimbursement Policies: Research in Need of Discipline  Academic Article
• A Meta-Analytic Review of the Effect of Exercise on Smoking Cessation  Academic Article
• A Method for Identifying Research Priorities for Health Systems Research on Health and Aging  Academic Article
• A New Class of Robust Two-Sample Wald-Type Tests  Academic Article
• A Pilot Feasibility Study of an Extension of the Acquaintanceship Recruitment Procedure in Recent-Onset Psychosis  Academic Article
• A Practical Guide to Research: Design, Execution, and Publication  Academic Article
• A Process for Systematically Reviewing the Literature: Providing the Research Evidence for Public Health Nursing Interventions  Academic Article
• A Prospective Comparison of Four Study Designs Used in Assessing Safety and Effectiveness of Drug Therapy in Hypertension Management  Academic Article
• A Rapid Method to Score Stream Reaches Based on the Overall Performance of Their Main Ecological Functions  Academic Article
• A Systematic Review of Heparin to Treat Burn Injury  Academic Article
• A Systematic Review of Interventions for Elder Abuse  Academic Article
• A Systematic Review of the Quality of Trials Evaluating Biomedical HIV Prevention Interventions Shows That Many Lack Power  Academic Article
• A comparison of a new multinomial stopping rule with stopping rules of fleming and gehan in single arm phase II cancer clinical trials  Academic Article
• A comparison of dabigatran etexilate with warfarin in patients with mechanical heart valves: The Randomized, phase II study to Evaluate the sAfety and pharmacokinetics of oraL dabIGatran etexilate in patients after heart valve replacemeNt (RE-ALIGN)  Academic Article
• A comparison of meta-analytic methods for synthesizing evidence from explanatory and pragmatic trials  Academic Article
• A controlled trial of teaching critical appraisal of the clinical literature to medical students.  Academic Article
• A critical appraisal of bleeding events reported in venous thromboembolism prevention trials of patients undergoing hip and knee arthroplasty  Academic Article
• A critical review of the relationship between impaired fibrinolysis and myocardial infarction  Academic Article
• A double-blind, randomized controlled trial to compare the effect of biannual peripheral magnetic resonance imaging, radiography and standard of care disease progression monitoring on pharmacotherapeutic escalation in rheumatoid and undifferentiated inflammatory arthritis: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial  Academic Article
• A framework of operating models for interdisciplinary research programs in clinical service organizations  Academic Article
• A guide for the performance of the Chinese hamster ovary cell/hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase gene mutation assay  Academic Article
• A guide to interpreting discordant systematic reviews.  Academic Article
• A methodological survey of the analysis, reporting and interpretation of Absolute Risk ReductiOn in systematic revieWs (ARROW): a study protocol (vol 2, 113, 2013)  Academic Article
• A multi-centre clinical evaluation of isoflurane  Academic Article
• A multi-centre randomised trial to compare the effectiveness of geriatrician-led admission avoidance hospital at home versus inpatient admission  Academic Article
• A new 'Mechanistic-Practical” Framework for designing and interpreting randomized trials  Academic Article
• A new era in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: considerations for future clinical trials  Academic Article
• A patient decision aid for antidepressant use in pregnancy: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial  Academic Article
• A phase II multi-institutional study assessing simultaneous in-field boost helical tomotherapy for 1-3 brain metastases  Academic Article
• A picture is worth a thousand words: maps of HIV indicators to inform research, programs, and policy from NA-ACCORD and CCASAnet clinical cohorts  Academic Article
• A practical approach to evidence-based dentistry  Academic Article
• A practical methodology for disaggregating the drivers of drug costs using administrative data  Academic Article
• A practitioner's guide to developing critical appraisal skills  Academic Article
• A prospective evaluation of edoxaban compared to warfarin in subjects undergoing cardioversion of atrial fibrillation: The EdoxabaN vs. warfarin in subjectS UndeRgoing cardiovErsion of Atrial Fibrillation (ENSURE-AF) study  Academic Article
• A prospective, double-blind, randomized, controlled clinical trial comparing standard wound care with adjunctive hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) to standard wound care only for the treatment of chronic, non-healing ulcers of the lower limb in patients with diabetes mellitus: a study protocol  Academic Article
• A protocol for a Canadian prospective observational study of decision-making on active surveillance or surgery for low-risk papillary thyroid cancer  Academic Article
• A protocol for a pragmatic randomized controlled trial using the Health Teams Advancing Patient Experience: Strengthening Quality (Health TAPESTRY) platform approach to promote person-focused primary healthcare for older adults  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 protocol for developing early warning score models from vital signs data in hospitals using ensembles of decision trees  Academic Article
• A quantitative analysis of qualitative studies in clinical journals for the 2000 publishing year  Academic Article
• A randomized trial of Pegaptanib sodium for age-related macular degeneration used an innovative design to explore disease-modifying effects  Academic Article
• A realist review to understand the efficacy and outcomes of interventions designed to minimise, reverse or prevent the progression of frailty  Academic Article
• A review of randomized controlled trials comparing the effectiveness of hand held computers with paper methods for data collection  Academic Article
• A risk of bias instrument for non-randomized studies of exposures: A users’ guide to its application in the context of GRADE  Academic Article
• A scoping review of comparisons between abstracts and full reports in primary biomedical research  Academic Article
• A small p-value from an observed data is not evidence of adequate power for future similar-sized studies: A cautionary note  Academic Article
• A systematic overview of adolescent suicide prevention programs.  Academic Article
• A systematic overview of the effectiveness of home visiting as a delivery strategy for public health nursing interventions.  Academic Article
• A systematic review of comparisons between protocols or registrations and full reports in primary biomedical research  Academic Article
• A systematic review of definitions and reporting of bleeding outcome measures in haemophilia  Academic Article
• A systematic review of psychoeducational intervention trials for the management of chronic stable angina  Academic Article
• A systematic review of psychometric evaluations of outcome assessments for complex regional pain syndrome  Academic Article
• A systematic review of screening questionnaires for obstructive sleep apnea  Academic Article
• A systematic review of the quality of publications reporting coronary artery bypass grafting trials.  Academic Article
• A systematic review of the relationship between breastfeeding and early childhood caries.  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
• A systematic survey on reporting and methods for handling missing participant data for continuous outcomes in randomized controlled trials  Academic Article
• A tailored online safety and health intervention for women experiencing intimate partner violence: the iCAN Plan 4 Safety randomized controlled trial protocol  Academic Article
• A taxonomy and critical review of tested strategies for the application of clinical practice recommendations: from "official" to "individual" clinical policy.  Academic Article
• A three-stage approach to measuring health inequalities and inequities  Academic Article
• A trial to determine whether septic shock-reversal is quicker in pediatric patients randomized to an early goal-directed fluid-sparing strategy versus usual care (SQUEEZE): study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial  Academic Article
• A tutorial on pilot studies: the what, why and how  Academic Article
• A tutorial on sensitivity analyses in clinical trials: the what, why, when and how  Academic Article
• ACCOUNTING FOR BETWEEN-STUDY VARIATION IN INCREMENTAL NET BENEFIT IN VALUE OF INFORMATION METHODOLOGY  Academic Article
• AHRQ Series Paper 4: Assessing harms when comparing medical interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health-Care Program  Academic Article
• APPLICATION OF THE CONSOLIDATED STANDARDS OF REPORTING TRIALS (CONSORT) IN THE FRACTURE CARE LITERATURE  Academic Article
• Above all, do no harm: Assessing the risk of an adverse reaction  Academic Article
• Academic Primer Series: Five Key Papers about Study Designs in Medical Education  Academic Article
• Academic response to improving value and reducing waste: A comprehensive framework for INcreasing QUality In patient-oriented academic clinical REsearch (INQUIRE)  Academic Article
• Accounting for center in the Early External Cephalic Version trials: an empirical comparison of statistical methods to adjust for center in a multicenter trial with binary outcomes  Academic Article
• Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) Trial: Design and Methods  Academic Article
• Active patient involvement in the education of health professionals  Academic Article
• Acupuncture for the alleviation of lateral epicondyle pain: a systematic review  Academic Article
• Acute Cardiac Functional and Morphological Changes After Anthracycline Infusions in Children  Academic Article
• Addressing continuous data measured with different instruments for participants excluded from trial analysis: a guide for systematic reviewers  Academic Article
• Addressing efficiency: Economic evaluation and the agenda for CAM researchers  Academic Article
• Addressing the Unit of Analysis in Medical Care Studies  Academic Article
• Adherence measurement and patient recruitment methods are poor in intervention trials to improve patient adherence  Academic Article
• Adherence to Standards for Reporting Diagnostic Accuracy in Emergency Medicine Research  Academic Article
• Adolescents with cerebral palsy: stability in measurement of quality of life and health-related quality of life over 1 year  Academic Article
• Advanced statistics: understanding medical record review (MRR) studies.  Academic Article
• Advances in Genomic Analysis of Stroke  Academic Article
• Advancing Concussion Assessment in Pediatrics (A-CAP): a prospective, concurrent cohort, longitudinal study of mild traumatic brain injury in children: protocol study  Academic Article
• Affective instability in personality disorders.  Academic Article
• Age-Specific Search Strategies for Medline  Academic Article
• Age-related changes in GABA and benzodiazepine receptor binding in rat brain are influenced by sampling time  Academic Article
• Agreement in reporting between trial publications and current clinical trial registry in high impact journals: A methodological review  Academic Article
• Algorithm for predicting death among older adults in the home care setting: study protocol for the Risk Evaluation for Support: Predictions for Elder-life in the Community Tool (RESPECT)  Academic Article
• All-arthroscopic versus mini-open repair of small or moderate-sized rotator cuff tears: A protocol for a randomized trial [NCT00128076]  Academic Article
• Alternatives to project-specific consent for access to personal information for health research: Insights from a public dialogue  Academic Article
• Although not consistently superior, the absolute approach to framing the minimally important difference has advantages over the relative approach  Academic Article
• An Assessment of Clinically Useful Measures of the Consequences of Treatment  Academic Article
• An Ep-ICD Based Index Is a Marker of Aggressiveness and Poor Prognosis in Thyroid Carcinoma  Academic Article
• An Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice for Hand Surgeons and Therapists  Academic Article
• An N of 1 Service: Applying the Scientific Method in Clinical Practice  Academic Article
• An Official ATS Statement: Grading the Quality of Evidence and Strength of Recommendations in ATS Guidelines and Recommendations  Academic Article
• An empirical comparison of methods for analyzing correlated data from a discrete choice survey to elicit patient preference for colorectal cancer screening  Academic Article
• An empirical study using permutation-based resampling in meta-regression  Academic Article
• An evaluation of the comparative effectiveness of geriatrician-led comprehensive geriatric assessment for improving patient and healthcare system outcomes for older adults: a protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis  Academic Article
• An evaluation of the structural validity of the shoulder pain and disability index (SPADI) using the Rasch model  Academic Article
• An evidence-based approach to gastroenterology therapy  Academic Article
• An exploratory cluster randomised controlled trial of knowledge translation strategies to support evidence-informed decision-making in local governments (The KT4LG study)  Academic Article
• An introduction to multiplicity issues in clinical trials: the what, why, when and how  Academic Article
• Analysis and Interpretation of Treatment Effects in Subgroups of Patients in Randomized Clinical Trials  Academic Article
• Analysis of Observational Studies: A Guide to Understanding Statistical Methods  Academic Article
• Ankylosing spondylitis antirheumatic drug trials. I. Effects of standardization procedures on observer dependent outcome measures.  Academic Article
• Ankylosing spondylitis antirheumatic drug trials. II. Tables for calculating sample size for clinical trials.  Academic Article
• Ankylosing spondylitis antirheumatic drug trials. III. Setting the delta for clinical trials of antirheumatic drugs--results of a consensus development (Delphi) exercise.  Academic Article
• Anticoagulant therapy for the thrombotic complications of the antiphospholipid antibody syndrome  Conference Paper
• Antioxidants in the prevention of human atherosclerosis. Summary of the proceedings of a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Workshop: September 5-6, 1991, Bethesda, Maryland.  Academic Article
• Antithrombotic drug development for atrial fibrillation: Proceedings, Washington, DC, July 25-27, 2005  Academic Article
• Applicability of the AGREE II Instrument in Evaluating the Development Process and Quality of Current National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry Guidelines  Academic Article
• Application of the STROBE statement to the hypospadias literature: Report of the international pediatric urology task force on hypospadias  Academic Article
• Applying epidemiological principles to ergonomics: A checklist for incorporating sound design and interpretation of studies  Academic Article
• Appraisal of clinical practice guidelines for management of paediatric type 2 diabetes mellitus using the AGREE II instrument: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Appraising Qualitative Research for Evidence Syntheses: A Compendium of Quality Appraisal Tools  Academic Article
• Approaches to Psychiatric Research  Academic Article
• Archimedes: does caffeine treatment for apnoea of prematurity improve neurodevelopmental outcome in later life?  Academic Article
• Are current standards of reporting quality for clinical trials sufficient in addressing important sources of bias?  Academic Article
• Are placebo-controlled trials ethical in areas where current guidelines recommend therapy? No  Academic Article
• Are postbereavement research interviews distressing to carers? Lessons learned from palliative care research  Academic Article
• Are systematic reviews and meta-analyses still useful research? Yes  Academic Article
• Are the Results of the Extracranial–Intracranial Bypass Trial Generalizable?  Academic Article
• As a matter of fact: evidence-based decision-making unplugged  Academic Article
• Aspirin and clonidine in non-cardiac surgery: acute kidney injury substudy protocol of the Perioperative Ischaemic Evaluation (POISE) 2 randomised controlled trial  Academic Article
• Assessing exertional dyspnea in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis  Academic Article
• Assessing proximal risks for acute traumatic events: the case-crossover design  Academic Article
• Assessing sensitivity to change: choosing the appropriate change coefficient.  Academic Article
• Assessing the effectiveness of ‘pulse radiofrequency treatment of dorsal root ganglion’ in patients with chronic lumbar radicular pain: study protocol for a randomized control trial  Academic Article
• Assessing the influence of researcher–partner involvement on the process and outcomes of participatory research in autism spectrum disorder and neurodevelopmental disorders: A scoping review  Academic Article
• Assessment of clinically relevant bleeding as a surrogate outcome for major bleeding: validation by meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials  Academic Article
• Assessment of effectiveness of major bleeding management: proposed definitions for effective hemostasis: communication from the SSC of the ISTH  Academic Article
• Assessment of efficacy of varicocele repair for male subfertility: a systematic review  Academic Article
• Assessment of safety and efficacy of mesenchymal stromal cell therapy in preclinical models of acute myocardial infarction: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Association between BDNF levels and suicidal behaviour: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Association between body mass index and suicidal behaviors: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Association between cannabis use and treatment outcomes in patients receiving methadone maintenance treatment: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Association between framing of the research question using the PICOT format and reporting quality of randomized controlled trials  Academic Article
• Association between mesothelin expression and survival outcomes in patients with triple-negative breast cancer: a protocol for a systematic review  Academic Article
• Association between progression-free survival and health-related quality of life in oncology: a systematic review protocol  Academic Article
• Association between statistical significance and time to publication among systematic reviews: a study protocol for a meta-epidemiological investigation  Academic Article
• Assumptions of Expected Benefits in Randomized Phase III Trials Evaluating Systemic Treatments for Cancer  Academic Article
• Audience responses to a research-based drama about life after breast cancer  Academic Article
• Authors seldom report the most patient-important outcomes and absolute effect measures in systematic review abstracts  Academic Article
• Authorship and Ethical Considerations in the Conduct of Observational Studies  Academic Article
• Bacteremia Antibiotic Length Actually Needed for Clinical Effectiveness (BALANCE): study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial  Academic Article
• Balancing risk and benefit in venous thromboembolism trials: concept for a bivariate endpoint trial design and analytic approach  Academic Article
• Barrett's Oesophagus Surveillance versus endoscopy at need Study (BOSS): protocol and analysis plan for a multicentre randomized controlled trial  Academic Article
• Barriers to participating in an HIV vaccine trial  Academic Article
• Be careful about drawing conclusions.  Academic Article
• Before–after paired data  Academic Article
• Bench-to-bedside research and the human tumor stem-cell assay--bridging the credibility gap.  Academic Article
• Benchmarking: Applications to Transfusion Medicine  Academic Article
• Benefit-risk ratios in the assessment of the clinical evidence of a new therapy  Academic Article
• Best (but oft-forgotten) practices: intention-to-treat, treatment adherence, and missing participant outcome data in the nutrition literature  Academic Article
• Best (but oft-forgotten) practices: sensitivity analyses in randomized controlled trials  Academic Article
• Best (but oft-forgotten) practices: the multiple problems of multiplicity—whether and how to correct for many statistical tests  Academic Article
• Beyond the treatment effect: Evaluating the effects of patient preferences in randomised trials  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
• Binary Outcomes Are Not Better than Continuous Variables in Randomized Controlled Trials  Academic Article
• Body-mass index, abdominal adiposity, and cardiovascular risk  Academic Article
• Brazilian medicinal plants to treat upper respiratory tract and bronchial illness: systematic review and meta-analyses--study protocol  Academic Article
• Bridge or continue Coumadin for device surgery: a randomized controlled trial rationale and design  Academic Article
• Bringing health services research to (and from) critical care  Academic Article
• Bringing the Family's Voice to Research  Academic Article
• Building Undergraduate Nursing Students' Knowledge of the Research Process in Nursing  Academic Article
• Building clinical trial priorities at the University of Rwanda  Academic Article
• CIHR Candrive Cohort Comparison with Canadian Household Population Holding Valid Driver’s Licenses  Academic Article
• CNODES: the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies.  Academic Article
• CONSORT 2010 Explanation and Elaboration: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials  Academic Article
• CONSORT 2010 Statement: Updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials  Academic Article
• CONSORT 2010 Statement: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials (Chinese version)  Academic Article
• CONSORT and clinical trial reporting: room for improvement  Academic Article
• CONSORT comes to TRANSFUSION  Academic Article
• CONSORT extension for reporting N-of-1 trials (CENT) 2015 Statement  Academic Article
• CONSORT extension for reporting N-of-1 trials (CENT) 2015 Statement  Academic Article
• CONSORT extension for reporting N-of-1 trials (CENT) 2015: explanation and elaboration  Academic Article
• COST AND EFFICIENCY IN THE CHOICE OF MATCHED AND UNMATCHED CASE-CONTROL STUDY DESIGNS1  Academic Article
• CYCLE pilot: a protocol for a pilot randomised study of early cycle ergometry versus routine physiotherapy in mechanically ventilated patients  Academic Article
• Can We Learn Anything from Small Trials?  Academic Article
• Can an antimicrobial stewardship program reduce length of stay of immune-competent adult patients admitted to hospital with diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia? Study protocol for pragmatic controlled non-randomized clinical study  Academic Article
• Can observational studies replace or complement experiment?  Academic Article
• Can trial sequential monitoring boundaries reduce spurious inferences from meta-analyses?  Academic Article
• Can we differentiate the low-molecular-weight heparins?  Academic Article
• Can you use a sequential sample of patients as a substitute for a full practice audit?: Study of mammography screening rates in 20 family practices in Ontario.  Academic Article
• Canadian Amiodarone Myocardial Infarction Arrhythmia Trial (CAMIAT): Rationale and protocol  Academic Article
• Canadian Phase III Randomized Trial of Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy Versus Conventionally Hypofractionated Radiotherapy for Stage I, Medically Inoperable Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer – Rationale and Protocol Design for the Ontario Clinical Oncology Group (OCOG)-LUSTRE Trial  Academic Article
• Canadian study of health and aging: study methods and prevalence of dementia.  Academic Article
• Candesartan in heart failure—assessment of reduction in mortality and morbidity (CHARM): Rationale and design  Academic Article
• Capture-mark-recapture to estimate the number of missed articles for systematic reviews in surgery  Academic Article
• Cardiac rehabilitation after myocardial infarction. Combined experience of randomized clinical trials  Academic Article
• Cardiovascular Thrombotic Events in Controlled, Clinical Trials of Rofecoxib  Academic Article
• Case-control studies for the evaluation of screening  Academic Article
• Celebrities’ impact on health-related knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and status outcomes: protocol for a systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression analysis  Academic Article
• Central coordination as an alternative for local coordination in a multicenter randomized controlled trial: the FAITH trial experience  Academic Article
• Central statistical monitoring: Detecting fraud in clinical trials  Academic Article
• Central venous catheter replacement strategies  Academic Article
• Challenges in Systematic Reviews That Evaluate Drug Efficacy or Effectiveness  Academic Article
• Challenges in designing antirheumatic drug trials.  Academic Article
• Challenges in reproducibility of genetic association studies: lessons learned from the obesity field  Academic Article
• Challenges in the conduct of large simple trials of important generic questions in resource-poor settings: The CREATE and ECLA trial program evaluating GIK (glucose, insulin and potassium) and low-molecular-weight heparin in acute myocardial infarction  Academic Article
• Challenges to complete and useful data sharing  Academic Article
• Chapter 5: Assessing Risk of Bias as a Domain of Quality in Medical Test Studies  Academic Article
• Chemotherapy for recurrent, metastatic, or persistent cervical cancer: a systematic review  Academic Article
• Child hunger in Canada.  Academic Article
• Chronic pain self-management support with pain science education and exercise (COMMENCE): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial  Academic Article
• Clinical Commentary in Response To: Relationship between Patient Satisfaction and Functional Outcome Metrics 3 Months after Surgical Treatment for Distal Radius Fractures  Academic Article
• Clinical Experience and Quality of Health Care  Academic Article
• Clinical Presentation of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Preschool Children: The Preschoolers with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Treatment Study (PATS)  Academic Article
• Clinical Research Designs: Quantitative Studies  Academic Article
• Clinical Research in Aesthetic Surgery  Academic Article
• Clinical Research in Breast Surgery: Reduction and Postmastectomy Reconstruction  Academic Article
• Clinical Research in Head and Neck Reconstruction  Academic Article
• Clinical Research in Pediatric Plastic Surgery and Systematic Review of Quality-of-Life Questionnaires  Academic Article
• Clinical Trial Design in Acute Lung Injury—Issues and Controversies  Academic Article
• Clinical Trial Design in Fracture-Healing Research: Meeting the Challenge  Academic Article
• Clinical Usefulness of n-of-1 Randomized Controlled Trials in Patients with Nonreversible Chronic Airflow Limitation  Academic Article
• Clinical and Methodological Factors Related to Reliability of the Best-Estimate Diagnostic Procedure  Academic Article
• Clinical case reports and case series research in evaluating surgery. Part II. The content and form: uses of single clinical case reports and case series research in surgical specialties.  Academic Article
• Clinical comparisons of inhaler systems: what are the important aspects?  Academic Article
• Clinical diagnostic criteria for premenstrual syndrome and guidelines for their quantification for research studies  Academic Article
• Clinical experience may affect clinician compliance with assigned treatment in randomized trials  Academic Article
• Clinical impact versus factor analysis for quality of life questionnaire construction  Academic Article
• Clinical interventions, implementation interventions, and the potential greyness in between -a discussion paper  Academic Article
• Clinical markers of endometriosis: Have we been too quick to judge?  Academic Article
• Clinical practice guideline on the use of manipulation or mobilization in the treatment of adults with mechanical neck disorders  Academic Article
• Clinical research design and reporting: always room for improvement!  Academic Article
• Clinical trial opportunities in hemostasis and thrombosis: NHBLI State-of-the-science symposium  Academic Article
• Clinical trials evaluating pathogen-reduced platelet products: methodologic issues and recommendations  Academic Article
• Clinician trialist rounds: 28. When RCT participants are lost to follow-up. Part 1: Why even a few can matter  Academic Article
• Clinician-trialist rounds: 11. When your grant gets turned down – part 1: remorse, anger, and reconciliation  Academic Article
• Clinician-trialist rounds: 25. Designing an evidence-based introductory graduate course in clinical trials. Part 2: Applying the evidence to your RCT course design  Academic Article
• Clonidine for sedation in the critically ill: a systematic review and meta-analysis (protocol)  Academic Article
• Cochrane reviews in perspective: the importance of appropriate conclusions and timing of publication  Academic Article
• Coenrollment in a Randomized Trial of High-Frequency Oscillation  Conference Paper
• Cohort Profile: The Canadian Observational Cohort collaboration  Academic Article
• Collaborative leadership and the implementation of community-based fall prevention initiatives: a multiple case study of public health practice within community groups  Academic Article
• Collaborative pooled analysis of data on C-reactive protein gene variants and coronary disease: judging causality by Mendelian randomisation  Academic Article
• Colloid Use for Fluid Resuscitation: Evidence and Spin  Academic Article
• Comment on “Perspective: NutriGrade: A Scoring System to Assess and Judge the Meta-Evidence of Randomized Controlled Trials and Cohort Studies in Nutrition Research”  Academic Article
• Commentary III - Making workplaces healthier: generating better evidence on work organization intervention research  Academic Article
• Commentary: Are the Correct Outcomes of Prenatal Education Being Measured?  Academic Article
• Comments on ‘Sequential meta-analysis: an efficient decision-making tool’ by I van der Tweel and C Bollen  Academic Article
• Common Pitfalls in the Conduct of Clinical Research  Academic Article
• Common data elements for clinical research in mitochondrial disease: a National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke project  Academic Article
• Communication Beliefs About Youth and Old Age in Asia and Canada  Academic Article
• Community service provider perceptions of implementing older adult fall prevention in Ontario, Canada: a qualitative study  Academic Article
• Comparative effectiveness of monotherapies and combination therapies for patients with hypertension: protocol for a systematic review with network meta-analyses  Academic Article
• Comparing the effectiveness of copper intrauterine devices available in Canada. Is FlexiT non-inferior to NovaT when inserted immediately after first-trimester abortion? Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial  Academic Article
• Comparing the feasibility, acceptability, clinical-, and cost-effectiveness of mental health e-screening to paper-based screening on the detection of depression, anxiety, and psychosocial risk in pregnant women: a study protocol of a randomized, parallel-group, superiority trial  Academic Article
• Comparison between the standard and a new alternative format of the Summary-of-Findings tables in Cochrane review users: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial  Academic Article
• Comparison of 12 Risk Stratification Schemes to Predict Stroke in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation  Academic Article
• Comparison of Echocardiographic and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Assessing Right Ventricular Function in Adults With Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot  Academic Article
• Comparison of Standardization Methods for the Harmonization of Phenotype Data: An Application to Cognitive Measures  Academic Article
• Comparison of health-related quality of life in patients with atrial fibrillation treated with catheter ablation or antiarrhythmic drug therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol  Academic Article
• Comparison of physical interventions, behavioral interventions, natural health products, and pharmacologics to manage hot flashes in patients with breast or prostate cancer: protocol for a systematic review incorporating network meta-analyses  Academic Article
• Comparison of questionnaires determining patient satisfaction with medical care.  Academic Article
• Comparison of the ability of double-robust estimators to correct bias in propensity score matching analysis. A Monte Carlo simulation study  Academic Article
• Complementary medicine and older people: past research and future directions  Academic Article
• Complication Reporting in Orthopaedic Trials  Academic Article
• Comprehensiveness and bias in reporting clinical trials. Study of reviews of pneumococcal vaccine effectiveness.  Academic Article
• Concept, Design and Implementation of a Cardiovascular Gene-Centric 50 K SNP Array for Large-Scale Genomic Association Studies  Academic Article
• Concerns about the critical appraisal of the role of H pylori in dyspepsia.  Academic Article
• Concurrent Cisplatin-based Chemotherapy plus Radiotherapy for Cervical Cancer:  Academic Article
• Conditional analysis of mixed Poisson processes with baseline counts: implications for trial design and analysis  Academic Article
• Conducting EQ-5D Valuation Studies in Resource-Constrained Countries: The Potential Use of Shrinkage Estimators to Reduce Sample Size  Academic Article
• Conducting economic evaluations alongside multinational clinical trials: Toward a research consensus  Academic Article
• Conducting industry-partnered trials in orthopaedic surgery  Academic Article
• Confidentiality and prescriptions.  Academic Article
• Confounding: What is it and how do we deal with it?  Academic Article
• Confronting the Confounders: The Meaning, Detection, and Treatment of Confounders in Research  Academic Article
• Consensus statement on the methodology of injury and illness surveillance in FINA (aquatic sports): Table 1  Academic Article
• Consent for use of personal information for health research: Do people with potentially stigmatizing health conditions and the general public differ in their opinions?  Academic Article
• Consent, including advanced consent, of older adults to research in care homes: a qualitative study of stakeholders’ views in South Wales  Academic Article
• Considerations and guidance in designing equity-relevant clinical trials  Academic Article
• Consistency of Phase III Clinical Trial Abstracts Presented at an Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology Compared With Their Subsequent Full-Text Publications  Conference Paper
• Consolidation Therapy With Autologous Bone Marrow Transplantation in Adults With Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Meta-analysis  Academic Article
• Constructing common cohorts from trials with overlapping eligibility criteria: implications for comparing effect sizes between trials  Academic Article
• Constructing trials to show whether urodynamic studies are necessary in lower urinary tract dysfunction  Academic Article
• Construction of social value or utility-based health indices: The usefulness of factorial experimental design plans  Academic Article
• Content and methods of studies on the prevention and treatment of mental disorders in selected psychiatric journals.  Academic Article
• Controversy in Counting and Attributing Events in Clinical Trials  Academic Article
• Coronary stent assessability by 64 slice multi-detector computed tomography  Academic Article
• Correction for Multiple Testing  Academic Article
• Correction to the Relative Risk Calculation for Gadolinium-enhanced MR Imaging and Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis  Academic Article
• Correction: Reported Methodologic Quality and Discrepancies between Large and Small Randomized Trials in Meta-Analyses  Academic Article
• Correlation of single arm versus randomised phase 2 oncology trial characteristics with phase 3 outcome  Academic Article
• Corticosteroid treatment for community-acquired pneumonia - the STEP trial: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial  Academic Article
• Corticosteroid treatment for sepsis  Academic Article
• Corticosteroids in sepsis: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis (protocol)  Academic Article
• Cost Implication of an Early Invasive Strategy on Weekdays and Weekends in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes  Academic Article
• Counting Events in Clinical Trials  Academic Article
• Counting the cost of proton pump inhibitors  Academic Article
• Credibility of claims of subgroup effects in randomised controlled trials: systematic review  Academic Article
• Critical Appraisal of Research Evidence for Its Validity and Usefulness  Academic Article
• Critical Care Cardiology Research  Academic Article
• Critical appraisal of rigour in interpretive phenomenological nursing research  Academic Article
• Critical appraisal of the health research literature: prevalence or incidence of a health problem.  Academic Article
• Cross-linkedversusconventional polyethylene for total hip replacement  Academic Article
• Crossover trials with a cumulative response  Academic Article
• Current Pain-Control Practices and Research☆☆☆★  Conference Paper
• Curved versusStraight Stem UncementedTotal Hip ArthroplastyOsteoarthritisMulticenter trial (CUSTOM): design of a prospective blinded randomised controlled multicentre trial: Table 1  Academic Article
• Cyclophosphamide and plasma exchange in multiple sclerosis  Academic Article
• Dabigatran monitoring made simple?  Academic Article
• Data based medicine and clinical judgement.  Academic Article
• Data withdrawal in randomized controlled trials: Defining the problem and proposing solutions  Academic Article
• Dating violence in mid-adolescence Theory, significance, and emerging prevention initiatives  Academic Article
• Decision aid on radioactive iodine treatment for early stage papillary thyroid cancer: update to study protocol with follow-up extension  Academic Article
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• Long-term risk of recurrence after discontinuing anticoagulants for a first unprovoked venous thromboembolism: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis  Academic Article
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• Lowering of Glucose in Critical care: a randomized pilot trial  Academic Article
• Lymphedema in women with breast cancer: characteristics of patients screened for a randomized trial  Academic Article
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• Maelstrom Research guidelines for rigorous retrospective data harmonization  Academic Article
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging Abnormalities and Psychiatric Illness  Academic Article
• Making Decisions About Prognosis in Evidence-Based Practice  Academic Article
• Making sense of quality-of-life data.  Academic Article
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• Management of chronic neuropathic pain: a protocol for a multiple treatment comparison meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials  Academic Article
• Management of persistent postconcussion symptoms in youth: a randomised control trial protocol  Academic Article
• Manual therapy for mechanical neck disorders: a systematic review  Academic Article
• Maternal vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy and lactation to promote infant growth in Dhaka, Bangladesh (MDIG trial): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial  Academic Article
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• Measurement of health status  Academic Article
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• Measuring and Understanding Treatment Effectiveness in Hand Surgery  Academic Article
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• Measuring the reliability of clinical data: the case for using three observers.  Academic Article
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• Methods for the analysis of bleeding outcomes in randomized trials of PLT transfusion triggers  Academic Article
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• Multicenter Collaboration in Observational Research: Improving Generalizability and Efficiency  Academic Article
• Multicenter Study of General Anesthesia. I. Design and Patient Demography  Academic Article
• Multicenter randomized controlled trial on Duration of Therapy for Thrombosis in Children and Young Adults (the Kids-DOTT trial): pilot/feasibility phase findings  Academic Article
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• Multilevel health promotion research: conceptual and analytical considerations.  Academic Article
• N of 1 randomized trials for investigating new drugs  Academic Article
• N of 1 randomized trials: a commentary  Academic Article
• NSAID and oesophageal adenocarcinoma: randomised trials needed to correct for bias  Academic Article
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• Need for a large randomized trial to evaluate the effects of digitalis on morbidity and mortality in congestive heart failure  Academic Article
• Neonatal Thrombosis: Are We Doing the Right Studies?  Academic Article
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• New strategies for clinical trials in patients with sepsis and septic shock  Academic Article
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• Non-inferiority trial design for recurrent events  Academic Article
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• Nortriptyline in knee osteoarthritis (NortIKA Study): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial  Academic Article
• Nutrition and Physical Activity and Chronic Disease Prevention: Research Strategies and Recommendations  Academic Article
• OVER THE FENCE  Academic Article
• Observational Studies in Orthopaedic Surgery: The STROBE Statement as a Tool for Transparent Reporting  Academic Article
• Obtaining medically meaningful answers from an overview of randomized clinical trials  Academic Article
• Occupational back pain -- an unhelpful polemic  Academic Article
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• Ontario Child Health Study  Academic Article
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• Optimal Chemotherapy for Women With Breast Cancer: The Plot Thickens  Academic Article
• Optimal Global Value of Information Trials: Better Aligning Manufacturer and Decision Maker Interests and Enabling Feasible Risk Sharing  Academic Article
• Optimal allocation of participants for the estimation of selection, preference and treatment effects in the two-stage randomised trial design  Academic Article
• Optimal clinical trial design using value of information methods with imperfect implementation  Academic Article
• Optimal search strategies for detecting health services research studies in MEDLINE  Academic Article
• Optimization of biomolecule separation by combining microscale filtration and design-of-experiment methods  Academic Article
• Optimizing Terminology for Stroke Motor Rehabilitation: Recommendations From the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Stroke Movement Interventions Subcommittee  Academic Article
• Oral steroids for the resolution of otitis media with effusion (OME) in children (OSTRICH): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial  Academic Article
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• Osteoarthritis antirheumatic drug trials. II. Tables for calculating sample size for clinical trials.  Academic Article
• Outcome Instruments: Rationale for Their Use  Academic Article
• Outcome Measures and Implications for Sample-Size Calculations  Academic Article
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• Overcoming the limitations of current meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials  Academic Article
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• Overview of the DIG trial  Academic Article
• PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOMES IN RARE LYSOSOMAL STORAGE DISEASES: KEY INFORMANT INTERVIEWS AND A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW PROTOCOL  Academic Article
• PRISMA harms checklist: improving harms reporting in systematic reviews  Academic Article
• PROphylaxis for ThromboEmbolism in Critical Care Trial protocol and analysis plan  Academic Article
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• Patient Eligibility and Trial Design for the Salvage Therapy of Advanced Urothelial Carcinoma  Academic Article
• Patient Use of Smartphones to Communicate Subjective Data in Clinical Trials  Academic Article
• Patient health outcomes in psychiatric mental health nursing  Academic Article
• Perceptions of Health Professionals on Pain in Extremely Low Gestational Age Infants  Academic Article
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• Persistent methodological problems with evoked potential augmenting-reducing  Academic Article
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• Phase 1 Trial Design: Is 3 + 3 the Best?  Academic Article
• Phase II Stopping Rules That Employ Response Rates and Early Progression  Academic Article
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• Placebo-controlled trials:  Conference Paper
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• Potential Pitfall in Using Cumulative Exposure in Exposure-Response Relationships: Demonstration and Discussion  Academic Article
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• Practical Model-Based Dose Finding in Early-Phase Clinical Trials  Academic Article
• Practical Research Methods for Orthopaedic Surgeons  Academic Article
• Practical research methods for orthopaedic surgeons.  Academic Article
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• Predicting and Preventing Loss to Follow-up of Adult Trauma Patients in Randomized Controlled Trials  Academic Article
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• Predictive value of the respiratory syncytial virus risk-scoring tool in the term infant in Canada  Conference Paper
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• Preference-based disease-specific health-related quality of life instrument for glaucoma: a mixed methods study protocol  Academic Article
• Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: The PRISMA statement  Academic Article
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• Preventing disease through opportunistic, rapid engagement by primary care teams using behaviour change counselling (PRE-EMPT): protocol for a general practice-based cluster randomised trial  Academic Article
• Preventing type 2 diabetes using combination therapy: design and methods of the CAnadian Normoglycaemia Outcomes Evaluation (CANOE) trial  Academic Article
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• Prochlorperazine or Metoclopramide?  Academic Article
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• Qualitative case study methodology in nursing research: an integrative review  Academic Article
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• Qualitative–Geospatial Methods of Exploring Person–Place Transactions in Aging Adults: A Scoping Review  Academic Article
• Quality of Reporting of Modern Randomized Controlled Trials in Medical Oncology: A Systematic Review  Academic Article
• Quality of Reporting of Randomized Controlled Trials in General Endocrinology Literature  Academic Article
• Quality of Survey Reporting in Nephrology Journals: A Methodologic Review  Academic Article
• Quality of randomized clinical trials in juvenile idiopathic arthritis  Academic Article
• Quality of reporting of surveys in critical care journals  Conference Paper
• Quantitative evaluation of single-arm versus randomized phase II cancer clinical trials  Academic Article
• Quantitative methods for estimating the number of motor units in human muscles.  Academic Article
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• Randomized Trials in Critical Care Nutrition  Academic Article
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• Rationale and design of ACTIVE: The atrial fibrillation clopidogrel trial with irbesartan for prevention of vascular events  Academic Article
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• Rationale and design of XAMOS: noninterventional study of rivaroxaban for prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism after major hip and knee surgery  Academic Article
• Rationale and design of a Global Rheumatic Heart Disease Registry: The REMEDY study  Academic Article
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• Rationale and design of a randomized controlled trial evaluating community health worker–based interventions for the secondary prevention of acute coronary syndromes in India (SPREAD)  Academic Article
• Rationale and design of a study assessing treatment strategies of atrial fibrillation in patients with heart failure: The Atrial Fibrillation and Congestive Heart Failure (AF-CHF) trial  Academic Article
• Rationale and design of the ATTRACT Study: A multicenter randomized trial to evaluate pharmacomechanical catheter-directed thrombolysis for the prevention of postthrombotic syndrome in patients with proximal deep vein thrombosis  Academic Article
• Rationale and design of the Cardiovascular Inflammation Reduction Trial: A test of the inflammatory hypothesis of atherothrombosis  Academic Article
• Rationale and design of the Trial of Routine ANgioplasty and Stenting After Fibrinolysis to Enhance Reperfusion in Acute Myocardial Infarction (TRANSFER-AMI)  Academic Article
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• Rationale, Design and Baseline Data of a Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Trial Comparing Two Antithrombotic Regimens (a Fixed-Dose Combination of Extended-Release Dipyridamole plus ASA with Clopidogrel) and Telmisartan versus Placebo in Patients with Strokes: The Prevention Regimen for Effectively Avoiding Second Strokes Trial (PRoFESS)  Academic Article
• Rationale, design and organization of the Second Chinese Cardiac Study (CCS-2): a randomized trial of clopidogrel plus aspirin, and of metoprolol, among patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction. Second Chinese Cardiac Study (CCS-2) Collaborative Group.  Academic Article
• Rationale, design, and baseline characteristics for a large international trial of cardiovascular disease prevention in people with dysglycemia: The ORIGIN Trial (Outcome Reduction with an Initial Glargine Intervention)  Academic Article
• Rationale, design, and baseline characteristics in Evaluation of LIXisenatide in Acute Coronary Syndrome, a long-term cardiovascular end point trial of lixisenatide versus placebo  Academic Article
• Rationale, design, and baseline characteristics of 2 large, simple, randomized trials evaluating telmisartan, ramipril, and their combination in high-risk patients: the Ongoing Telmisartan Alone and in Combination with Ramipril Global Endpoint Trial/Telmisartan Randomized Assessment Study in ACE Intolerant Subjects with Cardiovascular Disease (ONTARGET/TRANSCEND) trials  Academic Article
• Rationale, design, and baseline characteristics of a randomized trial to assess the effect of cholesterol lowering on the progression of aortic stenosis  Academic Article
• Rationale, design, and organization of the PeriOperative ISchemic Evaluation (POISE) Trial: A randomized controlled trial of metoprolol versus placebo in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery  Academic Article
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• Re: Endogenous Steroid Hormone Concentrations and Risk of Breast Cancer Among Premenopausal Women  Academic Article
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