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	CUSUM: A tool for early feedback about performance?
	Can electronic search engines optimize screening of search results in systematic reviews: an empirical study
	Does sampling using random digit dialling really cost more than sampling from telephone directories: Debunking the myths
	Maximising response to postal questionnaires - A systematic review of randomised trials in health research
	Searching for observational studies: what does citation tracking add to PubMed? A case study in depression and coronary heart disease
	Room for improvement? A survey of the methods used in systematic reviews of adverse effects
	Sequential boundaries approach in clinical trials with unequal allocation ratios
	Stability of response characteristics of a Delphi panel: application of bootstrap data expansion
	A non-parametric framework for estimating threshold limit values
	Stability of response characteristics of a Delphi panel: application of bootstrap data expansion
	A non-parametric framework for estimating threshold limit values
	Parametric versus non-parametric statistics in the analysis of randomized trials with non-normally distributed data
	A randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of offering study results as an incentive to increase response rates to postal questionnaires
	Investing in updating: how do conclusions change when Cochrane systematic reviews are updated?
	Methods for confidence interval estimation of a ratio parameter with application to location quotients
	Lack of interchangeability between visual analogue and verbal rating pain scales: a cross sectional description of pain etiology groups
	Adaptive designs based on the truncated product method
	Modeling repeated ordinal responses using a family of power transformations: application to neonatal hypothermia data
	Causal inference based on counterfactuals
	The therapeutic effect of clinical trials: understanding placebo response rates in clinical trials – A secondary analysis
	A priori postulated and real power in cluster randomized trials: mind the gap
	Which resources should be used to identify RCT/CCTs for systematic reviews: a systematic review
	A simplified search strategy for identifying randomised controlled trials for systematic reviews of health care interventions: a comparison with more exhaustive strategies
	Oblique decision trees for spatial pattern detection: optimal algorithm and application to malaria risk
	Empirical evaluation of prediction intervals for cancer incidence
	How does study quality affect the results of a diagnostic meta-analysis?
	No role for quality scores in systematic reviews of diagnostic accuracy studies
	Recruitment of ethnic minority patients to a cardiac rehabilitation trial: The Birmingham Rehabilitation Uptake Maximisation (BRUM) study
	Use of re-randomized data in meta-analysis
	Early life factors, childhood cognition and postal questionnaire response rate in middle age: the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s study
	Assessing subgroup effects with binary data: can the use of different effect measures lead to different conclusions?
	The strengths and limitations of meta-analyses based on aggregate data
	Estimating the mean and variance from the median, range, and the size of a sample
	Who wants to join preventive trials? – Experience from the Estonian Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy Trial
	Practical considerations for estimating clinical trial accrual periods: application to a multi-center effectiveness study
	Methodological bias in cluster randomised trials
	Reporting quality of randomized trials in the diet and exercise literature for weight loss
	Evaluating the role of quality assessment of primary studies in systematic reviews of cancer practice guidelines
	Effects of the search technique on the measurement of the change in quality of randomized controlled trials over time in the field of brain injury
	Effectiveness of different databases in identifying studies for systematic reviews: experience from the WHO systematic review of maternal morbidity and mortality
	Comparison of nested case-control and survival analysis methodologies for analysis of time-dependent exposure
	Factors associated with reporting multiple causes of death
	Systems validation: application to statistical programs
	Systematic reviews of epidemiology in diabetes: finding the evidence
	A suite of web applications to streamline the interdisciplinary collaboration in secondary data analyses
	A survey of statistics in three UK general practice journal
	Proportional odds ratio model for comparison of diagnostic tests in meta-analysis
	Random allocation software for parallel group randomized trials
	"Any other comments?" Open questions on questionnaires – a bane or a bonus to research?
	The fallacy of enrolling only high-risk subjects in cancer prevention trials: Is there a "free lunch"?
	Participant characteristics associated with withdrawal from a large randomized trial of spermicide effectiveness
	A systematic review of the content of critical appraisal tools
	Cluster randomised trials in the medical literature: two bibliometric surveys
	Publication bias in situ
	Assessing harmful effects in systematic Reviews
	Evaluating heterogeneity in cumulative meta-analyses
	Meta-analytic methods for pooling rates when follow-up duration varies: a case study
	WHO systematic review of maternal mortality and morbidity: methodological issues and challenges
	The Platino project: methodology of a multicenter prevalence survey of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in major Latin American cities
	The level of non-citation of articles within a journal as a measure of quality: a comparison to the impact factor
	Incongruence between test statistics and P values in medical papers
	Comparing breast cancer mortality rates before-and-after a change in availability of screening in different regions: Extension of the paired availability design
	The rating reliability calculator
	What is the value of social values? The uselessness of assessing health-related quality of life through preference measures
	Intracluster correlation coefficients in cluster randomized trials: empirical insights into how should they be reported
	Patient recruitment to a randomized clinical trial of behavioral therapy for chronic heart failure
	The role of the clinical research coordinator – data manager – in oncology clinical trials
	Finding qualitative research: an evaluation of search strategies
	Can the caged bird sing? Reflections on the application of qualitative research methods to case study design in homeopathic medicine
	Composition of the editorial boards of leading medical education journals
	Cluster randomized trial of an active, multifaceted information dissemination intervention based on The WHO Reproductive health library to change obstetric practices: methods and design issues
	Correction: A simple method for analyzing data from a randomized trial with a missing binary outcome
	Pragmatic controlled clinical trials in primary care: the struggle between external and internal validity
	A framework for power analysis using a structural equation modelling procedure
	Design, analysis and presentation of factorial randomised controlled trials
	The development of QUADAS: a tool for the quality assessment of studies of diagnostic accuracy included in systematic reviews
	Recruitment of heterosexual couples in public health research: a study protocol
	Correction: The transitive fallacy for randomized trials: If A bests B and B bests C in separate trials, is A better than C?
	How many repeated measures in repeated measures designs? Statistical issues for comparative trials
	Alternatives for logistic regression in cross-sectional studies: an empirical comparison of models that directly estimate the prevalence ratio
	Interdisciplinary research: putting the methods under the microscope
	The reporting of methods for reducing and detecting bias: an example from the WHO Misoprostol Third Stage of Labour equivalence randomised controlled trial
	How does correlation structure differ between real and fabricated data-sets?
	Imputation of a true endpoint from a surrogate: application to a cluster randomized controlled trial with partial information on the true endpoint
	A perfect correlate does not a surrogate make
	Interim analyses of data as they accumulate in laboratory experimentation
	Does anybody read "evidence-based" articles?
	Identifying null meta-analyses that are ripe for updating
	More insight into the fate of biomedical meeting abstracts: a systematic review
	Estimating the cumulative risk of false positive cancer screenings
	Randomized trials, generalizability, and meta-analysis: Graphical insights for binary outcomes
	Quantifying errors without random sampling
	A simple method for analyzing data from a randomized trial with a missing binary outcome
	Choosing a control intervention for a randomised clinical trial
	Design of Phase II cancer trials evaluating survival probabilities
	Estimation of the correlation coefficient using the Bayesian Approach and its applications for epidemiologic research
	Using observational data to estimate an upper bound on the reduction in cancer mortality due to periodic screening
	Performance of health-status scales when used selectively or within multi-scale questionnaire
	Development and evaluation of a quality score for abstracts
	A proposed architecture and method of operation for improving the protection of privacy and confidentiality in disease registers
	Sample size requirements for case-control study designs: correction
	Choosing marginal or random-effects models for longitudinal binary responses: application to self-reported disability among older persons
	Bias and heteroscedastic memory error in self-reported health behavior: an investigation using covariance structure analysis
	The transitive fallacy for randomized trials: If A bests B and B bests C in separate trials, is A better than C?
	Threshold protocol for the exchange of confidential medical data
	Statistical issues in randomized trials of cancer screening
	Meta-analysis: Neither quick nor easy
	Conducting systematic reviews of diagnostic studies: didactic guidelines
	Do multiple outcome measures require p-value adjustment?
	Publication bias in gastroenterological research – a retrospective cohort study based on abstracts submitted to a scientific meeting
	Are the Cochrane group registers comprehensive? A case study of Japanese psychiatry trials
	The probability of cost-effectiveness
	Markers for early detection of cancer: Statistical guidelines for nested case-control studies
	Meta-analysis, Simpson's paradox, and the number needed to treat
	Pooling data for Number Needed to Treat: no problems for apples
	Simpson's paradox and calculation of number needed to treat from meta-analysis
	Quality control and data-handling in multicentre studies: the case of the Multicentre Project for Tuberculosis Research
	Determinants of abstract acceptance for the Digestive Diseases Week – a cross sectional study
	Effect of paper quality on the response rate to a postal survey: A randomised controlled trial
	Sample size requirements for case-control study designs
	Updating a systematic review – what difference did it make? Case study of nicotine replacement therapy
	The Paired Availability Design for Historical Controls
	On the probability of cost-effectiveness using data from randomized clinical trials
	Incomplete evidence: the inadequacy of databases in tracing published adverse drug reactions in clinical trials
	The use of percentage change from baseline as an outcome in a controlled trial is statistically inefficient: a simulation study
	Assessment of the usefulness of a diagnostic test: A survey of patient preference for diagnostic techniques in the evaluation of intestinal inflammation
	Determinants of patient recruitment in a multicenter clinical trials group: trends, seasonality and the effect of large studies
	Reporting of conflicts of interest in guidelines of preventive and therapeutic interventions
	The CONSORT statement: revised recommendations for improving the quality of reports of parallel group randomized trials
	Using evidence from different sources: an example using paracetamol 1000 mg plus codeine 60 mg

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