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- 1From: BMC Medical Research Methodology. (Vol. 14) Peer-ReviewedBackground Scientists often use a paired comparison of the areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves to decide which continuous cancer screening test has the best diagnostic accuracy. In the paired...
- 2From: BMC Medical Research Methodology. (Vol. 14) Peer-ReviewedBackground This study aims to review the literature regarding the barriers to sampling, recruitment, participation, and retention of members of socioeconomically disadvantaged groups in health research and strategies...
- 3From: BMC Medical Research Methodology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Sabrina Winona Pit1 , Tham Vo1 and Sagun Pyakurel1 Background GPs play an important role in the design and implementation of health services and health policy to improve the health outcomes of their...
- 4From: BMC Medical Research Methodology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Tom Clemens1 and Chris Dibben2 Background The association between socio-economic position (SEP) and health is well established and adjusting for the confounding effect of SEP in epidemiological and...
- 5From: BMC Medical Research Methodology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Leslie A Hayduk1 Background Rodgers [1] compiled a history of null hypothesis significance testing and reported a "quiet revolution" that "obviated" many of the criticisms previously leveled against...
- 6From: BMC Medical Research Methodology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Dean W Yergens1 , Daniel J Dutton1 and Scott B Patten1 Background The analysis of public health datasets such as the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) is an active field of research....
- 7From: BMC Medical Research Methodology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Ellen C Lee1 , Amy L Whitehead1 , Richard M Jacques1 and Steven A Julious1 Background In an evaluation of a new health technology, a pilot trial may be undertaken prior to a definitive trial that makes...
- 8From: BMC Medical Research Methodology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Diana L Gustafson1 and Claire F Woodworth1 Background Social media, such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, are changing how people build relationships, share information, and make everyday decisions,...
- 9From: BMC Medical Research Methodology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Chained equations imputation is widely used in medical research. It uses a set of conditional models, so is more flexible than joint modelling imputation for the imputation of different types of variables...
- 10From: BMC Medical Research Methodology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Tracing mail survey responses is useful for the management of reminders but may cause concerns about anonymity among prospective participants. We examined the impact of numbering return envelopes on the...
- 11From: BMC Medical Research Methodology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Big data is steadily growing in epidemiology. We explored the performances of methods dedicated to big data analysis for detecting independent associations between exposures and a health outcome....
- 12From: BMC Medical Research Methodology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Self- administered questionnaires or interviews and medical records are often used as sources of research data; thus it is essential to evaluate their concordance and reliability. The aim of this paper was...
- 13From: BMC Medical Research Methodology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Split-mouth randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are popular in oral health research. Meta-analyses frequently include trials of both split-mouth and parallel-arm designs to derive combined intervention...
- 14From: BMC Medical Research Methodology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Mark Jones1,2 , Richard Hockey1 , Gita D Mishra1 and Annette Dobson1 Background With the increasing interest in longitudinal and life-course studies, it is desirable to develop graphical techniques for...
- 15From: BMC Medical Research Methodology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Suphada Charoensawat1 , Walailuck Böhning2 , Dankmar Böhning3 and Heinz Holling2 Background We are interested in the following setting occurring in the field of meta-analysis of diagnostic studies...
- 16From: BMC Medical Research Methodology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Howard HZ Thom1 , Gorana Capkun2 , Richard M Nixon2 and Alberto Ferreira2 Background Macular oedema secondary to retinal vein occlusion (RVO) is the second most frequent major retinal vascular disease...
- 17From: BMC Medical Research Methodology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Alexander Engelhardt1 , Rajesh Kanawade4 , Christian Knipfer2 , Matthias Schmid3 , Florian Stelzle2 and Werner Adler1 Background Oral and maxillofacial surgery is a field where precise cuts with minimal...
- 18From: BMC Medical Research Methodology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Data on HCV-related cirrhosis progression are scarce in developing countries in general, and in Egypt in particular. The objective of this study was to estimate the probability of death and transition...
- 19From: BMC Medical Research Methodology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Clinical research plays an important role in establishing new treatments and improving the quality of medical practice. Since the introduction of the concept of clinical research coordinators (CRC) in...
- 20From: BMC Medical Research Methodology. (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Katherine Farley1 , Andria Hanbury1 and Carl Thompson1 Background Healthcare delivery and outcomes vary enormously within many developed healthcare systems [1]. Even accounting for the "irreducible...