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  1. Comparison of revascularization strategies in patients with acute coronary syndrome and multivessel coronary disease: A systematic review and network meta-analysis
  2. SPIRIT extension and elaboration for n-of-1 trials: SPENT 2019 checklist
  3. Adjudication rather than experience of data abstraction matters more in reducing errors in abstracting data in systematic reviews
  4. Different Evidence-Summaries have Implications for Contextualizing Findings of Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Tests
  5. Features and functioning of Data Abstraction Assistant, a software application for data abstraction during systematic reviews
  6. Contribution to the discussion of “When should meta-analysis avoid making hidden normality assumptions?”
  7. Patient Perceptions of their Own Data in a Study of Mobile Health Technology-Enabled N-of-1 Trials for Chronic Pain
  8. Patient Perceptions of their Own Data in a Study of Mobile Health Technology-Enabled N-of-1 Trials for Chronic Pain (Preprint)
  9. Discussion of “quantifying publication bias in meta-analysis” by Liu et al.
  10. Outcome Reporting Bias: A Pervasive Problem in Published Meta-analyses
  11. OpenMEE: Intuitive, open-source software for meta-analysis in ecology and evolutionary biology
  12. Evaluating Data Abstraction Assistant, a novel software application for data abstraction during systematic reviews: protocol for a randomized controlled trial
  13. An interview with Constantine Gatsonis
  14. Heterogeneity: multiplicative, additive or both?
  15. Early Change in Urine Protein as a Surrogate End Point in Studies of IgA Nephropathy: An Individual-Patient Meta-analysis
  16. A simple and robust method for multivariate meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy
  17. The Single-Case Reporting Guideline In BEhavioural Interventions (SCRIBE) 2016 Statement†
  18. Improving the reporting of N-of-1 trials
  19. CONSORT extension for reporting N-of-1 trials (CENT) 2015: explanation and elaboration
  20. N-of-1 trials can be aggregated to generate group mean treatment effects: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  21. To meta-analyze or not to meta-analyze? A combined meta-analysis of N-of-1 trial data with RCT data on amphetamines and methylphenidate for pediatric ADHD
  22. Melatonin in Youth: N-of-1 trials in a stimulant-treated ADHD Population (MYNAP): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
  23. The Single-Case Reporting Guideline In BEhavioural Interventions (SCRIBE) 2016 Statement
  24. The Single-Case Reporting Guideline In BEhavioural Interventions (SCRIBE) 2016 Statement
  25. The Single-Case Reporting Guideline In BEhavioural Interventions (SCRIBE) 2016 Statement
  26. The Single-Case Reporting guideline In BEhavioural interventions (SCRIBE) 2016 statement
  27. The Single-Case Reporting Guideline In BEhavioural Interventions (SCRIBE) 2016 statement
  28. Comparative Effectiveness of Tai Chi Versus Physical Therapy for Knee Osteoarthritis
  29. The Single-Case Reporting Guideline In BEhavioural Interventions (SCRIBE) 2016 Statement
  30. The Single-Case Reporting Guideline In BEhavioural Interventions (SCRIBE) 2016 Statement
  31. Long-term non-pharmacological weight loss interventions for adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus
  32. Increased mortality for white middle-aged Americans not fully explained by causes suggested
  33. The Single-Case Reporting Guideline In BEhavioural Interventions (SCRIBE) 2016 Statement
  34. Mycophenolic acid versus azathioprine as primary immunosuppression for kidney transplant recipients
  35. Leukotriene-Receptor Antagonists Versus Placebo in the Treatment of Asthma in Adults and Adolescents
  36. Using data sources beyond PubMed has a modest impact on the results of systematic reviews of therapeutic interventions
  37. Effectiveness and Implications of Alternative Placebo Treatments
  38. The PRISMA Extension Statement for Reporting of Systematic Reviews Incorporating Network Meta-analyses of Health Care Interventions: Checklist and Explanations
  39. Lessons from meta-analysis in ecology and evolution: the need for trans-disciplinary evidence synthesis methodologies
  40. CONSORT extension for reporting N-of-1 trials (CENT) 2015 Statement
  41. CONSORT extension for reporting N-of-1 trials (CENT) 2015: Explanation and elaboration
  42. The PREEMPT study - evaluating smartphone-assisted n-of-1 trials in patients with chronic pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
  43. A novel comparative effectiveness study of Tai Chi versus aerobic exercise for fibromyalgia: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
  44. Comparative Effectiveness of Pharmacologic Interventions for Knee Osteoarthritis
  45. GFR Decline as an Alternative End Point to Kidney Failure in Clinical Trials: A Meta-analysis of Treatment Effects From 37 Randomized Trials
  46. Multivariate Classification Rules: Calibration and Discrimination
  47. Assessing the comparative effectiveness of Tai Chi versus physical therapy for knee osteoarthritis: design and rationale for a randomized trial
  48. Methods for the joint meta-analysis of multiple tests
  49. The Quality of Reporting Methods and Results in Network Meta-Analyses: An Overview of Reviews and Suggestions for Improvement
  50. Characteristics of Networks of Interventions: A Description of a Database of 186 Published Networks
  51. Modernizing Evidence Synthesis for Evidence-Based Medicine
  52. Estimation of GFR in South Asians: A Study From the General Population in Pakistan
  53. 11. Bayesian Meta-analysis
  54. 8. Statistical Models and Approaches to Inference
  55. 10. Maximum Likelihood Approaches to Meta-analysis
  56. 16. Statistical Models for the Meta-analysis of Nonindependent Data
  57. 18. Meta-analysis of Primary Data
  58. Bayesian network meta-analysis for unordered categorical outcomes with incomplete data
  59. An empirical comparison of univariate and multivariate meta-analyses for categorical outcomes
  60. Single-patient (n-of-1) trials: a pragmatic clinical decision methodology for patient-centered comparative effectiveness research
  61. Survey of the methods and reporting practices in published meta-analyses of test performance: 1987 to 2009
  62. Effects of study precision and risk of bias in networks of interventions: a network meta-epidemiological study
  63. Empirical evaluation of meta-analytic approaches for nutrient and health outcome dose-response data
  64. Genotype Misclassification in Genetic Association Studies of the rs1042522 TP53 (Arg72Pro) Polymorphism: A Systematic Review of Studies of Breast, Lung, Colorectal, Ovarian, and Endometrial Cancer
  65. Modernizing the systematic review process to inform comparative effectiveness: tools and methods
  66. Predictive Models of Acute Mountain Sickness after Rapid Ascent to Various Altitudes
  67. The Influence of Tai Chi Exercise on Proprioception in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis: Results from a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
  68. Performance of Creatinine and Cystatin C GFR Estimating Equations in an HIV-Positive Population on Antiretrovirals
  69. Accuracy of a GFR Estimating Equation Over Time in People With a Wide Range of Kidney Function
  70. Estimating Glomerular Filtration Rate from Serum Creatinine and Cystatin C
  71. Directed acyclic graphs can help understand bias in indirect and mixed treatment comparisons
  72. Research Synthesis Methods special issue on network meta-analysis: introduction from the editors
  73. Toward modernizing the systematic review pipeline in genetics: efficient updating via data mining
  74. Network Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials in Multiple Sclerosis
  75. In Reply to ‘Misuse and Reporting of Renal Endpoints in Randomized Clinical Trials’
  76. Loss to Analysis in Randomized Controlled Trials in CKD
  77. Long-Term Viral Negativity After Interferon for Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Hemodialysis
  78. Recommendations for examining and interpreting funnel plot asymmetry in meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials
  79. Therapeutic trajectory following intra-articular hyaluronic acid injection in knee osteoarthritis – meta-analysis
  80. Evaluation of the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration equation for estimating the glomerular filtration rate in multiple ethnicities
  81. Changes in dietary protein intake has no effect on serum cystatin C levels independent of the glomerular filtration rate
  82. Heterogeneity of the Phenotypic Definition of Coronary Artery Disease and Its Impact on Genetic Association Studies
  83. Cancer risk with tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF) inhibitors: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of adalimumab, etanercept, and infliximab using patient level data
  84. Individual (N-of-1) trials can be combined to give population comparative treatment effect estimates: methodologic considerations
  85. Comparative Performance of the CKD Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) and the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) Study Equations for Estimating GFR Levels Above 60 mL/min/1.73 m2
  86. A Randomized Trial of Tai Chi for Fibromyalgia
  87. Tai Chi on psychological well-being: systematic review and meta-analysis
  88. Dialysis Research and N-of-1 Trials: Made for Each Other?
  89. Semi-automated screening of biomedical citations for systematic reviews
  90. From the Editors
  91. Therapeutic trajectory of hyaluronic acid versus corticosteroids in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis: A systematic review and meta-analysis
  92. Meta-Analyst: software for meta-analysis of binary, continuous and diagnostic data
  93. Tai Chi is effective in treating knee osteoarthritis: A randomized controlled trial
  94. Nephrotic Syndrome in Diabetic Kidney Disease: An Evaluation and Update of the Definition
  95. Development and validation of GFR-estimating equations using diabetes, transplant and weight
  96. Interferon for Hepatitis C Virus in Hemodialysis--an Individual Patient Meta-analysis of Factors Associated with Sustained Virological Response
  97. Comparison of Drug Dosing Recommendations Based on Measured GFR and Kidney Function Estimating Equations
  98. Mycophenolic acid versus azathioprine as primary immunosuppression for kidney transplant recipients
  99. Factors other than glomerular filtration rate affect serum cystatin C levels
  100. A RANDOMIZED, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED TRIAL OF REPEATED IV ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY FOR LYME ENCEPHALOPATHY PROLONGED LYME DISEASE TREATMENT: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
  101. Hospital ownership and quality of care: what explains the different results in the literature?
  102. Risk Factors for Proteinuria in HIV-Infected and -Uninfected Hispanic Drug Users
  103. Acupuncture for pain relief in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A systematic review
  104. Antibiotic Exposure and Room Contamination Among Patients Colonized With Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci
  105. Tai Chi for treating knee osteoarthritis: Designing a long-term follow up randomized controlled trial
  106. Maternal obesity and risk of neural tube defects: a metaanalysis
  107. Meta-analysis of survey data: application to health services research
  108. Drug use and other risk factors related to lower body mass index among HIV-infected individuals
  109. Prior Environmental Contamination Increases the Risk of Acquisition of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci
  110. Estimating GFR Using Serum Cystatin C Alone and in Combination With Serum Creatinine: A Pooled Analysis of 3,418 Individuals With CKD
  111. Interferon Treatment in Hemodialysis Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection: A Systematic Review of the Literature and Meta-analysis of Treatment Efficacy and Harms
  112. Evaluation of the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease Study Equation in a Large Diverse Population
  113. Maternal obesity and risk of stillbirth: a metaanalysis
  114. Maternal obesity and risk of cesarean delivery: a meta-analysis
  115. Dose Requirements among Hemodialysis Patients Treated with Darbepoetin-α or Epoetin-β
  116. Authors?? reply, Kourtis et al.
  117. Impact of Creatinine Calibration on Performance of GFR Estimating Equations in a Pooled Individual Patient Database
  118. Cumulative illness severity and progression from moderate to severe retinopathy of prematurity
  119. Changes in Barometric Pressure and Ambient Temperature Influence Osteoarthritis Pain
  120. Maternal Obesity and Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
  121. Age-Related Changes in Echocardiographic Measurements: Association With Variation in the Estrogen Receptor-  Gene
  122. Use of antiretroviral therapy in pregnant HIV-infected women and the risk of premature delivery: a meta-analysis
  123. Hospital Ownership and Financial Performance: What Explains the Different Findings in the Empirical Literature?
  124. Recommendations for Reporting of Clinical Research Studies
  125. Achieved Versus Intended Pulse Oximeter Saturation in Infants Born Less Than 28 Weeks' Gestation: The AVIOx Study
  126. Hospital Ownership and Quality of Care: What Explains the Different Results?
  127. Estrogen receptor-α variants are associated with lipoprotein size distribution and particle levels in women: The Framingham Heart Study
  128. Association of Estrogen Receptor β Gene Polymorphisms With Left Ventricular Mass and Wall Thickness in Women
  129. Hospital Ownership and Financial Performance: A Quantitative Research Review
  130. A Case‐Control Study to Examine HLA Haplotype Associations in Patients with Posttreatment Chronic Lyme Disease
  131. In an empirical evaluation of the funnel plot, researchers could not visually identify publication bias
  132. Dietitian Involvement in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: More Is Better
  133. Nuisance Parameter
  134. Multivariate Classification Rules: Calibration and Discrimination
  135. Tobacco smoking, estrogen receptor   gene variation and small low density lipoprotein level
  136. Proteinuria in South Asian children: prevalence and determinants
  137. Long-term non-pharmacological weight loss interventions for adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus
  138. Long-term non-pharmacological weight loss interventions for adults with prediabetes
  139. Serum Creatinine as Marker of Kidney Function in South Asians: A Study of Reduced GFR in Adults in Pakistan
  140. Children in South Asia Have Higher Body Mass-Adjusted Blood Pressure Levels Than White Children in the United States: A Comparative Study
  141. Effect of Tai Chi in adults with rheumatoid arthritis
  142. Pharmacotherapy for weight loss in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus
  143. Long-term effectiveness of weight-loss interventions in adults with pre-diabetes
  144. The effect of angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors on progression of advanced polycystic kidney disease
  145. Adjusting for publication bias in the presence of heterogeneity by N. Terrin, C. H. Schmid, J. Lau,Statistics in Medicine 2003;22:2113–2126
  146. Long-term effectiveness of lifestyle and behavioral weight loss interventions in adults with type 2 diabetes: A meta-analysis
  147. Efficacy of Pharmacotherapy for Weight Loss in Adults With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
  148. Pre-treatment and post-treatment assessment of the C6 test in patients with persistent symptoms and a history of Lyme borreliosis
  149. Meta-regression detected associations between heterogeneous treatment effects and study-level, but not patient-level, factors
  150. Ethnic differences and determinants of diabetes and central obesity among South Asians of Pakistan
  151. Association Between Estrogen Receptor ?? Gene Variation and Cardiovascular Disease
  152. Bayesian Methods to Improve Sample Size Approximations
  153. Association Between Estrogen Receptor α Gene Variation and Cardiovascular Disease
  154. Ethnic differences and determinants of proteinuria among South Asian subgroups in Pakistan
  155. The impact of early transfer bias in a growth study among neonatal intensive care units
  156. The rate of progression of renal disease may not be slower in women compared with men: a patient-level meta-analysis
  157. External validity of predictive models: a comparison of logistic regression, classification trees, and neural networks
  158. Constructing a database of individual clinical trials for longitudinal analysis
  159. Ethnic subgroup differences in hypertension in Pakistan
  160. Time-Dependent Predictors of Primary Cardiac Arrest in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction
  161. Adjusting for publication bias in the presence of heterogeneity
  162. Is primary angioplasty for some as good as primary angioplasty for all?
  163. Intersite Differences in Weight Growth Velocity of Extremely Premature Infants
  164. Self-Management Education for Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: A meta-analysis of the effect on glycemic control
  165. Individual patient- versus group-level data meta-regressions for the investigation of treatment effect modifiers: ecological bias rears its ugly head
  166. Marginal and dynamic regression models for longitudinal data
  167. Proteinuria as a modifiable risk factor for the progression of non-diabetic renal disease
  168. Two Controlled Trials of Antibiotic Treatment in Patients with Persistent Symptoms and a History of Lyme Disease
  169. Using Bayesian Inference to Perform Meta-Analysis
  170. Intralaboratory reliability of serologic and urine testing for Lyme disease
  171. Marginal and dynamic regression models for longitudinal data
  172. Comorbidity Assessment in Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis Using the Index of Coexistent Disease
  173. META-ANALYSIS IN HEMATOLOGY AND ONCOLOGY
  174. Cytomegalovirus immune globulin after liver transplantation: a cost-effectiveness analysis 1
  175. Bayesian hierarchical models
  176. Heterogeneity and statistical significance in meta-analysis: an empirical study of 125 meta-analyses
  177. A prospective trial of colchicine and methotrexate in the treatment of primary biliary cirrhosis
  178. Hepatitis C virus genotype does not affect patient survival among renal transplant candidates
  179. Early Infection in Bone Marrow Transplantation: Quantitative Study of Clinical Factors That Affect Risk
  180. Omeprazole Plus Antibiotics in the Eradication of Helicobacter pylori Infection
  181. Exploring Heterogeneity in Randomized Trials via Meta-Analysis
  182. An empirical study of the effect of the control rate as a predictor of treatment efficacy in meta-analysis of clinical trials
  183. Peripheral Pulmonary Artery Stenosis: Acute and Mid-term Results of High Pressure Balloon Angioplasty
  184. Vaccination against Lyme Disease with Recombinant Borrelia burgdorferi Outer-Surface Lipoprotein A with Adjuvant
  185. Predictors of GBV-C infection among patients referred for renal transplantation
  186. Effect of hepatitis C infection and renal transplantation on survival in end-stage renal disease11See Editorial by Goral and Helderman, p. 1420.
  187. Meta-analyses, multivariate analyses, and coping with the play of chance
  188. Factors Determining Outcome for Breast-Conserving Irradiation with Margin-Directed Dose Escalation to the Tumor Bed
  189. Summing up evidence: one answer is not always enough
  190. Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist synthesis by peripheral blood mononuclear cells in hemodialysis patients
  191. A logistic regression model when some events precede treatment: The effect of thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction on the risk of cardiac arrest
  192. Fate of Mitral Regurgitation Following Repair of Atrioventricular Septal Defect
  193. Factors determining outcome in patients treated with interstitial implantation as a radiation boost for breast conservation therapy
  194. The effects of postradiation treatment with tamoxifen on local control and cosmetic outcome in the conservatively treated breast
  195. Lansoprazole compared with histamine2-receptor antagonists in healing gastric ulcers: a meta-analysis
  196. P51 Interaction of epidemic and individual heterogeneity on target populations of clinical trials
  197. The value of breast lumpectomy margin assessment as a predictor of residual tumor burden
  198. Environmental Tobacco Smoke
  199. Combining single patient (N-of-1) trials to estimate population treatment effects and to evaluate individual patient responses to treatment
  200. LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP OF HEPATITIS C VIRUS INFECTION AMONG ORGAN TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS
  201. GB HEPATITIS AGENT IN CADAVER ORGAN DONORS AND THEIR RECIPIENTS1,2
  202. 2038 Breast conserving irradiation with margin-directed dose escalation to the tumor bed
  203. A randomized, double-blind crossover trial of fluoxetine and amitriptyline in the treatment of fibromyalgia
  204. Large trials vs meta-analysis of smaller trials: how do their results compare?
  205. Age‐related differences in patients with nonpalpable breast carcinomas
  206. Age-related differences in patients with nonpalpable breast carcinomas
  207. An EM Algorithm Fitting First-Order Conditional Autoregressive Models to Longitudinal Data
  208. An EM Algorithm Fitting First-Order Conditional Autoregressive Models to Longitudinal Data
  209. Environmental Tobacco Smoke
  210. 2009 Interstitial implantation as a radiation boost for high risk patients treated with breast conservation therapy
  211. THE IMPACT OF PRETRANSPLANTATION HEPATITIS C INFECTION ON THE OUTCOME OF RENAL TRANSPLANTATION
  212. Prognostic factors for local and distant recurrence in Stage I and II cervical carcinoma
  213. 58A Measuring the impact of the control rate in meta-analysis of clinical trials
  214. 51A Applying the “real-time meta-analysis system” to randomized control trials of congestive heart failure
  215. Increased risk of second malignant neoplasms outside radiation fields in patients with cervical carcinoma
  216. The Exclusion of Women from Clinical Trials of Thrombolytic Therapy: Implications for Developing the Thrombolytic Predictive Instrument Database
  217. THE IMPACT OF PRETRANSPLANTATION HEPATITIS C INFECTION ON THE OUTCOME OF RENAL TRANSPLANTATION
  218. Cumulative meta-analysis of clinical trials builds evidence for exemplary medical care
  219. Incorporating measurement error in the estimation of autoregressive models for longitudinal data
  220. A decision aid for referring patients with systolic murmurs for echocardiography
  221. Screening and confirmatory testing of cadaver organ donors for hepatitis C virus infection: A U.S. National Collaborative Study
  222. Breast conservation in elderly women for clinically negative axillary lymph nodes without axillary dissection
  223. 44A Comparing results from the largest studies with meta-analyses of smaller studies
  224. Treatment of lyme arthritis
  225. [9] Application of the Kalman filter to computational problems in statistics
  226. A Controlled Study of a Stress-Reduction, Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Program in Fibromyalgia
  227. An assessment of the positive predictive value and cost-effectiveness of dipyridamole myocardial scintigraphy in patients undergoing vascular surgery
  228. Breast conservation therapy for early stage breast carcinoma with outstanding 10-year locoregional control rates: A case for aggressive therapy to the tumor bearing quadrant
  229. A bayesian approach to logistic regression models having measurement error following a mixture distribution
  230. Prognostic factors for local and distant recurrence in stage I and II cervical carcinoma
  231. Value Splitting: Taking the Data Apart