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Response to Mindel C. Sheps: Counted, Dead or Alive
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Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
, 2023 , Other)
It is true that when decision-making in medicine proceeds (e.g., drug A to prevent outcome Y), clinicians make use of research results that are reported in terms of estimated probabilities. Thus, Pr [Ya = 1 = 1] is the ...
Bias assessment: mQ or RoB?
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Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
, 2023 , Other)
In a recent paper in the journal, Stone et al. propose that JBI adopt the term risk of bias (RoB) wherever critical appraisal, study validity, method- ological quality (mQ), or methodological limitations are used. The ...
Data extraction error in pharmaceutical versus non-pharmaceutical interventions for evidence synthesis: Study protocol for a crossover trial
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Elsevier
, 2023 , Article)
BackgroundData extraction is the foundation for research synthesis evidence, while data extraction errors frequently occur in the literature. An interesting phenomenon was observed that data extraction error tend to be ...
Dynamics of Anti-S IgG Antibodies Titers after the Second Dose of COVID-19 Vaccines in the Manual and Craft Worker Population of Qatar
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
, 2023 , Article)
There is limited seroepidemiological evidence on the magnitude and long-term durability of antibody titers of mRNA and non-mRNA vaccines in the Qatari population. This study was conducted to generate evidence on long-term ...
Use of conditional estimates of effect in cancer epidemiology: An application to lung cancer treatment
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Elsevier
, 2024 , Article)
Background: In oncology clinical trials, there is the assumption that randomization sufficiently balances confounding covariates and therefore average treatment effects are usually reported. This paper explores the wider ...