Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the spiritual care-giving scale (C-SCGS) in nursing practice.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polypharmacy can be either beneficial or harmful to children. We conducted a scoping review to examine the concept of pediatric polypharmacy: its definition, prevalence, extent and gaps in research. In this manuscript, we report our transdisciplinary scoping review methodology. METHODS:After establishing a ...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Bakaki PM,Staley J,Liu R,Dawson N,Golchin N,Horace A,Johnson H,Waldron J,Winterstein A,Kleinman LC,Bolen SD

更新日期：2018-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Regular and timely monitoring of blood glucose (BG) levels in hospitalized patients with diabetes mellitus is crucial to optimizing inpatient glycaemic control. However, methods to quantify timeliness as a measurement of quality of care are lacking. We propose an analytical approach that utilizes BG measurem...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Chen Y,Kao SL,Tai ES,Wee HL,Khoo EY,Ning Y,Salloway MK,Deng X,Tan CS

更新日期：2016-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Researchers and policy makers have determined that accounting for productivity costs, or "indirect costs," may be as important as including direct medical expenditures when evaluating the societal value of health interventions. These costs are also important when estimating the global burden of disease. The ...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Menzin J,Marton JP,Menzin JA,Willke RJ,Woodward RM,Federico V

更新日期：2012-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence suggests that differences exist in physical activity (PA) participation among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) children and adolescents. It is possible that these differences could be influenced by variations in measurement technique and instrument reliability. However, culturally sensit...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Strugnell C,Renzaho A,Ridley K,Burns C

更新日期：2011-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Modern modelling techniques may potentially provide more accurate predictions of binary outcomes than classical techniques. We aimed to study the predictive performance of different modelling techniques in relation to the effective sample size ("data hungriness"). METHODS:We performed simulation studies bas...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： van der Ploeg T,Austin PC,Steyerberg EW

更新日期：2014-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few studies have compared methods to correct for retest effects or practice effects in settings where an acute event could influence test performance, such as major surgery. Our goal in this study was to evaluate the use of different methods to correct for the effects of practice or retest on repeated test a...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Racine AM,Gou Y,Fong TG,Marcantonio ER,Schmitt EM,Travison TG,Inouye SK,Jones RN

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Randomized controlled trials are the gold-standard for clinical trials. However, randomization is not always feasible. In this article we propose a prospective and adaptive matched case-control trial design assuming that a control group already exists. METHODS:We propose and discuss an interim analysis step...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Weber D,Uhlmann L,Schönenberger S,Kieser M

更新日期：2019-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Meta-analysis typically involves combining the estimates from independent studies in order to estimate a parameter of interest across a population of studies. However, outliers often occur even under the random effects model. The presence of such outliers could substantially alter the conclusions in a meta-a...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Gumedze FN,Jackson D

更新日期：2011-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Methods for describing one's confidence in the available evidence are useful for end-users of evidence reviews. Analysts inevitably make judgments about the quality, quantity consistency, robustness, and magnitude of effects observed in the studies identified. The subjectivity of these judgments in several a...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Treadwell JR,Tregear SJ,Reston JT,Turkelson CM

更新日期：2006-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) provide aid in clinical decision making and therefore need to take into consideration human, data interactions, and cognitive functions of clinical decision makers. The objective of this paper is to introduce a high level reference model that is intended to be used as a foundat...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Zikos D,DeLellis N

更新日期：2018-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A strong need exists for a validated tool that clearly defines peer review report quality in biomedical research, as it will allow evaluating interventions aimed at improving the peer review process in well-performed trials. We aim to identify and describe existing tools for assessing the quality of peer rev...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Superchi C,González JA,Solà I,Cobo E,Hren D,Boutron I

更新日期：2019-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Quantitative survey of research articles, as an application of bibliometrics, is an effective tool for grasping overall trends in various medical research fields. This type of survey has been also applied to infectious disease research; however, previous studies were insufficient as they underestimated artic...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Takahashi-Omoe H,Omoe K,Okabe N

更新日期：2009-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The lack of suitable and reliable scales to measure self-reported health and health behaviour among people with intellectual disabilities (ID) is an important methodological challenge in health research. This study, which was undertaken together with co-researchers with ID, explores possibilities for self-re...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Vlot-van Anrooij K,Tobi H,Hilgenkamp TIM,Leusink GL,Naaldenberg J

更新日期：2018-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ethical, methodological, and technical aspects of pediatric research, often results in complications and delays in implementation. Our objective was to identify factors associated with the implementation duration of hospital-based pediatric studies. METHODS:All hospital-based pediatric studies sponsored...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Meier-Girard D,Tibi A,Abdoul H,Prot-Labarthe S,Brion F,Bourdon O,Alberti C

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Compliance is a critical issue for parental questionnaires in school based epidemiological surveys and high compliance is difficult to achieve. The objective of this study was to determine trends and factors associated with parental questionnaire compliance during respiratory health surveys of school childre...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Koshy G,Brabin BJ

更新日期：2012-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevalence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in many developed countries appears to be increasing. There is some evidence from Latin America that COPD is a growing cause of death, but information on prevalence is scant. It is possible that, due to the high frequency of smoking in these coun...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Menezes AM,Victora CG,Perez-Padilla R,PLATINO Team.

更新日期：2004-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is increasing awareness that meta-analyses require a sufficiently large information size to detect or reject an anticipated intervention effect. The required information size in a meta-analysis may be calculated from an anticipated a priori intervention effect or from an intervention effect suggested b...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Wetterslev J,Thorlund K,Brok J,Gluud C

更新日期：2009-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The effectiveness of multiple innovative recruitment strategies for enrolling Black/African American participants to the Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2) is described. The study's focus is diet and breast, prostate and colon cancer. METHODS:Promotions centered on trust, relationship building and incentives ...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Herring P,Butler T,Hall S,Bennett H,Montgomery SB,Fraser G

更新日期：2014-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although some nonparametric methods have been proposed in the literature to test for the equality of median survival times for censored data in medical research, in general they have inflated type I error rates, which make their use limited in practice, especially when the sample sizes are small. METHODS:In...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Chen Z,Zhang G

更新日期：2016-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Physical activity is an important determinant of health. Walking is the most common physical activity performed by adults and the presence of sidewalks along roads is a determinant of walking. Geographic information systems (GIS) can be used to measure sidewalks; however, GIS sidewalk data are difficult to a...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Janssen I,Rosu A

更新日期：2012-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Due to early colonoscopy for some participants, interval-censored observations can be introduced into the data of a colorectal polyp prevention trial. The censoring could be dependent of risk of recurrence if the reasons of having early colonoscopy are associated with recurrence. This can complicate estimati...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Hsu CH,Long Q,Alberts DS

更新日期：2009-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This paper discusses whether baseline demographic, socio-economic, health variables, length of follow-up and method of contacting the participants predict non-response to the invitation for a second assessment of lifestyle factors and body weight in the European multi-center EPIC-PANACEA study. METHODS:Over...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： May AM,Adema LE,Romaguera D,Vergnaud AC,Agudo A,Ekelund U,Steffen A,Orfanos P,Slimani N,Rinaldi S,Mouw T,Rohrmann S,Hermann S,Boeing H,Bergmann MM,Jakobsen MU,Overvad K,Wareham NJ,Gonzalez C,Tjonneland A,Halkjaer

更新日期：2012-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Pathobiology of Prediabetes in A Biracial Cohort study is a prospective evaluation of the transition from normal to impaired glucose regulation among African American and Caucasian adults with parental type 2 diabetes. This report describes recruitment strategies and relative yields for the 376 enrolled ...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Ebenibo S,Edeoga C,Ammons A,Egbuonu N,Dagogo-Jack S,Pathobiology of Prediabetes in a Biracial Cohort (POP-ABC) Research Group.

更新日期：2013-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Action research (AR) and randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are usually considered to be theoretically and practically incompatible. However, we argue that their respective strengths and weaknesses can be complementary. We illustrate our argument from a recent study assessing the effect of telemonitoring on...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Day K,Kenealy TW,Sheridan NF

更新日期：2016-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide was developed by an international team of experts to promote full and accurate description of trial interventions. It is now widely used in health research. The aim of this paper is to describe the experience of using TIDi...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Cotterill S,Knowles S,Martindale AM,Elvey R,Howard S,Coupe N,Wilson P,Spence M

更新日期：2018-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prevailing view in therapeutic clinical research today is that observational studies are useful for generating new hypotheses and that controlled experiments (i.e., randomized clinical trials, RCTs) are the most appropriate method for assessing and confirming the efficacy of interventions. DISCUSSION:Th...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Sacristán JA

更新日期：2011-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Outcomes collected in randomized clinical trials are observations of random variables that should be independent and identically distributed. However, in some trials, the patients are randomized more than once thus violating both of these assumptions. The probability of an event is not always the same when a...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Hozo I,Djulbegovic B,Clark O,Lyman GH

更新日期：2005-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Systematic reviewers seek to comprehensively search for relevant studies and summarize these to present the most valid estimate of intervention effectiveness. The more resources searched, the higher the yield, and thus time and costs required to conduct a systematic review. While there is an abundance of evi...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Crumley ET,Wiebe N,Cramer K,Klassen TP,Hartling L

更新日期：2005-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence mapping describes the quantity, design and characteristics of research in broad topic areas, in contrast to systematic reviews, which usually address narrowly-focused research questions. The breadth of evidence mapping helps to identify evidence gaps, and may guide future research efforts. The Globa...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Bragge P,Clavisi O,Turner T,Tavender E,Collie A,Gruen RL

更新日期：2011-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The self-controlled case series (SCCS) is a useful design for investigating associations between outcomes and transient exposures. The SCCS design controls for all fixed covariates, but effect modification can still occur. This can be evaluated by including interaction terms in the model which, when exponent...

journal_title：BMC medical research methodology

authors： Hawken S,Potter BK,Little J,Benchimol EI,Mahmud S,Ducharme R,Wilson K

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00