BMC Medical Research Methodology

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Medical reversals in healthcare: factors, assessment, quantification

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Estimating medication adherence from Electronic Health Records: comparing methods for mining and processing asthma treatment prescriptions

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Analysis of the characteristics and the degree of pragmatism exhibited by pragmatic-labelled trials of antineoplastic treatments

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Frequency-based rare diagnoses as a novel and accessible approach for studying rare diseases in large datasets: a cross-sectional study

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Use of days alive without life support and similar count outcomes in randomised clinical trials – an overview and comparison of methodological choices and analysis methods

Widening participation – recruitment methods in mental health randomised controlled trials: a qualitative study

Authors: Mais Iflaifel, Charlotte L Hall, Heidi R Green, Andrew Willis, Stefan Rennick-Egglestone, Edmund Juszczak, Mark Townsend, Jennifer Martin and Kirsty Sprange

Content type: Research 21 September 2023
Assessing the self-reported honesty threshold in adolescent epidemiological research: comparing supervised machine learning and inferential statistical techniques

Authors: Janaka V. Kosgolla, Douglas C. Smith, Shahana Begum and Crystal A. Reinhart

Content type: Research 21 September 2023
Exploring the variable importance in random forests under correlations: a general concept applied to donor organ quality in post-transplant survival

Authors: Christoph Wies, Robert Miltenberger, Gunter Grieser and Antje Jahn-Eimermacher

Content type: Research 19 September 2023
Data visualisation approaches for component network meta-analysis: visualising the data structure

Authors: Suzanne C. Freeman, Elnaz Saeedi, José M. Ordóñez-Mena, Clareece R. Nevill, Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, Deborah M. Caldwell, Nicky J. Welton, Nicola J. Cooper and Alex J. Sutton

Content type: Research 15 September 2023
Modelling of intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay as a quality measure: a problematic exercise

Authors: John L. Moran, Graeme J. Duke, John D. Santamaria and Ariel Linden

Content type: Research 14 September 2023

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The case study approach

Authors: Sarah Crowe, Kathrin Cresswell, Ann Robertson, Guro Huby, Anthony Avery and Aziz Sheikh

Content type: Commentary 27 June 2011
Systematic review or scoping review? Guidance for authors when choosing between a systematic or scoping review approach

Authors: Zachary Munn, Micah D. J. Peters, Cindy Stern, Catalin Tufanaru, Alexa McArthur and Edoardo Aromataris

Content type: Debate 19 November 2018
Characterising and justifying sample size sufficiency in interview-based studies: systematic analysis of qualitative health research over a 15-year period

Authors: Konstantina Vasileiou, Julie Barnett, Susan Thorpe and Terry Young

Content type: Research article 21 November 2018
Using the framework method for the analysis of qualitative data in multi-disciplinary health research

Authors: Nicola K Gale, Gemma Heath, Elaine Cameron, Sabina Rashid and Sabi Redwood

Content type: Correspondence 18 September 2013
How to do a grounded theory study: a worked example of a study of dental practices

Authors: Alexandra Sbaraini, Stacy M Carter, R Wendell Evans and Anthony Blinkhorn

Content type: Correspondence 9 September 2011

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BMC Medical Research Methodology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in methodological approaches to healthcare research. Articles on the methodology of epidemiological research, clinical trials and meta-analysis/systematic review are particularly encouraged, as are empirical studies of the associations between choice of methodology and study outcomes. BMC Medical Research Methodology does not aim to publish articles describing scientific methods or techniques: these should be directed to the BMC journal covering the relevant biomedical subject area.

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BMC Medical Research Methodology

Latest collections open to submissions

Medical reversals in healthcare: factors, assessment, quantification

Prediction methods for rare diseases or outcomes

Causal inference and observational data

Editor's Highlights

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Widening participation – recruitment methods in mental health randomised controlled trials: a qualitative study

Assessing the self-reported honesty threshold in adolescent epidemiological research: comparing supervised machine learning and inferential statistical techniques

Exploring the variable importance in random forests under correlations: a general concept applied to donor organ quality in post-transplant survival

Data visualisation approaches for component network meta-analysis: visualising the data structure

Modelling of intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay as a quality measure: a problematic exercise

The case study approach

Systematic review or scoping review? Guidance for authors when choosing between a systematic or scoping review approach

Characterising and justifying sample size sufficiency in interview-based studies: systematic analysis of qualitative health research over a 15-year period

Using the framework method for the analysis of qualitative data in multi-disciplinary health research

How to do a grounded theory study: a worked example of a study of dental practices

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