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3.031 - 2-year Impact Factor
4.837 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.741 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
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Featured article: Assessing risk of bias: a proposal for a unified framework for observational studies and randomized trials
Luijendijk et al propose a unified framework that enables the coherent assessment of bias across designs and three sources of bias were illustrated with graphs that visually represent researchers’ assumptions about the relationships between the investigated variables (causal diagrams).
Featured article: The influence of social media on recruitment to surgical trials
This study by Bisset et al aimed to investigate the influence of Twitter in promoting surgical recruitment in The Emergency Laparotomy and Frailty (ELF) Study. The discuss that the ELF Study over-recruited by nearly 100%, reaching over 200,000 people across the U.K, and that branding enhanced tweet aesthetics and helped increase tweet engagement, stimulating discussion and healthy competition amongst clinicians to aid trial recruitment.
Featured article: Joint analysis of duration of ventilation, length of intensive care, and mortality of COVID-19 patients: a multistate approach
Hazard et al used multistate models to study COVID-19 patients’ time-dependent progress and provide a statistical framework to estimate hazard rates and transition probabilities. Their approach gives important insights into the progress of COVID-19 patients in terms of ventilation duration, length of ICU stay, and mortality.
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COSMIN Risk of Bias tool to assess the quality of studies on reliability or measurement error of outcome measurement instruments: a Delphi study
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Time series prediction of under-five mortality rates for Nigeria: comparative analysis of artificial neural networks, Holt-Winters exponential smoothing and autoregressive integrated moving average models
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Diversity in substance use behaviour among street children of Delhi under Bayesian paradigm
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Epistemonikos: a comprehensive database of systematic reviews for health decision-making
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Meta-Analyst: software for meta-analysis of binary, continuous and diagnostic data
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A tutorial on pilot studies: the what, why and how
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Using the framework method for the analysis of qualitative data in multi-disciplinary health research
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How to do a grounded theory study: a worked example of a study of dental practices
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The case study approach
Aims and scope
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.
Call for Papers: Methodologies for COVID-19 research and data analysis
BMC Medical Research Methodology announces this upcoming collection focusing on methodological approaches to medical research and data analysis related to COVID-19. Find more information and explore recent publications here.
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Collection: Hepatitis C
The 2020 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice for their discovery of Hepatitis C virus. In celebration of what they started and showcasing areas of research that have since emerged, we here present a collection of articles from the BMC Biology, BMC Medicine, Genome Medicine and the BMC Series Journals on biology, diagnosis and treatment and wider public health and medical outcomes of the Hepatitis C virus and its infection.
BMC Series Focus Issue
November: Diabetes
In support of World Diabetes Day on 14th November, this BMC Series focus issue places the spotlight on research advancing knowledge and patient care in diabetes. Our open-access content is available permanently, and highlights include genomics, neuroscience, and public health topics.
BMC Series Blog
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Contrasting views: Whether to Order a CT Scan with Contrast or Not
03 December 2020
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Highlights from the BMC Series – October
27 November 2020
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Racism could be fueling poor health among minority groups in the UK
18 November 2020
