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Featured blog: Clinical trials in the twenty first century – highlights from ICTMC 2017

BioMed Central attended the 4th International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference (ICTMC) and the 38th Annual meeting for the Society for Clinical Trials (SCT) in Liverpool at the beginning of May. This was the first time that the biannual ICTMC had been combined with the SCT meeting providing a platform for the discussion of topics covering every stage of clinical trial methodology. Here we look back at some of the highlights.

Content type: Research article
| 15 November 2018

Improving the normalization of complex interventions: part 2 - validation of the NoMAD instrument for assessing implementation work based on normalization process theory (NPT)

Authors: Tracy L. Finch, Melissa Girling, Carl R. May, Frances S. Mair, Elizabeth Murray, Shaun Treweek, Elaine McColl, Ian Nicholas Steen, Clare Cook, Christopher R. Vernazza, Nicola Mackintosh, Samridh Sharma, Gaery Barbery, Jimmy Steele and Tim Rapley
Content type: Research article
| 15 November 2018

Development of standard clinical endpoints for use in dengue interventional trials: introduction and methodology

Authors: Thomas Jaenisch, Kim Hendrickx, Martin Erpicum, Liane Agulto, Kay M. Tomashek, Walla Dempsey, João Bosco Siqueira, Morgan A. Marks, Michael P. Fay, Catherine Laughlin, Maina L’Azou, Yee-Sin Leo, Federico Narvaez, Remy Teyssou, Stephen J. Thomas, Hasitha Tissera…
Content type: Research article
| 15 November 2018

Improving the normalization of complex interventions: part 1 - development of the NoMAD instrument for assessing implementation work based on normalization process theory (NPT)

Authors: Tim Rapley, Melissa Girling, Frances S. Mair, Elizabeth Murray, Shaun Treweek, Elaine McColl, Ian Nicholas Steen, Carl R. May and Tracy L. Finch
Content type: Research article
| 15 November 2018

Methodological development of tools to measure how women are treated during facility-based childbirth in four countries: labor observation and community survey

Authors: Meghan A. Bohren, Joshua P. Vogel, Bukola Fawole, Ernest T. Maya, Thae Maung Maung, Mamadou Diouldé Baldé, Agnes A. Oyeniran, Modupe Ogunlade, Kwame Adu-Bonsaffoh, Nwe Oo Mon, Boubacar Alpha Diallo, Abou Bangoura, Richard Adanu, Sihem Landoulsi, A. Metin Gülmezoglu and Özge Tunçalp
Content type: Debate
| 14 November 2018

Are we on the cusp of a fourth research paradigm? Predicting the future for a new approach to methods-use in medical and health services research

Authors: Frances Rapport and Jeffrey Braithwaite

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Content type: Software
| 4 December 2009

Meta-Analyst: software for meta-analysis of binary, continuous and diagnostic data

Authors: Byron C Wallace, Christopher H Schmid, Joseph Lau and Thomas A Trikalinos
Content type: Correspondence
| 18 September 2013

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
| 9 September 2011

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: Commentary
| 6 January 2010

A tutorial on pilot studies: the what, why and how

Authors: Lehana Thabane, Jinhui Ma, Rong Chu, Ji Cheng, Afisi Ismaila, Lorena P Rios, Reid Robson, Marroon Thabane, Lora Giangregorio and Charles H Goldsmith
Content type: Commentary
| 27 June 2011

The case study approach

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

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Chiu-Hsieh (Paul) Hsu, University of Arizona
Livia Puljak, University of Split
Demosthenes Panagiotakos, Harokopio University

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Livia Puljak, MD, PHD is professor at the University of Split School of Medicine in Split, Croatia. Her research interests are focused on methods in evidence-based medicine, clinical epidemiology and pain. She joined BMC Medical Research Methodology as Section Editor 2018.

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Improving the normalization of complex interventions: part 2 - validation of the NoMAD instrument for assessing implementation work based on normalization process theory (NPT)

Development of standard clinical endpoints for use in dengue interventional trials: introduction and methodology

Improving the normalization of complex interventions: part 1 - development of the NoMAD instrument for assessing implementation work based on normalization process theory (NPT)

Methodological development of tools to measure how women are treated during facility-based childbirth in four countries: labor observation and community survey

Are we on the cusp of a fourth research paradigm? Predicting the future for a new approach to methods-use in medical and health services research

Meta-Analyst: software for meta-analysis of binary, continuous and diagnostic data

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

A tutorial on pilot studies: the what, why and how

The case study approach

Aims and scope

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Section Editors

Meet the editors

BMC Series blog

Highlights of the BMC Series: October 2018

Breech birth at home: a new study of safety outcomes

What is inside the head of the fossil predatory fish †Saurichthys?

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