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BMC Medical Research Methodology

Study design

Section edited by Demosthenes Panagiotakos

This section considers manuscripts that investigate how choices of research methodology and study design can impact study results, including research participation and study outcomes.

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  1. Content type: Research article

    Many medicines are dosed to achieve a particular therapeutic range, and monitored using therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM). The evidence base for a therapeutic range can be evaluated using systematic reviews, t...

    Authors: Lewis Cooney, Yoon K. Loke, Su Golder, Jamie Kirkham, Andrea Jorgensen, Ian Sinha and Daniel Hawcutt

    Citation: BMC Medical Research Methodology 2017 17:84

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  2. Content type: Research article

    Previous research has found that a “web-push” approach to data collection, which involves contacting people by mail to request an Internet survey response while withholding a paper response option until later ...

    Authors: Hope Seib McMaster, Cynthia A. LeardMann, Steven Speigle and Don A. Dillman

    Citation: BMC Medical Research Methodology 2017 17:73

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  3. Content type: Research article

    We describe a novel strategy for power and sample size determination developed for studies utilizing investigational technologies with limited available preliminary data, specifically of imaging biomarkers. We...

    Authors: Christine E. McLaren, Wen-Pin Chen, Thomas D. O’Sullivan, Daniel L. Gillen, Min-Ying Su, Jeon H. Chen and Bruce J. Tromberg

    Citation: BMC Medical Research Methodology 2017 17:75

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  4. Content type: Research article

    Evaluation of the potential effectiveness of a programme’s objectives (health or otherwise) is important in demonstrating how programmes work. However, evaluations are expensive and can focus on unrealistic ou...

    Authors: Melissa Belford, Tony Robertson and Ruth Jepson

    Citation: BMC Medical Research Methodology 2017 17:70

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  5. Content type: Study protocol

    Maternity intrapartum care research and clinical care more often focus on outcomes that minimise or prevent adverse health rather than on what constitutes positive health and wellbeing (salutogenesis). This wa...

    Authors: Valerie Smith, Deirdre Daly, Ingela Lundgren, Tine Eri, Cecily Begley, Mechthild M. Gross, Soo Downe, Zarko Alfirevic and Declan Devane

    Citation: BMC Medical Research Methodology 2017 17:61

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  6. Content type: Correspondence

    Obesity and obesity-related conditions, such as type 2 diabetes, are a major issue for Veteran health. Veterans Health Administration (VA) researchers and health systems leaders have worked separately and toge...

    Authors: Mona AuYoung, Laura J. Damschroder, Linda Kinsinger, Tannaz Moin and Caroline R. Richardson

    Citation: BMC Medical Research Methodology 2017 17:50

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  7. Content type: Research article

    The effects of postal questionnaire burden on return rates and answers given are unclear following treatment on an intensive care unit (ICU). We aimed to establish the effects of different postal questionnaire...

    Authors: Robert Hatch, Duncan Young, Vicki Barber, David A Harrison and Peter Watkinson

    Citation: BMC Medical Research Methodology 2017 17:49

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  8. Content type: Research article

    Propensity scores are typically applied in retrospective cohort studies. We describe the feasibility of matching on a propensity score derived from a retrospective cohort and subsequently applied in a prospect...

    Authors: Eric S. Johnson, John F. Dickerson, William M. Vollmer, Alee M. Rowley, Cheryl Ritenbaugh, Richard A. Deyo and Lynn DeBar

    Citation: BMC Medical Research Methodology 2017 17:42

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  9. Content type: Research article

    Sample selection can substantially affect the solutions generated using exploratory factor analysis. Validation studies of the 12-item World Health Organization (WHO) Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS...

    Authors: Cadeyrn J. Gaskin, Sylvie D. Lambert, Steven J. Bowe and Liliana Orellana

    Citation: BMC Medical Research Methodology 2017 17:40

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  10. Content type: Research Article

    Information and theory beyond copula concepts are essential to understand the dependence relationship between several marginal covariates distributions. In a therapeutic trial data scheme, most of the time, ce...

    Authors: Charles Fontaine, Jean-Pierre Daurès and Paul Landais

    Citation: BMC Medical Research Methodology 2017 17:27

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  11. Content type: Research article

    Observational studies are widely used in pharmacoepidemiology. Several designs can be used, in particular self-controlled designs (case-crossover and self-controlled case series). These designs offer the advan...

    Authors: Nathalie Gault, Johann Castañeda-Sanabria, Yann De Rycke, Sylvie Guillo, Stéphanie Foulon and Florence Tubach

    Citation: BMC Medical Research Methodology 2017 17:25

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  12. Content type: Research article

    Multiple barriers may inhibit the adoption of clinical interventions and impede successful implementation. Use of standardised methods to prioritise barriers to target when selecting implementation interventio...

    Authors: Louise E. Craig, Leonid Churilov, Liudmyla Olenko, Dominique A. Cadilhac, Rohan Grimley, Simeon Dale, Cintia Martinez-Garduno, Elizabeth McInnes, Julie Considine, Jeremy M. Grimshaw and Sandy Middleton

    Citation: BMC Medical Research Methodology 2017 17:24

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  14. Content type: Research article

    The Government of Cambodia has committed to supporting family care for vulnerable children, including homeless populations. Collecting baseline data on the numbers and characteristics of homeless adolescents w...

    Authors: Lindsay Stark, Beth L. Rubenstein, Kimchoeun Pak, Rosemary Taing, Gary Yu, Sok Kosal and Leslie Roberts

    Citation: BMC Medical Research Methodology 2017 17:13

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  15. Content type: Research article

    Paramedics make important and increasingly complex decisions at scene about patient care. Patient safety implications of influences on decision making in the pre-hospital setting were previously under-research...

    Authors: Maxine Johnson, Rachel O’Hara, Enid Hirst, Andrew Weyman, Janette Turner, Suzanne Mason, Tom Quinn, Jane Shewan and A. Niroshan Siriwardena

    Citation: BMC Medical Research Methodology 2017 17:11

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  16. Content type: Research article

    Connected individuals (or nodes) in a network are more likely to be similar than two randomly selected nodes due to homophily and/or network influence. Distinguishing between these two influences is an importa...

    Authors: Kori Sauser Zachrison, Theodore J. Iwashyna, Achamyeleh Gebremariam, Meghan Hutchins and Joyce M Lee

    Citation: BMC Medical Research Methodology 2016 16:174

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  17. Content type: Research article

    This paper describes the methodological developments of the sexual health items included in the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study since their mandatory inclusion in the study in 2002. The c...

    Authors: Honor Young, András Költő, Marta Reis, Elizabeth M. Saewyc, Nathalie Moreau, Lorraine Burke, Alina Cosma, Béat Windlin, Saoirse Nic Gabhainn and Emmanuelle Godeau

    Citation: BMC Medical Research Methodology 2016 16:169

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  18. Content type: Research article

    Conventional randomized placebo-controlled study design assumes the absence of drug*placebo interaction. We hypothesized the presence of such an interaction and that conventionally estimated drug effect might ...

    Authors: Muhammad M. Hammami, Safa Hammami, Reem Al-Swayeh, Eman Al-Gaai, Faduma Abdi Farah and Sophia J. S. De Padua

    Citation: BMC Medical Research Methodology 2016 16:166

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  19. Content type: Research article

    As biobanks play an increasing role in the genomic research that will lead to precision medicine, input from diverse and large populations of patients in a variety of health care settings will be important in ...

    Authors: Maureen E. Smith, Saskia C. Sanderson, Kyle B. Brothers, Melanie F. Myers, Jennifer McCormick, Sharon Aufox, Martha J. Shrubsole, Nanibaá A. Garrison, Nathaniel D. Mercaldo, Jonathan S. Schildcrout, Ellen Wright Clayton, Armand H. Matheny Antommaria, Melissa Basford, Murray Brilliant, John J. Connolly, Stephanie M. Fullerton…

    Citation: BMC Medical Research Methodology 2016 16:162

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  20. Content type: Research article

    Variation in development methods of Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment Instruments has led to inconsistent inclusion of risk factors and concerns about content validity. A new evidenced-based Risk Assessment Instr...

    Authors: S. Coleman, J. Nixon, J. Keen, D. Muir, L. Wilson, E. McGinnis, N. Stubbs, C. Dealey and E. A. Nelson

    Citation: BMC Medical Research Methodology 2016 16:158

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