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Evaluation of the quality and value of data sources for postmarket surveillance of the safety of cough and cold medications in children
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this report is to evaluate the quality of data sources used to study cough and cold …
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Impact of linkage quality on inferences drawn from analyses using data with high rates of linkage errors in rural Tanzania
Studies based on high-quality linked data in developed countries show that even minor linkage errors, which occur when records of …
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Modelling memory decay after injuries using household survey data from Khartoum State, Sudan
BACKGROUND: Injuries represent an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. In retrospective epidemiological studies, estimated rates of reported injuries …
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List randomization for eliciting HIV status and sexual behaviors in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a randomized experiment using known true values for validation
BACKGROUND: List randomization (LR), a survey method intended to mitigate biases related to sensitive true/false questions, has received recent attention …
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Pragmatism in practice: lessons learned during screening and enrollment for a randomised controlled trial in rural northern Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: We use the example of the Gojjam Lymphoedema Best Practice Trial (GoLBeT), a pragmatic trial in a remote rural …
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Comparison of nuisance parameters in pediatric versus adult randomized trials: a meta-epidemiologic empirical evaluation
BACKGROUND: We wished to compare the nuisance parameters of pediatric vs. adult randomized-trials (RCTs) and determine if the latter can …
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The impact of self-interviews on response patterns for sensitive topics: a randomized trial of electronic delivery methods for a sexual behaviour questionnaire in rural South Africa
BACKGROUND: Self-interviews, where the respondent rather than the interviewer enters answers to questions, have been proposed as a way to …
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A comparison of the conditional inference survival forest model to random survival forests based on a simulation study as well as on two applications with time-to-event data
BACKGROUND: Random survival forest (RSF) models have been identified as alternative methods to the Cox proportional hazards model in analysing …
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Assessing the complexity of interventions within systematic reviews: development, content and use of a new tool (iCAT_SR)
BACKGROUND: Health interventions fall along a spectrum from simple to more complex. There is wide interest in methods for reviewing …
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