Development and evaluation of an algorithm to link mothers and infants in two US commercial healthcare claims databases for pharmacoepidemiology research
Administrative healthcare claims databases are used in drug safety research but are limited for investigating the impacts of prenatal exposures on neonatal and pediatric outcomes without mother-infant pair ide... (Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology)
Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology - October 21, 2023 Category: Research Authors: James Weaver, Jill H. Hardin, Clair Blacketer, Alexis A. Krumme, Melanie H. Jacobson and Patrick B. Ryan Tags: Research Source Type: research
Adaptations for remote research work: a modified web-push strategy compared to a mail-only strategy for administering a survey of healthcare experiences
The COVID-19 pandemic required that our research team change our mail-only (MO) strategy for a research survey to a strategy more manageable by staff working remotely. We used a modified web-push approach (MWP... (Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology)
Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology - October 19, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Varsha G. Vimalananda, Jolie B. Wormwood, Kailyn E. Sitter, B. Graeme Fincke, Shirley Qian, Maya N. Tait and Mark Meterko Tags: Research Source Type: research
Comparative age-period-cohort analysis
Cancer surveillance researchers analyze incidence or mortality rates jointly indexed by age group and calendar period using age-period-cohort models. Many studies consider age- and period-specific rates in two... (Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology)
Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology - October 18, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Philip S. Rosenberg, Adalberto Miranda-Filho and David C. Whiteman Tags: Research Source Type: research
Comparing methods to predict baseline mortality for excess mortality calculations
The World Health Organization (WHO) ’s excess mortality estimates presented in May 2022 stirred controversy, due in part to the high estimate provided for Germany, which was later attributed to the spline model... (Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology)
Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology - October 18, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Tam ás Ferenci Tags: Research Source Type: research
Mapping Hungarian procedure codes to SNOMED CT
Data harmonisation is essential in real-world data (RWD) research projects based on hospital information systems databases, as coding systems differ between countries. The Hungarian hospital information system... (Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology)
Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology - October 18, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Ágota Mészáros, Sándor Kovács, Tibor Héja, Zsolt Bagyura and Antal Zemplényi Tags: Research Source Type: research
Longitudinal plasmode algorithms to evaluate statistical methods in realistic scenarios: an illustration applied to occupational epidemiology
Plasmode simulations are a type of simulations that use real data to determine the synthetic data-generating equations. Such simulations thus allow evaluating statistical methods under realistic conditions. As... (Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology)
Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology - October 18, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Youssra Souli, Xavier Trudel, Awa Diop, Chantal Brisson and Denis Talbot Tags: Research Source Type: research
Advancements in predicting and modeling rare event outcomes for enhanced decision-making
Predicting rare events is a challenging task due to limited data and imbalanced datasets. This special issue explores methodological advancements in prediction and modeling for rare events. The research showca... (Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology)
Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology - October 18, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Cindy Feng, Longhai Li and Chang Xu Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
Analysis of applying a patient safety taxonomy to patient and clinician-reported incident reports during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed methods study
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major disruption to healthcare delivery worldwide causing medical services to adapt their standard practices. Learning how these adaptations result in unintended patient harm ... (Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology)
Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology - October 14, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Thomas Purchase, Alison Cooper, Delyth Price, Emma Dorgeat, Huw Williams, Paul Bowie, Jean-Pascal Fournier, Peter Hibbert, Adrian Edwards, Rhiannon Phillips, Natalie Joseph-Williams and Andrew Carson-Stevens Tags: Research Source Type: research
Outbreak detection algorithms based on generalized linear model: a review with new practical examples
Public health surveillance serves a crucial function within health systems, enabling the monitoring, early detection, and warning of infectious diseases. Recently, outbreak detection algorithms have gained sig... (Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology)
Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology - October 14, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Bushra Zareie, Jalal Poorolajal, Amin Roshani and Manoochehr Karami Tags: Review Source Type: research
New approaches and technical considerations in detecting outlier measurements and trajectories in longitudinal children growth data
Growth studies rely on longitudinal measurements, typically represented as trajectories. However, anthropometry is prone to errors that can generate outliers. While various methods are available for detecting ... (Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology)
Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology - October 13, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Paraskevi Massara, Arooj Asrar, Celine Bourdon, Moses Ngari, Charles D. G. Keown-Stoneman, Jonathon L. Maguire, Catherine S. Birken, James A. Berkley, Robert H. J. Bandsma and Elena M. Comelli Tags: Research article Source Type: research
Covariate balance-related propensity score weighting in estimating overall hazard ratio with distributed survival data
When data is distributed across multiple sites, sharing information at the individual level among sites may be difficult. In these multi-site studies, propensity score model can be fitted with data within each... (Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology)
Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology - October 13, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chen Huang, Kecheng Wei, Ce Wang, Yongfu Yu and Guoyou Qin Tags: Research Source Type: research
Can non-participants in a follow-up be used to draw conclusions about incidences and prevalences in the full population invited at baseline? An investigation based on the Swedish MDC cohort
Participants in epidemiological cohorts may not be representative of the full invited population, limiting the generalizability of prevalence and incidence estimates. We propose that this problem can be remedi... (Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology)
Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology - October 11, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Anton Nilsson, Jonas Bj örk, Ulf Strömberg and Carl Bonander Tags: Research Source Type: research
Exploring the perspectives of selectors and collecters of trial outcome data: an international qualitative study
In this study, we aimed to investigate who contribu... (Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology)
Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology - October 11, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Heidi R. Green, Annabel Dawson, Adel Elfeky, David Pickles, Shaun Treweek and Katie Gillies Tags: Research Source Type: research
In health research publications, the number of authors is strongly associated with collective self-citations but less so with citations by others
This study investigated the associations between the number of authors and collective self-citations versus citations by others. (Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology)
Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology - October 11, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Cyril Jaksic, Ang èle Gayet-Ageron and Thomas Perneger Tags: Research Source Type: research
An improved multiply robust estimator for the average treatment effect
In observational studies, double robust or multiply robust (MR) approaches provide more protection from model misspecification than the inverse probability weighting and g-computation for estimating the avera... (Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology)
Source: BMC Medical Research Methodology - October 11, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Ce Wang, Kecheng Wei, Chen Huang, Yongfu Yu and Guoyou Qin Tags: Research Source Type: research
