BMC medical research methodology
· 6 papers in corpus
2025
Meta-analysis is a widely used method for synthesizing results from multiple studies across diverse fields. A central challenge in meta-analysis is assessing between-study inconsistency, which can arise from differences in study populations…
2024
Systematic reviews are an essential tool in identifying knowledge gaps and synthesizing evidence from in vivo animal research to improve human health. The review process follows an explicit and systematic methodology to minimize bias, but i…
2021
Evaluating the impact of covariate lookback times on performance of patient-level prediction models.
BackgroundThe goal of our study is to examine the impact of the lookback length when engineering features to use in developing predictive models using observational healthcare data. Using a longer lookback for feature engineering gives more…
2017
BackgroundEach year over five million people develop chronic non-malignant pain and can experience healthcare as an adversarial struggle. The aims of this study were: (1) to bring together qualitative evidence syntheses that explore patient…
2015
BackgroundAlthough follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) is known to be predictive of age at final menstrual period (FMP), previous methods use FSH levels measured at time points that are defined relative to the age at FMP, and hence are not u…
2013
BackgroundIVF treatments for infertility involve the transfer of multiple embryos in any one treatment cycle. When data is available on individual embryos the outcomes of each embryo are only partially observed, as treatment outcome (live b…