List of works by Benjamin Djulbegovic

A flexible alternative to the Cox proportional hazards model for assessing the prognostic accuracy of hospice patient survival

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A forgotten γ error

scientific article published on 07 May 2019

A framework to bridge the gaps between evidence-based medicine, health outcomes, and improvement and implementation science.

scientific article published in May 2014

A number of factors explain why WHO guideline developers make strong recommendations inconsistent with GRADE guidance

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A regret theory approach to decision curve analysis: a novel method for eliciting decision makers' preferences and decision-making

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A social network analysis of treatment discoveries in cancer

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A systematic review and lessons learned from early lung cancer detection trials using low-dose computed tomography of the chest

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A systematic review of quality of life associated with standard chemotherapy regimens for advanced non-small cell lung cancer

scientific article published on December 2007

A unifying framework for improving health care

scientific article published on 21 November 2018

Acceptable regret model in the end-of-life setting: Patients require high level of certainty before forgoing management recommendations

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Achieving sufficient accrual to address the primary endpoint in phase III clinical trials from U.S. Cooperative Oncology Groups

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Acting on imperfect evidence: How much regret are we ready to accept?

scientific article published on 6 September 2005

Activating clinical trials: a process improvement approach

scientific article published on 24 February 2016

Adherence to antiretroviral therapy in India: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in first complete remission

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Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation for adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in first complete remission

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Are experimental treatments for cancer in children superior to established treatments? Observational study of randomised controlled trials by the Children's Oncology Group

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Articulating and responding to uncertainties in clinical research

scientific article published in March 2007

At what degree of belief in a research hypothesis is a trial in humans justified?

scientific article published in May 2002

At what level of collective equipoise does a randomized clinical trial become ethical for the members of institutional review board/ethical committees?

scientific article published on January 2013

Bad reporting does not mean bad methods for randomised trials: observational study of randomised controlled trials performed by the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group

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Benchmarks for detecting 'breakthroughs' in clinical trials: empirical assessment of the probability of large treatment effects using kernel density estimation

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Bisphosphonates for Patients Diagnosed With Multiple Myeloma

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Bisphosphonates in multiple myeloma

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Bisphosphonates in multiple myeloma: a network meta-analysis

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Bisphosphonates in multiple myeloma: an updated network meta-analysis.

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Cancer randomized trials showed that dissemination bias is still a problem to be solved

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Cancer- and chemotherapy-induced anemia

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Cancer- and treatment-related anemia

scientific article published on November 2005

Challenges to accrual predictions to phase III cancer clinical trials: a survey of study chairs and lead statisticians of 248 NCI-sponsored trials

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Chemoprevention agents for prostate cancer

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Choosing a control intervention for a randomised clinical trial ⬇️

scientific article published on April 22, 2003

Colony-stimulating factors for chemotherapy-induced febrile neutropenia

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Colony-stimulating factors for chemotherapy-induced febrile neutropenia: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

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Colony-stimulating factors for febrile neutropenia

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Colony-stimulating factors for febrile neutropenia during cancer therapy

scientific article published on March 2013

Comparative efficacy of first-line therapies for advanced-stage chronic lymphocytic leukemia: a multiple-treatment meta-analysis

scientific article published on 14 June 2012

Comparative efficacy of tandem autologous versus autologous followed by allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

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Comparator bias: why comparisons must address genuine uncertainties.

scientific article published in January 2013

Decision analysis of peripheral blood versus bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells for allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation

scientific article published in September 2009

Decision-making when data and inferences are not conclusive: risk-benefit and acceptable regret approach

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Decitabine versus 5-azacitidine for the treatment of myelodysplastic syndrome: adjusted indirect meta-analysis

scientific article published on 22 October 2009

Defining optimum treatment of patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma using regret-based decision curve analysis

scientific article published in June 2014

Determining optimal threshold for statins prescribing: individualization of statins treatment for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease

scientific article published on 11 November 2015

Dual Processing Model for Medical Decision-Making: An Extension to Diagnostic Testing

scientific article published on 5 August 2015

Dual processing model of medical decision-making

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Early versus deferred treatment for early stage multiple myeloma

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Effect of Age on Clinical Outcomes in Phase 1 Trial Participants

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Effect of initial conditions on reproducibility of scientific research

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Efficacy and Safety of Systemic Therapies for Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Network Meta-Analysis of Phase III Trials

scientific article published on 19 October 2017

Efficacy of adoptive immunotherapy with donor lymphocyte infusion in relapsed lymphoid malignancies

scientific article published on May 2013

Efficacy of rituximab in the setting of steroid-refractory chronic graft-versus-host disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 10 June 2009

Elective induction of labor at 39 weeks among nulliparous women: The impact on maternal and neonatal risk.

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Eliciting regret improves decision making at the end of life

scientific article published on 3 October 2016

Epistemologic inquiries in evidence-based medicine.

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Erythropoietin improves quality of life--a response.

scientific article published in September 2002

Erythropoietin or Darbepoetin for patients with cancer

scientific article (published 2006-07-19)

Erythropoietin or Darbepoetin for patients with cancer - meta-analysis based on individual patient data

scientific article (publication date: 8 July 2009)

Erythropoietin or Darbepoetin for patients with cancer - meta-analysis based on individual patient data

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Erythropoietin use in oncology: a summary of the evidence and practice guidelines comparing efforts of the Cochrane Review group and Blue Cross/Blue Shield to set up the ASCO/ASH guidelines

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Erythropoietin, uncertainty principle and cancer related anaemia

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Estimating the mean and variance from the median, range, and the size of a sample

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Evaluation of Physicians' Cognitive Styles

scientific article published on 10 April 2014

Evaluation of new treatments in radiation oncology: are they better than standard treatments?

scientific article published on February 2005

Evaluation of the U.S. governors' decision when to issue stay-at-home orders

scientific article published on 13 August 2020

Evaluation of the US governors decision when to issue stay-at-home orders [Running title: When to shut down: the Weber-Fechner law describes the timing of U. S. governors decisions to issue stay-at-home orders]

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

Evidence and decision making. Commentary on M.R. Tonelli (2006), Integrating evidence into clinical practice: an alternative approach to evidence-based approaches. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 12, 248-256.

scientific article published in June 2006

Evidence profiles for breast cancer: benefit/harms data based on the totality of randomized evidence

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Evidence profiles for colo-rectal cancer: benefit/harms data based on the totality of randomized evidence

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Evidence profiles for lung cancer: benefit/harms data based on the totality of randomized evidence

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Evidence synthesis and guideline development in genomic medicine: current status and future prospects

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Evidence to Decision framework provides a structured “roadmap” for making GRADE guidelines recommendations

article published in 2018

Evidence-based medicine for rare diseases: implications for data interpretation and clinical trial design

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Evidence-based oncology in cancer treatment reviews

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Evidence-based practice is not synonymous with delivery of uniform health care

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Evolution of treatment regimens in multiple myeloma: a social network analysis

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Expected utility versus expected regret theory versions of decision curve analysis do generate different results when treatment effects are taken into account

scientific article published on 15 December 2016

Extensions to regret-based decision curve analysis: an application to hospice referral for terminal patients

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External validation of a web-based prognostic tool for predicting survival for patients in hospice care.

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Extracorporeal photopheresis in steroid-refractory acute or chronic graft-versus-host disease: results of a systematic review of prospective studies

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Failure of equipoise to resolve the ethical tension in a randomized clinical trial

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

Failure to place evidence at the centre of quality improvement remains a major barrier for advances in quality improvement

scientific article published on 23 April 2019

First-line double high-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplantation versus single high-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplantation in multiple myeloma

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From efficacy to effectiveness in the face of uncertainty: indication creep and prevention creep

scientific article published in May 2011

From hospice to hospital: short-term follow-up study of hospice patient outcomes in a US acute care hospital surveillance system

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GRADE guidelines system is reproducible when instructions are clearly operationalized even among the guidelines panel members with limited experience with GRADE.

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Gemtuzumab ozogamicin for treatment of newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukaemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 23 August 2013

Guideline panels should not GRADE good practice statements

scientific article published on 31 December 2014

Guideline panels should seldom make good practice statements: guidance from the GRADE Working Group

scientific article published on 21 July 2016

High-dose chemotherapy followed by autologous stem cell transplantation as first-line therapy in aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: a meta-analysis.

scientific article published in November 2003

High-dose therapy with single autologous transplantation versus chemotherapy for newly diagnosed multiple myeloma: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

scientific article published on February 2007

High-quality evidence in oncology from 18th May to 15th June 2004: a summary.

scientific article published in December 2004

How do physicians decide to treat: an empirical evaluation of the threshold model

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Human recombinant erythropoietin and quality of life: a wonder drug or something to wonder about?

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Identifying homogenous subgroups for individual patient meta-analysis based on Rough Set Theory

scientific article published on January 2014

Impact of quality of evidence on the strength of recommendations: an empirical study

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Impact of spinal needle type on postdural puncture headache among women undergoing Cesarean section surgery under spinal anesthesia: A meta-analysis

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Implications of the principle of question propagation for comparative-effectiveness and "data mining" research

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Improving the drug development process: more not less randomized trials

scientific article published in January 2014

Improving the efficiency and relevance of evidence-based recommendations in the era of whole-genome sequencing: an EGAPP methods update

scientific article published on 06 September 2012

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Instrumental variable meta-analysis of individual patient data: application to adjust for treatment non-compliance

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Iron Supplementation for Chemotherapy-Induced Anemia in Patients Receiving Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agents

scientific article published on 7 July 2016

Itraconazole prevents invasive fungal infections in neutropenic patients treated for hematologic malignancies: evidence from a meta-analysis of 3,597 patients

scientific article published in December 2003

JAMA published fewer industry-funded studies after introducing a requirement for independent statistical analysis

scientific article (publication date: 22 October 2010)

Larger effect sizes in non-randomized studies are associated with higher rates of EMA licensing approval

scientific article published on 9 February 2018

Lifting the fog of uncertainty from the practice of medicine

scientific article published on December 2004

Maintenance therapies for multiple myeloma

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Management of cancer-associated anemia with erythropoiesis-stimulating agents: ASCO/ASH clinical practice guideline update

Management of multiple myeloma: a systematic review and critical appraisal of published studies ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 2003

Management of venous Thromboembolism in cancer: a brief review of risk-benefit approaches and guidelines' recommendations.

scientific article published on March 2010

Many faces of rationality: Implications of the great rationality debate for clinical decision-making

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Medical research: Trial unpredictability yields predictable therapy gains

scientific article published on August 2013

Monte Carlo decision curve analysis using aggregate data

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Multicenter phase II study of bortezomib in patients with relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma

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Multiple Myeloma, Version 2.2016: Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology

scientific article published on November 2015

Multiple myeloma, version 1.2013.

scientific article published in January 2013

Mycophenolate mofetil versus methotrexate for prevention of acute graft-versus-host disease in patients receiving allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

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Mycophenolate mofetil versus methotrexate for prevention of graft-versus-host disease in people receiving allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

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Myeloma (multiple).

scientific article published on June 2006

Myeloma (multiple).

scientific article published in April 2006

NCCN Guidelines Insights: Multiple Myeloma, Version 3.2016.

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New treatments compared to established treatments in randomized trials

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New treatments compared to established treatments in randomized trials

scientific article (publication date: 18 April 2007)

Nonmyeloablative allogeneic stem-cell transplantation for hematologic malignancies: a systematic review

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On evidence-based medicine - Authors' reply

scientific article published in November 2017

Oncology treatment recommendations can be supported only by 1-2% of high-quality published evidence.

scientific article published in June 2005

Optimal information size in trial sequential analysis of time-to-event outcomes reveals potentially inconclusive results because of the risk of random error

scientific article published on 8 February 2013

Optimal type I and type II error pairs when the available sample size is fixed

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Optimism bias leads to inconclusive results-an empirical study

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Patients' values and preferences of the expected efficacy of hip arthroscopy for osteoarthritis: a protocol for a multinational structured interview-based study combined with a randomised survey on the optimal amount of information to elicit prefere

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Pharmaceutical industry sponsorship and research outcome and quality: systematic review

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Placebo-controlled phase III trial of patient-specific immunotherapy with mitumprotimut-T and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor after rituximab in patients with follicular lymphoma

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Platelet transfusion: a clinical practice guideline from the AABB.

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Platelet transfusion: a systematic review of the clinical evidence

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Preliminary evaluation of factors associated with premature trial closure and feasibility of accrual benchmarks in phase III oncology trials

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Progress in evidence-based medicine: a quarter century on.

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Prophylactic granulocyte colony-stimulating factor in patients receiving dose-intensive cancer chemotherapy: a meta-analysis

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Published methodological quality of randomized controlled trials does not reflect the actual quality assessed in protocols

scientific article published on 16 March 2012

Quality and methods of developing practice guidelines

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Quality of evidence is a key determinant for making a strong GRADE guidelines recommendation

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Quality of reporting of serious adverse drug events to an institutional review board: a case study with the novel cancer agent, imatinib mesylate

scientific article published on 19 May 2009

Randomized trials in oncology stopped early for benefit

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Rapid infusion rituximab for maintenance therapy: is it feasible?

scientific article published on 31 October 2013

Rational decision making in medicine: Implications for overuse and underuse

scientific article published in December 2017

Rationality, practice variation and person-centred health policy: a threshold hypothesis

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Recombinant human erythropoiesis-stimulating agents and mortality in patients with cancer: a meta-analysis of randomised trials

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Recombinant human erythropoietins and cancer patients: updated meta-analysis of 57 studies including 9353 patients

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Recommendations on the use of 18F-FDG PET in oncology

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Red blood cell transfusion: a clinical practice guideline from the AABB*.

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Reliable data on 5- and 10-year survival provide accurate estimates of 15-year survival in estrogen receptor-positive early-stage breast cancer

scientific article published on 6 October 2009

Research synthesis of information theory measures of uncertainty: Meta-analysis of entropy and mutual information of diagnostic tests

scientific article published on 11 September 2020

Risk prediction versus diagnosis: preserving clinical nuance in a binary world.

scientific article published in February 2009

Role of high-dose chemotherapy and autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation in primary systemic amyloidosis: a systematic review

scientific article published on 02 April 2009

Role of iron supplementation to erythropoiesis stimulating agents in the management of chemotherapy-induced anemia in cancer patients

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Rough Set Theory based prognostication of life expectancy for terminally ill patients

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Rough set theory based prognostic classification models for hospice referral

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Screening for prostate cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

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Screening mammography at 40-49 years: regret or no regret?

scientific article published in December 2006

Senior GRADE methodologists encounter challenges as part of WHO guideline development panels: an inductive content analysis

scientific article published on 15 September 2015

Sequence of novel agents in multiple myeloma: an instrumental variable analysis

scientific article published on 25 June 2013

Stakeholders apply the GRADE evidence-to-decision framework to facilitate coverage decisions

scientific article published on April 2017

Stopping randomized trials early for benefit and estimation of treatment effects: systematic review and meta-regression analysis

scientific article published on March 2010

Stopping randomized trials early for benefit: a protocol of the Study Of Trial Policy Of Interim Truncation-2 (STOPIT-2)

scientific article published on 06 July 2009

Study design and the drug development process--reply

scientific article published in May 2014

Survival of patients with non-small cell lung cancer without treatment: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 4 February 2013

Systematic review of high dose chemotherapy and autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: what is the published evidence?

scientific article published on October 2007

Systematic review of piperacillin-induced neutropenia

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Tandem versus single autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation for the treatment of multiple myeloma: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 13 January 2009

Thalidomide versus bortezomib based regimens as first-line therapy for patients with multiple myeloma: a systematic review

scientific article published on January 2011

The Australian 'FORM' approach to guideline development: the quest for the perfect system

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The Second Mediterranean Seminar on Science Writing, Editing and Publishing (SWEP - 2018), Sarajevo, December 8th, 2018

article by Izet Masic et al published December 2018 in Acta informatica medica : AIM : journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina : časopis Društva za medicinsku informatiku BiH

The challenge of systematic reviews of diagnostic and staging studies in cancer

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The importance of preservation of the ethical principle of equipoise in the design of clinical trials: relative impact of the methodological quality domains on the treatment effect in randomized controlled trials.

scientific article published in October 2003

The paradox of equipoise: the principle that drives and limits therapeutic discoveries in clinical research

scientific article published on October 2009

The predicament of patients with suspected Ebola

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The role of iron in the management of chemotherapy-induced anemia in cancer patients receiving erythropoiesis-stimulating agents

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The threshold model revisited

scientific article published on 21 December 2018

Thinking Styles and Regret in Physicians

scientific article published on 4 August 2015

Those Responsible for Approving Research Studies Have Poor Knowledge of Research Study Design: a Knowledge Assessment of Institutional Review Board Members

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Three-drug versus two-drug induction therapy regimens for patients with transplant-eligible multiple myeloma

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Tolerating uncertainty about conceptual models of uncertainty in health care

scientific article published on 20 February 2019

Towards a classification model to identify hospice candidates in terminally ill patients.

scientific article published in January 2012

Towards theory integration: Threshold model as a link between signal detection theory, fast-and-frugal trees and evidence accumulation theory

scientific article published on 18 December 2015

Transforming clinical practice guidelines and clinical pathways into fast-and-frugal decision trees to improve clinical care strategies

scientific article published on 27 February 2018

Treatment of patients with multiple myeloma: an overview of systematic reviews

scientific article published on 08 December 2010

Treatment success in cancer: industry compared to publicly sponsored randomized controlled trials

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Treatment success in cancer: new cancer treatment successes identified in phase 3 randomized controlled trials conducted by the National Cancer Institute-sponsored cooperative oncology groups, 1955 to 2006.

scientific article published on March 2008

Treatment targeted at underlying disease versus palliative care in terminally ill patients: a systematic review

scientific article published on 6 January 2017

Treatment tolerance and efficacy in geriatric oncology: a systematic review of phase III randomized trials conducted by five National Cancer Institute-sponsored cooperative groups

scientific article published on April 2007

Trial sequential analysis may be insufficient to draw firm conclusions regarding statistically significant treatment differences using observed intervention effects: a case study of meta-analyses of multiple myeloma trials

scientific article published on 28 December 2012

Uncertainty about effects is a key factor influencing institutional review boards' approval of clinical studies

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Uncertainty and equipoise: at interplay between epistemology, decision making and ethics

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Use of epoetin and darbepoetin in patients with cancer: 2007 American Society of Clinical Oncology/American Society of Hematology clinical practice guideline update

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Use of epoetin and darbepoetin in patients with cancer: 2007 American Society of Hematology/American Society of Clinical Oncology clinical practice guideline update

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Use of re-randomized data in meta-analysis

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Value of repeat head computed tomography after traumatic brain injury: systematic review and meta-analysis

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Value-Based Cancer Care and the Excessive Cost of Drugs.

scientific article published on 27 August 2015

Venous thromboembolism and mortality associated with recombinant erythropoietin and darbepoetin administration for the treatment of cancer-associated anemia

scientific article published on February 2008

Waldenström's macroglobulinemia/lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma, version 2.2013.

scientific article published in October 2012

Well informed uncertainties about the effects of treatment: paradox exists in dealing with uncertainty

scientific article published in April 2004

What does evidence mean? Most languages translate "evidence" into "proof".

scientific article published in October 2017

What kind of evidence do patients and practitioners need: evidence profiles based on 5 key evidence-based principles to summarize data on benefits and harms

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When are clinical trials beneficial for study patients and future patients? A factorial vignette-based survey of institutional review board members

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When are randomized trials unnecessary? A signal detection theory approach to approving new treatments based on non-randomized studies

scientific article published on 26 October 2020

When is diagnostic testing inappropriate or irrational? Acceptable regret approach

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When is it rational to participate in a clinical trial? A game theory approach incorporating trust, regret and guilt

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When is rational to order a diagnostic test, or prescribe treatment: the threshold model as an explanation of practice variation

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When should potentially false research findings be considered acceptable?

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When to perform hepatic resection for intermediate-stage hepatocellular carcinoma

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World Health Organization recommendations are often strong based on low confidence in effect estimates

scientific article published on 03 January 2014

World Health Organization strong recommendations based on low-quality evidence (study quality) are frequent and often inconsistent with GRADE guidance

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