List of works by Keith R. Abrams

A Bayesian approach to evaluating net clinical benefit allowed for parameter uncertainty

scientific article published in January 2005

A Comprehensive Assessment of Early Trial Evidence in Primary Breast Cancer: How Decisions Change Over Time

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A comparison of cost per case detected of screening strategies for Type 2 diabetes and impaired glucose regulation: modelling study

scientific article published on 2 May 2012

A generalized weighting regression-derived meta-analysis estimator robust to small-study effects and heterogeneity

scientific article published on 21 February 2012

A randomised, partially observer blind, multicentre, head-to-head comparison of a two-dose regimen of Baxter and GlaxoSmithKline H1N1 pandemic vaccines, administered 21 days apart.

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A randomized controlled trial of the effectiveness of pelvic floor therapies for urodynamic stress and mixed incontinence.

scientific article published in November 2006

A systematic review and mixed treatment comparison of pharmacological interventions for the treatment of obesity

scientific article published on 30 January 2012

A systematic review of molecular and biological markers in tumours of the Ewing's sarcoma family.

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A systematic review of molecular and biological tumor markers in neuroblastoma

scientific article published on January 2004

A systematic review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of animal experiments with guidelines for reporting

scientific article published on January 2006

Abnormal uterine bleeding on hormone replacement: the importance of intrauterine structural abnormalities.

scientific article published on September 1995

Accounting for heterogeneity in meta-analysis using a multiplicative model-an empirical study

scientific article published on 3 June 2016

Accuracy of a 12-lead electrocardiogram in screening patients with suspected heart failure for open access echocardiography: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Adjusting Survival Time Estimates to Account for Treatment Switching in Randomized Controlled Trials—an Economic Evaluation Context

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Adjusting for measurement error in baseline prognostic biomarkers included in a time-to-event analysis: a joint modelling approach

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Adjusting for publication biases across similar interventions performed well when compared with gold standard data

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Adjusting for the Confounding Effects of Treatment Switching-The BREAK-3 Trial: Dabrafenib Versus Dacarbazine

scientific article published on 3 June 2015

Adjusting for treatment switching in randomised controlled trials - A simulation study and a simplified two-stage method.

scientific article published on 21 November 2014

Adjusting for treatment switching in the METRIC study shows further improved overall survival with trametinib compared with chemotherapy

scientific article published on 27 January 2016

An alternative model for bivariate random-effects meta-analysis when the within-study correlations are unknown

scientific article published on 11 July 2007

An evaluation of bivariate random-effects meta-analysis for the joint synthesis of two correlated outcomes.

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An illustrated guide to the methods of meta-analysis.

scientific article published on May 2001

An integrated approach to the meta-analysis of genetic association studies using Mendelian randomization

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An iterative Bayesian approach to health technology assessment: application to a policy of preoperative optimization for patients undergoing major elective surgery

scientific article published on September 2006

Analysis of urinary human chorionic gonadotrophin concentrations in normal and failing pregnancies using longitudinal, Cox proportional hazards and two-stage modelling

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Approximate Bayesian inference for random effects meta-analysis.

scientific article published in January 1998

Assessing methods for dealing with treatment switching in clinical trials: A follow-up simulation study.

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Assessing methods for dealing with treatment switching in randomised controlled trials: a simulation study

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Assessing the cost effectiveness of using prognostic biomarkers with decision models: case study in prioritising patients waiting for coronary artery surgery

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Assessing the effectiveness of primary angioplasty compared with thrombolysis and its relationship to time delay: a Bayesian evidence synthesis

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Assessment of regression-based methods to adjust for publication bias through a comprehensive simulation study

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Assessment of separate contributions to perinatal mortality of infertility history and treatment: a case-control analysis.

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Audit of patients on oral anticoagulants with International normalized ratios of eight or above

scientific article published on 01 August 1998

Bayesian approaches to meta-analysis of ROC curves.

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Bayesian implementation of a genetic model-free approach to the meta-analysis of genetic association studies.

scientific article published in December 2005

Bayesian meta-analytical methods to incorporate multiple surrogate endpoints in drug development process

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Bayesian methods for evidence synthesis in cost-effectiveness analysis

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Bayesian methods in health technology assessment: a review

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Bivariate network meta-analysis for surrogate endpoint evaluation

scientific article published on 26 May 2019

Bivariate random-effects meta-analysis and the estimation of between-study correlation

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Botulinum toxin a versus placebo for refractory detrusor overactivity in women: a randomised blinded placebo-controlled trial of 240 women (the RELAX study).

scientific article published on 5 January 2012

Cancer Drugs Fund requires further reform

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Cerebral blood flow threshold of ischemic penumbra and infarct core in acute ischemic stroke: a systematic review

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Clinically overt postpartum urinary retention after vaginal delivery: a retrospective case-control study

scientific article published on 23 August 2006

Colorectal cancer prevention in ulcerative colitis: a case-control study.

scientific article published on February 2000

Comments on 'trying to be precise about vagueness' by Stephen Senn, Statistics in Medicine 2007; 26:1417-1430.

scientific article published in February 2008

Comparison of the effectiveness of repeated injections of onabotulinum toxin A for refractory idiopathic detrusor overactivity: analysis of an open label extension of a randomized trial (the RELAX study).

scientific article published on 26 August 2016

Comparison of two methods to detect publication bias in meta-analysis

scientific article (publication date: 8 February 2006)

Comprehensive decision analytical modelling in economic evaluation: a Bayesian approach

scientific article published on March 2004

Continuing the multiple sclerosis risk sharing scheme is unjustified.

scientific article published on 3 June 2010

Contour-enhanced meta-analysis funnel plots help distinguish publication bias from other causes of asymmetry

scientific article published on 06 June 2008

Cost of Previously Treated Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) and Indolent Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (INHL) in the United Kingdom (UK)

scientific article published on 26 October 2014

Cost-effectiveness and value of information analyses of neuraminidase inhibitors for the treatment of influenza

scientific article published in March 2008

Decision analytical economic modelling within a Bayesian framework: application to prophylactic antibiotics use for caesarean section.

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Detection of Intestinal Metaplasia in Barrett's Esophagus

Detection of intestinal metaplasia in Barrett's esophagus: an observational comparator study suggests the need for a minimum of eight biopsies.

scientific article published on 13 April 2007

Determination of gestational age after the 24th week of gestation from fetal kidney length measurements.

scientific article published in June 2002

Development of a transparent interactive decision interrogator to facilitate the decision-making process in health care.

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Different strategies for screening and prevention of type 2 diabetes in adults: cost effectiveness analysis

scientific article published on 21 April 2008

Differing Responses in Blood Pressure Over 24 Hours in Normotensive Women Receiving Oral or Transdermal Estrogen Replacement Therapy

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Does patient knowledge affect the colorectal cancer risk in ulcerative colitis?

scientific article published on October 2002

Effect of a low-impact exercise program on bone mineral density in Crohn's disease: A randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 01 July 1998

Effect of hypobaric hypoxia, simulating conditions during long-haul air travel, on coagulation, fibrinolysis, platelet function, and endothelial activation

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Effects of Decision Aids for Menorrhagia on Treatment Choices, Health Outcomes, and Costs

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Eliciting distributions to populate decision analytic models

scientific article published on 22 March 2010

Esophageal stents for benign refractory strictures: a meta-analysis.

scientific article published on 24 March 2011

Estimating the cost-effectiveness of an intervention in a clinical trial when partial cost information is available: a Bayesian approach.

scientific article published in January 2008

Etanercept, infliximab and adalimumab for the treatment of psoriatic arthritis: a systematic review and economic evaluation.

scientific article published on February 2011

Evaluating the quality of research into a single prognostic biomarker: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 83 studies of C-reactive protein in stable coronary artery disease

scientific article (publication date: June 2010)

Evaluation of Methods for the Inclusion of Real World Evidence in Network Meta-Analysis – A Case Study in Multiple Sclerosis

scientific article published on 26 October 2014

Evaluation of a Hip Fracture Risk Score for Assessing Elderly Women: The Melton Osteoporotic Fracture (MOF) Study

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

Evidence-based sample size calculations based upon updated meta-analysis

scientific article published on May 2007

Factors affecting uptake of childhood immunisation: a Bayesian synthesis of qualitative and quantitative evidence.

scientific article published in November 2002

Factors that influence the dental attendance pattern and maintenance of oral health for people with multiple sclerosis

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Female barrier contraceptive

scientific article published in The Lancet

Flexible parametric joint modelling of longitudinal and survival data

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From Evidence-Based Economics to Economics-Based Evidence: Using Systematic Review to Inform the Design of Future Research

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Generalized synthesis of evidence and the threat of dissemination bias. the example of electronic fetal heart rate monitoring (EFM).

scientific article published in October 2002

Good practice guidelines for the use of statistical regression models in economic evaluations

scientific article published on August 2013

Hierarchical network meta-analysis models to address sparsity of events and differing treatment classifications with regard to adverse outcomes

scientific article published on 13 March 2014

How discriminatory is the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) in the assessment of clinical competence of medical students?

scientific article published on 01 May 2001

How is evidence on test performance synthesized for economic decision models of diagnostic tests? A systematic appraisal of Health Technology Assessments in the UK since 1997.

scientific article published on October 2010

How should we use information about HWE in the meta-analyses of genetic association studies?

scientific article published on 23 November 2007

How vague is vague? A simulation study of the impact of the use of vague prior distributions in MCMC using WinBUGS.

scientific article published in August 2005

How valuable are multiple treatment comparison methods in evidence-based health-care evaluation?

scientific article published on 5 February 2011

Identification of previously undiagnosed left ventricular systolic dysfunction: community screening using natriuretic peptides and electrocardiography

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Immunogenicity and safety of a two-dose schedule of whole-virion and AS03A-adjuvanted 2009 influenza A (H1N1) vaccines: a randomised, multicentre, age-stratified, head-to-head trial

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Increased bone resorption in patients with Crohn's disease

scientific article published on 01 August 1998

Inhibition of vascular smooth muscle cell adhesion and migration by c7E3 Fab (abciximab): a possible mechanism for influencing restenosis

scientific article published on 01 December 2000

Inter-observer variation between general and specialist gastrointestinal pathologists when grading dysplasia in ulcerative colitis.

scientific article published in June 2001

Interspecies extrapolation in environmental exposure standard setting: A Bayesian synthesis approach

scientific article published on 10 February 2009

Is primary angioplasty cost effective in the UK? Results of a comprehensive decision analysis

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Joint longitudinal hurdle and time-to-event models: an application related to viral load and duration of the first treatment regimen in patients with HIV initiating therapy

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Joint modelling of longitudinal and survival data: incorporating delayed entry and an assessment of model misspecification

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Long term follow-up of a randomised controlled trial of services for urinary symptoms

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Long-term healthcare use and costs in patients with stable coronary artery disease: a population-based cohort using linked health records (CALIBER).

scientific article published on January 2016

Long-term prognosis in Crohn's disease: an epidemiological study of patients diagnosed more than 20 years ago in Cardiff

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Long-term prognosis in Crohn's disease: factors that affect quality of life.

scientific article published in February 2006

Management of non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes: how cost-effective are glycoprotein IIb/IIIA antagonists in the UK National Health Service?

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Meta analysis: Cancer risk in Barrett's oesophagus.

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Meta-analysis and the synthesis of evidence.

scientific article published in September 1995

Meta-analysis of genetic studies using Mendelian randomization--a multivariate approach

scientific article published in July 2005

Meta-analysis of heterogeneously reported trials assessing change from baseline

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Meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials comparing open and laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair.

scientific article published in December 2003

Meta-analysis of rare and adverse event data

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Meta-analysis: mortality in Crohn's disease.

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Methods in health service research. An introduction to bayesian methods in health technology assessment

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Modeling the value for money of changing clinical practice change: a stochastic application in diabetes care

scientific article published in October 2009

Modelling Neonatal Care Pathways for Babies Born Preterm: An Application of Multistate Modelling

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Modelling the cost effectiveness of interferon beta and glatiramer acetate in the management of multiple sclerosis. Commentary: evaluating disease modifying treatments in multiple sclerosis.

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Multivariate meta-analysis of mixed outcomes: a Bayesian approach

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Newborn acid-base status and umbilical cord morphology

scientific article published on 01 November 1998

Normative values of Doppler velocimetry of five major fetal arteries as determined by color power angiography.

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Novel methods to deal with publication biases: secondary analysis of antidepressant trials in the FDA trial registry database and related journal publications ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 7 August 2009)

Patient factors associated with onabotulinum toxin A treatment outcome in women with detrusor overactivity

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Performance of the trim and fill method in the presence of publication bias and between-study heterogeneity

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Pharmacological and lifestyle interventions to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes in people with impaired glucose tolerance: systematic review and meta-analysis

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Platelet-derived endothelial cell growth factor expression and angiogenesis in cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix.

scientific article published on October 2000

Predicting costs over time using Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo methods: an application to early inflammatory polyarthritis

scientific article published on January 2007

Prevention of tamoxifen induced endometrial polyps using a levonorgestrel releasing intrauterine system long-term follow-up of a randomised control trial.

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Primary angioplasty versus thrombolysis for acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction: an economic analysis of the National Infarct Angioplasty project

scientific article published on 08 June 2009

Prognosis Research Strategy (PROGRESS) 2: prognostic factor research

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Prognosis research strategy (PROGRESS) 1: a framework for researching clinical outcomes

scientific article published on 5 February 2013

Prognosis research strategy (PROGRESS) 4: stratified medicine research

scientific article (publication date: 5 February 2013)

Psychological impact of predicting individuals' risks of illness: a systematic review.

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Quality of life and survival with continuous hepatic-artery floxuridine infusion for colorectal liver metastases

scientific article published in November 1994

Randomised controlled trial and health economic evaluation of the impact of diagnostic testing for influenza, respiratory syncytial virus and Streptococcus pneumoniae infection on the management of acute admissions in the elderly and high-risk 18- t

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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing the Efficacy of a Video and Information Leaflet Versus Information Leaflet Alone on Patient Knowledge About Surveillance and Cancer Risk in Ulcerative Colitis

scientific article published on 01 November 2002

Rate of decline in renal function in Indo-Asians and Whites with diabetic nephropathy

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Recreational drug use: a major risk factor for gastroschisis?

scientific article published on 5 December 2007

Reporting of prognostic markers: current problems and development of guidelines for evidence-based practice in the future ⬇️

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Searching for indirect evidence and extending the network of studies for network meta-analysis: case study in venous thromboembolic events prevention following elective total knee replacement surgery

scientific article published on 05 May 2014

Sensitivity analyses allowed more appropriate and reliable meta-analysis conclusions for multiple outcomes when missing data was present

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Simple Bayesian analysis in clinical trials: a tutorial.

scientific article published in October 1994

Simultaneous analysis of quality of life and survival data.

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Strategies to attenuate micro-vascular obstruction during P-PCI: the randomized reperfusion facilitated by local adjunctive therapy in ST-elevation myocardial infarction trial ⬇️

scientific article published on 04 May 2016

Systematic literature review and meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy in Alzheimer's disease and other dementia using autopsy as standard of truth

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Systematic review of methods used in meta-analyses where a primary outcome is an adverse or unintended event

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Systematic review of respite care in the frail elderly

scientific article published on April 2009

Temporal trends in primary total hip and knee arthroplasty surgery: results from a UK regional joint register, 1991-2004.

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The Multiple Sclerosis Risk Sharing Scheme Monitoring Study--early results and lessons for the future

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The REFLO-STEMI trial comparing intracoronary adenosine, sodium nitroprusside and standard therapy for the attenuation of infarct size and microvascular obstruction during primary percutaneous coronary intervention: study protocol for a randomised c

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The analysis of peak expiratory flow data using a three-level hierarchical model

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The beneficial effects of oral nifedipine on cyclosporin-treated renal transplant recipients ? a randomised prospective study

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

The choice of a genetic model in the meta-analysis of molecular association studies

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The cost-effectiveness of influenza vaccination of healthy adults 50-64 years of age.

scientific article published on 6 September 2005

The effect of rectally administered steroids on bone turnover: a comparative study

scientific article published on 01 March 1998

The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of biomarkers for the prioritisation of patients awaiting coronary revascularisation: a systematic review and decision model

scientific article published on February 2010

The efficacy of loop diuretics in acute renal failure: assessment using Bayesian evidence synthesis techniques

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The impact of under and over-recording of cancer on death certificates in a competing risks analysis: a simulation study.

scientific article published on 20 September 2012

The importance of effect mechanism in the design and interpretation of clinical trials: the role of magnesium in acute myocardial infarction.

scientific article published in January 2002

The prevalence of depression in white-European and South-Asian people with impaired glucose regulation and screen-detected type 2 diabetes mellitus.

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The quality of meta-analyses of genetic association studies: a review with recommendations

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Threshold haemoglobin levels and the prognosis of stable coronary disease: two new cohorts and a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article (publication date: May 2011)

Translational phases of evidence in a prognostic biomarker: a systematic review and meta-analysis of natriuretic peptides and the prognosis of stable coronary disease

scientific article published on 03 March 2012

Transparent Interactive Decision Interrogator—Reply to Letter to the Editor by Michael Coory

scientific article published on 01 January 2013

Uncertainty in the Bayesian meta-analysis of normally distributed surrogate endpoints

scientific article published on 13 August 2015

Urinary diaries: a comparison of data collected for three days versus seven days

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Use of Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods to model cost-of-illness data

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Use of Bayesian multivariate meta-analysis to estimate the HAQ for mapping onto the EQ-5D questionnaire in rheumatoid arthritis.

scientific article published on January 2014

Use of evidence in decision models: an appraisal of health technology assessments in the UK since 1997.

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Use of indirect and mixed treatment comparisons for technology assessment

scientific article published on January 2008

Using electronic health records to predict costs and outcomes in stable coronary artery disease

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Validation of the Patient Global Impression scales for use in detrusor overactivity: secondary analysis of the RELAX study.

scientific article published on 27 November 2012

What factors predict length of stay in a neonatal unit: a systematic review

scientific article published on 18 October 2016

What is the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of using drugs in treating obese patients in primary care? A systematic review

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When to wait for more evidence? Real options analysis in proton therapy

scientific article published on 6 December 2011

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