September 2016

Editorial Board
Published in issue: September 2016
IFC

Table of Contents
Published in issue: September 2016
iii-v

Editorial

Can patient decision aids be used to improve not only decisional comfort but also adherence?
• Peter Tugwell,
• J. André Knottnerus
Published in issue: September 2016
p1-3

Commentaries

Are more responsive depression scales really superior depression scales?
• Eiko I. Fried
Published online: May 28, 2016
p4-6
The need for ethics as well as evidence in evidence-based medicine
• Stuart G. Nicholls,
• Ainsley J. Newson,
• Richard E. Ashcroft
Published online: May 31, 2016
p7-10
Overview provides insights on the current status and future of meta-epidemiology
• Spyridon N. Papageorgiou
Published online: May 14, 2016
p11-12
Consequences of randomized clinical trial design decisions need to be clarified
• Daniel L. Riddle
Published online: March 05, 2016
p13-14

Review

A measurement framework for adherence in patient decision aid trials applied in a systematic review subanalysis
• Logan Trenaman,
• Anna Selva,
• Sophie Desroches,
• ...
• Janice Bissonnette,
• Nick Bansback,
• Dawn Stacey
Published online: May 13, 2016
p15-23

Original Articles

Empirical evaluation of which trial characteristics are associated with treatment effect estimates
• Agnes Dechartres,
• Ludovic Trinquart,
• Timor Faber,
• Philippe Ravaud
Published online: April 29, 2016
p24-37

Bias was reduced in an open-label trial through the removal of subjective elements from the outcome definition
• Brennan C. Kahan,
• Caroline J. Doré,
• Michael F. Murphy,
• Vipul Jairath
Published online: June 01, 2016
p38-43

Peer reviewers identified spin in manuscripts of nonrandomized studies assessing therapeutic interventions, but their impact on spin in abstract conclusions was limited
• Clément Lazarus,
• Romana Haneef,
• Philippe Ravaud,
• Sally Hopewell,
• Douglas G. Altman,
• Isabelle Boutron
Published online: May 07, 2016
p44-51

Recurrent event frailty models reduced time-varying and other biases in evaluating transfusion protocols for traumatic hemorrhage
• Sangbum Choi,
• Mohammad H. Rahbar,
• Jing Ning,
• ...
• Jin Piao,
• Erin E. Fox,
• John B. Holcomb
Published online: April 28, 2016
p52-59.e1


Meta-epidemiologic study showed frequent time trends in summary estimates from meta-analyses of diagnostic accuracy studies
• Jérémie F. Cohen,
• Daniël A. Korevaar,
• Junfeng Wang,
• Mariska M. Leeflang,
• Patrick M. Bossuyt
Published online: May 19, 2016
p60-67

The relative responsiveness of test instruments can be estimated using a meta-analytic approach: an illustration with treatments for depression
• Daphne Z. Kounali,
• Katherine S. Button,
• Glyn Lewis,
• Anthony E. Ades
Published online: March 16, 2016
p68-77

Timing of pivotal clinical trial results reporting for newly approved medications varied by reporting source
• Bethany Withycombe,
• Mac Ovenell,
• Amanda Meeker,
• Sharia M. Ahmed,
• Daniel M. Hartung
Published online: April 21, 2016
p78-83
Cancer randomized trials showed that dissemination bias is still a problem to be solved
• Gerard Urrútia,
• Mónica Ballesteros,
• Benjamin Djulbegovic,
• Ignasi Gich,
• Marta Roqué,
• Xavier Bonfill
Published online: May 07, 2016
p84-90
Most overviews of Cochrane reviews neglected potential biases from dual authorship
• Roland Brian Büchter,
• Dawid Pieper
Published online: April 28, 2016
p91-94
Pragmatic trial design elements showed a different impact on trial interpretation and feasibility than explanatory elements
• Joost B. Nieuwenhuis,
• Elaine Irving,
• Katrien Oude Rengerink,
• ...
• Rolf H.H. Groenwold,
• Mira G.P. Zuidgeest
• on behalf of work package 3 of the GetReal consortium
Published online: May 07, 2016
p95-100

Pharmacosurveillance without borders: electronic health records in different countries can be used to address important methodological issues in estimating the risk of adverse events
• Robyn Tamblyn,
• Nadyne Girard,
• William G. Dixon,
• ...
• David Buckeridge,
• Michal Abrahamowicz,
• Alan Forster
Published online: May 19, 2016
p101-111
Open Access

Administrative data measured surgical site infection probability within 30 days of surgery in elderly patients
• Carl van Walraven,
• Timothy D. Jackson,
• Nick Daneman
Published online: June 05, 2016
p112-117
Prospective comparison of search strategies for systematic reviews: an objective approach yielded higher sensitivity than a conceptual one
• Elke Hausner,
• Charlotte Guddat,
• Tatjana Hermanns,
• Ulrike Lampert,
• Siw Waffenschmidt
Published online: May 31, 2016
p118-124
Open Access

Most systematic reviews of adverse effects did not include unpublished data
• Su Golder,
• Yoon K. Loke,
• Kath Wright,
• Carmelo Sterrantino
Published online: May 31, 2016
p125-133

Letters to the Editor

Risk based survey evidence supports electronic informed consent as a recruitment method for UK clinical trials
• Natasha Stevens,
• Lara Edwards,
• Zuhur Balayah,
• Richard Hooper,
• Charles Knowles
Published online: May 29, 2016
p134-136
Rethinking the value of survival: clinical trials should measure patient preferences for survival on entry to trials
• Jason N. Doctor,
• Marco D. Huesch,
• Daniella Meeker
Published online: May 07, 2016
p137-138
Applying GRADE to studies of complex interventions is possible but requires proper framing of the question
• M. Hassan Murad
Published online: April 20, 2016
p138-139
A harmonized guidance is needed on how to “properly” frame review questions to make the best use of all available evidence in the assessment of effectiveness of complex interventions
• Ani Movsisyan,
• G.J. Melendez-Torres,
• Paul Montgomery
Published online: April 20, 2016
p139-141