BACKGROUND It has been argued that placebos may not have important clinical impacts in general. However, there is increasing evidence of a publication bias among trials published in journals. Therefore, we explored the potential for publication bias in randomized trials with active treatment, placebo, and no-treatment groups. METHODS Three-armed randomized trials of acupuncture, acupoint stim...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Our aim was to determine whether referral patterns and rates of vertebroplasties at the Mayo Clinic have changed after the publication of the INVEST and the Australian Trial. In August of 2009, we performed a retrospective review of patients undergoing vertebroplasties and those patients who were referred for but did not receive vertebroplasties before and after the recen...

Although ‘‘a large number of studies have appeared in the literature that report associations of low penetrance genetic variants with disease,’’ as suggested in the recent CEBP editorial (1), hardly any of these reports have been translated into solid results by replication studies, at least for the common cancers. To some extent this is inevitable, as false-positive associations are an inheren...

Review Potentially eligible studies for full text review (n=333) Articles abstracted (n=192) Included studies (n=102) Studies added after peer review (n=3) Studies added: a. hand searching (n=5) b. Journal of Rural Health (n=19) Non-United States population = 6 Population <18 years old = 3 Not publication type criteria = 66 Not Healthcare outcomes, structure/process/harms = 80 Non-Rural Health ...

Simple bibliometric indicators, such as average number of citations per publication per researcher, or the recently-proposed Hirsch index (h-index), are nowadays tracked by online repositories including Web-of-Science (WOS) and often affect critical decision making. This work proposes appropriate scaling of the h-index, based on its probability distribution which is calculated for any underlyin...

A very severe epidemic of cholera attacked Kashmir in 1935; an extensive report has been prepared but, as its publication will take time, we have thought it desirable to publish this note which deals mainly with certain aspects of protection conferred by the use of anti-cholera vaccine. Before dealing with these points a few preliminary remarks are necessary. The epidemic started on 26th June, ...

This study wants to analyze the impact of irrigation on time females spend farm activities using Augmented Inverse probability weight model treatment effect based up data obtained from sampled population randomly selected Dembi Dima and Gobu kebeles Bako Tibe Woreda. The resulted show that average times those per week is 39.11 hours if none sample size was irrigators. all irrigate 20.54 more th...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Clinical trials of the intensity of renal replacement therapy (RRT) for people with acute kidney injury (AKI) have produced conflicting results. A systematic review and meta-analysis was undertaken to assess the effect of different intensities of RRT on all-cause mortality and renal recovery in AKI patients. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS MEDLINE, EMBA...