We offer a solution to this problem that lies at the disposal of journal editors. Preliminary editorial decisions could be based solely on the peer review of the introduction and methods sections of submitted papers. These two sections deal with the key issues on which editorial decisions would ideally be based: the importance of the research question and the potential for the study design and ...

Findings on the association between television (TV) viewing and all-cause mortality in epidemiologic studies have been inconsistent. Therefore, we conducted a meta-analysis of data from prospective cohort studies to quantify this association. Relevant articles were identified by searching MEDLINE (PubMed; National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland) and EMBASE (Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam, th...

published by admin on Mon, 09/08/2014 3:07pm Title Futility studies: spending a little to save a lot. Publication Type Journal Article Year of Publication 2006 Authors Schwid, SR, Cutter, GR Journal Neurology Volume 66 Issue 5 Pagination 626-7 Date Published 2006 Mar 14 ISSN 1526-632X

As ambulatory blood pressure measurement becomes more widely accepted in hypertension research and in the clinical management of high blood pressure, the number of devices available on the market has increased considerably, reflecting the clinical demand. These devices are expensive, both in terms of capital and running costs. As we rely increasingly on data produced by ambulatory systems, it b...

2013 has been a year of relative stability at the Annals. After two years of rapid changes in staff and implementation of our electronic manuscript handling, this year we had time and people to consolidate. Authors in particular will have noticed the hard work of Kim Lewry, our Editorial Assistant, who has tracked down papers that were stuck in the system and has made a substantial contribution...

objectives in this section, we studied dietary and other factors related to the effect of lifestyle in type 2 diabetes. these factors may affect the incidence of type 2 diabetes which could be corrected by lifestyle modifications. background prevalence of type 2 diabetes is increasing rapidly worldwide. recent data is reprehensive of increasing diabetes prevalence from 285 millions in 2010 (6.4...

Abstract In this paper we conduct a validation study on the factors affecting practice modes of open peer review. Taking Open Access Journals (OAJ) in Directory (DOAJ) as research objects, crawled internet to gather their relevant data. Based method categorical variable assignment, quantitative analysis was performed qualitative that affect A multi-dimensional chart is used illustrate relations...

background: diabetes has become a daunting health and medical challenge as well as a hefty economic burden for societies over the past decades. this study was designed to shed light on the overall trend of research across iran regarding mental health status of diabetic patients. method: search process of the present study is part of search strategy of iran diabetes research roadmap (idrr) study...

Context: Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are integrations of computation, networking, and physical processes. Due to the tight cyberphysical coupling and to the potentially disrupting consequences of failures, security is one of the primary concerns for this type of systems. CPS security is attracting several research efforts from different and independent areas (e.g., secure control, intrusion de...

background & aim: a meta-analysis refers to the statistical synthesis of results from a series of studies and has been used to estimate pooled prevalence of human diseases. in this study, we review some statistical issues regarding the meta-analysis of the prevalence of human diseases such as statistical software and programs, transformations of prevalence rate, assessment of heterogeneity, and...