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The Standard Error/Standard Deviation Mix-Up: Potential Impacts on Meta-Analyses in Sports Medicine
BackgroundA recent review found that 45% of meta-analyses included statistical errors, of which, the most common was the calculation of effect sizes...
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Improving the Reliability of Peer Review Without a Gold Standard
Peer review plays a crucial role in accreditation and credentialing processes as it can identify outliers and foster a peer learning approach,...
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Percent error of ultrasound examination to estimate fetal weight at term in different categories of birth weight with focus on maternal diabetes and obesity
BackgroundSonography based estimate of fetal weight is a considerable issue for delivery planning. The study evaluated the influence of diabetes,...
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Negative log-binomial model with optimal robust variance to estimate the prevalence ratio, in cross-sectional population studies
BackgroundCross-sectional studies are useful for the estimation of prevalence of a particular event with concerns in specific populations, as in the...
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A wearable sensor and machine learning estimate step length in older adults and patients with neurological disorders
Step length is an important diagnostic and prognostic measure of health and disease. Wearable devices can estimate step length continuously (e.g., in...
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Validation study on a prediction formula to estimate the weight of children & adolescents with special needs aged 2–18 years old
BackgroundThis study aims to validate two predictive formulas of weight estimating strategies in children with special needs, namely the Cattermole...
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Mitigating underreported error in food frequency questionnaire data using a supervised machine learning method and error adjustment algorithm
BackgroundFood frequency questionnaires (FFQs) are one of the most useful tools for studying and understanding diet-disease relationships. However,...
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The empirical estimate of the survival and variance using a weighted composite endpoint
BackgroundComposite endpoints for estimating treatment efficacy are routinely used in several therapeutic areas and have become complex in the number...
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Adjusting for Berkson error in exposure in ordinary and conditional logistic regression and in Poisson regression
BackgroundINTEROCC is a seven-country cohort study of occupational exposures and brain cancer risk, including occupational exposure to...
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Measurement error of pulse pressure variation
Dynamic preload parameters are used to guide perioperative fluid management. However, reported cut-off values vary and the presence of a gray zone...
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Prevalence of presenting bilateral visual impairment associated with refractive error – findings from the See4School, pre-school vision screening programme in NHS Scotland
Background/objectivesThe See4School programme in Scotland is a pre-school vision screening initiative delivered by orthoptists on a national scale....
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Development of algorithms to estimate the EQ-5D-5L from the FACT-L in patients with lung cancer: a map** study
ObjectiveThis study aimed to develop a map** algorithm to evaluate the EQ-5D-5L according to the FACT-L when the EQ-5D-5L is not available.
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Ten circumstances and solutions for finding the sample mean and standard deviation for meta-analysis
A common problem in meta-analyses is the unavailability of mean and standard deviation (SD). Unfortunately, only having values of the median,...
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Accuracy of refractive outcomes using standard or total keratometry for intraocular lens power formulas in conventional cataract surgery
PurposeTo evaluate if total keratometry (TK) is better than standard keratometry (K) for predicting an accurate intraocular lens (IOL) refractive...
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Effects of basic carbohydrate counting versus standard dietary care for glycaemic control in type 2 diabetes (The BCC Study): a randomised, controlled trial
BackgroundClinical guidelines recommend basic carbohydrate counting (BCC), or similar methods to improve carbohydrate estimation skills and to strive...
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Prioritizing a high posterior probability threshold leading to low error rate over high classification accuracy: the validity of MorphoPASSE software for cranial morphological sex estimation in a contemporary population
An increasing number of software tools can be used in forensic anthropology to estimate a biological profile, but further studies in other...
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Development and validation of anthropometric predictive equations that estimate the total body water and fat-free mass in Tunisian adults
ObjectiveTo develop and validate equations that estimate total body water (TBW) and fat-free mass (FFM) in adults using anthropometric measurements.
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The physiology of intraoperative error: using electrokardiograms to understand operator performance during robot-assisted surgery simulations
BackgroundNo platform for objective, synchronous and on-line evaluation of both intraoperative error and surgeon physiology yet exists....
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Simple linear regression approach for evaluating models to estimate stature based on upper limb dimensions of adult Bangladeshi males
BackgroundThe stature of a living human reflects the nutritional, genetic, and disease patterns of individual experiences. This study adopted a...
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Construction of residential histories to estimate long-term environmental exposures in the California Teachers Study cohort
AbstractEnvironmental epidemiologic studies using geospatial data often estimate exposure at a participant’s residence upon enrollment, but mobility...
