| Systematic review or scoping review? Guidance for authors when choosing between a systematic or scoping review approach |
280 |
| What kind of systematic review should I conduct? A proposed typology and guidance for systematic reviewers in the medical and health sciences |
83 |
| Characterising and justifying sample size sufficiency in interview-based studies: systematic analysis of qualitative health research over a 15-year period |
81 |
| DeepSurv: personalized treatment recommender system using a Cox proportional hazards deep neural network |
51 |
| Methods to systematically review and meta-analyse observational studies: a systematic scoping review of recommendations |
46 |
| Machine learning in medicine: a practical introduction |
38 |
| Dealing with missing standard deviation and mean values in meta-analysis of continuous outcomes: a systematic review |
27 |
| Defining the process to literature searching in systematic reviews: a literature review of guidance and supporting studies |
26 |
| Attempting rigour and replicability in thematic analysis of qualitative research data; a case study of codebook development |
23 |
| A review of spline function procedures in R |
23 |
| Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: the eMERGe reporting guidance |
22 |
| Retention strategies in longitudinal cohort studies: a systematic review and meta-analysis |
21 |
| Single screening versus conventional double screening for study selection in systematic reviews: a methodological systematic review |
21 |
| Comparing performance between log-binomial and robust Poisson regression models for estimating risk ratios under model misspecification |
20 |
| Validity of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) for assessing moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and sedentary behaviour of older adults in the United Kingdom |
19 |
| How is AMSTAR applied by authors - a call for better reporting |
19 |
| Improving the normalization of complex interventions: part 2-validation of the NoMAD instrument for assessing implementation work based on normalization process theory (NPT) |
17 |
| Likelihood-based random-effects meta-analysis with few studies: empirical and simulation studies |
17 |
| Development of an interactive web-based tool to conduct and interrogate meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies: MetaDTA |
16 |
| Hierarchies of evidence applied to lifestyle Medicine (HEALM): introduction of a strength-of-evidence approach based on a methodological systematic review |
16 |
| Advancing complexity science in healthcare research: the logic of logic models |
15 |
| A methodological systematic review of meta-ethnography conduct to articulate the complex analytical phases |
14 |
| A comparison of multiple imputation methods for missing data in longitudinal studies |
14 |
| Methodological development of tools to measure how women are treated during facility-based childbirth in four countries: labor observation and community survey |
14 |
| Consolidated criteria for strengthening reporting of health research involving indigenous peoples: the CONSIDER statement |
13 |
| Sample size determination for mediation analysis of longitudinal data |
13 |
| Getting messier with TIDieR: embracing context and complexity in intervention reporting |
13 |
| Methodology and reporting characteristics of studies using interrupted time series design in healthcare |
12 |
| Improving the normalization of complex interventions: part 1-development of the NoMAD instrument for assessing implementation work based on normalization process theory (NPT) |
11 |
| Definition of a systematic review used in overviews of systematic reviews, meta-epidemiological studies and textbooks |
11 |
| joineRML: a joint model and software package for time-to-event and multivariate longitudinal outcomes |
11 |
| Machine learning methodologies versus cardiovascular risk scores, in predicting disease risk |
11 |
| Comparison of logistic-regression based methods for simple mediation analysis with a dichotomous outcome variable |
11 |
| Simulation shows undesirable results for competing risks analysis with time-dependent covariates for clinical outcomes |
11 |
| Evaluating selection bias in a population-based cohort study with low baseline participation: the LIFE-Adult-Study |
11 |
| Defeat and entrapment: more than meets the eye? Applying network analysis to estimate dimensions of highly correlated constructs |
10 |
| Risk of bias judgments for random sequence generation in Cochrane systematic reviews were frequently not in line with Cochrane Handbook |
10 |
| Methods to increase response rates to a population-based maternity survey: a comparison of two pilot studies |
10 |
| Bias in pharmacoepidemiologic studies using secondary health care databases: a scoping review |
9 |
| Assessments of attrition bias in Cochrane systematic reviews are highly inconsistent and thus hindering trial comparability |
9 |
| Aims, design and preliminary findings of the Hellenic National Nutrition and Health Survey (HNNHS) |
8 |
| A systematic review of the clinical application of data-driven population segmentation analysis |
8 |
| Meta-analysis of binary outcomes via generalized linear mixed models: a simulation study |
8 |
| How to design a dose-finding study using the continual reassessment method |
8 |
| Mechanisms, contexts and points of contention: operationalizing realist-informed research for complex health interventions |
8 |
| Influence of blinding on treatment effect size estimate in randomized controlled trials of oral health interventions |
8 |
| Readiness assessment for pragmatic trials (RAPT): a model to assess the readiness of an intervention for testing in a pragmatic trial |
8 |
| Purposive sampling in a qualitative evidence synthesis: a worked example from a synthesis on parental perceptions of vaccination communication |
8 |
| Exploring reporting quality of systematic reviews and Meta-analyses on nursing interventions in patients with Alzheimer's disease before and after PRISMA introduction |
7 |
| Estimation of an inter-rater intra-class correlation coefficient that overcomes common assumption violations in the assessment of health measurement scales |
7 |
