Attending the Lewes Labour Party #Transformations meeting today. The organisers seem to be encouraging comment on X, but can’t help wondering whether other participants may also have jumped that particular ship…

And in 2025 this remains a problem

Editors' Choice – September 2025 - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology by @davidit.bsky.social and @andreatricco.bsky.social www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

The challenges and opportunities of artificial intelligence and their impact on the journal - our Editors’ Choice for October issue www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

In J Clin Epi I've published a couple of papers on questionnaire design pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12589865/ & pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18945586/ plus one on clinically important differences pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16360560/

Reusing clinical trial data to consolidate and advance medical knowledge - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

For Monday crowd. INSPECT-SR, a tool to help you identify problematic (inc. fraudulent) RCTs, now available.

Thanks for such a brilliant commentary. Transparency is necessary but not sufficient in many circumstances

Methods resources for authors new to conducting systematic reviews with network meta-analysis: A Scoping Review - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

A scoping review identifies comments suggesting modifications to PRISMA-P 2015 - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Priority-setting criteria for clinical practice guideline development on rare genetic neurodevelopmental disorders: a Delphi study within the European Reference Network (ERN) ITHACA - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Disappointing but perhaps not surprising

Our message is one of hope, and we see this as a time of opportunity for leaders in the field to stand up for sound methods and high-quality science. Editorial, April 2025 www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

New publication led by @proflouisemarston.bsky.social using multiple imputation to target a hypothetical estimand in a pandemic restriction-free world for a trial in schizophrenia - demonstrating the potential impact of the pandemic on the trial results

#keyconcepts Statistical strategies to analyze local control after radiotherapy - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Calculating Follow-Up Completeness: a comparison of multiple methods under different simulated scenarios and a use-case - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Methods resources for authors new to conducting systematic reviews with network meta-analysis: A Scoping Review - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

A scoping review identifies comments suggesting modifications to PRISMA-P 2015 - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Great to see journals based in the US and elsewhere standing up for scientific integrity.

Corrigendum to ʻMethodological systematic review recommends improvements to conduct and reporting when meta-analyzing interrupted time series studies’. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 145 (2022) 55–69 - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Delighted to see our @jclinepi.bsky.social commentary on redundant publication and potential research waste in the field of reporting guidelines is now fully online and accessible for 50 days via this link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kbcJ3BcJQ...

You wait ages and then two arrive at once: reporting guidelines shouldn’t be like buses - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Risk of bias assessment tools often addressed items not related to risk of bias and used numerical scores - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Scoping review of registration of observational studies finds inadequate registration policies, increased registration, and a debate converging towards pro-registration - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Heterogeneity across outcomes in clinical trials on sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors in chronic heart failure: cross-sectional study - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Visualizing the Value of Diagnostic Tests and Prediction Models, Part I. Introduction and Expected Gain in Utility as a Function of Pre-Test Probability - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Visualizing the Value of Diagnostic Tests and Prediction Models, Part II. Net Benefit Graphs: Net Benefit as a Function of the Exchange Rate - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Visualizing the Value of Diagnostic Tests and Prediction Models, Part III. Numerical Example with Discrete Risk Groups and Miscalibration - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Pain and Physical Function are common core domains across 40 core outcome sets of musculoskeletal conditions: A systematic review - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Meta-analysis of individual participant data and informed consent: A small step, but important and neglected - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Supplementary databases increased literature search coverage beyond PubMed and Embase - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Massive covidization and subsequent decovidization of the scientific literature involved 2 million authors - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

« Results reporting for clinical trials led by medical universities and university hospitals in the Nordic countries was often missing or delayed »

Editors’ Choice: February 2025 - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology - the changing face of RCTs www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

and the editors' choice by our editors: @andreatricco.bsky.social and @davidit.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Exploring the use and usefulness of living guidelines for consumers: international online survey of patients’ and carers’ views - @jclinepi.bsky.social www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

And not just drug trials..

Donny Diaper withdrawing Fauci’s security detail and saying he doesn’t care what happens to him is next level Saddam Hussein evil.

Love this & highly jealous I didn't write it! This fig in particular highlights things I've been saying & trying ot push organisations into combatting - Research culture & the many issues are directly tied to traditional publishing. Publishing is the lynchpin in improving research culture

« Incomplete reporting of adverse events in duloxetine trials: a meta-research survey of randomized controlled trials versus placebo » with a great group of colleagues including JC Roy and P Rolland who were great chiefs resident in Rennes Iniversity hospital.. new paper in @jclinepi.bsky.social.

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

A helpful and up-to-the-minute commentary on the development of trustworthiness tools for randomised controlled trials. This and other new work is in press and available online at J Clin Epi @jclinepi.bsky.social www.jclinepi.com

** NEW paper in J Clin Epi ** "Open science practices need substantial improvement in prognostic models in oncology using machine learning" open access tinyurl.com/468m8buw Only 11 studies (24%) provided sufficient information to allow their model to be used in practice 🤯

‘On the basis of our review of articles published in 2023, we think the overall diversity of article types in the journal could be improved…..’

There has been a lot of discussion around how to assess trustworthiness of research studies (including investigation of fraud). Some thoughts on this below, to appear in @jclinepi.bsky.social - with @davidit.bsky.social : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

From Introducing Table 0 to Forgetting Figure 1: It is time for a reporting guideline for publishing with real-world clinical data. Author’s reply - @jclinepi.bsky.social www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Research participation effects and where to find them: a systematic review of studies on alcohol - @jclinepi.bsky.social www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Accounting for differential exclusions in the NordICC trial discloses stronger-than-reported effects of screening colonoscopy - @jclinepi.bsky.social www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Can’t argue with that!

A Systematic Review of Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Trials in High Impact Journals: Assessing the Design, Rationale, and Analysis - @jclinepi.bsky.social www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...