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...

What advice can we offer to authors? Reflections from the statisticians’ bench - @jclinepi.bsky.social by @richardhooper.bsky.social @andreatricco.bsky.social @davidit.bsky.social and Areti Angeliki Veroniki. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

In 2020 we estimated about 1/4 of all cancers were overdiagnosed (would never become symptomatic) but this blood test could make that much worse www.mja.com.au/journal/2020...

The first couple of paragraphs in this BMJ article are scathing. I appreciate how the Brits pull no punches

The definition of predictor and outcome variables in mortality #prediction models: a scoping review and quality of reporting study - @jclinepi.bsky.social www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...