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1 | Estimating the mean and variance from the median, range, and the size of a sample | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2005 | 6,851 |
2 | Using the framework method for the analysis of qualitative data in multi-disciplinary health research | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2013 | 6,361 |
3 | Estimating the sample mean and standard deviation from the sample size, median, range and/or interquartile range | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2014 | 6,331 |
4 | Systematic review or scoping review? Guidance for authors when choosing between a systematic or scoping review approach | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2018 | 5,439 |
5 | Methods for the thematic synthesis of qualitative research in systematic reviews | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2008 | 4,755 |
6 | Development of AMSTAR: a measurement tool to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2007 | 3,350 |
7 | The development of QUADAS: a tool for the quality assessment of studies of diagnostic accuracy included in systematic reviews | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2003 | 3,077 |
8 | Alternatives for logistic regression in cross-sectional studies: an empirical comparison of models that directly estimate the prevalence ratio | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2003 | 3,000 |
9 | SYRCLE’s risk of bias tool for animal studies | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2014 | 2,317 |
10 | A tutorial on pilot studies: the what, why and how | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2010 | 2,071 |
11 | Enhancing transparency in reporting the synthesis of qualitative research: ENTREQ | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2012 | 2,061 |
12 | Meta-DiSc: a software for meta-analysis of test accuracy data | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2006 | 1,639 |
13 | Enhanced secondary analysis of survival data: reconstructing the data from published Kaplan-Meier survival curves | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2012 | 1,578 |
14 | When and how should multiple imputation be used for handling missing data in randomised clinical trials – a practical guide with flowcharts | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2017 | 1,574 |
15 | Newcastle-Ottawa Scale: comparing reviewers’ to authors’ assessments | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2014 | 1,473 |
16 | Characterising and justifying sample size sufficiency in interview-based studies: systematic analysis of qualitative health research over a 15-year period | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2018 | 1,412 |
17 | The case study approach | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2011 | 1,340 |
18 | Qualitative description – the poor cousin of health research? | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2009 | 1,294 |
19 | Enhancing the scoping study methodology: a large, inter-professional team’s experience with Arksey and O’Malley’s framework | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2013 | 1,283 |
20 | Conducting a critical interpretive synthesis of the literature on access to healthcare by vulnerable groups | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2006 | 1,276 |
21 | Methods for the synthesis of qualitative research: a critical review | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2009 | 1,259 |
22 | The COSMIN checklist for evaluating the methodological quality of studies on measurement properties: A clarification of its content | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2010 | 1,237 |
23 | The Hawthorne Effect: a randomised, controlled trial | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2007 | 1,223 |
24 | The Hartung-Knapp-Sidik-Jonkman method for random effects meta-analysis is straightforward and considerably outperforms the standard DerSimonian-Laird method | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2014 | 1,208 |
25 | A scoping review on the conduct and reporting of scoping reviews | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2016 | 1,153 |
26 | Reducing bias through directed acyclic graphs | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2008 | 1,076 |
27 | Do multiple outcome measures require p-value adjustment? | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2002 | 1,026 |
28 | Ranking treatments in frequentist network meta-analysis works without resampling methods | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2015 | 1,016 |
29 | The predictive value of ICD-10 diagnostic coding used to assess Charlson comorbidity index conditions in the population-based Danish National Registry of Patients | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2011 | 1,011 |
30 | What is a pilot or feasibility study? A review of current practice and editorial policy | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2010 | 974 |
31 | DeepSurv: personalized treatment recommender system using a Cox proportional hazards deep neural network | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2018 | 931 |
32 | Reaching the hard-to-reach: a systematic review of strategies for improving health and medical research with socially disadvantaged groups | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2014 | 926 |
33 | The CONSORT statement: revised recommendations for improving the quality of reports of parallel group randomized trials | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2001 | 876 |
34 | Undue reliance on I 2 in assessing heterogeneity may mislead | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2008 | 873 |
35 | Methodology in conducting a systematic review of systematic reviews of healthcare interventions | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2011 | 851 |
36 | Conducting systematic reviews of diagnostic studies: didactic guidelines | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2002 | 822 |
37 | The heterogeneity statistic I2 can be biased in small meta-analyses | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2015 | 808 |
38 | Estimating required information size by quantifying diversity in random-effects model meta-analyses | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2009 | 786 |
39 | Trial Sequential Analysis in systematic reviews with meta-analysis | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2017 | 782 |
40 | The stepped wedge trial design: a systematic review | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2006 | 747 |
41 | Exploring physician specialist response rates to web-based surveys | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2015 | 721 |
42 | Machine learning in medicine: a practical introduction | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2019 | 720 |
43 | Reducing and meta-analysing estimates from distributed lag non-linear models | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2013 | 699 |
44 | Conducting a meta-ethnography of qualitative literature: Lessons learnt | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2008 | 695 |
45 | External validation of a Cox prognostic model: principles and methods | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2013 | 676 |
46 | Evaluation of QUADAS, a tool for the quality assessment of diagnostic accuracy studies | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2006 | 660 |
47 | Restricted mean survival time: an alternative to the hazard ratio for the design and analysis of randomized trials with a time-to-event outcome | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2013 | 658 |
48 | A comparison of Cohen’s Kappa and Gwet’s AC1 when calculating inter-rater reliability coefficients: a study conducted with personality disorder samples | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2013 | 628 |
49 | Stability of response characteristics of a Delphi panel: application of bootstrap data expansion | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2005 | 611 |
50 | Combining estimates of interest in prognostic modelling studies after multiple imputation: current practice and guidelines | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2009 | 608 |