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1Estimating the mean and variance from the median, range, and the size of a sampleBMC Medical Research Methodology20056,851
2Using the framework method for the analysis of qualitative data in multi-disciplinary health researchBMC Medical Research Methodology20136,361
3Estimating the sample mean and standard deviation from the sample size, median, range and/or interquartile rangeBMC Medical Research Methodology20146,331
4Systematic review or scoping review? Guidance for authors when choosing between a systematic or scoping review approachBMC Medical Research Methodology20185,439
5Methods for the thematic synthesis of qualitative research in systematic reviewsBMC Medical Research Methodology20084,755
6Development of AMSTAR: a measurement tool to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviewsBMC Medical Research Methodology20073,350
7The development of QUADAS: a tool for the quality assessment of studies of diagnostic accuracy included in systematic reviewsBMC Medical Research Methodology20033,077
8Alternatives for logistic regression in cross-sectional studies: an empirical comparison of models that directly estimate the prevalence ratioBMC Medical Research Methodology20033,000
9SYRCLE’s risk of bias tool for animal studiesBMC Medical Research Methodology20142,317
10A tutorial on pilot studies: the what, why and howBMC Medical Research Methodology20102,071
11Enhancing transparency in reporting the synthesis of qualitative research: ENTREQBMC Medical Research Methodology20122,061
12Meta-DiSc: a software for meta-analysis of test accuracy dataBMC Medical Research Methodology20061,639
13Enhanced secondary analysis of survival data: reconstructing the data from published Kaplan-Meier survival curvesBMC Medical Research Methodology20121,578
14When and how should multiple imputation be used for handling missing data in randomised clinical trials – a practical guide with flowchartsBMC Medical Research Methodology20171,574
15Newcastle-Ottawa Scale: comparing reviewers’ to authors’ assessmentsBMC Medical Research Methodology20141,473
16Characterising and justifying sample size sufficiency in interview-based studies: systematic analysis of qualitative health research over a 15-year periodBMC Medical Research Methodology20181,412
17The case study approachBMC Medical Research Methodology20111,340
18Qualitative description – the poor cousin of health research?BMC Medical Research Methodology20091,294
19Enhancing the scoping study methodology: a large, inter-professional team’s experience with Arksey and O’Malley’s frameworkBMC Medical Research Methodology20131,283
20Conducting a critical interpretive synthesis of the literature on access to healthcare by vulnerable groupsBMC Medical Research Methodology20061,276
21Methods for the synthesis of qualitative research: a critical reviewBMC Medical Research Methodology20091,259
22The COSMIN checklist for evaluating the methodological quality of studies on measurement properties: A clarification of its contentBMC Medical Research Methodology20101,237
23The Hawthorne Effect: a randomised, controlled trialBMC Medical Research Methodology20071,223
24The Hartung-Knapp-Sidik-Jonkman method for random effects meta-analysis is straightforward and considerably outperforms the standard DerSimonian-Laird methodBMC Medical Research Methodology20141,208
25A scoping review on the conduct and reporting of scoping reviewsBMC Medical Research Methodology20161,153
26Reducing bias through directed acyclic graphsBMC Medical Research Methodology20081,076
27Do multiple outcome measures require p-value adjustment?BMC Medical Research Methodology20021,026
28Ranking treatments in frequentist network meta-analysis works without resampling methodsBMC Medical Research Methodology20151,016
29The predictive value of ICD-10 diagnostic coding used to assess Charlson comorbidity index conditions in the population-based Danish National Registry of PatientsBMC Medical Research Methodology20111,011
30What is a pilot or feasibility study? A review of current practice and editorial policyBMC Medical Research Methodology2010974
31DeepSurv: personalized treatment recommender system using a Cox proportional hazards deep neural networkBMC Medical Research Methodology2018931
32Reaching the hard-to-reach: a systematic review of strategies for improving health and medical research with socially disadvantaged groupsBMC Medical Research Methodology2014926
33The CONSORT statement: revised recommendations for improving the quality of reports of parallel group randomized trialsBMC Medical Research Methodology2001876
34Undue reliance on I 2 in assessing heterogeneity may misleadBMC Medical Research Methodology2008873
35Methodology in conducting a systematic review of systematic reviews of healthcare interventionsBMC Medical Research Methodology2011851
36Conducting systematic reviews of diagnostic studies: didactic guidelinesBMC Medical Research Methodology2002822
37The heterogeneity statistic I2 can be biased in small meta-analysesBMC Medical Research Methodology2015808
38Estimating required information size by quantifying diversity in random-effects model meta-analysesBMC Medical Research Methodology2009786
39Trial Sequential Analysis in systematic reviews with meta-analysisBMC Medical Research Methodology2017782
40The stepped wedge trial design: a systematic reviewBMC Medical Research Methodology2006747
41Exploring physician specialist response rates to web-based surveysBMC Medical Research Methodology2015721
42Machine learning in medicine: a practical introductionBMC Medical Research Methodology2019720
43Reducing and meta-analysing estimates from distributed lag non-linear modelsBMC Medical Research Methodology2013699
44Conducting a meta-ethnography of qualitative literature: Lessons learntBMC Medical Research Methodology2008695
45External validation of a Cox prognostic model: principles and methodsBMC Medical Research Methodology2013676
46Evaluation of QUADAS, a tool for the quality assessment of diagnostic accuracy studiesBMC Medical Research Methodology2006660
47Restricted mean survival time: an alternative to the hazard ratio for the design and analysis of randomized trials with a time-to-event outcomeBMC Medical Research Methodology2013658
48A comparison of Cohen’s Kappa and Gwet’s AC1 when calculating inter-rater reliability coefficients: a study conducted with personality disorder samplesBMC Medical Research Methodology2013628
49Stability of response characteristics of a Delphi panel: application of bootstrap data expansionBMC Medical Research Methodology2005611
50Combining estimates of interest in prognostic modelling studies after multiple imputation: current practice and guidelinesBMC Medical Research Methodology2009608