Individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis: An introduction – Narrative review [PDF]
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses (MA) are accepted modalities for evidence synthesis in evidence-based medicine. However, as MA uses aggregate data that includes averaging patient characteristics and pooled effect estimates, it has limitations when ...
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Sharing individual participant data: through a systematic reviewer lens [PDF]
An increasing prevalence of data-sharing models, aimed at making individual participant data (IPD) from clinical trials widely available, should facilitate the conduct of systematic reviews and meta-analyses based on IPD. We have assessed these different
Larysa H. M. Rydzewska +2 more
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The Zika Virus Individual Participant Data Consortium: A Global Initiative to Estimate the Effects of Exposure to Zika Virus during Pregnancy on Adverse Fetal, Infant, and Child Health Outcomes [PDF]
This commentary describes the creation of the Zika Virus Individual Participant Data Consortium, a global collaboration to address outstanding questions in Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemiology through conducting an individual participant data meta-analysis ...
Zika Virus Individual Participant Data Consortium
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Responsibilities for receiving and using individual participant data
Background Sharing of individual participant data enhances the value of existing data to generate new evidence and inform decision‐making. While there is strong in‐principle support for data sharing, in practice study data are often difficult to find ...
Kylie E. Hunter +12 more
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Identifying relapse predictors in individual participant data with decision trees
Background Depression is a highly common and recurrent condition. Predicting who is at most risk of relapse or recurrence can inform clinical practice. Applying machine-learning methods to Individual Participant Data (IPD) can be promising to improve the
Lucas Böttcher +5 more
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Malaria, malnutrition, and birthweight: A meta-analysis using individual participant data. [PDF]
BackgroundFour studies previously indicated that the effect of malaria infection during pregnancy on the risk of low birthweight (LBW;
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Primed to comply: Individual participant data sharing statements on ClinicalTrials.gov.
In June 2017, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) announced a requirement that authors reporting the results of clinical trials to journals that follow ICMJE recommendations must include an individual participant data (IPD ...
Emily E Statham +3 more
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Assessing risk prediction models using individual participant data from multiple studies [PDF]
Individual participant time-to-event data from multiple prospective epidemiologic studies enable detailed investigation into the predictive ability of risk models. Here we address the challenges in appropriately combining such information across studies.
Ballantyne, C. +20 more
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Estimating individualized treatment effects using an individual participant data meta-analysis
Background One key aspect of personalized medicine is to identify individuals who benefit from an intervention. Some approaches have been developed to estimate individualized treatment effects (ITE) with a single randomized control trial (RCT) or ...
Florie Bouvier +5 more
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Simulation-based power calculations for planning a two-stage individual participant data meta-analysis [PDF]
Background Researchers and funders should consider the statistical power of planned Individual Participant Data (IPD) meta-analysis projects, as they are often time-consuming and costly.
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