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Using patient values and preferences to inform the importance of health outcomes in practice guideline development following the GRADE approach

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2017
Background There are diverse opinions and confusion about defining and including patient values and preferences (i.e. the importance people place on the health outcomes) in the guideline development processes.
Yuan Zhang, Pablo Alonso Coello, Jan Brożek, Wojtek Wiercioch, Itziar Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta, Elie A. Akl, Joerg J. Meerpohl, Waleed Alhazzani, Alonso Carrasco-Labra, Rebecca L. Morgan, Reem A. Mustafa, John J. Riva, Ainsley Moore, Juan José Yepes-Nuñez, Carlos Cuello-Garcia, Zulfa AlRayees, Veena Manja, Maicon Falavigna, Ignacio Neumann, Romina Brignardello-Petersen, Nancy Santesso, Bram Rochwerg, Andrea Darzi, Maria Ximena Rojas, Yaser Adi, Claudia Bollig, Reem Waziry, Holger J. Schünemann   +27 more
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Abrupt transitions in time series with uncertainties

Nature Communications, 2018
Most time series techniques tend to ignore data uncertainties, which results in inaccurate conclusions. Here, Goswami et al. represent time series as a sequence of probability density functions, and reliably detect abrupt transitions by identifying ...
Bedartha Goswami, Niklas Boers, Aljoscha Rheinwalt, Norbert Marwan, Jobst Heitzig, Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach, Jürgen Kurths   +6 more
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Designs of trials assessing interventions to improve the peer review process: a vignette-based survey

BMC Medicine, 2018
Background We aimed to determine the best study designs for assessing interventions to improve the peer review process according to experts’ opinions. Furthermore, for interventions previously evaluated, we determined whether the study designs actually ...
Amytis Heim, Philippe Ravaud, Gabriel Baron, Isabelle Boutron   +3 more
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Teaching research methods: Introducing a psychogeographical approach [PDF]

, 2019
This paper explores teaching business students research methods using a psychogeographical approach, specifically the technique of dérive. It responds to calls for new ways of teaching in higher education and addresses the dearth of literature on ...
Hindley, C., Hindley, C., Knowles, D., Knowles, D., Ruth, D., Ruth, D.   +5 more
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Impact of disasters, including pandemics, on cardiometabolic outcomes across the life-course: a systematic review

BMJ Open, 2021
Background Disasters are events that disrupt the daily functioning of a community or society, and may increase long-term risk of adverse cardiometabolic outcomes, including cardiovascular disease, obesity and diabetes.
Sarah E Neil-Sztramko, Elizabeth Alvarez, Laura N Anderson, Vanessa De Rubeis, Jinhee Lee, Muhammad Saqib Anwer, Yulika Yoshida-Montezuma, Alessandra T Andreacchi, Erica Stone, Saman Iftikhar, Jason D Morgenstern, Reid Rebinsky, Emma Apatu   +12 more
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Mixed-methods approaches in health research in Nepal [PDF]

, 2014
Combining and integrating a mixture of qualitative and quantitative methods in one single study is widely used in health and social care research in high-income countries.
Sathian, B., Simkhada, Padam, van Teijlingen, Edwin, Wasti, Sharada Prasad   +3 more
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Research Methods: Mixed Methods Research.

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2016
No abstract.
Virginia Wilson
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Research methods and intelligibility studies

, 2010
This paper first briefly reviews the concept of intelligibility as it has been employed in both English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and world Englishes (WE) research.
SEWELL, Andrew John
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Critical Realism and Empirical Research Methods in Education [PDF]

, 2005
In the light of recent writings of Richard Pring, and in relation to the application of empirical research methods in education, this paper offers a corrective to a neo-realist viewpoint and develops a critical realist perspective.
Scott, David
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Qualitative research methods in psychology [PDF]

, 2012
In the scientific community, and particularly in psychology and health, there has been an active and ongoing debate on the relative merits of adopting either quantitative or qualitative methods, especially when researching into human behaviour (Bowling ...
Biggerstaff, Deborah
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