In Peer Reviewed Journals

Peer Reviewed Journals

Altman DG. Poor-quality medical research: what can journals do? JAMA 2002; 287: 2765-2767.

Altman DG, Deeks JJ. Meta-analysis, Simpson’s paradox, and the number needed to treat. BMC Med Res Methodol 2002; 2: 3.

Altman DG, Goodman SN, Schroter S. How statistical expertise is used in medical research. JAMA 2002; 287: 2817-2820.

Altman DG, Schulz KF, Moher D, Egger M, Davidoff, Elbourne D, Gøtzsche PC, Lang T for the CONSORT Group. The revised CONSORT statement for reporting randomized trials: explanation and elaboration. Clin Eval 2002; 30: 163-208. (In Japanese) [translation of Altman et al. Ann Intern Med 2001; 134: 663-694.]

Borley NR, Mortensen NJM, Chaudry MA, Mohammed S, Clark T, Jewell DP. Evidence for separate disease phenotypes in intestinal Crohn’s disease. Br J Surg 2002; 89: 201-205.

Borley NR, Mortensen NJM, Chaudry MA, Mohammed S, Warren BF, George BD, Clark T, Jewell DP, Kettlewell MGW. Recurrence after abdominal surgery for Crohn’s disease: relationship to disease site and surgical procedure. Dis Colon Rectum 2002; 45: 377-383.

Chitty LS, Altman DG. Charts of fetal size: limb bones. Br J Obstet Gynaecol 2002; 109: 919-929.

Clark TG, Altman DG, De Stavola BL. Quantifying the completeness of follow-up. Lancet 2002; 359: 1309-1310.

Curtin F, Altman DG, Elbourne D. Meta-analysis combining parallel and cross-over clinical trials. I: Continuous outcomes. Stat Med 2002; 21: 2131-2144.

Curtin F, Elbourne D, Altman DG. Meta-analysis combining parallel and cross-over clinical trials. II: Binary outcomes. Stat Med 2002; 21: 2145-2159.

Curtin F, Elbourne D, Altman DG. Meta-analysis combining parallel and cross-over clinical trials. III: The issue of carry-over. Stat Med 2002; 21: 2161-2173.

Dalley CD, Lillington DL, Bradburn M, Carter M, Amess JA, Rohatiner AZS, Lister TA. Acute myelogenous leukaemia in older patients at St Bartholomew’s Hospital: outcome with mitoxantrone and cytarabine. Hematol J 2002; 3: 237-243.

Dawson J, Thorogood M, Marks SA, Juszczak E, Dodd C, Lavis G, Fitzpatrick R. The prevalence of foot problems in older women: a cause for concern. J Public Health Med 2002; 24: 77-84.

Deeks JJ. Issues in the selection of a summary statistic in meta-analysis of clinical trials with binary outcomes. Stat Med 2002; 21: 1575-1600.

Deeks JJ, Smith LA, Bradley MD. Celecoxib versus NSAIDs for management of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis: evidence of efficacy, tolerability and upper gastrointestinal safety from a systematic review of randomised controlled trials. BMJ 2002; 325: 619-663.

Elbourne DR, Altman DG, Higgins JPT, Curtin F, Worthington HV, Vail A. Meta-analyses involving cross-over trials. Int J Epidemiol 2002; 31: 140-149.

Festing MFW, Altman DG. Guidelines for the design and statistical analysis of experiments using laboratory animals. ILAR J 2002; 43: 244-258.

Graham J, Ramirez A, Love S, Richards M, Burgess C. Stressful life experiences and risk of relapse of breast cancer: observational cohort study. BMJ 2002; 324: 1420-1422.

Hawton K, Rodham K, Evans E, Weatherall R. Deliberate self harm in adolescents: self report survey in schools in England. BMJ 2002; 325: 1207-1211.

Hawton K, Simkin S, Rue J, Haw C, Barbour F, Clements A, Sakarovitch C, Deeks J. Suicide in female nurses in England and Wales. Psychol Med 2002; 32: 239-250.

Higgins J, Thompson S, Deeks J, Altman D. Statistical heterogeneity in systematic reviews of clinical trials: a critical appraisal of guidelines and practice. J Health Serv Res Policy 2002; 7: 51-61.

James ACD, Javaloyes A, James S, Smith DM. Evidence for non-progressive changes in adolescent-onset schizophrenia: follow up magnetic resonance imaging study. Br J Psychiatry 2002; 180: 339-344.

Jenkinson C, Mayou R, Day A, Garratt A, Juszczak E. Evaluation of the Dartmouth COOP charts in a large-scale community survey in the United Kingdom. J Public Health Med 2002; 24: 106-111.

Johnstone E, Clark TG, Griffiths SE, Murphy MFG, Walton RT. Polymorphisms in dopamine metabolic enzymes and tobacco consumption in smokers: seeking confirmation of the association in a follow-up study. Pharmacogenetics 2002, 12: 585-587.

Liu JLY, Maniadakis N, Gray A, Rayner M. The economic burden of coronary heart disease in the United Kingdom. Heart 2002; 88: 597-603.

The Magpie Trial Collaborative Group [includes Altman D, Smith D]. Do women with pre-eclampsia, and their babies, benefit from magnesium sulphate? The Magpie Trial: a randomised placebo controlled trial. Lancet 2002; 359: 1877-1890.

McDonald FE, Ironside JW, Gregor A, Wyatt B, Stewart M, Rye R, Adams J, Potts HWW. The prognostic influence of bcl-2 in malignant glioma. Br J Cancer 2002; 86: 1899-1904.

McManus RJ, Mant J, Davies MK, Davis RC, Deeks JJ, Oakes RA, Hobbs FDR. A systematic review of the evidence for rapid access chest pain clinics. Int J Clin Pract 2002; 56: 29-33.

Moher D, Schulz KF, Altman D. The CONSORT statement: Revised recommendations for improving the quality of reports of parallel-group randomized trials.

Altern Ther Health Med 2002; 8: 96-100. 2002; 6: 118-124. (in Japanese)

JAMA [Japanese edition]

Müllner M, Matthews H, Altman DG. Reporting on statistical methods to adjust for confounding: a cross-sectional survey. Ann Intern Med 2002; 136: 122-126.

O’Rourke K. Meta-analytical themes in the history of statistics: 1700 to 1938. Pakistan J Stat 2002; 18: 285-299.

Passalidou E, Trivella M, Singh N, Ferguson M, Hu J, Cesario A, Granone P, Nicholson AG, Goldstraw P, Ratcliffe C, Tetlow M, Leigh I, Harris AL, Gatter KC, Pezzella F. Vascular phenotype in angiogenic and non-angiogenic lung non-small cell carcinomas. Br J Cancer 2002; 86: 244-249.

Petersen VC, Baxter KJ, Love SB, Shepherd NA. Identification of objective pathological prognostic determinants and models of prognosis in Dukes’ B colon cancer. Gut 2002; 51: 65-69.

Pocock SJ, Clayton TC, Altman DG. Survival plots of time-to-event outcomes in clinical trials: good practice and pitfalls. Lancet 2002; 359: 1686-1689.

Schulz KF, Chalmers I, Altman DG. The landscape and lexicon of blinding in randomized trials. Ann Intern Med 2002; 136: 254-259.

Sterne JAC, Jüni P, Schulz KF, Altman DG, Bartlett C, Egger M. Statistical methods for assessing the influence of study characteristics on treatment effects in ‘meta-epidemiological’ research. Stat Med 2002; 21: 1513-1524.

Straus SE, McAlister FA, Sackett DL, Deeks JJ. Accuracy of history, wheezing, and forced expiratory time in the diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. J Gen Intern Med 2002; 17: 684-688.

Sullivan PB, Juszczak E, Lambert BR, Rose M, Ford-Adams ME, Johnson A. Impact of feeding problems on nutritional intake and growth: Oxford Feeding Study II. Dev Med Child Neurol 2002; 44: 461-467.

Summers KE, Davies AJ, Matthews J, Jenner MJ, Cornelius V, Amess JA, Norton AJ, Rohatiner AZ, Fitzgibbon J, Lister TA, Goff LK. The relative role of peripheral blood and bone marrow for monitoring molecular evidence of disease in follicular lymphoma by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction. Br J Haematol 2002; 118: 563-566.

Whitlock G, Clark TG. The effect of missing values for covariates. Epidemiology 2002; 13: 113.

Willams C, Collingwood M, Simera I, Grafton C. Short versus long duration infusions of paclitaxel for any advanced adenocarcinoma. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: Reviews 2002 Issue 1. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Cichester, UK DOI: 10 1002/146 2002.


Wyatt JC, Liu JLY. Basic concepts in medical informatics. J Epidemiol Comm Health 2002; 56: 808-812.