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 Alder N, Fenty J, Warren F, Sutton AJ, Rushton L, Jones DR, Abrams KR. Meta-analysis of mortality and cancer incidence among workers in the synthetic rubber-producing industry. Am J Epidemiol 2006; 164: 405-420.

Bax L, Yu LM, Ikeda N, Tsuruta H, Moons KG. Development and validation of MIX: comprehensive free software for meta-analysis of causal research data. BMC Med Res Methodol 2006; 6: 50.

Burling D, Halligan S, Altman DG, Atkin W, Bartram C, Fenlon H, Laghi A, Stoker J, Taylor S, Frost R, Dessey G, De Villiers M, Florie J, Foley S, Honeyfield L, Iannaccone R, Gallo T, Kay C, Lefere P, Lowe A, Mangiapane F, Marrannes J, Neri E, Nieddu G, Nicholson D, O'hare A, Ori S, Politi B, Poulus M, Regge D, Renaut L, Rudralingham V, Signoretta S, Vagli P, Van der Hulst V, Williams-Butt J. Polyp measurement and size categorisation by CT colonography: effect of observer experience in a multi-centre setting. Eur Radiol 2006; 16: 1737-1744.

Burling D, Halligan S, Altman DG, Atkin W, Bartram C, Fenlon H, Laghi A, Stoker J, Taylor S, Frost R, Dessey G, De Villiers M, Florie J, Foley S, Honeyfield L, Iannaccone R, Gallo T, Kay C, Lefere P, Lowe A, Mangiapane F, Marrannes J, Neri E, Nieddu G, Nicholson D, O'hare A, Ori S, Politi B, Poulus M, Regge D, Renaut L, Rudralingham V, Signoretta S, Vagli P, Van der Hulst V, Williams-Butt J. CT colonography interpretation times: effect of reader experience, fatigue, and scan findings in a multi-centre setting. Eur Radiol 2006; 16: 1745-1749.

Burling D, Halligan S, Taylor S, Brennand DJ, Altman DG, Bassett P, Atkin W, Bartram CI. Polyp measurement using CT colonography: agreement with colonoscopy and effect of viewing conditions on interobserver and intraobserver agreement. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2006; 186: 1597-1604.

Burton A, Altman DG, Royston P, Holder RL. The design of simulation studies in medical statistics. Stat Med 2006; 25: 4279-4292.

Capelhorn J, Deeks JJ. A critical appraisal of the Australian comparative trial of methadone and buprenorphine maintenance. Drug Alcohol Rev 2006; 25: 157-160.

Chan A-W, Upshur R, Singh JA, Ghersi D, Chapuis F, Altman DG. Access to research protocols for methodological review: waiving confidentiality for the greater good. BMJ 2006; 332: 1086-1089.

Chantler T, Yu LM, Newton S, Diggle L. Including pneumococcal vaccine in the childhood schedule: Primary health professionals' views. Practice Nursing 2006; 17: 342-344.

Clark TG, Murphy MFG, Hey K, Aveyard P, Cheng KK. Does smoking influence survival in cancer patients through effects on respiratory and vascular disease? Eur J Cancer Prev 2006; 15: 87-90.

Clarke A, Deeks JJ, Shakir SA. An assessment of the publicly disseminated evidence of safety used in decisions to withdraw medicinal products from the UK and US markets. Drug Saf 2006; 29: 175-181.

Clarke M, Hopewell S, Juszczak E, Eisinga A, Kjeldstrøm M. Compression stockings for preventing deep vein thrombosis in airline passengers. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2006; (2): CD004002.

Dawes MG, Coats AJ, Juszczak E. Daytime ambulatory systolic blood pressure is more effective at predicting mortality than clinic blood pressure. Blood Press Monit 2006; 11: 111-118.

Diggle L, Deeks JJ, Pollard AJ. Effect of needle size on immunogenicity and reactogenicity of vaccines in infants: randomised controlled trial. BMJ 2006; 333: 571-574.

Evans E, Hawton K, Rodham K, Deeks J. The prevalence of suicidal phenomena in adolescents: a systematic review of population-based studies. Suicide Life Threat Behav 2005; 35: 239-250.

Ewer K, Millington KA, Deeks JJ, Alvarez L, Bryant G, Monk P, Lalvani A. Dynamic antigen-specific T-cell responses following point-source exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2006; 174: 831-839.

Fossey J, Ballard C, Juszczak E, James I, Alder N, Jacoby R, Howard R. Effect of enhanced psychosocial care on antipsychotic use in nursing home residents with severe dementia: cluster randomised trial. BMJ 2006; 332: 756-761.

Gøtzsche PC, Hróbjartsson A, Johansen HK, Haahr MT, Altman DG, Chan A-W. Constraints on publication rights in industry-initiated clinical trials. JAMA 2006; 295: 1645-1646.

Gøtzsche PC, Hróbjartsson A, Johansen HK, Haahr MT, Altman DG, Chan A-W. [Constraints on publication rights in industry-initiated clinical trials.] (in Danish) Ugeskr Læger 2006; 168: 2467-2469.

Griffiths J, Gager M, Alder N, Fawcett D, Waldmann Carl, Quinlan J. A self-report-based study of the incidence and associations of sexual dysfunction in survivors of intensive care treatment. Intensive Care Med 2006; 32: 445-451.

Halligan S, Altman DG, Mallett S, Taylor SA, Burling D, Roddie M, Honeyfield L, McQuillan J, Amin H, Dehmeshki J. Computed tomographic colonography: assessment of radiologists performance with and without computer-aided detection. Gastroenterology 2006; 131: 1690-1699.

Harbord RM, Deeks JJ, Egger M, Whiting P, Sterne JA. A unification of models for meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies. Biostatistics 2006; [Epub ahead of print].

Johnstone E, Benowitz N, Cargill A, Jacob R, Hinks L, Day I, Murphy M, Walton R. Determinants of the rate of nicotine metabolism and effects on smoking behavior. Clin Pharmacol Ther 2006; 80: 319-330.

Kelly DF, Snape M, Clutterbuck EC, Green S, Snowden C, Diggle L, Yu LM, Borkowski A, Moxon ER, Pollard AJ. CRM197-conjugated serogroup C meningococcal capsular polysaccharide, but not the native polysaccharide, induces persistent antigen specific memory B cells. Blood 2006; 108: 2642-2647.

Liu J, Wyatt JC, Altman DG. Decision tools in health care: focus on the problem, not the solution. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 2006; 6: 4.

Liu JLY, Wyatt JC, Deeks JJ, Clamp S, Keen J, Verde P, Ohmann C, Wellwood J, Dawes M, Altman DG. Systematic reviews of clinical decision tools for acute abdominal pain. Health Technol Assess 2006; 10(47): 1-186.

Mallett S, Deeks JJ, Halligan S, Hopewell S, Cornelius V, Altman DG. Systematic reviews of diagnostic tests in cancer: review of methods and reporting. BMJ 2006; 333: 413-416. [Full version at http://www.bmj.com/cgi/reprint/333/7565/413]

McShane LM, Altman DG, Sauerbrei W, Taube SE, Gion M, Clark GM. Reporting recommendations for tumor marker prognostic studies (REMARK). Exp Oncol 2006; 28: 99-105.

McShane LM, Altman DG, Sauerbrei W, Taube SE, Gion M, Clark GM for the Statistics Subcommittee of the NCI-EORTC Working Group on Cancer Diagnostics. REporting recommendations for tumor MARKer prognostic studies (REMARK). Breast Cancer Res Treat 2006; 100: 229-235.

Munafò MR, Clark TG, Roberts KH, Johnstone EC. Neuroticism mediates the association of the serotonin transporter gene with lifetime major depression. Neuropsychobiology 2006; 53: 1-8.

Patkar V, Hurt C, Steele R, Love S, Purushotham A, Williams M, Thomson R, Fox J. Evidence-based guidelines and decision support services: A discussion and evaluation in triple assessment of suspected breast cancer. Br J Cancer 2006; 95: 1490-1496.

Piaggio G, Elbourne DR, Altman DG, Pocock SJ, Evans SJW for the CONSORT Group. Reporting of noninferiority and equivalence randomized trials: an extension of the CONSORT Statement. JAMA 2006; 295: 1152-1160. [Correction: JAMA 2006; 296: 1842.]

Plint AC, Moher D, Morrison A, Altman DG, Schulz K, Hill C, Gaboury I. Does the CONSORT checklist improve the quality of reports of randomised controlled trials? A systematic review. Med J Aust 2006; 185: 263-267.

Pyper C, Bromhall L, Dummett S, Altman DG, Brownbill P, Murphy M. The Oxford Conception Study design and recruitment experience. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 2006; 20 Suppl 1: 51-59.

Royston P, Altman DG, Sauerbrei W. Dichotomizing continuous predictors in multiple regression: a bad idea. Stat Med 2006; 25: 127-141.

Sauerbrei W, Holländer N, Riley RD, Altman DG. Evidence-based assessment and application of prognostic markers: the long way from single studies to meta-analysis. Commun Stat Theory Meth 2006; 35: 1333-1342.

Schriger DL, Arora S, Altman DG. The content of medical journal instructions for authors. Ann Emerg Med 2006; 48: 743-749, 749.e1-4.

Schriger DL, Sinha R, Schroter S, Liu PY, Altman DG. From submission to publication: a retrospective review of the tables and figures in a cohort of randomized controlled trials submitted to the British Medical Journal. Ann Emerg Med 2006; 48: 750-756, 756.e1-21.

Snape MD, Kelly DF, Salt P, Green S, Snowden C, Diggle L, Borkowski A, Yu LM, Moxon ER, Pollard AJ. Serogroup C meningococcal glycoconjugate vaccine in adolescents: persistence of bactericidal antibodies and kinetics of the immune response to a booster vaccine more than 3 years after immunization. Clin Infect Dis 2006;43:1387-1394.

Stein A, Woolley H, Senior R, Hertzmann L, Lovel M, Lee J, Cooper S, Wheatcroft R, Challacombe F, Patel P, Nicol-Harper R, Feldmann P, Schmidt A, Juszczak E, Fairburn CG. Treating disturbances in the relationship between mothers with eating disorders and their infants: a randomized controlled trial. Am J Psychiatry 2006; 163: 899-906.

Sullican PB, Alder N, Bachlet AM, Grant H, Juszczak E, Henry J, Vernon-Roberts A, Warner J, Wells J. Gastrostomy feeding in cerebral palsy: too much of a good thing? Dev Med Child Neurol 2006; 48: 877-882.

Sullivan PB, Burnett CA, Juszczak E. Parent satisfaction in a nurse led clinic compared with a paediatric gastroenterology clinic for the management of intractable, functional constipation. Arch Dis Child 2006; 91: 499-501.

Taggart DP, Lees B, Gray A, Altman DG, Flather M, Channon K on behalf of the ART Investigators. Protocol for the Arterial Revascularisation Trial (ART). A randomised trial to compare survival following bilateral versus single internal mammary grafting in coronary revascularisation [ICRCTN46552265]. Trials 2006; 7: 7.

Watson E, Hewitson P, Brett J, Bukach C, Evans R, Edwards A, Elwyn G, Cargill A, Austoker J. Informed decision making and prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing for prostate cancer: a randomised controlled trial exploring the impact of a brief patient decision aid on men's knowledge, attitudes and intention to be tested. Patient Educ Couns 2006; 63: 367-379.

Whiting P, Harbord R, Main C, Deeks JJ, Filippini G, Egger M, Sterne JA. Accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis: systematic review. BMJ 2006; 332: 875-878.

Williams C, Brunskill S, Altman D, Briggs A, Campbell H, Clarke M, Glanville J, Gray A, Harris A. Cost effectiveness of using prognostic information to select women with breast cancer for adjuvant systemic therapy. Health Technol Assess 2006; 10(34): 1-222.