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Comparison of evidence on harms of medical interventions in randomized and nonrandomized studies
Nonrandomized studies are often conservative in estimating absolute risks of harms. It would be useful to compare and scrutinize the evidence on harms obtained from both randomi...
Applying results of randomised trials to clinical practice: impact of losses before randomisation.
The problem of generalisability in randomised clinical trials was highlighted by studies that entered only 10-14% of screened patients. To determine the magnitude and source of ...
When avoiding unpleasant emotions might not be such a bad thing: Verbal-autonomic response dissociation and midlife conjugal bereavement.
It has been widely assumed that emotional avoidance during bereavement leads to either prolonged grief, delayed grief, or delayed somatic symptoms. To test this view, as well as...
Does hardiness contribute to mental health during a stressful real-life situation? The roles of appraisal and coping.
Israeli recruits (N = 276) completed questionnaires on hardiness, mental health, cognitive appraisal, and ways of coping at the beginning and end of a demanding, 4-month combat ...
Statistics Notes: Validating scales and indexes
An index of quality is a measurement like any other, whether it is assessing a website, as in today's BMJ ,1 a clinical trial used in a meta-analysis,2 or the quality of a life ...
VALIDITY OF EUROQOL—A GENERIC HEALTH STATUS INSTRUMENT—IN PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
The main aim of this pilot study was to test the 'construct' validity of Euroqol, a new generic health status instrument which consists of a questionnaire and visual analogue sc...
Conserved principles of mammalian transcriptional regulation revealed by RNA half-life
RNA levels in a cell are regulated by the relative rates of RNA synthesis and decay. We recently developed a new approach for measuring both RNA synthesis and decay in a single ...
Optimism and depression as predictors of physical and mental health functioning: The normative aging study
Dispositional optimism has been linked in previous studies to better health outcomes. We sought to examine the independent associations of dispositional optimism and depressive ...
Exercise Intensity and Longevity in Men
<h3>To the Editor.</h3> —The article by Dr Lee and colleagues<sup>1</sup>on intensity of physical activity and longevity provides additional evidence that physical activity is a...
Model calculated global, regional and megacity premature mortality due to air pollution
Abstract. Air pollution by fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone (O3) has increased strongly with industrialization and urbanization. We estimate the premature mortality rat...