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Is there a sex bias in choosing editors? Epidemiology journals as an exampleK Dickersin
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
JAMA 280:260-4. 1998..The careers of women in public health have received less scrutiny than those of women in medicine and other branches of science. The performance of women as editors, authors, and reviewers in epidemiology has not been previously studied...- The Society for Clinical Trials supports United States legislation mandating trials registration. Position paperKay Dickersin
Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Clin Trials 1:417-20. 2004..Standardized data and a unique identification number would be available for each registered trial... - Surgical Treatments Outcomes Project for Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding (STOP-DUB): design and methodsKay Dickersin
Brown Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
Control Clin Trials 24:591-609. 2003..The main scientific objective for the observational study was to examine changes over time in terms of treatment selected, DUB-related symptoms, and quality of life... - Registering clinical trialsKay Dickersin
Center for Clinical Trials and Evidence based Healthcare, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI 02912, USA
JAMA 290:516-23. 2003..All stakeholders-investigators, research organizations and institutions, journal editors, lawmakers, consumers, and others-must act now, together and in their own domains, to ensure comprehensive registration of clinical trials... - Association between time interval to publication and statistical significanceKay Dickersin
Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
JAMA 287:2829-31. 2002..Studies have shown that reports from clinical trials with statistically significant results tend to be submitted and published more rapidly than reports from studies with null or insignificant findings... - Problems with indexing and citation of articles with group authorshipKay Dickersin
Department of Community Health, Brown University, 169 Angell St, Box G S2, Providence, RI 02912, USA
JAMA 287:2772-4. 2002..It is not known whether articles with group authorship (ie, with a research group name listed as the author) are difficult to identify or whether use of group authorship may lead to problems with citation... - Development and implementation of a science training course for breast cancer activists: Project LEAD (leadership, education and advocacy development)K Dickersin
Department of Community Health, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Health Expect 4:213-20. 2001..To develop and implement Project LEAD (leadership, education, and advocacy development), a science course for breast cancer activists... - Systematic reviews in epidemiology: why are we so far behind?Kay Dickersin
Center for Clinical Trials and Evidence based Healthcare, Department of Community Health Box G S2, 169 Angell Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
Int J Epidemiol 31:6-12. 2002 - Selective exposure reporting and Medline indexing limited the search sensitivity for observational studies of the adverse effects of oral contraceptivesSusan Wieland
Department of Community Health, Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 58:560-7. 2005..To explore development of possible approaches leading to a sensitive and precise Medline search to identify observational studies of the association between oral contraceptives and breast cancer, an adverse event... - Development of a highly sensitive search strategy for the retrieval of reports of controlled trials using PubMedKaren A Robinson
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Int J Epidemiol 31:150-3. 2002..To develop, through revision of the Cochrane Collaboration search strategy for OVID-MEDLINE, a highly sensitive search strategy to retrieve reports of controlled trials using PubMed... 
What do the JAMA editors say when they discuss manuscripts that they are considering for publication? Developing a schema for classifying the content of editorial discussionKay Dickersin
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
BMC Med Res Methodol 7:44. 2007..In an effort to identify previously unrecognized aspects of editorial decision-making, we explored the words and phrases that one group of editors used during their meetings...- Comparison of information obtained by operative note abstraction with that recorded on a standardized data collection formRoberta Scherer
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Baltimore 21201, USA
Surgery 133:324-30. 2003.... - Publication bias against negative results from clinical trials: three of the seven deadly sinsRichard T Johnson
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Nat Clin Pract Neurol 3:590-1. 2007 
Financial and quality-of-life burden of dysfunctional uterine bleeding among women agreeing to obtain surgical treatmentKevin D Frick
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Womens Health Issues 19:70-8. 2009....- Outcome reporting in industry-sponsored trials of gabapentin for off-label useS Swaroop Vedula
Center for Clinical Trials, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
N Engl J Med 361:1963-71. 2009..There is good evidence of selective outcome reporting in published reports of randomized trials... - Setting priorities for comparative effectiveness research: a case study using primary open-angle glaucomaTianjing Li
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Ophthalmology 117:1937-45. 2010..To test the feasibility of a framework for prioritizing new comparative effectiveness research (CER) questions related to management of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) using practice guidelines and a survey of clinicians...