Meta-Analyses of Randomized Control Trials

Autor: Henry S. Sacks, Dinah Reitman, Jayne Berrier, Thomas C. Chalmers, Daniel Pagano

Meta-analysis attempts to analyze and combine the results of previous reports. We have updated our 1987 survey of 86 meta-analyses of randomized control trials in the English-language literature with an additional 78 reports. We have evaluated the qu

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https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429187445-23

Zidovudine Compared With Didanosine in Patients With Advanced HIV Type I Infection and Little or No Previous Experience With Zidovudine

Autor: Rebecca L. Becker, John Jermano, John T. Carey, Kent A. Sepkowitz, Beth Zwickl, W. David Hardy, J. J. Zurlo, Michael J. Brown, Karen A. Somogyi, Sandra Sledz, Anne Cross, David Katzenstein, Michael F. Para, Song-heng Liou, Vincent J. McAuliffe, Laurie Smaldone, Ronald T. Mitsuyaso, Anna Wald, William G. Powderly, Newton E. Hyslop, David A. Amato, Ross G. Hewitt, Michael H. Grieco, Judith L. Neidig, Bernard McNamara, Luigi Troiani, Patrick G. Fairchild, Hetty A. Waskin, Raphael Dolin, Henry W. Murray, Joanne Cole, DeAnn Diamond, Mary Paradise, Kenneth H. Fife, Harold A. Kessler, Edward D. Gomperts, D. T. Jayaweera, James O. Kahn, Edward E. Telzak, Ann DePaolis-Jones, Carol Harris, David M. Mushatt, Ruth Ann Burk, George Pazin, Carla Pettinelli, Roy T. Steigbigel, Deborah McMahon, W. C. Ehmann, Aline A. Heggen, Paula B. Hartman, Brenda R. Kolatch, Jeffrey Fessell, Kate Mayjo, Jonathan C. Goldsmith, Douglas D. Richman, George McKinley, Donald C. Blair, Ric John, Lisa Rolfe, Thomas C. Merigan, M. L. McGuire, Rebecca Coleman, Robert E. Hirschtick, Margaret A. Fischl, Clyde S. Crumpacker, Lin M. Woods, Carsandra Sanders, Sarah H. Cheeseman, Michael F. Giordano, R. Millard, Robert I. Murphy, Stephen A. Spector, Ann C. Collier, Diana Antoniskis, Martin S. Hirsch, Lawrence D. Gelb, Donna Mildvan, Jack Fuhrer, Linda Johnson, Marcella Jones, Traci L. Davis, Roy Soeiro, Mohan Beltangady, Barry S. Zingman, Fred T. Valentine, Diane V. Havlir, Richard C. Reichman, Monto Ho, Mary Elizabeth Roarke, Keith Henry, Charles van der Horst, James Zachary, Margarita Vasquez, Kwan Kew Lai, Louis Grue, Tim Cooley, Dinah Reitman, Brenda Bagby

Publikováno v: Archives of Internal Medicine. 155:961

Background: We conducted a trial to compare treatment with zidovudine or didanosine in patients with advanced human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection who had received little or no previous therapy with zidovudine. Methods: Six hundred s

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https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1995.00430090111012

Minimizing the Three Stages of Publication Bias

Autor: Thomas C. Chalmers, Dinah Reitman, Cynthia S. Frank

Publikováno v: JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. 263:1392

Publication bias can be considered to have three stages: (1) Prepublication bias occurs in the performance of research, caused by ignorance, sloth, greed, or the double standard applied to clinical trials but not to clinical practice. (2) Publication

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https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1990.03440100104016

Loss of patients in clinical trials that measure long-term survival following myocardial infarction

Autor: Dinah Reitman, Henry S. Sacks, Thomas C. Chalmers, Harry Smith, Rohit Bhaskar

Publikováno v: Controlled Clinical Trials. 7:134-148

Loss of patients from clinical trials can nullify adequate randomization if the loss is unequally distributed among treatment groups. This study was designed to assess the magnitude of the problem in randomized control trials evaluating long-term the

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https://doi.org/10.1016/0197-2456(86)90029-2

Association of adrenocorticosteroid therapy and peptic-ulcer disease

Autor: Julio Messer, Henry S. Sacks, Dinah Reitman, Harry Smith, Thomas C. Chalmers

Publikováno v: The New England journal of medicine. 309(1)

We reexamined the association between corticosteroid therapy and subsequent peptic ulceration or gastrointestinal hemorrhage by pooling data from 71 controlled clinical trials in which patients were randomized to systemic corticosteroids (or ACTH) or

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6343871