Published in Stat Med on February 15, 2002
Integrative data analysis: the simultaneous analysis of multiple data sets. Psychol Methods (2009) 3.66
Vaginal progesterone in women with an asymptomatic sonographic short cervix in the midtrimester decreases preterm delivery and neonatal morbidity: a systematic review and metaanalysis of individual patient data. Am J Obstet Gynecol (2011) 2.95
Prospective meta-analysis using individual patient data in intensive care medicine. Intensive Care Med (2009) 2.93
Evidence synthesis for decision making 3: heterogeneity--subgroups, meta-regression, bias, and bias-adjustment. Med Decis Making (2013) 2.43
On the relative efficiency of using summary statistics versus individual-level data in meta-analysis. Biometrika (2010) 2.06
Health plan effects on patient assessments of Medicaid managed care among racial/ethnic minorities. J Gen Intern Med (2004) 1.86
The strengths and limitations of meta-analyses based on aggregate data. BMC Med Res Methodol (2005) 1.77
Patent foramen ovale closure and medical treatments for secondary stroke prevention: a systematic review of observational and randomized evidence. Stroke (2011) 1.74
Multivariate meta-analysis for non-linear and other multi-parameter associations. Stat Med (2012) 1.68
Effectiveness of antidepressants: an evidence myth constructed from a thousand randomized trials? Philos Ethics Humanit Med (2008) 1.61
Statistical analysis of individual participant data meta-analyses: a comparison of methods and recommendations for practice. PLoS One (2012) 1.50
Defining risk heterogeneity for internalizing symptoms among children of alcoholic parents. Dev Psychopathol (2008) 1.50
Inhaled drugs to reduce exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a network meta-analysis. BMC Med (2009) 1.37
Methods for synthesizing findings on moderation effects across multiple randomized trials. Prev Sci (2013) 1.35
Individual participant data meta-analysis for a binary outcome: one-stage or two-stage? PLoS One (2013) 1.34
Investigating clinical heterogeneity in systematic reviews: a methodologic review of guidance in the literature. BMC Med Res Methodol (2012) 1.29
Evaluation of the safety and efficacy of pregabalin in older patients with neuropathic pain: results from a pooled analysis of 11 clinical studies. BMC Fam Pract (2010) 1.21
An updated study-level meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials on proning in ARDS and acute lung injury. Crit Care (2011) 1.20
Systematic review of methods for individual patient data meta- analysis with binary outcomes. BMC Med Res Methodol (2014) 1.17
Adverse event assessment of antimuscarinics for treating overactive bladder: a network meta-analytic approach. PLoS One (2011) 1.16
Consensus-based recommendations for investigating clinical heterogeneity in systematic reviews. BMC Med Res Methodol (2013) 1.07
Examining How Context Changes Intervention Impact: The Use of Effect Sizes in Multilevel Mixture Meta-Analysis. Child Dev Perspect (2008) 1.04
Pressure and volume limited ventilation for the ventilatory management of patients with acute lung injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS One (2011) 1.02
Risk of bias: a simulation study of power to detect study-level moderator effects in meta-analysis. Syst Rev (2013) 0.98
Cancer survivors' uptake and adherence in diet and exercise intervention trials: an integrative data analysis. Cancer (2014) 0.96
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Meta-analyses of Randomised Controlled Trials: Guidance on Their Use. PLoS Med (2015) 0.96
Assessing the effectiveness of primary angioplasty compared with thrombolysis and its relationship to time delay: a Bayesian evidence synthesis. Heart (2007) 0.96
The quality of meta-analyses of genetic association studies: a review with recommendations. Am J Epidemiol (2009) 0.95
Multivariate meta-analysis using individual participant data. Res Synth Methods (2014) 0.94
Advancing Science Through Collaborative Data Sharing and Synthesis. Perspect Psychol Sci (2013) 0.94
A process for assessing the feasibility of a network meta-analysis: a case study of everolimus in combination with hormonal therapy versus chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer. BMC Med (2014) 0.94
'Lost in translation': accounting for between-country differences in the analysis of multinational cost-effectiveness data. Pharmacoeconomics (2006) 0.93
Propofol vs traditional sedative agents for endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography: a meta-analysis. World J Gastroenterol (2011) 0.93
Should Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors Be Considered for Advanced Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Patients With Wild Type EGFR? Two Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Randomized Trials. Clin Lung Cancer (2014) 0.91
Assay sensitivity and study features in neuropathic pain trials: an ACTTION meta-analysis. Neurology (2013) 0.90
Effects of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents on fatigue- and anaemia-related symptoms in cancer patients: systematic review and meta-analyses of published and unpublished data. Br J Cancer (2014) 0.90
Aggregate-data estimation of an individual patient data linear random effects meta-analysis with a patient covariate-treatment interaction term. Biostatistics (2012) 0.90
Subclinical thyroid dysfunction and the risk for fractures: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Ann Intern Med (2014) 0.88
Long-term fracture rates seen with continued ibandronate treatment: pooled analysis of DIVA and MOBILE long-term extension studies. Osteoporos Int (2013) 0.88
How individual participant data meta-analyses have influenced trial design, conduct, and analysis. J Clin Epidemiol (2015) 0.88
The role of environmental heterogeneity in meta-analysis of gene-environment interactions with quantitative traits. Genet Epidemiol (2014) 0.86
Summarising and validating test accuracy results across multiple studies for use in clinical practice. Stat Med (2015) 0.85
Cost-effectiveness analysis using data from multinational trials: the use of bivariate hierarchical modeling. Med Decis Making (2007) 0.84
Meta-analysis of quality-of-life outcomes from physical activity interventions. Nurs Res (2009) 0.83
Survey finds that most meta-analysts do not attempt to collect individual patient data. J Clin Epidemiol (2012) 0.83
Exercise therapy for chronic low back pain: protocol for an individual participant data meta-analysis. Syst Rev (2012) 0.82
A systematic review of individual patient data meta-analyses on surgical interventions. Syst Rev (2013) 0.81
Casein-derived lactotripeptides reduce systolic and diastolic blood pressure in a meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials. Nutrients (2015) 0.81
Individual patient data meta-analysis of survival data using Poisson regression models. BMC Med Res Methodol (2012) 0.80
The Many Flavors of Model-Based Meta-Analysis: Part I-Introduction and Landmark Data. CPT Pharmacometrics Syst Pharmacol (2016) 0.80
Network meta-analysis of (individual patient) time to event data alongside (aggregate) count data. BMC Med Res Methodol (2014) 0.79
Methods and characteristics of published network meta-analyses using individual patient data: protocol for a scoping review. BMJ Open (2015) 0.79
Postconditioning in ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a systematic review, critical appraisal, and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials. Vasc Health Risk Manag (2014) 0.79
A pooled analysis of alcohol intake and colorectal cancer. Int J Clin Exp Med (2015) 0.78
Multivariate meta-analysis of prognostic factor studies with multiple cut-points and/or methods of measurement. Stat Med (2015) 0.78
Comparative safety and effectiveness of cognitive enhancers for Alzheimer's dementia: protocol for a systematic review and individual patient data network meta-analysis. BMJ Open (2016) 0.76
A scoping review of indirect comparison methods and applications using individual patient data. BMC Med Res Methodol (2016) 0.76
Contacting authors to retrieve individual patient data: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials (2016) 0.75
Meta-analysis using individual participant data: one-stage and two-stage approaches, and why they may differ. Stat Med (2016) 0.75
Vitamin E administration may decrease the incidence of pneumonia in elderly males. Clin Interv Aging (2016) 0.75
A Unified Approach of Meta-Analysis: Application to an Antecedent Biomarker Study in Alzheimer's Disease. J Appl Stat (2011) 0.75
Early discharge compared with ordinary discharge after percutaneous coronary intervention - a systematic review and meta-analysis of safety and cost. Vasc Health Risk Manag (2017) 0.75
Best practice for analysis of shared clinical trial data. BMC Med Res Methodol (2016) 0.75
Comparison of two independent systematic reviews of trials of recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2): the Yale Open Data Access Medtronic Project. Syst Rev (2017) 0.75
Testing moderation in network meta-analysis with individual participant data. Stat Med (2016) 0.75
The prevalence of frailty in heart failure: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Int J Cardiol (2017) 0.75
Meta-analysis of long-term joint structural deterioration in minimally treated patients with rheumatoid arthritis. BMC Musculoskelet Disord (2016) 0.75
Reliability of White Matter Microstructural Changes in HIV Infection: Meta-Analysis and Confirmation. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol (2017) 0.75
A new equation to estimate glomerular filtration rate. Ann Intern Med (2009) 71.41
Estimating GFR using serum cystatin C alone and in combination with serum creatinine: a pooled analysis of 3,418 individuals with CKD. Am J Kidney Dis (2008) 15.04
Estimating glomerular filtration rate from serum creatinine and cystatin C. N Engl J Med (2012) 14.99
Self-management education for adults with type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis of the effect on glycemic control. Diabetes Care (2002) 10.00
The case of the misleading funnel plot. BMJ (2006) 8.26
Effect of clopidogrel on early failure of arteriovenous fistulas for hemodialysis: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA (2008) 7.50
FGF23 induces left ventricular hypertrophy. J Clin Invest (2011) 7.22
Recommendations for examining and interpreting funnel plot asymmetry in meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials. BMJ (2011) 6.80
Evaluation of the modification of diet in renal disease study equation in a large diverse population. J Am Soc Nephrol (2007) 6.00
Factors other than glomerular filtration rate affect serum cystatin C levels. Kidney Int (2008) 5.90
Fibroblast growth factor 23 and risks of mortality and end-stage renal disease in patients with chronic kidney disease. JAMA (2011) 5.86
Correlation of quality measures with estimates of treatment effect in meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials. JAMA (2002) 5.81
Progression of chronic kidney disease: the role of blood pressure control, proteinuria, and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition: a patient-level meta-analysis. Ann Intern Med (2003) 5.47
Impact of creatinine calibration on performance of GFR estimating equations in a pooled individual patient database. Am J Kidney Dis (2007) 5.06
APOL1 risk variants, race, and progression of chronic kidney disease. N Engl J Med (2013) 5.00
The association between hepatitis C infection and survival after orthotopic liver transplantation. Gastroenterology (2002) 4.98
The PRISMA extension statement for reporting of systematic reviews incorporating network meta-analyses of health care interventions: checklist and explanations. Ann Intern Med (2015) 4.49
A randomized trial of tai chi for fibromyalgia. N Engl J Med (2010) 4.37
Comparison of drug dosing recommendations based on measured GFR and kidney function estimating equations. Am J Kidney Dis (2009) 4.30
Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study: baseline characteristics and associations with kidney function. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol (2009) 4.16
Long-term, high-dose glucocorticoids and bone mineral content in childhood glucocorticoid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome. N Engl J Med (2004) 3.87
Comparative performance of the CKD Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) and the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) Study equations for estimating GFR levels above 60 mL/min/1.73 m2. Am J Kidney Dis (2010) 3.87
Comparative effectiveness of pharmacologic interventions for knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. Ann Intern Med (2015) 3.75
Use of vancomycin or first-generation cephalosporins for the treatment of hemodialysis-dependent patients with methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. Clin Infect Dis (2006) 3.70
Effect of dipyridamole plus aspirin on hemodialysis graft patency. N Engl J Med (2009) 3.69
Guidelines for the management of chronic kidney disease in HIV-infected patients: recommendations of the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clin Infect Dis (2005) 3.63
Why clinicians are natural bayesians. BMJ (2005) 3.41
Anaemia in haemodialysis patients of five European countries: association with morbidity and mortality in the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS). Nephrol Dial Transplant (2004) 3.37
Death or hospitalization of patients on chronic hemodialysis is associated with a physician-based diagnosis of depression. Kidney Int (2008) 3.34
Maternal obesity and risk of gestational diabetes mellitus. Diabetes Care (2007) 3.27
Use of antiretroviral therapy in pregnant HIV-infected women and the risk of premature delivery: a meta-analysis. AIDS (2007) 3.22
Association between pulse pressure and mortality in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis. JAMA (2002) 2.98
Meta-Analyst: software for meta-analysis of binary, continuous and diagnostic data. BMC Med Res Methodol (2009) 2.92
Loss to analysis in randomized controlled trials in CKD. Am J Kidney Dis (2011) 2.85
In an empirical evaluation of the funnel plot, researchers could not visually identify publication bias. J Clin Epidemiol (2005) 2.77
Maternal obesity and risk of stillbirth: a metaanalysis. Am J Obstet Gynecol (2007) 2.66
Revisiting survival differences by race and ethnicity among hemodialysis patients: the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study. J Am Soc Nephrol (2006) 2.65
Tai Chi is effective in treating knee osteoarthritis: a randomized controlled trial. Arthritis Rheum (2009) 2.63
Diuretics, calciuria and secondary hyperparathyroidism in the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort. Nephrol Dial Transplant (2011) 2.60
Impact of renal dysfunction on outcomes of coronary artery bypass surgery: results from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Adult Cardiac Database. Circulation (2006) 2.51
Urine neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin levels do not improve risk prediction of progressive chronic kidney disease. Kidney Int (2013) 2.48
Adjusting for publication bias in the presence of heterogeneity. Stat Med (2003) 2.42
Estimating GFR among participants in the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study. Am J Kidney Dis (2012) 2.42
Relationship of estimated GFR and coronary artery calcification in the CRIC (Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort) Study. Am J Kidney Dis (2011) 2.25
Rates of completion of the medical evaluation for renal transplantation. Am J Kidney Dis (2005) 2.22
Modifiable barriers to adherence to inhaled steroids among adults with asthma: it's not just black and white. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2003) 2.21
Prior environmental contamination increases the risk of acquisition of vancomycin-resistant enterococci. Clin Infect Dis (2008) 2.19
Venous leg ulcer: incidence and prevalence in the elderly. J Am Acad Dermatol (2002) 2.13
Development of proteinuria or elevated serum creatinine and mortality in HIV-infected women. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2003) 2.11
Association between estrogen receptor alpha gene variation and cardiovascular disease. JAMA (2003) 2.10
Long-term effectiveness of lifestyle and behavioral weight loss interventions in adults with type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis. Am J Med (2004) 2.07
Long-term effectiveness of weight-loss interventions in adults with pre-diabetes: a review. Am J Prev Med (2005) 2.04
Semi-automated screening of biomedical citations for systematic reviews. BMC Bioinformatics (2010) 2.00
Therapeutic trajectory of hyaluronic acid versus corticosteroids in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Arthritis Rheum (2009) 1.99
Evaluating the performance of equations for estimating glomerular filtration rate. J Nephrol (2008) 1.95
Cancer risk with tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF) inhibitors: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of adalimumab, etanercept, and infliximab using patient level data. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf (2010) 1.95
Highly active antiretroviral therapy and the epidemic of HIV+ end-stage renal disease. J Am Soc Nephrol (2005) 1.94
Ethnic subgroup differences in hypertension in Pakistan. J Hypertens (2003) 1.94
Qualitative research-enhanced understanding of patients' beliefs: results of focus groups with low-income, urban, African American adults with asthma. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2003) 1.93
Efficacy of pharmacotherapy for weight loss in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a meta-analysis. Arch Intern Med (2004) 1.93
Trends in anemia management among US hemodialysis patients. J Am Soc Nephrol (2002) 1.92
Anemia and mortality in hemodialysis patients: accounting for morbidity and treatment variables updated over time. Kidney Int (2005) 1.89
Risk of kidney injury following oral phosphosoda bowel preparations. J Am Soc Nephrol (2007) 1.89
CKD in Hispanics: Baseline characteristics from the CRIC (Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort) and Hispanic-CRIC Studies. Am J Kidney Dis (2011) 1.88
Changes in dietary protein intake has no effect on serum cystatin C levels independent of the glomerular filtration rate. Kidney Int (2010) 1.88
Individual (N-of-1) trials can be combined to give population comparative treatment effect estimates: methodologic considerations. J Clin Epidemiol (2010) 1.85
Cystatin C, albuminuria, and 5-year all-cause mortality in HIV-infected persons. Am J Kidney Dis (2010) 1.84
Achieved versus intended pulse oximeter saturation in infants born less than 28 weeks' gestation: the AVIOx study. Pediatrics (2006) 1.83
Mortality and hospitalization in haemodialysis patients in five European countries: results from the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS). Nephrol Dial Transplant (2004) 1.83
Association between albuminuria, kidney function, and inflammatory biomarker profile in CKD in CRIC. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol (2012) 1.83
Evaluation of the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration equation for estimating the glomerular filtration rate in multiple ethnicities. Kidney Int (2010) 1.81
Association between long-term blood pressure variability and mortality among incident hemodialysis patients. Am J Kidney Dis (2008) 1.79
Variation in estrogen-related genes and cross-sectional and longitudinal blood pressure in the Framingham Heart Study. J Hypertens (2005) 1.77
Serum creatinine as marker of kidney function in South Asians: a study of reduced GFR in adults in Pakistan. J Am Soc Nephrol (2005) 1.76
Tai Chi on psychological well-being: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Complement Altern Med (2010) 1.76
Factors associated with intradialytic systolic blood pressure variability. Am J Kidney Dis (2011) 1.69
Costs and outcomes among hemodialysis-dependent patients with methicillin-resistant or methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2005) 1.69
Association between primary care practice characteristics and emergency department use in a medicaid managed care organization. Med Care (2005) 1.69
Gadolinium-based contrast agents and nephrogenic systemic fibrosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Nephrol Dial Transplant (2008) 1.66
Racial and center differences in hemodialysis adequacy in children treated at pediatric centers: a North American Pediatric Renal Transplant Cooperative Study (NAPRTCS) report. J Am Soc Nephrol (2004) 1.62
Heterogeneity of the phenotypic definition of coronary artery disease and its impact on genetic association studies. Circ Cardiovasc Genet (2010) 1.62
Effectiveness and Implications of Alternative Placebo Treatments: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis of Osteoarthritis Trials. Ann Intern Med (2015) 1.61
Hemoglobin variability and mortality in ESRD. J Am Soc Nephrol (2007) 1.61
Characteristics of treated hypertension in incident hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients. Am J Kidney Dis (2003) 1.60
Medical costs of abnormal serum sodium levels. J Am Soc Nephrol (2008) 1.56
Chronic kidney disease and prevalent atrial fibrillation: the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC). Am Heart J (2010) 1.55
Race and electronically measured adherence to immunosuppressive medications after deceased donor renal transplantation. J Am Soc Nephrol (2005) 1.54
Association between renal failure and foot ulcer or lower-extremity amputation in patients with diabetes. Diabetes Care (2008) 1.52
Effects of study precision and risk of bias in networks of interventions: a network meta-epidemiological study. Int J Epidemiol (2013) 1.50
History-adjusted marginal structural analysis of the association between hemoglobin variability and mortality among chronic hemodialysis patients. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol (2008) 1.49
Use of aspirin associates with longer primary patency of hemodialysis grafts. J Am Soc Nephrol (2011) 1.49
Maternal obesity and risk of neural tube defects: a metaanalysis. Am J Obstet Gynecol (2008) 1.49
Suppression of HIV-1 replication by antiretroviral therapy improves renal function in persons with low CD4 cell counts and chronic kidney disease. AIDS (2008) 1.46
Low socioeconomic status associates with higher serum phosphate irrespective of race. J Am Soc Nephrol (2010) 1.46
Development and validation of GFR-estimating equations using diabetes, transplant and weight. Nephrol Dial Transplant (2009) 1.46