Published research should be reported to evidence users with clarity and transparency that facilitate optimal appraisal and use of evidence and allow replication by other researchers. Guidelines for such reporting are available for several types of studies but not for meta-epidemiological methodology studies. Meta-epidemiological studies adopt a systematic review or meta-analysis approach to ex...

Introduction Vertigo and dizziness are among the most common chief complaints when patients seek medical advice and affect a considerable part of adults of working age. With a high lifetime prevalence and high burden of disease, vertigo and dizziness can be severely disabling symptoms because of their high impact on daily life. Although most vestibular disorders are manageable they are often un...

Introduction When the ACS founded its intramural program of epidemiological research in 1946, lung cancer death rates in men had increased approximately 5-fold since 1930, the first year for which mortality statistics encompassed most of the United States (1). Death rates from what had been the two leading fatal cancers in women, uterine (cervix and corpus combined) and stomach cancer, were dec...

semi-Bayes analyses of conditional-logistic and proportional-hazards regression. The impact of prior distributions for uncontrolled confounding and response bias: a case study of the relation of wire codes and magnetic fields to childhood leukemia. Being skeptical about meta-analyses: a Bayesian perspective on magnesium trials in myocardial infarction. exposures: a review and a comparative stud...

background and aims: since the epidemiological, clinical and experimental characteristics of meningitis are different for various locations, this study was conducted to investigate the characteristics of meningitis patients admitted to hospitals of yazd in the 2009 to 2013. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional and descriptive study, all 261 patients with meningitis were considered in ...