Impact of trial attrition rates on treatment effect estimates in chronic inflammatory diseases: A meta-epidemiological study.

The objective of this meta-epidemiological study was to explore the impact of attrition rates on treatment effect estimates in randomised trials of chronic inflammatory diseases (CID) treated with biological and targeted synthetic disease-modifying drugs. We sampled trials from Cochrane reviews. Attrition rates and primary endpoint results were retrieved from trial publications; Odds ratios (ORs) were calculated from the odds of withdrawing in the experimental intervention compared to the control comparison groups (i.

Adjusting perioperative methadone dose for elderly and fragile hip fracture patients (MetaHip-trial) - A statistical analysis plan for an adaptive dose-finding trial.

Background: The elderly population is expanding globally. This gives numerous challenges especially regarding hip fracture patients. In the US alone over 300.

Adolescents' needs for information and psychosocial support during their mother's breast cancer trajectory: A systematic review.

Objective: Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosis among women. The acute crisis and uncertainty that often follow diagnosis put the family at risk of exhaustion and dysfunction. Adolescents have been identified as a particularly vulnerable group of relatives.