Objective To quantify the effectiveness of pharmacological and lifestyle interventions to
prevent or delay type 2 diabetes in people with impaired glucose tolerance. Data sources …

Purpose: The aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review, and where possible meta-analyses,
of molecular and biological tumor markers described in neuroblastoma, and to …

This paper considers the quantitative synthesis of published comparative study results
when the outcome measures used in the individual studies and the way in which they are …

… Adapted from Lambert et al19 … 34 Abrams KR, Gillies CL, Lambert PC. Meta-analysis
of heterogeneously reported trials assessing change from baseline. Stat Med 2005;24:3823-44. …

Royston and Parmar (2002, Statistics in Medicine 21: 2175–2197) developed a class of
flexible parametric survival models that were programmed in Stata with the stpm command (…

Background Population-based cancer survival estimates provide valuable insights into the
effectiveness of cancer services and can reflect the prospects of cure. As part of the second …

… Lambert PC, Royston P: Further development of flexible parametric models for survival …
Lambert PC, Royston P: Flexible Parametric Survival Analysis Using Stata: Beyond the Cox …

… RP models are implemented in the stpm2 command (Lambert and Royston 2009). We
outline the stpm2 command in section 1.6 and describe the models in detail in chapter 5. …

Context Mortality among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–infected individuals has
decreased dramatically in countries with good access to treatment and may now be close to …

There has been a recent growth in the use of Bayesian methods in medical research. The
main reasons for this are the development of computer intensive simulation based methods …