Competing risks and the clinical community: irrelevance or ignorance?

MT Koller, H Raatz, EW Steyerberg… - Statistics in …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Life expectancy has dramatically increased in industrialized nations over the last 200
hundred years. The aging of populations carries over to clinical research and leads to an …

Prevalence, characteristics, and publication of discontinued randomized trials

…, F Lamontagne, A Nordmann, V Gloy, H Raatz… - Jama, 2014 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The discontinuation of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) raises ethical concerns
and often wastes scarce research resources. The epidemiology of discontinued RCTs, …

[HTML][HTML] Contrast-enhanced ultrasound using SonoVue®(sulphur hexafluoride microbubbles) compared with contrast-enhanced computed tomography and contrast …

…, N Armstrong, K Lee, V Gloy, H Raatz… - Health technology …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND Medical imaging techniques are important in the management of many
patients with liver disease. Unenhanced ultrasound examinations sometimes identify focal …

The impact of 18F-FDG PET on the management of patients with suspected large vessel vasculitis

…, UA Walker, H Rasch, S Berg, QKT Ng, H Raatz… - European journal of …, 2012 - Springer
Purpose We aimed to assess the impact of 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission
tomography (PET) on the management of patients with suspected large vessel vasculitis. …

GRADE guidelines: 21 part 2. Test accuracy: inconsistency, imprecision, publication bias, and other domains for rating the certainty of evidence and presenting it in …

…, A Rutjes, M Crowther, P Muti, H Raatz… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives This article provides updated GRADE guidance about how authors of systematic
reviews and health technology assessments and guideline developers can rate the certainty …

GRADE guidelines: 21 part 1. Study design, risk of bias, and indirectness in rating the certainty across a body of evidence for test accuracy

…, A Rutjes, M Crowther, P Muti, H Raatz… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives This article provides updated GRADE guidance about how authors of systematic
reviews and health technology assessments and guideline developers can assess the …

Adjunctive corticosteroids for Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia in patients with HIV infection

H Ewald, H Raatz, R Boscacci, H Furrer… - Cochrane database …, 2015 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia (PCP) remains the most common opportunistic
infection in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Among …

Personalized prescription feedback using routinely collected data to reduce antibiotic use in primary care: a randomized clinical trial

…, T Zumbrunn, O Grolimund, V Gloy, H Raatz… - JAMA internal …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Feedback interventions using routinely collected health data might reduce antibiotic
use nationwide without requiring the substantial resources and structural efforts of other …

Subgroup analyses in randomised controlled trials: cohort study on trial protocols and journal publications

…, F Lamontagne, A Nordmann, V Gloy, H Raatz… - Bmj, 2014 - bmj.com
Objective To investigate the planning of subgroup analyses in protocols of randomised
controlled trials and the agreement with corresponding full journal publications. Design Cohort of …

Systematic review of the accuracy of dual-source cardiac CT for detection of arterial stenosis in difficult to image patient groups

ME Westwood, HDI Raatz, K Misso, L Burgers… - Radiology, 2013 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To assess the diagnostic performance of dual-source cardiac (DSC) computed
tomography (CT) newer-generation CT instruments for identifying anatomically significant …