JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
VOLUME 58, NUMBER 9, SEPTEMBER 2005
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Commentary
865 Systematic reviews of diagnostic accuracy studies require study by study examination:
first for heterogeneity, and then for sources of heterogeneity
Colin B. Begg
Review Articles
867 Searching one or two databases was insufficient for meta-analysis
of observational studies
Adina R. Lemeshow, Robin E. Blum, Jesse A. Berlin, Michael A. Stoto, Graham A. Colditz
874 Simplified search strategies were effective in identifying clinical trials of pharmaceuticals
and physical modalities
Doreen Day, Andrea Furlan, Emma Irvin, and Claire Bombardier
Original Articles
882 The performance of tests of publication bias and other sample size effects in systematic reviews
of diagnostic test accuracy was assessed
Jonathan J. Deeks, Petra Macaskill, and Les Irwig
894 In an empirical evaluation of the funnel plot, researchers could not visually identify publication bias
Norma Terrin, Christopher H. Schmid, and Joseph Lau
902 Scoring based on item response theory did not alter the measurement ability of EORTC QLQ-C30 scales
Morten Aa. Petersen, Mogens Groenvold, Neil Aaronson, Elisabeth Brenne, Peter Fayers, Julie Damgaard
Nielsen, Mirjam Sprangers, Jakob B. Bjorner, for the European Organisation for Research and
Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Group
909 Clinical comorbidity was specific to disease pathology, psychologic distress, and somatic
symptom amplification
Umesh T. Kadam, Kelvin Jordan, and Peter R. Croft
918 Ensuring high accuracy of data abstracted from patient charts: the use of a standardized medical record
as a training tool
Larry Pan, Dean Fergusson, Irwin Schweitzer, and Paul C. Hebert
924 Measures of adherence based on self-report exhibited poor agreement with those based on
pharmacy records
Line Gue
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nette, Jocelyne Moisan, Michel Pre
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ville, and Richard Boyer
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