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Executive Director & Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute; Full Professor, University of Toronto; Co-Editor in Chief, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

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Congratulations to @cathsmstratton.bsky.social, who was recently awarded the 2025 Cathy Fooks Award for Research and Leadership Excellence in Patient and Caregiver Engagement Award!

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06.10.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Reminder - please share!

Our next webinar, with Dr. Monika Kastner, is coming up in 1 week, on October 9th.

Join us! 😊
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02.10.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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For #InternationalDayOfOlderPersons we’re excited to highlight our β€œHealthy aging in older adults – Priority setting” project, one of our many projects which focuses on the health of older adults.

#GeriSky #GeronSky

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01.10.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Great to see this update has added perspectives « It builds up on a 2014 scoping review by our team and aims to enhance the usability, completeness, and transparency of NMA reporting for diverse audiences, including patients and the public. » @sporalliance.bsky.social

29.09.2025 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Check out our September 2025 e-newsletter for the latest SPOR Evidence Alliance updates, including member spotlights, publications, and engagement opportunities!

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30.09.2025 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trial of an Intervention to Improve Acute Heart Failure Outcomes | NEJM Patients with acute heart failure are frequently or systematically hospitalized, often because the risk of adverse events is uncertain and the options for rapid follow-up are inadequate. Whether th...

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It's #WorldHeartDay! Learn here about the COACH trial, led by Dr. Doug Lee in collaboration with KTP scientists. The COACH trial, published in the @nejm.org, improved outcomes for patients with acute heart failure outcomes. Read on: bit.ly/3Ut7ezB

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29.09.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
User experience of Tool for Addressing Conflicts of Interest in Trials (TACIT) prototype: interview and questionnaire study To describe and analyse the user experience of a late-phase prototype of Tool for Addressing Conflicts of Interest in Trials (TACIT). The tool was developed primarily for guiding systematic reviewers ...

User experience of Tool for Addressing Conflicts of Interest in Trials (TACIT) prototype: interview and questionnaire study - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

28.09.2025 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Machine Learning For Predicting Cardiovascular Events In Older Adults With Type 2 Diabetes Using Medicare Claims And Electronic Health Records To address the limitations of existing models for research and population health applications in older adults with type 2 diabetes, we developed and validated cardiovascular disease (CVD) and heart fa...

Machine Learning For Predicting Cardiovascular Events In Older Adults With Type 2 Diabetes Using Medicare Claims And Electronic Health Records - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

28.09.2025 12:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The AMSTAR 2 publication lacks explicit instructions on how to assess the appropriateness of statistical methods (item 11) and publication bias (item 15), and does not reflect advances in meta-analysi... As the quantity of published systematic reviews has increased substantially over the years, concerns about the methodological quality of this growing body of literature have been validly raised. AMSTA...

The AMSTAR 2 publication lacks explicit instructions on how to assess the appropriateness of statistical methods (item 11) and publication bias (item 15), and does not reflect advances in meta-analysis - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

28.09.2025 12:06 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Impact of active placebo controls on estimated drug effects in randomised trials: a meta-epidemiological study To assess the impact of active placebo control versus standard placebo control interventions on estimated benefits of experimental interventions in pharmacological randomised clinical trials, and to e...

Impact of active placebo controls on estimated drug effects in randomised trials: a meta-epidemiological study - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

28.09.2025 12:06 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Write Your Abstracts Carefully - The Impact of Abstract Reporting Quality on Findability by Semi-Automated Title-Abstract Screening Tools Evidence synthesis, such as the conduct of a systematic review or clinical guideline development, is time-consuming, laborious, and costly. This is largely due to the vast amounts of titles and abstra...

Write Your Abstracts Carefully - The Impact of Abstract Reporting Quality on Findability by Semi-Automated Title-Abstract Screening Tools - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

28.09.2025 12:06 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Piloting QUADAS-3: A Revised Tool for the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies QUADAS-2 is the most widely used tool for evaluating risk of bias and applicability concerns in diagnostic test accuracy studies within systematic reviews. QUADAS-2 has recently been updated to a new ...

Piloting QUADAS-3: A Revised Tool for the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

28.09.2025 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Effectiveness and Efficiency of an Add-on Active Outreach Strategy on Research Enrollments in a Drug Intervention Trial Adding an active outreach strategy for patients who do not respond to mail invitations may enhance clinical research recruitment; however, the effectiveness of this approach has yet to be formally tes...

Effectiveness and Efficiency of an Add-on Active Outreach Strategy on Research Enrollments in a Drug Intervention Trial - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

28.09.2025 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
PedsQL Generic Core Scales was More Discriminative While EQ-5D-Y-5L was More Responsive in a Longitudinal Study of Multi-Ethnic Asian Children and Adolescents With Heart Disease This study compared the measurement properties of five pediatric health-related quality of life (HRQoL) instrumentsβ€”three preference-based (EQ-5D-Y-3L, EQ-5D-Y-5L, and CHU9D) and two non-preference-ba...

PedsQL Generic Core Scales was More Discriminative While EQ-5D-Y-5L was More Responsive in a Longitudinal Study of Multi-Ethnic Asian Children and Adolescents With Heart Disease - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

28.09.2025 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Statistical model assessment in published dose-response meta-analyses is suboptimal: Evidence from a methodological review and re-analysis of 242 datasets Dose-response meta-analysis (DRMA) is a crucial clinical and epidemiological research tool for synthesizing exposure-risk relationships. Despite its growing use, facilitated by the availability of sta...

Statistical model assessment in published dose-response meta-analyses is suboptimal: Evidence from a methodological review and re-analysis of 242 datasets - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

28.09.2025 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Updating the PRISMA reporting guideline for network meta-analysis: a scoping review This scoping review is the first step in updating the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) extension for network meta-analysis (NMA). It builds up on a 2014 scop...

Updating the PRISMA reporting guideline for network meta-analysis: a scoping review - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

28.09.2025 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Reusing clinical trial data to consolidate and advance medical knowledge While data sharing holds great potential to maximize the value of research and reduce waste, these benefits can only be fully realized if shared data are also effectively reused. Yet data reuse remain...

Reusing clinical trial data to consolidate and advance medical knowledge - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

28.09.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Conflict of interest policies for editors and peer reviewers in medical journals:cross-sectional study Editors and reviewers of research manuscripts may have conflicts of interest that impact their evaluations. We aimed to characterise medical journals' conflict of interest policies for editors and pee...

Conflict of interest policies for editors and peer reviewers in medical journals:cross-sectional study - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

28.09.2025 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Planning retention strategies in clinical trials; a qualitative interview study with members of trial teams To address poor participant retention, trial teams often use retention strategies. Evidence on the planning of retention strategies in trials is limited. Based on our previously conducted research, an...

Planning retention strategies in clinical trials; a qualitative interview study with members of trial teams - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

28.09.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Developing risk prediction models for type 2 diabetes and assessing the role of circulating metabolic biomarkers in five independent Finnish cohorts with over 22000 individuals Type 2 diabetes is a serious public health risk. It is not well known whether large scale omics data could help improve the risk prediction. We combined the use of metabolic variables with modern mode...

Developing risk prediction models for type 2 diabetes and assessing the role of circulating metabolic biomarkers in five independent Finnish cohorts with over 22000 individuals - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

28.09.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Citizen Science as an Approach for Engaging Underrepresented Communities in Health Research to Generate Research Questions and Priorities Engaging patients and public in health research ensures results remain relevant and responsive to community needs. However, meaningful engagement with underrepresented communities remains challenging,...

Citizen Science as an Approach for Engaging Underrepresented Communities in Health Research to Generate Research Questions and Priorities - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

28.09.2025 12:43 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
GRADE Notes 6: Three strategies to determine the clinically important thresholds for outcomes in evidence-based guideline development In evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (CPGs), the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) approach is commonly used to evaluate the certainty of evidence t...

GRADE Notes 6: Three strategies to determine the clinically important thresholds for outcomes in evidence-based guideline development - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

28.09.2025 12:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Virtual versus in-person meetings for practice guideline panels: A qualitative study Traditionally, practice guidelines panel meetings were conducted in-person. During the COVID-19 pandemic, meetings transitioned to the virtual format. While guideline developers appreciated the increa...

Virtual versus in-person meetings for practice guideline panels: A qualitative study - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

28.09.2025 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Implementing a randomization consent to enable Trials within Cohorts (TwiCs) in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study – A mixed-methods study Trials within Cohorts (TwiCs) is a promising design to make randomized trials more efficient. Cohort participants are asked for consent to be randomized into future low-risk interventions tested withi...

Implementing a randomization consent to enable Trials within Cohorts (TwiCs) in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study – A mixed-methods study - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

28.09.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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International Application of an Optimized Harmonization Approach for Longitudinal Cognitive Data in People with HIV We previously developed a refined longitudinal data harmonization method to address the challenge of non-overlapping cognitive tests across cohorts, successfully harmonizing data from five large-scale...

International Application of an Optimized Harmonization Approach for Longitudinal Cognitive Data in People with HIV - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

28.09.2025 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Modelling rates of trial attrition: An analysis of individual participant data from 90 randomised controlled trials of pharmacological interventions for multiple conditions Trial attrition threatens the validity of randomised controlled trials (hereafter trials) and has implications for trial design, conduct and analysis. Few studies have examined how attrition rates cha...

Modelling rates of trial attrition: An analysis of individual participant data from 90 randomised controlled trials of pharmacological interventions for multiple conditions - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

28.09.2025 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Living guidelines have come of age: new insights and methodsβ€”an open call for contributions Guideline developers have long recognized the importance of maintaining up-to-date guidelines to support evidence-based practice and policy, contributing to narrowing the gap between research generati...

Living guidelines have come of age: new insights and methodsβ€”an open call for contributions - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

28.09.2025 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Peer review of prediction model studies in oncology needs improvement: a systematic review of open peer review reports from BMC journals To evaluate the completeness and quality of open peer review reports from BMC journals for regression-based clinical prediction model studies in oncology, focusing on adherence to methodological stand...

Peer review of prediction model studies in oncology needs improvement: a systematic review of open peer review reports from BMC journals - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

28.09.2025 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The distinction between causal, predictive, and descriptive researchβ€”there is still room for improvement It has been proposed that medical research questions can be categorised into three classes: causal, predictive, and descriptive. This distinction was proposed to encourage researchers to think clearly...

The distinction between causal, predictive, and descriptive researchβ€”there is still room for improvement - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

28.09.2025 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Citizen Science as an Approach for Engaging Underrepresented Communities in Health Research to Generate Research Questions and Priorities Engaging patients and public in health research ensures results remain relevant and responsive to community needs. However, meaningful engagement with underrepresented communities remains challenging,...

Citizen Science as an Approach for Engaging Underrepresented Communities in Health Research to Generate Research Questions and Priorities - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

18.09.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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