Author(s): Rice DB; Kloda LA; Levis B; Qi B; Kingsland E; Thombs BD;

Objective: Database searches for studies of diagnostic test accuracy are notoriously difficult to filter, highly resource-intensive, and a potential barrier to quality evidence synthesis. We examined published meta-analyses of depression screening tool accuracy to evaluate the (1) proportion of included primary studies found in any online database in the ...

Article GUID: 27411746

Author(s): Rice DB; Kloda LA; Shrier I; Thombs BD;

Objective: Concerns have been raised regarding the quality and completeness of abstract reporting in evidence reviews, but this had not been evaluated in meta-analyses of diagnostic accuracy. Our objective was to evaluate reporting quality and completeness in abstracts of systematic reviews with meta-analyses of depression screening tool accuracy, using t ...

Article GUID: 27864250

Author(s): Thölke P; Mantilla-Ramos YJ; Abdelhedi H; Maschke C; Dehgan A; Harel Y; Kemtur A; Mekki Berrada L; Sahraoui M; Young T; Bellemare Pépin A; El Khantour C; Landry M; Pascarella A; Hadid V; Combrisson E; O' Byrne J; Jerbi K;

Machine learning (ML) is increasingly used in cognitive, computational and clinical neuroscience. The reliable and efficient application of ML requires a sound understanding of its subtleties and limitations. Training ML models on datasets with imbalanced classes is a particularly common problem, ...

Article GUID: 37385392

Author(s): He S; Rucker DD;

Uncertainty is an inherent part of consumers' environment. A large literature in marketing and related disciplines has found a positive relationship between uncertainty and information search: as consumers' uncertainty about a brand, product, or service increases, so does their inclination to seek out and engage with information. In contrast to th ...

Article GUID: 36471868

Author(s): Nassar EL; Levis B; Neyer MA; Rice DB; Booij L; Benedetti A; Thombs BD;

Objectives: Accurate and complete study reporting allows evidence users to critically appraise studies, evaluate possible bias, and assess generalizability and applicability. We evaluated the extent to which recent studies on depression screening accuracy were reported consistent with Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (STARD) statemen ...

Article GUID: 36047034

Author(s): Nassar EL; Levis B; Neyer MA; Rice DB; Booij L; Benedetti A; Thombs BD;

Objectives: Depression screening tool accuracy studies should be conducted with large enough sample sizes to generate precise accuracy estimates. We assessed the proportion of recently published depression screening tool diagnostic accuracy studies that reported sample size calculations; the proportion that provided confidence intervals (CIs); and precisi ...

Article GUID: 35362161

Author(s): Nassar EL; Levis B; Rice DB; Booij L; Benedetti A; Thombs BD;

Objectives: Screening is done to improve health outcomes by identifying and effectively treating individuals with unrecognized conditions. Depression screening has been proposed to identify previously unrecognized depression cases. Including individuals already diagnosed or treated for depression in screening test accuracy studies could exaggerate accurac ...

Article GUID: 35334411

Author(s): OmidYeganeh M; Khalili-Mahani N; Bermudez P; Ross A; Lepage C; Vincent RD; Jeon S; Lewis LB; Das S; Zijdenbos AP; Rioux P; Adalat R; Van Eede MC; Evans AC;

In recent years, the replicability of neuroimaging findings has become an important concern to the research community. Neuroimaging pipelines consist of myriad numerical procedures, which can have a cumulative effect on the accuracy of findings. To address this problem, we propose a method for si ...

Article GUID: 34381348

Author(s): Bhandari PM; Levis B; Neupane D; Patten SB; Shrier I; Thombs BD; Benedetti A;

Objective: To evaluate, across multiple sample sizes, the degree that data-driven methods result in (1) optimal cutoffs different from population optimal cutoff and (2) bias in accuracy estimates. Study design and setting: A total of 1,000 samples of sample size 100, 200, 500 and 1,000 each were randomly drawn to simulate studies of different sample size ...

Article GUID: 33838273

Author(s): Wu Y; Levis B; Riehm KE; Saadat N; Levis AW; Azar M; Rice DB; Boruff J; Cuijpers P; Gilbody S; Ioannidis JPA; Kloda LA; McMillan D; Patten SB; Shrier I; Ziegelstein RC; Akena DH; Arroll B; Ayalon L; Baradaran HR; Baron M; Bombardier CH; ...

Background: Item 9 of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) queries about thoughts of death and self-harm, but not suicidality. Although it is sometimes used to assess suicide risk, most positive responses are not associated with suicidality. The PHQ-8, which omits Item 9, is thus increasing ...

Article GUID: 31298180

Author(s): Thombs BD, Benedetti A, Kloda LA, Levis B, Azar M, Riehm KE, Saadat N, Cuijpers P, Gilbody S, Ioannidis JP, McMillan D, Patten SB, Shrier I, Steele RJ, Ziegelstein RC, Loiselle CG, Henry M, Ismail Z, Mitchell N, Tonelli M

BMJ Open. 2016 Apr 13;6(4):e011913 Authors: Thombs BD, Benedetti A, Kloda LA, Levis B, Azar M, Riehm KE, Saadat N, Cuijpers P, Gilbody S, Ioannidis JP, McMillan D, Patten SB, Shrier I, Steele RJ, Ziegelstein RC, Loiselle CG, Henry M, Ismail Z, Mitchell N, Tonelli M

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