Advanced Epidemiologic Methods for the Study of Rheumatic Diseases, An Issue of Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America

<p>Advanced Epidemiologic Methods for the Study of Rheumatic Diseases – Table of Contents</p> <p>Foreword: The Brave New World of Rheumatic Disease Research Today </p> <p>Preface: Advanced Epidemiologic Methods for the Study of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases </p> <p>Minimal Clinically Important Difference: A Review of Outcome Measure Score Interpretation </p> <p>Alternative Design and Analytical Techniques for Longitudinal Rheumatology Studies: Improved Understanding of Outcomes</p> <p>Propensity Score Methods for Bias Reduction in Observational Studies of Treatment Effect</p> <p>US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Arthritis Initiatives, Methodologies and Data </p> <p>Qualitative Methods to Advance Care, Diagnosis, and Therapy in Rheumatic Diseases</p> <p>Similarity Network Fusion: A Novel Application to Making Clinical Diagnoses</p> <p>Randomized Trials, Meta-Analyses, and Systematic Reviews: Using Examples</p> <p>from Rheumatology</p> <p>"Big Data" in Rheumatology: Intelligent Data Modeling Improves the Quality of Imaging Data</p> <p>Strategies for Dealing with Missing Accelerometer Data</p> <p>Use of Administrative Databases to Assess Reproductive Health Issues in Rheumatic Diseases</p> <p>Measuring Patient Preferences: An Overview of Methods with a Focus on Discrete Choice Experiments </p> <p>Cluster and Multiple Correspondence Analyses in Rheumatology: Paths to Uncovering Relationships in a Sea of Data</p> <p>Applied Bayesian Methods in the Rheumatic Diseases</p>