Rebecca DerSimonian
National Institutes of Health
40 Papers
628 Citations
Rebecca DerSimonian is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Cytotoxic T cell. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 40 publications. Previous affiliations of Rebecca DerSimonian include Yale University & Yeshiva University.
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Papers
Meta-Analysis in Clinical Trials*
TL;DR: This paper examines eight published reviews each reporting results from several related trials in order to evaluate the efficacy of a certain treatment for a specified medical condition and suggests a simple noniterative procedure for characterizing the distribution of treatment effects in a series of studies.
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Meta-analysis in clinical trials revisited
Rebecca DerSimonian,Nan M. Laird +1 more
TL;DR: A random-effects model to summarize the evidence about treatment efficacy from a number of related clinical trials and a discussion of repurposing the method for Big Data meta-analysis and Genome Wide Association Studies for studying the importance of genetic variants in complex diseases are reviewed.
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Random-effects model for meta-analysis of clinical trials: An update
TL;DR: It is shown that the leading methods for estimating the inter-study variance are special cases of a general method-of-moments estimate of the inter"-study variance" and suggested two new two-step methods.
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Serum Cotinine Concentration and Self-reported Smoking during Pregnancy
TL;DR: It was showed that pregnant women accurately reported whether they smoked, but cotinine concentration was a better measure than self-report of the actual tobacco dose received.
Trial of calcium to prevent preeclampsia
Richard J. Levine,John C. Hauth,Luis B. Curet,Baha M. Sibai,Patrick M. Catalano,Cynthia D. Morris,Rebecca DerSimonian,Joy R. Esterlitz,Elizabeth G. Raymond,Diane E. Bild,John D. Clemens,Jeffrey A. Cutler +11 more
TL;DR: Calcium supplementation during pregnancy did not prevent preeclampsia, pregnancy-associated hypertension, or adverse perinatal outcomes in healthy nulliparous women.
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