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  1. From Findings to Meaning: A Strategic Framework for the Discussion Section
  2. Uncertain use of a fixed p value significance threshold in randomized clinical trials
  3. THE BIVARIATE CORRELATION COEFFICIENT: FROM CONCEPT TO APPLICATION
  4. The global, regional, and national burden of cancer, 1990–2023, with forecasts to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023
  5. Global, Regional, and National Burden of Nontraumatic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
  6. On the effect of flexible adjustment of the p value significance threshold on the reproducibility of randomized clinical trials
  7. Global, regional and national burden of dietary iron deficiency from 1990 to 2021: a Global Burden of Disease study
  8. Diagnostic tests performance indices
  9. The P Value: What It Is and What It Is Not
  10. Iranian Scholar Haly Abbas Contributes to Europe’s First Modern Medical School
  11. Toll-Like Receptors Agonists: First-Line Defense Tools in the Pandemic Preparedness Arsenal?
  12. The ‘balls’ of an ideal man?
  13. Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
  14. The effect on the equilibrium sickle cell allele frequency of the probable protection conferred by malaria and sickle cell gene against other infectious diseases
  15. Reinterpretation of the results of randomized clinical trials
  16. Global pattern, trend, and cross-country inequality of early musculoskeletal disorders from 1990 to 2019, with projection from 2020 to 2050
  17. Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
  18. Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a syst...
  19. Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
  20. Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality burden of non-COVID-19 lower respiratory infections and aetiologies, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
  21. CHI-SQUARED TEST
  22. On the feasibility of malaria hypothesis
  23. Global Health Trends 1950–2021: Impact of COVID-19 on Mortality and Population Growth
  24. Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
  25. Global fertility in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2021, with forecasts to 2100: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
  26. On the use of receiver operating characteristic curve analysis to determine the most appropriate p value significance threshold
  27. Data Distribution: Normal or Abnormal?
  28. Credibility of the P Value
  29. Bird’s Eye View for Risk Adjustment in Medical Research
  30. MY LIFE AS AN EDITOR AND CONSULTANT OF MEDICAL JOURNALS
  31. Chatbots, generative AI, and scholarly manuscripts: WAME recommendations on chatbots and generative artificial intelligence in relation to scholarly publications
  32. Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risks, 1990-2022
  33. Chatbots, generative AI, and scholarly manuscripts
  34. CHATBOTS, GENERATIVE AI, AND SCHOLARLY MANUSCRIPTS WAME RECOMMENDATIONS ON CHATBOTS AND GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN RELATION TO SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
  35. When to Attend a Webinar?
  36. Correction of vaccine effectiveness derived from test-negative case–control studies
  37. Chatbots, Generative AI, and Scholarly Manuscripts: WAME Recommendations on Chatbots and Generative Artificial Intelligence in Relation to Scholarly Publications Revised May 31, 2023
  38. On determining the sensitivity and specificity of a new diagnostic test through comparing its results against a non-gold-standard test
  39. Echinococcophobia
  40. The future of scientific journals: The rise of UniAI
  41. Malaria and the incidence of COVID-19 in Africa: an ecological study
  42. No need for a gold-standard test: on the mining of diagnostic test performance indices merely based on the distribution of the test value
  43. The Acceptable Text Similarity Level in Manuscripts Submitted to Scientific Journals
  44. GPTZero Performance in Identifying Artificial Intelligence-Generated Medical Texts: A Preliminary Study
  45. Employing Unprofessional Editors for Handling Submissions in Scholarly Journals
  46. Plagiarism: A Bird’s Eye View
  47. On Measuring Vaccine Effectiveness with Observational Study Designs
  48. The apparent prevalence, the true prevalence
  49. Determining the SARS-CoV-2 serological immunoassay test performance indices based on the test results frequency distribution
  50. Use of Oral Polio Vaccine and the Global Incidence of Mother-to-Child Human Immunodeficiency Virus Transmission
  51. Use of oral polio vaccine and the incidence of COVID-19 in the world
  52. Disparity in the selection of patients in clinical trials
  53. Error in Figure
  54. COVID-19 Infection Among Women in Iran Exposed vs Unexposed to Children Who Received Attenuated Poliovirus Used in Oral Polio Vaccine
  55. The challenges of a small medical journal to have international recognition in Indonesia: editors' perspectives
  56. THE QUEST FOR INDEXING A JOURNAL
  57. Predicting the outcome of asymptomatic univesicular liver hydatids: diagnostic accuracy of unenhanced CT
  58. On the information hidden in a classifier distribution
  59. ABC’s of Acid-Base Chemistry
  60. Arterial Blood Gas
  61. Gas Laws
  62. Introduction to Acid-Base Chemistry and Arterial Blood Gases
  63. Metabolic Acidosis and Alkalosis
  64. Mixed Disorders
  65. Respiratory Acidosis and Alkalosis
  66. Starting from Scratch
  67. What Happens in a Person
  68. Pathophysiologic Basis of Acid-Base Disorders
  69. QT Interval Prolongation in Patients Treated for COVID-19
  70. The Last Note
  71. Comprehensive Survey of Plagiarism in Iran
  72. Rate of re-positive RT-PCR test among patients recovered from COVID-19
  73. World War III
  74. Retrieving Organs of Executed Prisoners in Iran?
  75. The Mean Prevalence
  76. The Coronavirus Pandemic: "The Show Must Not Go On"
  77. Tenth Anniversary of The IJOEM
  78. The IJOEM, DOAJ Seal, and Plan S
  79. Shiraz Organ Transplant Center: The Largest Liver Transplant Center in the World
  80. The likelihood ratio and its graphical representation
  81. Open Access Journals in the Middle East and Iran
  82. Accessing free quality health care services and premature death
  83. Unnecessary pre-emptive surgical operation of incidentally discovered liver hydatids
  84. Economic sanction: a weapon of mass destruction
  85. Editorial Process and Peer Review
  86. Re: Eric A. Klein, Arnon Chait, Jason M. Hafron, et al. The Single-parameter, Structure-based IsoPSA Assay Demonstrates Improved Diagnostic Accuracy for Detection of Any Prostate Cancer and High-grade Prostate Cancer Compared to a Concentration-based A...
  87. The Non-operative Management of Asymptomatic Liver Hydatids: Ending Echinococcophobia
  88. What is a “Diagnostic Test Reference Range” Good for?
  89. The most appropriate perfusate pH for ex vivo hypothermic organ perfusion: A hypothesis
  90. Core competencies for scientific editors of biomedical journals: consensus statement
  91. Predatory journals and their effects on scientific research community
  92. Criterion used for determination of test cut-off value
  93. Predatory or Legitimate Journals
  94. Choice of criterion used in the receiver operating characteristic analysis
  95. Statistical Data Editing in Scientific Articles
  96. Please Do Not Send Us YourGood Articles
  97. On determining the most appropriate test cut-off value: the case of tests with continuous results
  98. What’s in a name, anyway?
  99. How much precision in reporting statistics is enough?
  100. Shuffle randomization
  101. RETRACTION: BarkhordariA, et al. The Glycoprofile Patterns of Endothelial Cells in Usual Interstitial Pneumonia. Int J Occup Environ Med 2014;5:201-7.
  102. Hadj ritual and risk of a pandemic
  103. Is there an apartheid in science publishing?
  104. Medical writing in the Middle East
  105. Number Needed to Misdiagnose
  106. Infectious diseases in Iran: a bird's eye view
  107. Reproductive behaviour of mothers of children with beta-thalassaemia major
  108. The control of non-communicable diseases in rural Iran
  109. Department of Error
  110. Clinical trial registration: internal conflict?
  111. Bilateral trigger finger in a 5-year-old child: Case report
  112. Letter to the Editor
  113. Plagiarism in scientific writing: words or ideas?
  114. Evidence-based journalism
  115. Change or Perish
  116. Judge the Article, Not the Author
  117. Are Shorter Article Titles More Attractive for Citations? Cross-sectional Study of 22 Scientific Journals
  118. Duplicate publication and plagiarism: causes and cures
  119. Knowledge and attitudes of breast self examination in a group of women in Shiraz, southern Iran
  120. The problem of “Who”
  121. The problem of “Who”
  122. International aid in disaster zones: help or headache?
  123. Time for a change in the definition of fever of unknown origin
  124. Journal weighted impact factor: A proposal
  125. World Association of Medical Editors: Support for the Croatian Medical Journal’s Editorial Independence
  126. Persian or Arab? The "anatomy charts" from the collection of Sami Ibrahim Haddad
  127. Rules of the game of scientific writing: fair play and plagiarism
  128. Scientific research in Iran: forgotten factors
  129. A snapshot of medical journals from the Middle East
  130. Extension of US trade embargoes to science editing
  131. Culture and medical terms: help or headache?
  132. Hypoparathyroidism with Extensive Intracerebral Calcification in Patients with ß-Thalassemia Major
  133. Research letter. The sickle cell gene frequency in Southern Iran
  134. Mathematical Equivalent of Metabolic Alkalosis Part of the Goldberg Acid–Base Map 
  135. Therapeutic Values of Different Routes of Administration of Vitamin A with Ferrous Sulfate in Treating Deferoxamin-Induced Iron-Deficiency Anemia.
  136. Temperature Correction of the Calculated Alveolar Oxygen Tension 
  137. A simple method for the derivation of the international normalized ratio for the reporting of prothrombin time results