2023
Impact of Marital Stress on 1‐Year Health Outcomes Among Young Adults With Acute Myocardial Infarction
Zhu C, Dreyer R, Li F, Spatz E, Caraballo‐Cordovez C, Mahajan S, Raparelli V, Leifheit E, Lu Y, Krumholz H, Spertus J, D'Onofrio G, Pilote L, Lichtman J. Impact of Marital Stress on 1‐Year Health Outcomes Among Young Adults With Acute Myocardial Infarction. Journal Of The American Heart Association 2023, 12: e030031. PMID: 37589125, PMCID: PMC10547344, DOI: 10.1161/jaha.123.030031.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcute myocardial infarctionCardiac-specific qualityGeneric health statusMyocardial infarctionBaseline healthMarital stressHealth outcomesHealth statusWorse patient-reported outcomesMental healthYoung adultsObservational cohort studyPatient-reported outcomesSocioeconomic factorsWorse mental healthReadmission 1Cause readmissionCohort studyYounger patientsRoutine screeningDepressive symptomsGreater oddsAnginaMale participantsOutcomesInformative cluster size in cluster-randomised trials: A case study from the TRIGGER trial
Kahan B, Li F, Blette B, Jairath V, Copas A, Harhay M. Informative cluster size in cluster-randomised trials: A case study from the TRIGGER trial. Clinical Trials 2023, 20: 661-669. PMID: 37439089, PMCID: PMC10638852, DOI: 10.1177/17407745231186094.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCluster-randomised trialCluster-level summariesAcute upper gastrointestinal bleedingExchangeable correlation structureRed blood cell transfusionEQ-5D VAS scoreMixed-effects modelsUpper gastrointestinal bleedingBlood cell transfusionMixed effects modelsTreatment effectsCell transfusionGastrointestinal bleedingIschemic eventsVAS scoresOdds ratioMost outcomesTRIGGER trialTreatment effect estimatesEffect estimatesInformative cluster sizeTrialsOutcomesParticipant outcomesCorrelation structureMediation analysis in the presence of continuous exposure measurement error
Cheng C, Spiegelman D, Li F. Mediation analysis in the presence of continuous exposure measurement error. Statistics In Medicine 2023, 42: 1669-1686. PMID: 36869626, PMCID: PMC11320713, DOI: 10.1002/sim.9693.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBody mass indexExposure measurement errorPhysical activityMediation proportionHealth Professionals FollowCardiovascular disease incidenceProfessionals FollowMediation analysisMass indexCardiovascular diseaseLower riskStudy designEffect estimatesValidation study designContinuous exposureBiased effect estimatesTrue exposureMediatorsExposureValidation studyBinary outcomesHealth science studiesOutcomesRiskDisease incidence
2021
Methodological challenges in pragmatic trials in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias: Opportunities for improvement
Taljaard M, Li F, Qin B, Cui C, Zhang L, Nicholls SG, Carroll K, Mitchell SL. Methodological challenges in pragmatic trials in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias: Opportunities for improvement. Clinical Trials 2021, 19: 86-96. PMID: 34841910, PMCID: PMC8847324, DOI: 10.1177/17407745211046672.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPragmatic trialAlzheimer's diseasePrimary outcomeSample size calculationGroup treatment trialsPairs of reviewersDementia researchSize calculationCluster Randomized TrialGroup treatment designRandomized trialsTreatment trialsIntracluster correlationMethodological qualityTrial reportsBaseline assessmentDiseaseTrialsDementiaKey methodological characteristicsOutcomesType IMethodological quality indicatorsUnique methodological challengesSame individualswdpwr: A SAS macro and an R package for power calculations in stepped wedge cluster randomized trials
Chen J, Zhou X, Li F, Spiegelman D. swdpwr: A SAS macro and an R package for power calculations in stepped wedge cluster randomized trials. Computer Methods And Programs In Biomedicine 2021, 213: 106522. PMID: 34818620, PMCID: PMC8665077, DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2021.106522.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsWedge clusterIntracluster correlation coefficientContinuous outcomesCross-sectional cohortBinary outcomesExchangeable correlation structureWedge designPublic health intervention evaluationsHealth services researchClosed cohort designPower calculationCohort designClosed cohortStudy designIntracluster correlationIntervention evaluationNeeds of investigatorsOutcomesTrialsCohortServices researchInvestigatorsPrevious studiesSWDSample size and power considerations for cluster randomized trials with count outcomes subject to right truncation
Li F, Tong G. Sample size and power considerations for cluster randomized trials with count outcomes subject to right truncation. Biometrical Journal 2021, 63: 1052-1071. PMID: 33751620, PMCID: PMC9132617, DOI: 10.1002/bimj.202000230.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCluster Randomized TrialPrimary outcomeGroup-based interventionRandomized trialsHealth StudySuch trialsPublic health studiesRight truncationTrialsOutcomesVector-borne diseasesCountSample size formulaAnalysis of CRTsPower calculationPopulation-level effectsSample sizeSize formulaClosed-form sample size formulaMarginal modeling approachMalariaDisease