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Overview

Lex M. Bouter is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands and contributes extensively to research across medicine, social sciences, and decision sciences. Their work spans a variety of subfields, including public health, environmental and occupational health, statistics, probability, uncertainty, safety research, health informatics, and sociology and political science.

The main topics addressed in their research include ethics in clinical research, academic integrity and plagiarism, artificial intelligence in healthcare and education, meta-analysis and systematic reviews, scientometrics and bibliometrics research, academic publishing and open access, and health and medical research impacts.

Among the recent papers associated with Lex M. Bouter are:
- COSMIN Risk of Bias tool to assess the quality of studies on reliability or measurement error of outcome measurement instruments: a Delphi study (2020), published in BMC Medical Research Methodology
- The Hong Kong Principles for assessing researchers: Fostering research integrity (2020), published in PLoS Biology
- Prevalence of questionable research practices, research misconduct and their potential explanatory factors: A survey among academic researchers in The Netherlands (2022), published in PLoS ONE
- Research integrity: nine ways to move from talk to walk (2020), published in Nature
- The methodological quality of 176,620 randomized controlled trials published between 1966 and 2018 reveals a positive trend but also an urgent need for improvement (2021), published in PLoS Biology

Lex M. Bouter collaborates frequently with several researchers including Joeri K. Tijdink, Maurice P. Zeegers, Ana Marušić, Natalie Evans, and David Moher.

Their publications are often found in journals such as Science and Engineering Ethics, Accountability in Research, F1000Research, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and PLoS Biology.

In addition to journal articles, Lex M. Bouter has contributed to book publications, including the 2023 book Leerboek epidemiologie published by Bohn Stafleu van Loghum.

Best Publications

  • Quality criteria were proposed for measurement properties of health status questionnaires

    Caroline B. Terwee;Sandra D.M. Bot;Michael R. de Boer;Daniëlle A.W.M. van der Windt

  • Development of AMSTAR: a measurement tool to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews

    Beverley J Shea;Jeremy M Grimshaw;George A Wells;Maarten Boers

  • The COSMIN study reached international consensus on taxonomy, terminology, and definitions of measurement properties for health-related patient-reported outcomes.

    Lidwine B. Mokkink;Caroline B. Terwee;Donald L. Patrick;Jordi Alonso

  • The COSMIN checklist for assessing the methodological quality of studies on measurement properties of health status measurement instruments: an international Delphi study

    Lidwine B. Mokkink;Caroline B. Terwee;Donald L. Patrick;Jordi Alonso

  • Elevated C-reactive protein levels in overweight and obese adults.

    Marjolein Visser;Lex M. Bouter;Geraldine M. McQuillan;Mark H. Wener

  • The Delphi list: a criteria list for quality assessment of randomized clinical trials for conducting systematic reviews developed by Delphi consensus.

    Arianne P. Verhagen;Henrica C.W. de Vet;Robert A. de Bie;Alphons G.H. Kessels

  • Ankle brachial index combined with Framingham risk score to predict cardiovascular events and mortality: A meta-analysis

    F.G.R. Fowkes;G.D. Murray;I. Butcher;C.L. Heald

  • Updated method guidelines for systematic reviews in the cochrane collaboration back review group.

    Maurits van Tulder;Andrea Furlan;Claire Bombardier;Lex Bouter

  • How to measure comorbidity: a critical review of available methods

    Vincent de Groot;Heleen Beckerman;Gustaaf J Lankhorst;Lex M Bouter

  • COSMIN guideline for systematic reviews of patient-reported outcome measures

    C. A.C. Prinsen;L. B. Mokkink;L. M. Bouter;J. Alonso

  • Interpreting change scores for pain and functional status in low back pain: towards international consensus regarding minimal important change.

    Raymond W. J. G. Ostelo;Rick A. Deyo;P Stratford;Gordon Waddell

  • AMSTAR is a reliable and valid measurement tool to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews.

    Beverley J. Shea;Candyce Hamel;George A. Wells;Lex M. Bouter

  • Rating the methodological quality in systematic reviews of studies on measurement properties: a scoring system for the COSMIN checklist

    Caroline B. Terwee;Lidwine B. Mokkink;Dirk L. Knol;Raymond W. J. G. Ostelo

  • When to use agreement versus reliability measures

    Henrica C.W. de Vet;Caroline B. Terwee;Dirk L. Knol;Lex M. Bouter

  • COSMIN Risk of Bias checklist for systematic reviews of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures

    L. B. Mokkink;H. C. W. de Vet;C. A. C. Prinsen;D. L. Patrick

  • The COSMIN checklist for evaluating the methodological quality of studies on measurement properties: A clarification of its content

    Lidwine B Mokkink;Caroline B Terwee;Dirk L Knol;Paul W Stratford

  • Glucose tolerance and cardiovascular mortality - Comparison of fasting and 2-hour diagnostic criteria

    K. Borch-Johnsen;A. Neil;B. Balkau;S. Larsen

  • Conservative treatment of acute and chronic nonspecific low back pain. A systematic review of randomized controlled trials of the most common interventions.

    M. W. Van Tulder;B. W. Koes;L. M. Bouter

  • COSMIN methodology for evaluating the content validity of patient-reported outcome measures: a Delphi study

    C. B. Terwee;C. A.C. Prinsen;A. Chiarotto;M. J. Westerman

  • Systematic review of psychosocial factors at work and private life as risk factors for back pain.

    W. E. Hoogendoorn;M. N. M. Van Poppel;P. M. Bongers;B. W. Koes

Frequent Co-Authors

Bart W. Koes
Bart W. Koes Erasmus University Rotterdam
Giel Nijpels
Giel Nijpels VU University Medical Center
Robert J. Heine
Robert J. Heine VU University Medical Center
Coen D.A. Stehouwer
Coen D.A. Stehouwer Maastricht University
Jacqueline M. Dekker
Jacqueline M. Dekker VU University Medical Center
Henrica C.W. de Vet
Henrica C.W. de Vet University of Amsterdam
Caroline B. Terwee
Caroline B. Terwee VU University Medical Center
Joost Dekker
Joost Dekker University of Amsterdam
Maurits W. van Tulder
Maurits W. van Tulder Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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