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Karen C. Glass, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, University of Vermont College of Medicine
Verified email at med.uvm.edu
Cited by 2440

Association between suicide attempts and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors: systematic review of randomised controlled trials

D Fergusson, S Doucette, KC Glass, S Shapiro… - Bmj, 2005 - bmj.com
Objective To establish whether an association exists between use of selective serotonin
reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and suicide attempts. Design Systematic review of randomised …

Turning a blind eye: the success of blinding reported in a random sample of randomised, placebo controlled trials

D Fergusson, KC Glass, D Waring, S Shapiro - Bmj, 2004 - bmj.com
Objective To examine the reporting and success of double blinding in a sample of randomised,
placebo controlled trials from leading general medicine and psychiatry journals. Methods …

Biological function and histone recognition of family IV bromodomain‐containing proteins

JT Lloyd, KC Glass - Journal of cellular physiology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Bromodomain proteins function as epigenetic readers that recognize acetylated histone
tails to facilitate the transcription of target genes. There are approximately 60 known human …

Reporting genetic results in research studies: summary and recommendations of an NHLBI working group

…, AA Langehorne, JH Eckfeldt, KC Glass… - American journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Prospective epidemiologic studies aid in identifying genetic variants associated with diseases,
health risks, and physiologic traits. These genetic variants may eventually be measured …

Randomized controlled trials of aprotinin in cardiac surgery: could clinical equipoise have stopped the bleeding?

D Fergusson, KC Glass, B Hutton, S Shapiro - Clinical trials, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Aprotinin is a serine protease inhibitor used to limit perioperative bleeding and
reduce the need for donated blood transfusions during cardiac surgery. Randomized …

Clinical equipoise and not the uncertainty principle is the moral underpinning of the randomised controlled trialForAgainst

C Weijer, MW Enkin, SH Shapiro, KC Glass - Bmj, 2000 - bmj.com
The ethical basis for entering patients in randomised controlled trials is under debate. Some
doctors espouse the uncertainty principle whereby randomisation to treatment is acceptable …

The limitations of language: Male participants, stoicism, and the qualitative research interview

W Affleck, KC Glass… - American journal of …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
The semistructured, open-ended interview has become the gold standard for qualitative health
research. Despite its strengths, the long interview is not well suited for studying topics that …

Exchange of associated factors directs a switch in HBO1 acetyltransferase histone tail specificity

ME Lalonde, N Avvakumov, KC Glass… - Genes & …, 2013 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Histone acetyltransferases (HATs) assemble into multisubunit complexes in order to target
distinct lysine residues on nucleosomal histones. Here, we characterize native HAT …

Luminescence variations in hydroxyapatites doped with Eu2+ and Eu3+ ions

…, R Kanakala, A Madadi, BC Williams, KC Glass - Biomaterials, 2010 - Elsevier
We present a detailed analysis of the luminescence behavior of europium-doped hydroxyapatite
(HAp) and calcium-deficient hydroxyapatite (Ca-D HAp) nanopowders. The results …

Placebo orthodoxy in clinical research II: ethical, legal, and regulatory myths

B Freedman, KC Glass, C Weijer - Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 1996 - cambridge.org
… And yet, to understand effectiveness in this way is absurd; by this measure, flinging a glass
of water at a burning building is an effective fire-fighting strategy because it is better than …