Your summit climb!

Leg 1 - Materials & approval

The better you start, the calmer and safer is your route and the more successful you are; what generally arises from the second to third time that I guide you. Then I can test in time how solid your materials are, such as your budget, your study protocol, your case report forms, and your declaration of consent. I improve or substitute them as needed. The first time, however, I use to pick you up on the way.

Challenges are my specialty. Thus, solid working relationships arise, such as when I pick you up once a submitted article has already been evaluated. A project leader asked me once if I could dedicate him 15 minutes to calculate the power of his sample. Of them arose several hours of work, since the list of comments of the editors and experts was long, and my expertise was necessary almost everywhere. When I had optimised the analyses and the presentation of the results, created intelligible figures, as well as formulated the discussion more clearly by deriving it more directly from the results, the work corresponded to an impact factor of 10. Therefore:

Leg 2 - Monitoring & quality

In all phases of your study I augment the integrity and plausibility of your data substantially; even when extensively sponsored and well organised monitoring teams of national and continental studies have already realised the most urgent validation steps. One mouse click, and my algorithms automatically realise complete controls with punctual clarifications. That guarantees the quality of your results and avoids embarrassing questions when those are already published.

All your files on which we work together are always locally saved with you and with me. All our adaptations and commentaries are automatically transmitted online to all our computers, so that your actual version is always present everywhere without superfluous e-mails. The protocols of your files register all our adaptations automatically to restore your previous versions if necessary. Thereby, our cooperation is even more efficient, agreeable and safe.

Leg 3 - Analyses & results

In almost all my missions, I calculate the number of cases of your planned study or the power of your already recruited sample and later analyse your data; mainly when they are complex. I analyse them level by level. Beforehand, I elaborate with you the most intelligible modality to present your results, because this is essential to model the most adequate statistical analyses for you. After, we interpret all your results together, and I take care that you become familiar with each level. Thus, each level is stable enough to confidently climb to the following level.

Leg 4 - Conciseness & resonance

I never abandon you with your results. At ADVICE2018, I showed how the relevance and the reach of publications improve by an intensive cooperation between field experts and methodologists. In the results part as product of my analyses and in the methods part, namely the description of the legs 1 to 3, my methodologic role is evident. In the discussion, it might appear less important at first glance, and this is a deception. Realising it is profitable, because the publication of your results in the journal toward which you work depends much on your discussion. It is indeed essential that you derive your discussion directly from your results; most of all initially, where you formulate how your results respond to your issues raised in your introduction.

Because I elaborated beforehand and in detail with you how your results look best, and because I modelled my analyses congruently with this, I know how you formulate the beginning of your discussion ideally. In addition, I use my methodological expertise to sell the advantages and disadvantages of your study very favourably for you. Thus, it is much easier for you in the final stage of your discussion to formulate recommendations that are clearly based on your results and promote the human health actively. This increases the success of your publications and the reputation of your projects considerably.

Publications

Une contribution particulière

This is the background of my plenary session at ADVICE2018, first world congress on statistical advising. I talked about the sixth of seven topics, namely “Communication challenges in biostatistical advising”.

I illustrated how methodologists improve the essential communication process to accomplish the missions from new field experts. Highly qualified experts of diverse disciplines who join their forces to realise important research can naturally experience a little excitement. Through my experiences as clinician and as methodologist, as well as through my intensive exchange with both groups, I realize that all know what I mean.

Through my quadrilingualism and my familiarity with the languages of physicians, mathematicians, geneticists and molecular biologists, I work perfectly with all your needs. I transform them into positive energies, so that you climb on scientific summits without exhaustion and by pure pleasure.
 

Original works

Cámara RJ, Gharbo RK, Egloff N. Age and gender as factors of pressure sensitivity of pain-free persons: Are they meaningful? J Pain Res. 2020 (Impact Factor: 3.133)

Cámara RJ, Schwentner L, Friedl TW, Deniz M, Fink V, Lato K, Widschwendter P, Rack B, Janni W, Singer S, Bekes I. Quality of life during and after adjuvant anthracycline-taxane based chemotherapy with or without Gemcitabine in high-risk early breast cancer – results of the SUCCESS A trial. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2019; accepted 16.02.2019 (Impact Factor: 3.605)

Musholt TJ, Staubitz JI, Cámara RJ, Musholt PB, Humberg D, Springer E, Schad A. Detection of RET rearrangements in papillary thyroid carcinoma using RT-PCR and FISH techniques - A molecular and clinical analysis. Eur J Surg Oncol. Online: 16.11.2018; Corrected Proof (Impact Factor: 3.688)

Laufenberg-Feldmann R, Kappis B, Cámara RJ, Ferner M. Anxiety and its predictive value for pain and regular analgesic intake after lumbar disc surgery - A prospective observational longitudinal study. BMC Psychiatry. 2018; volume 18, issue 1 (Impact Factor: 3.119)

Pavlidis P, Cámara RJ, Kekes G, Gouveris H. Bilateral taste disorders in patients with Ramsay Hunt syndrome and Bell’s palsy. Ann Neurol. 2018; volume 83, issue 4 (Impact Factor: 9.89)

Egloff N, Cámara RJ, Merz C, Wegmann B, Stauber S, von Känel R. Response to: Comment on "Cost-Saving Early Diagnosis of Functional Pain in Nonmalignant Pain: A Noninferiority Study of Diagnostic Accuracy". Pain Res Treat. 2016; volume 2016

Cámara RJ, Merz C, Wegmann B, Stauber S, von Känel R, Egloff N. Cost-Saving Early Diagnosis of Functional Pain in Nonmalignant Pain: A Noninferiority Study of Diagnostic Accuracy. Pain Res Treat. 2016; volume 2016

Cubo E, Rivadeneyra J, Mariscal N, Martinez A, Armesto D, Cámara RJ; Spanish members of the European Huntington ́s Disease Registry. Factors associated with low body mass index in Huntington ́s disease: a Spanish multicenter study of the European Huntington ́s disease registry. Mov Disord Clin Pract. 2016

Cubo E, Rivadeneyra J, Armesto D, Mariscal N, Martinez A, Cámara RJ; Spanish members of the European Huntington ́s Disease Registry. Relationship between nutritional status and the severity of Huntington ́s disease. A Spanish multicentre dietary intake study. J Huntingtons Dis. 2015; volume 4, issue 1

Egloff N, Cámara RJ, von Känel R, Klingler N, Marti E, Ferrari ML. Hypersensitivity and hyperalgesia in somatoform pain disorders. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2014; volume 36 issue 3 (Impact Factor: 2,606)

Cámara RJ. Reports and other pdf documents. The Stata Journal. 2014; volume 14, issue 1 (Impact Factor: 1,000)

Mlekusch S, Schliessbach J, Cámara RJ, Arendt-Nielsen L, Jüni P, Curatolo M. Do central hypersensitivity and altered pain modulation predict the course of chronic low back and neck pain? Clin J Pain. 2013; volume 29, issue 8 (Impact Factor: 2,703)

Cámara RJ RJ, Juillerat P, Pittet V, Schoepfer AM, Begré S, von Känel R; the Swiss Inflammatory Bowel Disease Cohort Study Group. Quality of life: a potentially useful measure to indicate subclinical flares in Crohn disease. Intern Med J. 2012; volume 42 issue 7 (Impact Factor: 1,823)

Egloff N, Cámara RJ, von Känel R, Klingler N, Marti E, Ferrari ML. Pain drawings in somatoform-functional pain. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2012; volume 13 (Impact Factor: 1,875)

Cámara RJ, Begré S, von Känel R; Swiss Inflammatory Bowel Disease Cohort Study Group. Avoidance and inhibition do not predict nonrespondent bias among patients with inflammatory bowel disease. J Epidemiol. 2011; volume 21, issue 1 (Impact Factor: 1,858)

Cámara RJ, Gander ML, Begré S, von Känel R, Swiss Inflammatory Bowel Disease Cohort Study Group. Post-traumatic stress in Crohn's disease and its association with disease activity. Frontline Gastroenterol. 2011; volume 2 (Impact factor: 7.452)

Cámara RJ, Lukas PS, Begré S, Pittet V, von Känel R; Swiss Inflammatory Bowel Disease Cohort Study Group. Effects of social support on the clinical course of Crohn's disease. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2011; volume 17 issue 6 (Impact Factor: 4,855)

Cámara RJ, Schoepfer AM, Pittet V, Begré S, von Känel R; Swiss Inflammatory Bowel Disease Cohort Study Group. Mood and nonmood components of perceived stress and exacerbation of Crohn's disease. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2011; volume 17 issue 11 (Impact Factor: 4,855)

Egloff N, Klingler N, von Känel R, Cámara RJ, Curatolo M, Wegmann B, Marti E, Ferrari ML. Algometry with a clothes peg compared to an electronic pressure algometer: a randomized cross- sectional study in pain patients. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2011; volume 12 (Impact Factor: 1,577)

Synthesis articles and more

Bahr K, Cámara RJ, Gouveris H, Tuin I. Current treatment of comorbid insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea with CBTI and PAP-therapy: a systematic review. Front. Neurol; volume 9, article 804 (Impact Factor: 3.508)

Bayer O, Cámara RJ, Zeissig SR, Ressing M, Dietz A, Locati LD, Ramroth H, Singer S. Occupation and cancer of the larynx: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2016; volume 273, issue 1

Cámara RJ, Begré S, von Känel R. The effect of stress-relieving interventions on inflammatory bowel disease: quality assessment of 10 therapeutic studies. Z Psychosom Med Psychother. 2010; volume 56, issue 2 (Impact factor: 7.452)

Hänsel A, Hong S, Cámara RJ, von Känel R. Inflammation as a psychophysiological biomarker in chronic psychosocial stress. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2010; volume 35, issue 1 (Impact Factor: 9,015)

Cámara RJ, Ziegler R, Begré S, Schoepfer AM, von Känel R; Swiss Inammatory Bowel Disease Cohort Study group. The role of psychological stress in inflammatory bowel disease: quality assessment of methods of 18 prospective studies and suggestions for future research. Digestion. 2009; volume 80, issue 2 (Impact Factor: 2,146)

Todorova MG, Grieshaber MC, Cámara RJ, Miny P, Palmowski-Wolfe AM. Anterior segment dysgenesis associated with Williams-Beuren syndrome: a case report and review of the literature. BMC Ophthalmol. 2014; volume 14 (Impact Factor: 1,020)