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A new large-scale meta-epidemiological study on bias in randomized trials using routinely collected risk-of-bias assessments by cochrane reviewers: results from the robes study

Authors: Jelena Savovic, Rebecca Turner, David Mawdsley, Julian Higgins, Jonathan Sterne

Published in: Trials | Special Issue 2/2015

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Empirical evidence suggests that certain aspects of trial design may lead to biased intervention effect estimates. We examined the influence of risk-of-bias judgements from Cochrane reviews for sequence generation, allocation concealment, blinding and incomplete data on intervention effect estimates in a large collection of meta-analyses (MAs). …

Title: A new large-scale meta-epidemiological study on bias in randomized trials using routinely collected risk-of-bias assessments by cochrane reviewers: results from the robes study
Authors: Jelena Savovic
Rebecca Turner
David Mawdsley
Julian Higgins
Jonathan Sterne
Publication date: 01-12-2015
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Trials / Issue Special Issue 2/2015
Electronic ISSN: 1745-6215
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-16-S2-P168

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