Assessing the quality of randomized trials: Reliability of the Jadad scale

Controlled Clinical Trials

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 448-452

  Clark, Heather D ^a   Wells, George A ^a,b   Huët, Charlotte ^c   McAlister, Finlay A ^a,b   Salmi, L Rachid ^c   Fergusson, Dean ^b   Laupacis, Andreas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Interrater agreement; Meta analysis; Methodology; Quality; Randomized trials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY;

DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0032845730     PISSN: 01972456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-2456(99)00026-4     Document Type: Article

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