Assessment of clinical trial quality and its impact on meta-analyses;Avaliação da qualidade de estudos clínicos e seu impacto nas metanálises

Revista de Saude Publica

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 865-873

  da Silva Filho, Carlos Rodrigues ^a   Saconato, Humberto ^b   Conterno, Lucieni Oliveira ^a   Marques, Iara ^b   Atallah, Álvaro Nagib ^c  

^a Escola de Medicina de Marilia   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Outcome assessment; Quality assurance, healthcare; Quality control; Questionnaires; Randomized controlled trials

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; PLACEBO; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DRUG EFFICACY; GOLD STANDARD; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPPA STATISTICS; META ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEPATITIS B; HUMANS; INTERFERON-ALPHA; META-ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33646111916     PISSN: 00348910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0034-89102005000600001     Document Type: Article

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