Uptake of methods to deal with publication bias in systematic reviews has increased over time, but there is still much scope for improvement

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 349-357

  Parekh Bhurke, Sheetal ^a,b   Kwok, Chun S ^a   Pang, Chun ^a   Hooper, Lee ^a   Loke, Yoon K ^a   Ryder, Jon J ^a   Sutton, Alex J ^c   Hing, Caroline B ^d   Harvey, Ian ^a   Song, Fujian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Funnel plot; Meta analysis; Publication bias; Reporting bias; Risk of bias; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PUBLICATION BIAS; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 79951952508     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2010.04.022     Document Type: Review

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