Specific instructions for estimating unclearly reported blinding status in randomized trials were reliable and valid

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 262-267

  Akl, Elie A ^a,b   Sun, Xin ^b,c   Busse, Jason W ^b,d   Johnston, Bradley C ^b   Briel, Matthias ^b,e   Mulla, Sohail ^b   You, John J ^b   Bassler, Dirk ^f   Lamontagne, Francois ^g   Vera, Claudio ^h   Alshurafa, Mohamad ^b   Katsios, Christina M ^b   Heels Ansdell, Diane ^b   Zhou, Qi ^b   Mills, Ed ^b   Guyatt, Gordon H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND HEALTH   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^h PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Bias; Clinical practice guideline; Methods; Randomized controlled trial; Research design; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RELIABILITY; VALIDITY;

ALGORITHMS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONSENSUS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 84855985042     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2011.04.015     Document Type: Article

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