GRADE guidelines: 5. Rating the quality of evidence - Publication bias

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1277-1282

  Guyatt, Gordon H ^a   Oxman, Andrew D ^b   Montori, Victor ^c   Vist, Gunn ^b   Kunz, Regina ^d   Brozek, Jan ^a   Alonso Coello, Pablo ^e   Djulbegovic, Ben ^f,g   Atkins, David ^h   Falck Ytter, Yngve ⁱ   Williams Jr , John W ^j   Meerpohl, Joerg ^k   Norris, Susan L ^l   Akl, Elie A ^m   Schünemann, Holger J ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NORWEGIAN KNOWLEDGE CENTRE FOR THE HEALTH SERVICES   (Norway)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^g H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

ⁱ CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^l OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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Author keywords

Conflict of interest; Funnel plot; GRADE; Pharmaceutical industry; Publication bias; Quality of evidence

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; EZETIMIBE; PLACEBO; SALMETEROL; SIMVASTATIN;

ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST INDUCED NEPHROPATHY; DRUG INDUSTRY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SAMPLE SIZE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG INDUSTRY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PUBLICATION BIAS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84863034391     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2011.01.011     Document Type: Article

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