Addressing Dichotomous Data for Participants Excluded from Trial Analysis: A Guide for Systematic Reviewers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Akl, Elie A ^a,b,c   Johnston, Bradley C ^c,d,e   Alonso Coello, Pablo ^f   Neumann, Ignacio ^c   Ebrahim, Shanil ^c   Briel, Matthias ^c,g   Cook, Deborah J ^c   Guyatt, Gordon H ^c  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^e HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^f CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DATA ANALYSIS; DICHOTOMOUS DATA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MISSING DATA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84874512958     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057132     Document Type: Article

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