Blinded interpretation of study results can feasibly and effectively diminish interpretation bias

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 769-772

  Järvinen, Teppo L N ^a,b   Sihvonen, Raine ^c   Bhandari, Mohit ^d   Sprague, Sheila ^d   Malmivaara, Antti ^e   Paavola, Mika ^a   Schünemann, Holger J ^d   Guyatt, Gordon H ^d  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c Tampere City Hospital   (Finland)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bias; Data interpretations; Double blind method; Drug evaluation methods; Randomized controlled trials as topic methods; Research design

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTERPRETATION BIAS; INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL; MENISCECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TIBIA SHAFT FRACTURE;

BIAS; DATA INTERPRETATIONS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG EVALUATION/METHODS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC/METHODS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 84902535767     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2013.11.011     Document Type: Article

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