A methodological survey of the analysis, reporting and interpretation of Absolute Risk ReductiOn in systematic revieWs (ARROW): A study protocol

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Alonso Coello, Pablo ^a,b   Carrasco Labra, Alonso ^b,c   Brignardello Petersen, Romina ^b,c   Neumann, Ignacio ^b,d   Akl, Elie A ^b,e,f   Sun, Xin ^b,g   Johnston, Bradley C ^b,h,i   Briel, Matthias ^j   Busse, Jason W ^b   Glujovsky, Demián ^k   Granados, Carlos E ^l   Iorio, Alfonso ^b   Irfan, Affan ^m   García, Laura M ^a   Mustafa, Reem A ⁿ   Ramirez Morera, Anggie ^o   Solà, Iván ^a   Tikkinen, Kari A O ^b,p   Ebrahim, Shanil ^b,q   Vandvik, Per O ^r   Zhang, Yuqing ^b   Selva, Anna ^a   Sanabria, Andrea J ^a   Zazueta, Oscar E ^a   Vernooij, Robin W M ^a   Schünemann, Holger J ^b   Guyatt, Gordon H ^b   more..

^a BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE SANT PAU IIB SANT PAU   (Spain)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^d PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^e AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^f UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^g SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

ⁱ HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^j UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^k INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS AND HEALTH POLICY   (Argentina)

^l UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SABANA   (Colombia)

^m UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^o Health Care Development Division   (Costa Rica)

^p HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^q UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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

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Author keywords

Absolute effect measures; Data reporting; Evidence based medicine; Meta analysis; Numbers needed to treat; Statistical data; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FUNDING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK REDUCTION; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; NUMBERS NEEDED TO TREAT; RESEARCH; STANDARD;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; NUMBERS NEEDED TO TREAT; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH REPORT; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84907186051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2046-4053-2-113     Document Type: Article

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