A Systematic Review of Surgical Randomized Controlled Trials: Part I. Risk of Bias and Outcomes: Common Pitfalls Plastic Surgeons Can Overcome

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 696-706

  Voineskos, Sophocles H ^a,b   Coroneos, Christopher J ^a   Ziolkowski, Natalia I ^a   Kaur, Manraj N ^a   Banfield, Laura ^a   Meade, Maureen O ^a   Thoma, Achilleas ^a   Chung, Kevin C ^a   Bhandari, Mohit ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLASTIC SURGERY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK; SURGERY, PLASTIC;

EID: 84955597100     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000475766.83901.5b     Document Type: Conference Paper

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