Rethinking the assessment of risk of bias due to selective reporting: A cross-sectional study

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Page, Matthew J ^a,b   Higgins, Julian P T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bias; Methodology; Quality; Randomised trials; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA SYNTHESIS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; SELECTION BIAS;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 84977564790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13643-016-0289-2     Document Type: Article

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