Outcome Reporting Bias: A Pervasive Problem in Published Meta-analyses

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 172-174

  Schmid, Christopher H ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; PLACEBO;

ACCURACY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; EDITORIAL; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; HUMAN; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FAILURE; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTCOME REPORTING BIAS; PUBLISHING; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCIENTIST; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); KIDNEY DISEASE; PUBLICATION; SELECTION BIAS; UROLOGY;

HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; SELECTION BIAS; UROLOGY;

EID: 85007564148     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: 15236838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2016.11.003     Document Type: Editorial

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