A systematic survey of the methods literature on the reporting quality and optimal methods of handling participants with missing outcome data for continuous outcomes in randomized controlled trials

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 88, Issue , 2017, Pages 67-80

  Zhang, Yuqing ^a,b   Alyass, Akram ^a   Vanniyasingam, Thuva ^a   Sadeghirad, Behnam ^a,c   Flórez, Iván D ^a,d   Pichika, Sathish Chandra ^a   Kennedy, Sean Alexander ^e   Abdulkarimova, Ulviya ^a   Zhang, Yuan ^a   Iljon, Tzvia ^a   Morgano, Gian Paolo ^a   Colunga Lozano, Luis E ^f   Aloweni, Fazila Abu Bakar ^g   Lopes, Luciane C ^h,i   Yepes Nuñez, Juan José ^a,d   Fei, Yutong ^j   Wang, Li ^k   Kahale, Lara A ^l   Meyre, David ^a   Akl, Elie A ^l   Thabane, Lehana ^a   Guyatt, Gordon H ^m   more..

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

^c KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f Reumatóloga adscrita al servicio de Reumatología Hospital Ángeles del Carmen   (Mexico)

^g SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SOROCABA   (Brazil)

ⁱ SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^j BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^k MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^l AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^m and Impact ^*  (Canada)

more..

Author keywords

Continuous outcome; Missing participant data; MPD; Randomized controlled trials; Simulation; Statistical methods

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; CHECKLIST; CLASSIFICATION; CONSENSUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MISSING PARTICIPANT DATA HANDLING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESEARCH SUBJECT; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOLLOW UP; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT DROPOUT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACCURACY; HUMANS; LOST TO FOLLOW-UP; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT DROPOUTS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85028729470     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2017.05.016     Document Type: Review

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