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Publication
Bias
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JA, Gopalan R, Matthews DR. Publication bias in clinical research.
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Lau J. In an empirical evaluation of the funnel plot, researchers
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Language
Bias
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Junker
C, Lengeler C,
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language bias in meta-analyses of controlled trials: empirical
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J Clin Epidemiol 2000; 53(9): 964-72.
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intervention was conventional or complementary. J Clin Epidemiol
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Quality
of Reporting and Reporting Guidelines
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Moher D, Egger M, Davidoff F, Elbourne D, et al. The revised CONSORT
statement for reporting randomized trials: explanation and
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evaluate a report of a nonpharmacological trial (CLEAR NPT) was
developed using consensus. J Clin Epidemiol 2005; 58(12): 1233-40.
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- Chan AW, Altman DG.
Epidemiology and reporting of randomised trials published in PubMed
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- Grimes DA, Hubacher D,
Nanda K, Schulz KF, Moher D, Altman DG. The Good Clinical Practice
guideline: a bronze standard for clinical research. Lancet 2005;
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SJ, Gotzsche PC, O'Neill RT, Altman DG, Schulz K, et al. Better
reporting of harms in randomized trials: an extension of the CONSORT
statement. Ann Intern Med 2004; 141(10): 781-8.
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Lawson ML, Moher D. For randomized controlled trials, the quality of
reports of complementary and alternative medicine was as good as
reports of conventional medicine. J Clin Epidemiol 2005; 58(8):
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- Lawson ML, Pham B,
Klassen TP, Moher D. Systematic reviews involving complementary and
alternative medicine interventions had higher quality of reporting
than conventional medicine reviews. J Clin Epidemiol 2005; 58(8):
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- McAlister FA, Straus
SE, Sackett DL, Altman DG. Analysis and reporting of factorial
trials: a systematic review. JAMA 2003; 289(19): 2545-53.
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Eastwood S, Olkin I, Rennie D, Stroup DF. Improving the quality of
reports of meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials: the QUOROM
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Altman DG, CONSORT GROUP (Consolidated Standards of Reporting
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the quality of reports of parallel-group randomized trials. Ann
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Schulz KF, Elbourne DR. Opportunities and challenges for improving
the quality of reporting clinical research: CONSORT and beyond. CMAJ
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MR, Altman DG, Babiker AB, Parmar MK, Spiegelhalter DJ, DAMOCLES
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Funding
Bias
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MK, Bero LA. The quality of drug studies published in symposium
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RA. Source of funding and outcome of clinical trials. Journal of
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MK, Pintilie M, Tannock IF. Factors associated with failure to
publish large randomized trials presented at an oncology meeting.
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J, Bero LA, Djulbegovic B, Clark O. Pharmaceutical industry
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H, hlqvist-Rastad J, Meijer G, Beermann B. Evidence b(i)ased
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sponsorship and financial conflict of interest in the reporting of
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PA, Gurwitz JH, Simms RW, Fortin PR, Felson DT, Minaker KL, et al. A
study of manufacturer-supported trials of nonsteroidal
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Selective
Outcome Reporting
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A, Haahr MT, Gotzsche PC, Altman DG. Empirical evidence for selective
reporting of outcomes in randomized trials: comparison of protocols
to published articles. JAMA 2004; 291(20):2457-65.
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K, Schmid I, Altman DG. Outcome reporting bias in randomized trials
funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. CMAJ 2004;
171(7): 735-40.
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Identifying outcome reporting bias in randomised trials on PubMed:
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Guyatt GH.
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meta-analysis due to selective reporting of subgroup analyses within
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clinical research: follow-up of applications submitted to a local
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Quality
Assessment
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EM, Bonis PA, Moskowitz H, Schmid CH, Ioannidis JP, Wang C, et al.
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K, Juni P, Junker C, Egger M. Quality of reporting of randomized
trials as a measure of methodologic quality. JAMA 2002; 287(21):
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P, Altman DG, Egger M. Systematic reviews in health care: Assessing
the quality of controlled clinical trials. BMJ 2001; 323(7303): 42-6.
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P, Witschi A, Bloch R, Egger M. The hazards of scoring the quality of
clinical trials for meta-analysis. JAMA 1999; 282(11): 1054-60.
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LL, Villumsen J, Gluud C. Reported methodologic quality and
discrepancies between large and small randomized trials in
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D, Pham B, Jones A, Cook DJ, Jadad AR, Moher M, et al. Does quality
of reports of randomised trials affect estimates of intervention
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Database
Bias
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Sterne
J. How important
are comprehensive literature searches and the assessment of trial
quality in systematic reviews? Empirical study. Health Technol Assess
2003; 7(1): 1-76.
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NJ, Moher D, Klassen TP, Pham B, Platt R, et al. Should meta-analysts
search Embase in addition to Medline? J Clin Epidemiol 2003; 56(10):
943-55.
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Location Bias
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Harkness EF, Ernst E. Location bias in controlled clinical trials of
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Methodological
Bias
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Methodological bias in
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Hrobjartsson A, Forfang E, Altman DG, Gotzsche PC. Comparison of
descriptions of allocation concealment in trial protocols and the
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J, Hróbjartsson A, Jørgensen JK, Hilden J, Altman
DG,
Gøtzsche PC. Impact of allocation concealment on conclusions
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Grimes DA, Altman DG. Assessing the quality of randomization from
reports of controlled trials published in obstetrics and gynecology
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Grimes DA, Altman DG, Hayes
RJ. Blinding and exclusions after allocation in randomised controlled
trials: survey of published parallel group trials in obstetrics and
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JA, Juni P, Schulz KF, Altman DG, Bartlett C, Egger M. Statistical
methods for assessing the influence of study characteristics on
treatment effects in 'meta-epidemiological' research. Statistics in
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Reviewer
Bias
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Citation Bias
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Early Stopping Bias
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