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The BMG continues to raise awareness of the problem of bias. The following list contains select references and resources relevant to the scope of the Bias Methods Group, much of which had been conducted by members of the group. For a more comprehensive list of resources, please consult the Cochrane Library (The Cochrane Methodology Register and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews).

Publication Bias

Language Bias

Quality of Reporting and Reporting Guidelines

Funding Bias

Selective Outcome Reporting

Quality Assessment

Database Bias

Location Bias

Methodological Bias

Reviewer Bias

Citation Bias

Early Stopping Bias


Publication Bias

  • Baker R, Jackson D. Using journal impact factors to correct for the publication bias of medical studies. Biometrics 2006; 62(3): 785-92.
  • Copas J, Jackson D. A bound for publication bias based on the fraction of unpublished studies. Biometrics 2004; 60(1): 146-53.
  • Copas JB, Shi JQ. A sensitivity analysis for publication bias in systematic reviews. Stat Methods Med Res 2001; 10(4): 251-65.
  • Decullier E, Lheritier V, Chapuis F. Fate of biomedical research protocols and publication bias in France: retrospective cohort study. BMJ 2005; 331(7507): 19.
  • Decullier E, Chapuis F. Oral presentation bias: a retrospective cohort study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2007; 61(3): 190-3.
  • Deeks JJ, Macaskill P, Irwig L. The performance of tests of publication bias and other sample size effects in systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy was assessed. J Clin Epidemiol 2005; 58(9): 882-93.
  • Dickersin K. The existence of publication bias and risk factors for its occurrence. JAMA 1990; 263(10): 1385-9.
  • Dickersin K. How important is publication bias? A synthesis of available data. AIDS Educ Prev 1997; 9(1 Suppl): 15-21.
  • Dickersin K, Min YI, Meinert CL. Factors influencing publication of research results. Follow up of applications submitted to two institutional review boards. JAMA 1992;263:374-378.
  • Dickersin K, Min YI. NIH clinical trials and publication bias. Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials. 1993. Document No. 50.
  • Dickersin K (2004a). Publication bias: recognising the problem, understanding its origins and scope, and preventing harm. In: Rothstein H, Sutton A, Borenstein M, eds. Handbook of publication bias. New York: Wiley.
  • Dubben HH, Beck-Bornholdt HP. Systematic review of publication bias in studies on publication bias. BMJ 2005; 331(7514): 433-4.
  • Duval S, Tweedie R. Trim and fill: A simple funnel-plot-based method of testing and adjusting for publication bias in meta-analysis. Biometrics 2000; 56(2): 455-63.
  • Easterbrook PJ, Berlin JA, Gopalan R, Matthews DR. Publication bias in clinical research. Lancet 1991; 337(8746): 867-72.
  • Egger M, Juni P, Bartlett C, Holenstein F, 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.
  • Harbord RM, Egger M, Sterne JA. A modified test for small-study effects in meta-analyses of controlled trials with binary endpoints. Stat Med 2006; 25(20): 3443-57.
  • Hartling L, Craig WR, Russell K, Stevens K, Klassen TP. Factors influencing the publication of randomized controlled trials in child health research. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2004; 158(10): 983-7.
  • Hopewell S, Clarke M, Stewart L, Tierney J. Time to publication for results of clinical trials. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2007; (2): MR000011.
  • Ioannidis JP, Trikalinos TA. The appropriateness of asymmetry tests for publication bias in meta-analyses: a large survey. CMAJ 2007; 176(8): 1091-6.
  • Klassen TP, Wiebe N, Russell K, Stevens K, Hartling L, Craig WR, et al. Abstracts of randomized controlled trials presented at the society for pediatric research meeting: an example of publication bias. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2002; 156(5): 474-9.
  • Lau J, Ioannidis JP, Terrin N, Schmid CH, Olkin I. The case of the misleading funnel plot. BMJ 2006; 333(7568): 597-600.
  • Macaskill P, Walter SD, Irwig L. A comparison of methods to detect publication bias in meta-analysis. Stat Med 2001; 20(4): 641-54.
  • McAuley L, Pham B, Tugwell P, Moher D. Does the inclusion of grey literature influence the estimates of intervention effectiveness reported in meta-analyses? Lancet 2000; 356: 1228-1231.
  • Peters JL, Sutton AJ, Jones DR, Abrams KR, Rushton L. Comparison of two methods to detect publication bias in meta-analysis. JAMA 2006; 295(6): 676-80.
  • Pham B, Platt R, McAuley L, Klassen TP, Moher D. Is there a "best" way to detect and minimize publication bias? An empirical evaluation. Eval Health Prof 2001; 24(2): 109-25.
  • Raina PS, Brehaut JC, Platt RW, Klassen TP, Moher D, St JP, et al. The influence of display and statistical factors on the interpretation of metaanalysis results by physicians. Medical Care 2005; 43(12): 1242-9.
  • Rucker G, Schwarzer G, Carpenter J. Arcsine test for publication bias in meta-analyses with binary outcomes. Stat Med. 2007
  • Schwarzer G, Antes G, Schumacher M. Inflation of type I error rate in two statistical tests for the detection of publication bias in meta-analyses with binary outcomes. Stat Med 2002; 21(17): 2465-77.
  • Schwarzer G, Antes G, Schumacher M. A test for publication bias in meta-analysis with sparse binary data. Stat Med 2007; 26(4): 721-33.
  • Simes RJ. Publication bias: the case for an international registry of clinical trials. J Clin Oncol 1986; 4(10): 1529-41.
  • Smith ML. Publication bias and meta-analysis. Evaluation in Education 1980; 4: 22-4.
  • Song F, Khan KS, Dinnes J, Sutton AJ. Asymmetric funnel plots and publication bias in meta-analyses of diagnostic accuracy. International Journal of Epidemiology 2002; 31(1): 88-95.
  • Sterling TD. Publication decisions and their possible effects on inferences drawn from tests of significance - or vice versa. J Am Stat Assoc 1959; 54: 30-34
  • Stern JM, Simes RJ. Publication bias: evidence of delayed publication in a cohort study of clinical research projects. BMJ 1997; 315(7109): 640-5.
  • Sterne JA, Gavaghan D, Egger M. Publication and related bias in meta-analysis: power of statistical tests and prevalence in the literature. J Clin Epidemiol 2000; 53(11): 1119-29.
  • Sutton AJ, Song F, Gilbody SM, Abrams KR. Modelling publication bias in meta-analysis: a review. Statistical Methods in Medical Research 2000; 9(5): 421-45.
  • Sutton AJ, Duval SJ, Tweedie RL, Abrams KR, Jones DR. Empirical assessment of effect of publication bias on meta-analyses. BMJ 2000; 320(7249 ):1574-7.
  • Terrin N, Schmid CH, Lau J, Olkin I. Adjusting for publication bias in the presence of heterogeneity. Stat Med 2003 ;22(13): 2113-26.
  • Terrin N, Schmid CH, Lau J. In an empirical evaluation of the funnel plot, researchers could not visually identify publication bias. J Clin Epidemiol 2005; 58(9): 894-901.
  • Toma M, McAlister FA, Bialy L, Adams D, Vandermeer B, Armstrong PW. Transition from meeting abstract to full-length journal article for randomized controlled trials. JAMA. 2006; 295 (11): 1281-7.
  • Vandenbroucke JP (1988). Passive smoking and lung cancer: a publication bias? BMJ 296:391-2.

Language Bias

  • Egger M, Zellweger-Zahner T, Schneider M, Junker C, Lengeler C, Antes G. Language bias in randomised controlled trials published in English and German. Lancet 1997; 350(9074): 326-9.
  • Galandi D, Schwarzer G, Antes G. The demise of the randomised controlled trial: bibliometric study of the German-language health care literature, 1948 to 2004. BMC Med Res Methodol 2006; 6: 30.
  • Grégoire G, Derderian F, Le LJ. Selecting the language of the publications included in a meta-analysis: is there a Tower of Babel bias? J Clin Epidemiol 1995; 48(1): 159-63.
  • Jüni P, Holenstein F, Sterne J, Bartlett C, Egger M. Direction and impact of language bias in meta-analyses of controlled trials: empirical study.[see comment]. International Journal of Epidemiology 2002; 31(1): 115-23.
  • Moher D, Fortin P, Jadad AR, Juni P, Klassen T, Le LJ, et al. Completeness of reporting of trials published in languages other than English: implications for conduct and reporting of systematic reviews. Lancet 1996; 347(8998): 363-6.
  • Moher D, Pham B, Klassen TP, Schulz KF, Berlin JA, Jadad AR, et al. What contributions do languages other than English make on the results of meta-analyses? J Clin Epidemiol 2000; 53(9): 964-72.
  • Pham B, Klassen TP, Lawson ML, Moher D. Language of publication restrictions in systematic reviews gave different results depending on whether the intervention was conventional or complementary. J Clin Epidemiol 2005; 58(8): 769-76.

Quality of Reporting and Reporting Guidelines

  • Altman DG, Schulz KF, Moher D, Egger M, Davidoff F, Elbourne D, et al. The revised CONSORT statement for reporting randomized trials: explanation and elaboration. Ann Intern Med 2001; 134(8): 663-94.
  • Altman DG. Endorsement of the CONSORT statement by high impact medical journals: survey of instructions for authors. BMJ 2005; 330(7499): 1056-7.
  • Boutron I, Moher D, Tugwell P, Giraudeau B, Poiraudeau S, Nizard R, et al. A checklist to evaluate a report of a nonpharmacological trial (CLEAR NPT) was developed using consensus. J Clin Epidemiol 2005; 58(12): 1233-40.
  • Campbell MK, Elbourne DR, Altman DG, CONSORT Group. CONSORT statement: extension to cluster randomised trials. BMJ 2004; 328(7441): 702-8.
  • Chan AW, Altman DG. Epidemiology and reporting of randomised trials published in PubMed journals. Lancet 2005; 365(9465): 1159-62.
  • 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; 366(9480): 172-4.
  • Gotzsche PC. Methodology and overt and hidden bias in reports of 196 double-blind trials of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in rheumatoid arthritis. Control Clin Trials 1989; 10(1):31-56 (amendment: 356).
  • Ioannidis JP, Evans 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.
  • Klassen TP, Pham B, 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): 763-8.
  • 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): 777-84.
  • Liu J, Kjaergard LL, Gluud C. Misuse of randomisation: a review of Chinese randomised trials of herbal medicines for chronic hepatitis B. The American Journal of Chinese Medicine 2002;30:173-176.
  • McAlister FA, Straus SE, Sackett DL, Altman DG. Analysis and reporting of factorial trials: a systematic review. JAMA 2003; 289(19): 2545-53.
  • Moher D, Cook DJ, Eastwood S, Olkin I, Rennie D, Stroup DF. Improving the quality of reports of meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials: the QUOROM statement. Quality of Reporting of Meta-analyses. Lancet 1999; 354(9193): 1896-900.
  • Moher D, Schulz KF, Altman DG, CONSORT GROUP (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials). The CONSORT statement: revised recommendations for improving the quality of reports of parallel-group randomized trials. Ann Intern Med 2001; 134(8): 657-62.
  • Moher D, Altman DG, Schulz KF, Elbourne DR. Opportunities and challenges for improving the quality of reporting clinical research: CONSORT and beyond. CMAJ 2004; 171(4): 349-50.
  • Moher D, Tetzlaff J, Tricco AC, Sampson M, Altman DG: Epidemiology and Reporting Characteristics of Systematic Reviews. PLoS Med 2007, 4: e78.
  • Piaggio G, Elbourne DR, Altman DG, Pocock SJ, Evans SJ, CONSORT Group. Reporting of noninferiority and equivalence randomized trials: an extension of the CONSORT statement. JAMA 2006; 295(10): 1152-60.
  • Sydes MR, Altman DG, Babiker AB, Parmar MK, Spiegelhalter DJ, DAMOCLES Group. Reported use of data monitoring committees in the main published reports of randomized controlled trials: a cross-sectional study. Clinical Trials 2004; 1(1): 48-59.
  • Wager E, Field EA, Grossman L (2003). Good Publication Practice for pharmaceutical companies. Current Medical Research and Opinion 19:149-54.

Funding Bias

  • Als-Nielsen B, Chen W, Gluud C, Kjaergard LL. Association of funding and conclusions in randomised drug trials. A reflection of treatment effect or adverse events? JAMA 2003; 290: 921-28.
  • Bero L, Oostvogel F, Bacchetti P, Lee K (2007) Factors associated with findings of published trials of drug–drug comparisons: Why some statins appear more efficacious than others. PLoS Med 4(6): e184. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0040184 .
  • Bhandari M, Busse JW, Jackowski D, Montori VM, Schunemann H, Sprague S, et al. Association between industry funding and statistically significant pro-industry findings in medical and surgical randomized trials. CMAJ Canadian Medical Association Journal 2004; 170(4): 477-80.
  • Cho MK, Bero LA. The quality of drug studies published in symposium proceedings. Ann Intern Med 1996; 124(5): 485-9.
  • Davidson RA. Source of funding and outcome of clinical trials. Journal of General Internal Medicine 1986; 1(3): 155-8.
  • Djulbegovic B, Lacevic M, Cantor A, Fields KK, Bennett CL, Adams JR, Kuderer NM, Lyman GH (2000). The uncertainty principle and industry-sponsored research. Lancet 356:635-638.
  • Hemminki E (1980). Study of information submitted by drug companies to licensing authorities. BMJ 280:833-6.
  • Krzyzanowska MK, Pintilie M, Tannock IF. Factors associated with failure to publish large randomized trials presented at an oncology meeting. JAMA 2003; 290(4): 495-501.
  • Lexchin J, Bero LA, Djulbegovic B, Clark O. Pharmaceutical industry sponsorship and research outcome and quality: systematic review. BMJ 2003; 326(7400 ): 1167-70.
  • Melander H, hlqvist-Rastad J, Meijer G, Beermann B. Evidence b(i)ased medicine--selective reporting from studies sponsored by pharmaceutical industry: review of studies in new drug applications. BMJ 2003; 326(7400 ): 1171-3.
  • Perlis RH, Perlis CS, Wu Y, Hwang C, Joseph M, Nierenberg AA. Industry sponsorship and financial conflict of interest in the reporting of clinical trials in psychiatry. American Journal of Psychiatry 2005; 162(10): 1957-60.
  • Rochon PA, Gurwitz JH, Simms RW, Fortin PR, Felson DT, Minaker KL, et al. A study of manufacturer-supported trials of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in the treatment of arthritis. Arch Intern Med 1994; 154(2): 157-63.

Selective Outcome Reporting

  • Chan AW, Hrobjartsson 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.
  • Chan AW, Krleza-Jeri 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.
  • Chan AW, Altman DG. Identifying outcome reporting bias in randomised trials on PubMed: review of publications and survey of authors. BMJ 2005; 330(7494): 753.
  • Furukawa TA, Watanabe N, Omori IM, Montori VM, Guyatt GH. Association between unreported outcomes and effect size estimates in Cochrane meta-analyses. JAMA 2007; 297(5): 468-70.
  • Gøtzsche PC. Multiple publication in reports of drug trials. Eur J Clin Pharmacol 1989; 36:429-32.
  • Hahn S, Williamson PR, Hutton JL, Garner P, Flynn EV. Assessing the potential for bias in meta-analysis due to selective reporting of subgroup analyses within studies. Stat Med 2000; 19(24): 3325-36.
  • Hahn S, Williamson PR, Hutton JL. Investigation of within-study selective reporting in clinical research: follow-up of applications submitted to a local research ethics committee. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 2002; 8(3): 353-9.
  • Hrobjartsson A, Chan AW, Haahr MT, Gotzsche PC, Altman DG. [Selective reporting of positive outcomes in randomised trials--secondary publication.. A comparison of protocols with published reports]. [Danish]. Ugeskr Laeger 2005; 167(34): 3189-91.
  • Hutton J and Williamson P. Bias in meta-analysis due to outcome variable selection within studies. Applied Statistics 2000; 49: 359-370.
  • Williamson PR, Gamble C. Identification and impact of outcome selection bias in meta-analysis. Stat Med 2005; 24(10): 1547-61.

Quality Assessment

  • Altman DG. Poor-quality medical research: what can journals do? JAMA 2002; 287(21): 2765-7.
  • Balk EM, Bonis PA, Moskowitz H, Schmid CH, Ioannidis JP, Wang C, et al. Correlation of quality measures with estimates of treatment effect in meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials. JAMA 2002; 287(22): 2973-82.
  • Gluud C, Nikolova D. Quality assessment of reports on clinical trials in Journal of Hepatology. J Hepatol 1998;29:321-327.
  • Gluud C, Kjaergard LL. Quality of trials in portal hypertension and other fields of hepatology. 3rd Baveno International Consensus Workshop. Portal Hypertension into the Third Millennium. Definition, Methodology and Therapeutic Strategies in Portal Hypertension. Blackwell Science: Oxford. 2001;204-218.
  • Gluud LL, Sørensen TI, Gøtzsche PC, Gluud C. The journal impact factor as a predictor of trial quality and outcomes: cohort study of hepatobiliary randomized clinical trials. Am J Gastroenterol 2005;100(11):2431-5.
  • Gluud C. The culture of designing hepato-biliary randomised trials. J Hepatol 2006;44(3):607-15.
  • Gluud C, Klingenberg SL, Gluud LL. Quality of randomised clinical trials in portal hypertension and other fields of hepatology. In: Roberto De Franchis, ed. Portal Hypertension IV. 1st ed. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2006;328-344.
  • Gluud LL. Bias in clinical intervention research. Am J Epidemiol 2006;163:493-501.
  • Huwiler-Muntener K, Juni P, Junker C, Egger M. Quality of reporting of randomized trials as a measure of methodologic quality. JAMA 2002; 287(21): 2801-4.
  • Jüni P, Altman DG, Egger M. Systematic reviews in health care: Assessing the quality of controlled clinical trials. BMJ 2001; 323(7303): 42-6.
  • Jüni 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.
  • Kjærgard LL, Nikolova D, Gluud C. Randomized clinical trials in Hepatology – predictors of quality. Hepatology 1999;30:1134-38. 
  • Kjaergard LL, Villumsen J, Gluud C. Reported methodologic quality and discrepancies between large and small randomized trials in meta-analyses. Ann Intern Med 2001; 135(11): 982-9.
  • Kjaergard LL, Frederiksen S, Gluud C. Validity of randomized clinical trials in Gastroenterology from 1964-2000. Gastroenterology 2002;122:1157-1160.
  • Moher D, Pham B, Jones A, Cook DJ, Jadad AR, Moher M, et al. Does quality of reports of randomised trials affect estimates of intervention efficacy reported in meta-analyses? Lancet 1998; 352(9128): 609-13.
  • Siersma V, Als-Nielsen B, Chen W, Hilden J, Gluud LL, Gluud C. Multivariable modeling for meta-epidemiological assessment of the association between trial quality and treatment effects estimated in randomised clinical trials. Statistics in Medicine 2007; 26(14): 2745-58.

Database Bias

  • Egger M, Juni P, Bartlett C, Holenstein F, 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.
  • Sampson M, Barrowman 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.
  • Zielinski C. New equities on information in an electronic age. BMJ 1995; 310: 1480-1481.

Location Bias

  • Pittler MH, Abbot NC, Harkness EF, Ernst E. Location bias in controlled clinical trials of complementary/alternative therapies. J Clin Epidemiol 2000; 53(5): 485-9.
  • Vickers A, Goyal N, Harland R, Rees R. Do certain countries produce only positive results? A systematic review of controlled trials. Controlled Clinical Trials 1998; 19(2): 159-66.
  • Wayt Gibbs W. Lost science in the Third World. Scientific American, August 1995: 76-83.
  • Zielinski C. New equities on information in an electronic age. BMJ 1995, 310: 1480-1481.

Methodological Bias

  • Gluud C, Gluud LL. Evidence based diagnostics. BMJ 2005;330(7493):724-6.
  • Hahn S, Puffer S, Torgerson DJ, Watson J. Methodological bias in cluster randomised trials. BMC Med Res Methodol 2005; 5(1): 10.
  • Pildal J, Chan AW, Hrobjartsson A, Forfang E, Altman DG, Gotzsche PC. Comparison of descriptions of allocation concealment in trial protocols and the published reports: cohort study. BMJ 2005; 330(7499): 1049.
  • Pildal J, Hróbjartsson A, Jørgensen JK, Hilden J, Altman DG, Gøtzsche PC. Impact of allocation concealment on conclusions drawn from meta-analyses of randomised trials. 2007; International Journal of Epidemiology. [Epub ahead of print] doi:10.1093/ije/dym087
  • Schulz KF, Chalmers I, Grimes DA, Altman DG. Assessing the quality of randomization from reports of controlled trials published in obstetrics and gynecology journals. JAMA 1994; 272(2): 125-8.
  • Schulz KF, Chalmers I, Altman DG, Grimes DA, Dore CJ. The methodologic quality of randomization as assessed from reports of trials in specialist and general medical journals. Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials 1995; Doc No 197: 81.
  • Schulz KF, Chalmers I, Hayes RJ, Altman DG. Empirical evidence of bias. Dimensions of methodological quality associated with estimates of treatment effects in controlled trials. JAMA 1995; 273(5): 408-12.
  • Schulz KF, Grimes DA, Altman DG, Hayes RJ. Blinding and exclusions after allocation in randomised controlled trials: survey of published parallel group trials in obstetrics and gynaecology. BMJ 1996; 312(7033): 742-4.
  • Sterne 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 Medicine 2002; 21(11): 1513-24.
  • Tierney JF, Stewart LA. Investigating patient exclusion bias in meta-analysis. International Journal of Epidemiology 2005; 34(1): 79-87.
  • Wood L. The epidemiology of bias in randomised (clinical) controlled trials: a meta-epidemiological study. PhD thesis. 2006.

Reviewer Bias

  • Ernst E, Resch KL. Reviewer bias: a blinded experimental study. Journal of Laboratory & Clinical Medicine 1994; 124(2): 178-82.

Citation Bias

  • Gøtzsche PC. Reference bias in reports of drug trials. BMJ 1987;295:654-656.
  • Kjaergard LL, Gluud C. Citation bias of randomised trials. J Clin Epidemiol 2002;55(4):407-410.

Early Stopping Bias

  • Pocock SJ, Hughes MD (1989). Practical problems in interim analyses, with particular regard to estimation. Control Clinical Trials10 (4 Suppl):209S-221S.
  • Montori VM, Devereaux PJ, Adhikari NK, Burns KE, Eggert CH, Briel M, Lacchetti C, Leung TW, Darling E, Bryant DM, Bucher HC, Schunemann HJ, Meade MO, Cook DJ, Erwin PJ, Sood A, Sood R, Lo B, Thompson CA, Zhou Q, Mills E, Guyatt GH (2005). Randomized trials stopped early for benefit: a systematic review. JAMA 294:2203-2209.

 

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