| Ref ID | 369 |
| First Author | L. Puljak |
| Journal | JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY |
| Year Of Publishing | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0895435619307206 |
| Keywords |
• Risk of bias • General medical |
| Problem(s) |
• Flawed risk of bias undertaken |
| Article Type | Empirical |
| Article Subtype | Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review |
| First Author Country | Croatia |
| Aim | To assess use of the Cochrane risk of bias tool in non-Cochrane reviews including which domains were used and whether judgement and comments about risk of bias were in line with the Cochrane Handbook from reviews indexed in PubMed in 2018. |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| Summary of Findings | Of eligible reviews, 85% reported that they analysed risk of bias and 53% used the Cochrane risk of bias tool. Of these (n=269) only 5.9% reported both a judgment and a supporting comment in the Cochrane risk of bias table in the manuscript or in a supplementary file. 41% of analysed available judgments were inadequate, either because the judgement was not in line with the comment or the comment was missing. |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 508 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 1852 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
| Treatment impacted description | |
| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
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