Risk of bias assessment of sequence generation: a study of 100 systematic reviews of trials

Ref ID 561
First Author F. Wuytack
Journal SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS
Year Of Publishing 2019
URL https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6323681/pdf/13643_2018_Article_924.pdf
Keywords • General medical
• Risk of bias
• Inference
• Cochrane
Problem(s) • Limited quality assessment or no risk of bias
• Flawed risk of bias undertaken
Number of systematic reviews included 100
Summary of Findings Just under half of non-Cochrane reviews did not conduct a risk of bias assessment. Only one in ten non-Cochrane reviews reported the reasons for ascribing trials with high risk of bias for sequence generation
Did the article find that the problem(s) led to qualitative changes in interpretation of the results? N/A
Are the methods of the article described in enough detail to replicate the study? Yes