The Cochrane Collaboration's tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
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The Cochrane Collaboration's tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
Abstract
Flaws in the design, conduct, analysis, and reporting of randomised trials can cause the effect of an intervention to be underestimated or overestimated. The Cochrane Collaboration’s tool for assessing risk of bias aims to make the process clearer and more accurate
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RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials.BMJ. 2019 Aug 28;366:l4898. doi: 10.1136/bmj.l4898. BMJ. 2019. PMID: 31462531 No abstract available.
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