ROB-MEN: a tool to assess risk of bias due to missing evidence in network meta-analysis

ROB-MEN: a tool to assess risk of bias due to missing evidence in network meta-analysis

Abstract Background Selective outcome reporting and publication bias threaten the validity of systematic reviews and meta-analyses and can affect clinical decision-making. A rigorous method to evaluate the impact of this bias on the results of network meta-analyses of interventions is lacking. We pr...

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Main Authors: Virginia Chiocchia, Adriani Nikolakopoulou, Julian P. T. Higgins, Matthew J. Page, Theodoros Papakonstantinou, Andrea Cipriani, Toshi A. Furukawa, George C. M. Siontis, Matthias Egger, Georgia Salanti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-11-01
Series:BMC Medicine
Subjects:
Risk of bias
Missing evidence
Network meta-analysis
Evidence synthesis
Publication bias
Selective outcome reporting
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-021-02166-3

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-021-02166-3

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