ROB-ME: a tool for assessing risk of bias due to missing evidence in systematic reviews with meta-analysis
BMJ
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2023 Nov 20:383:e076754.
doi: 10.1136/bmj-2023-076754.
Authors
Matthew J Page
1
,
Jonathan A C Sterne
2
3
4
,
Isabelle Boutron
5
,
Asbjørn Hróbjartsson
6
7
,
Jamie J Kirkham
8
,
Tianjing Li
9
,
Andreas Lundh
6
7
10
,
Evan Mayo-Wilson
11
,
Joanne E McKenzie
1
,
Lesley A Stewart
12
,
Alex J Sutton
13
,
Lisa Bero
14
,
Adam G Dunn
15
,
Kerry Dwan
16
,
Roy G Elbers
17
,
Raju Kanukula
1
,
Joerg J Meerpohl
18
19
,
Erick H Turner
20
21
,
Julian P T Higgins
2
3
Affiliations
1
Methods in Evidence Synthesis Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia.
2
Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
3
National Institute for Health and Care Research Bristol Biomedical Research Centre, Bristol, UK.
4
Health Data Research UK South-West, Bristol, UK.
5
Université de Paris Cité and Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Inserm, INRAE, Paris, France.
6
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Odense and Cochrane Denmark, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
7
Open Patient data Exploratory Network, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.
8
Centre for Biostatistics, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK.
9
Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA.
10
Department of Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
11
Department of Epidemiology, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
12
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York, UK.
13
Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
14
Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA.
15
Biomedical Informatics and Digital Health, School of Medical Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
16
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
17
Department of General Practice, Intellectual Disability Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
18
Institute for Evidence in Medicine, Medical Centre and Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
19
Cochrane Germany, Cochrane Germany Foundation, Freiburg, Germany.
20
Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
21
Behavioral Health and Neurosciences Division, Veterans Affairs Portland Health Care System, Portland, OR, USA.
PMID:
37984978
DOI:
10.1136/bmj-2023-076754
No abstract available
Publication types
Meta-Analysis
MeSH terms
Bias
Humans
Research Design*
Systematic Reviews as Topic