Recommendations for assessing the risk of bias in systematic reviews of health-care interventions

M Viswanathan, CD Patnode, ND Berkman… - Journal of clinical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Objectives Risk-of-bias assessment is a central component of systematic reviews, but little
conclusive empirical evidence exists on the validity of such assessments. In the context of …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the risk of bias in systematic reviews of health care interventions

M Viswanathan, CD Patnode, ND Berkman, EB Bass… - 2018 - europepmc.org
Objective Risk-of-bias assessment is a central component of systematic reviews but little
conclusive empirical evidence exists on the validity of such assessments. In the context of …

Effect measures in prevalence studies

N Pearce - Environmental Health Perspectives, 2004 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
There is still considerable confusion and debate about the appropriate methods for
analyzing prevalence studies, and a number of recent papers have argued that prevalence …

Ecologic studies revisited

J Wakefield - Annu. Rev. Public Health, 2008 - annualreviews.org
Ecologic studies use data aggregated over groups rather than data on individuals. Such
studies are popular because they use existing databases and can offer large exposure …