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Last updated: 23 December 2008 - Next update due: 13 January 2009

Research type:

Methodology 

Title (lead author) etc:

Assessing the quality of reports of randomised trials: implications for the conduct of meta-analyses. A review  (Moher) 98 pages, Volume 3, number 12

DOI

10.3310/hta3120
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Outputs in journals arising from this project

Project ref:

93/52/04 

Original project title:

Assessing the quality of randomised controlled trials: implications for the conduct of meta-analyses 

Chief Investigator:

Dr David Moher, Director, Chalmers Research Group, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute

Start Date:

November 1995.  

Publication date:

May 1999

Cost:

£72,583 

MeSH* index primary terms:

META-ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED-CONTROLLED-TRIALS Q-standards; QUALITY-ASSURANCE-HEALTH-CARE (* = Medical Subject Headings)

MeSH* index secondary terms:

BIAS-(EPIDEMIOLOGY); NATIONAL-HEALTH-SERVICE; GUIDELINES; HUMAN  (* = Medical Subject Headings)

NRR* number, if applicable:

N0484008263 (*National Research Register) 

Project Protocol:

Project protocol not available

Printed copies of this title despatched:

935 (Figures relate to the previous calendar month)

Downloads/Views of electronic version from website:

52690 (Figures are cumulative.) Last updated 15th October 2008.

URL of this page:

http://www.hta.ac.uk/943

Outputs from this project

  • Moher, D; Pham, B; Cook, DJ; Jadad, AR; Moher, M; Tugwell, P; Klassen, TP. Does quality of reports of randomised trials affect estimates of intervention accuracy reported in meta-analyses?. Lancet 352, 609-613.
  • Jadad, AR; Cook, DJ; Jones, A; Klassen, TP; Tugwell, P; Moher, M; Moher, D. Methodology and reports of systematic reviews and meta-analyses: a comparison of Cochrane reviews with articles published in paper-based journals. JAMA 280 [3], 278-280.
  • Cook, DJ; Jones, A; Jadad, AR; Klassen, TP; Moher, M; Tugwell, P; Moher, D. Assessing reports of randomisec trial quality in meta-analyses: a survey of reviewers, methodologists and editors. JAMA.
  • Ba'Pham; Platt, R; McCauly, L; Klassen, TP; Moher, D. Is there a "best" way to detect and minimize publication bias? An empirical evaluation. Evaluation and the Health Professions, Vol 24, No. 2, pp 109-125.
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