Umbrella Reviews: Concepts, Methodological Frameworks, and Step‐by‐Step Implementation The exponential growth of secondary literature has created an imperative for researchers to identify credible and methodologically sound studies within an increasingly complex information landscape. ...

#CochraneDaily Just published! Here's a new guide to umbrella reviews, that might help us all cope with the ever increasing number of systematic reviews in health and beyond
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#CochraneDaily Just published! Systematic survey of simulation studies of randomised trials to identify optimal strategies for dealing with missing binary outcome data
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Examining and Interpreting Doi Plot Asymmetry in Meta‐Analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are considered the highest level of evidence, but their reliability can be undermined by publication bias. Traditional methods for assessing publication bias, su...

#CochraneDaily Just published! Learn about the Doi plot and LFK index for assessing publication bias in a meta-analysis in this new article in the Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine. Read it free here 👇
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Inadequate Reporting of Harm From Randomized Clinical Trials in Top Medical Publications Objective To assess the quality of harm reporting in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published in high-impact general medical journals. Study Design and Setting Publications of RCTs involving .....

#CochraneDaily Just published! Reports of randomised trials in 5 high-impact medical journals (2022-23) had deficiencies in harms reporting: 86.3% of analyses were limited to descriptive statistics and only 45.1% discussed harms:benefits balance onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #JEBM #RCT