The quality of reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy is less than optimal. Complete and accurate reporting is necessary to enable readers to assess the potential for bias ...
When Archie Cochrane reproached the medical profession for not having critical summaries of all randomised controlled trials, about 14 reports of trials were being published per...
Citation: Schünemann, H. J. et al. (2008). 'Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations for diagnostic tests and strategies', BMJ 336 (7653), 1106-1110. [Availab...
Elaine Beller and colleagues from the PRISMA for Abstracts group provide a reporting guidelines for reporting abstracts of systematic reviews in journals and at conferences.
Without a complete published description of interventions, clinicians and patients cannot reliably implement interventions that are shown to be useful, and other researchers can...
Inflexible use of evidence hierarchies confuses practitioners and irritates researchers. So how can we improve the way we assess research?
accuracy studies, readers must understand the design, conduct, analysis, and results of such studies. That goal can be achieved only through complete transparency from authors. ...
h-index: Number of publications with at least h citations each.