Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions¶
Shokraneh, F., Lefebvre, C., Glanville, J., Briscoe, S., Littlewood, A., Marshall, C., Metzendorf, M., et al. (2019). Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. Wiley.
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5 citations across 5 artifacts.
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Primes¶
- Garbage In, Garbage Out
- The same structure governs a meta-analysis floor-bound by publication bias in its primary studies (fix: register and include unpublished trials, an input intervention) and a manufacturing yield problem traced to component-supplier defects (fix: supplier-quality vetting, not more assembly-line tuning).
This sourceEstablishes that a synthesis is floor-bound by publication/reporting bias in its primary literature and that searching trial registries and including unpublished studies is the input-side remedy.
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Chapter 13 backs the meta-analysis half — a synthesis is bounded by non-reporting/publication bias and the remedy is thorough searching plus obtaining unpublished results — but carries nothing on the manufacturing-supplier half.
“There is overwhelming evidence of non-reporting biases of various types. These can be addressed at various points of the review. A thorough search, and attempts to obtain unpublished results, might minimize the risk.”
- The same structure governs a meta-analysis floor-bound by publication bias in its primary studies (fix: register and include unpublished trials, an input intervention) and a manufacturing yield problem traced to component-supplier defects (fix: supplier-quality vetting, not more assembly-line tuning).
Domain-specific¶
- Funnel Plot Asymmetry
- Biomedical meta-analysis — the home: the Cochrane Handbook's recommended publication-bias check (Light & Pillemer 1984; Egger et al. 1997) in systematic reviews.
This sourceThe Handbook is the source for the recommendation itself: its reporting-bias chapter (Ch. 13, 'Assessing risk of bias due to missing results in a synthesis') sets out funnel-plot examination for biomedical systematic reviews, citing Light & Pillemer 1984 and Egger et al. 1997, while cautioning that asymmetry is not diagnostic of non-reporting bias.
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- Biomedical meta-analysis — the home: the Cochrane Handbook's recommended publication-bias check (Light & Pillemer 1984; Egger et al. 1997) in systematic reviews.
- Retrieval Facet
- . E-commerce: brand, size, material, compatibility, price band, and availability. Research repositories: population, intervention, outcome, method, geography, and study design
This sourceThe eligibility framework by which trial evidence is indexed and filtered on population, intervention, comparator, outcome, setting and study design; geography is not among its axes.
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- . E-commerce: brand, size, material, compatibility, price band, and availability. Research repositories: population, intervention, outcome, method, geography, and study design
- Temporal coverage
- so consumers can detect when their question's period falls outside a resource's window. API and service catalogs — time-series APIs declaring the start and end of the period they cover, so queries outside it return well-defined errors. Scientific publication — figures citing their data-collection window and meta-analyses using those windows to assess the validity of pooled estimates
This sourceGuidance that systematic reviews record each study's enrolment dates, because the timing of a study may reflect technology differences or trends over time.
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- so consumers can detect when their question's period falls outside a resource's window. API and service catalogs — time-series APIs declaring the start and end of the period they cover, so queries outside it return well-defined errors. Scientific publication — figures citing their data-collection window and meta-analyses using those windows to assess the validity of pooled estimates
Mechanisms¶
- Blinded Assessment Script
- Its strength is that it neutralizes ascertainment and expectation bias exactly where they bite hardest: subjective, high-stakes judgments about outcomes.
This sourceExplains that blinding outcome assessors protects subjective outcome measurement from knowledge of intervention assignment.
- Its strength is that it neutralizes ascertainment and expectation bias exactly where they bite hardest: subjective, high-stakes judgments about outcomes.
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