Is there value in making author contact when determining risk of bias in a Cochrane Systematic Review?

Helen Atherton is a Research Fellow in the Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, and a Cochrane author with the Consumers and Communication Review Group. She is a health services researcher and her main research interest is in eHealth, particularly the use of information and communitcations technology (ICT) in healthcare delivery. In this post she discusses the value of author contact in assessing risk of bias of studies included in Cochrane Reviews. read more

Source: Cochrane Collaboration - Official Blog - July 23, 2013 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Nancy Owens Tags: Issue 51 Authors Cochrane Reviews Source Type: blogs