Reporting bias in medical research - a narrative review
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- 13 April 2010
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Trials
- Vol. 11 (1), 37
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-11-37
Abstract
Reporting bias represents a major problem in the assessment of health care interventions. Several prominent cases have been described in the literature, for example, in the reporting of trials of antidepressants, Class I anti-arrhythmic drugs, and selective COX-2 inhibitors. The aim of this narrative review is to gain an overview of reporting bias in the medical literature, focussing on publication bias and selective outcome reporting. We explore whether these types of bias have been shown in areas beyond the well-known cases noted above, in order to gain an impression of how widespread the problem is. For this purpose, we screened relevant articles on reporting bias that had previously been obtained by the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care in the context of its health technology assessment reports and other research work, together with the reference lists of these articles.This publication has 148 references indexed in Scilit:
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