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A new scientific source of bias: SILLY bias. Analysis of citations of BMJ's Christmas articles

scientific article published in December 2009

A systematic review found no consistent difference in effect between more and less intensive placebo interventions

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Active placebo control groups of pharmacological interventions were rarely used but merited serious consideration: a methodological overview

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Acupuncture treatment for pain: systematic review of randomised clinical trials with acupuncture, placebo acupuncture, and no acupuncture groups

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Agreement was moderate between data-based and opinion-based assessments of biases affecting randomised trials within meta-analyses

scientific article published on 13 May 2020

Antibiotics for secondary prevention of coronary heart disease

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Antibiotics for secondary prevention of coronary heart disease

Assessing risk of bias in randomised clinical trials included in Cochrane Reviews: the why is easy, the how is a challenge

scientific article published on 30 April 2013

Assessing risk of bias in studies that evaluate health care interventions: recommendations in the misinformation age.

scientific article published on 15 January 2018

Benefits and harms in clinical trials of duloxetine for treatment of major depressive disorder: comparison of clinical study reports, trial registries, and publications

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Benefits and harms of locking plate osteosynthesis in intraarticular (OTA Type C) fractures of the proximal humerus: a systematic review

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Bias due to lack of patient blinding in clinical trials. A systematic review of trials randomizing patients to blind and nonblind sub-studies

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Biomarkers as point-of-care tests to guide prescription of antibiotics in patients with acute respiratory infections in primary care

scientific article (publication date: 6 November 2014)

Biomarkers as point-of-care tests to guide prescription of antibiotics in patients with acute respiratory infections in primary care

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Blinded trials taken to the test: an analysis of randomized clinical trials that report tests for the success of blinding

scientific article published on 17 April 2007

Blinding in randomized clinical trials: imposed impartiality

scientific article published on 12 October 2011

Coding of adverse events of suicidality in clinical study reports of duloxetine for the treatment of major depressive disorder: descriptive study

scientific article published on 4 June 2014

Comparison of central adjudication of outcomes and onsite outcome assessment on treatment effect estimates

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Comparison of central adjudication of outcomes and onsite outcome assessment on treatment effect estimates

scientific article (published 2015-07-24)

Comparison of descriptions of allocation concealment in trial protocols and the published reports: cohort study

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Conflicts of interest at medical journals: the influence of industry-supported randomised trials on journal impact factors and revenue - cohort study

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Constraints on publication rights in industry-initiated clinical trials

scientific article published on 01 April 2006

Correction: Conflicts of Interest at Medical Journals: The Influence of Industry-Supported Randomised Trials on Journal Impact Factors and Revenue – Cohort Study.

scientific article published on 25 February 2011

Data extraction errors in meta-analyses that use standardized mean differences

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Disagreements in meta-analyses using outcomes measured on continuous or rating scales: observer agreement study

scientific article published on 13 August 2009

Discrepancies in sample size calculations and data analyses reported in randomised trials: comparison of publications with protocols

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Divine intervention? A Cochrane review on intercessory prayer gone beyond science and reason

scientific article published on 10 June 2009

Effect of teaching and type of stethoscope on cardiac auscultatory performance

scientific article published in July 2006

Empirical Evidence of Study Design Biases in Randomized Trials: Systematic Review of Meta-Epidemiological Studies

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Empirical evidence for selective reporting of outcomes in randomized trials: comparison of protocols to published articles

scientific article (publication date: 26 May 2004)

Evaluation of the Cochrane tool for assessing risk of bias in randomized clinical trials: overview of published comments and analysis of user practice in Cochrane and non-Cochrane reviews

scientific article published on 10 May 2016

Financial conflicts of interest in clinical research

Financial conflicts of interest in clinical research

Financial conflicts of interest in systematic reviews: associations with results, conclusions, and methodological quality

scientific article published on 05 August 2019

Ghost authorship in industry-initiated randomised trials

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Guidelines for Reporting Reliability and Agreement Studies (GRRAS) were proposed

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Guidelines for Reporting Reliability and Agreement Studies (GRRAS) were proposed

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Identifying approaches for assessing methodological and reporting quality of systematic reviews: a descriptive study

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Impact of allocation concealment on conclusions drawn from meta-analyses of randomized trials

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Impact of blinding on estimated treatment effects in randomised clinical trials: meta-epidemiological study

scientific article published on 21 January 2020

Income from reprints creates a conflict of interests

scientific article published on 23 July 2012

Influence and management of conflicts of interest in randomised clinical trials: qualitative interview study

scientific article published on 27 October 2020

Is the placebo powerless? An analysis of clinical trials comparing placebo with no treatment

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Is the placebo powerless? Update of a systematic review with 52 new randomized trials comparing placebo with no treatment

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Johannes Fibiger and the controlled clinical trial

scientific article published in August 2007

Lack of blinding of outcome assessors in animal model experiments implies risk of observer bias

scientific article published on 25 June 2014

Letter re: stratification of meta-analyses based on risk of bias is appropriate and does not induce selection bias

scientific article published on 06 June 2019

Locking plate osteosynthesis in displaced 4-part fractures of the proximal humerus

scientific article published on 10 June 2011

Low agreement among 24 doctors using the Neer-classification; only moderate agreement on displacement, even between specialists

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Mechanisms and direction of allocation bias in randomised clinical trials

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Methods of blinding in reports of randomized controlled trials assessing pharmacologic treatments: a systematic review

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Minimum clinically important differences in chronic pain vary considerably by baseline pain and methodological factors: systematic review of empirical studies

scientific article published on 21 May 2018

Observer bias in randomised clinical trials with binary outcomes: systematic review of trials with both blinded and non-blinded outcome assessors

scientific article published on 27 February 2012

Observer bias in randomized clinical trials with measurement scale outcomes: a systematic review of trials with both blinded and nonblinded assessors

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Observer bias in randomized clinical trials with time-to-event outcomes: systematic review of trials with both blinded and non-blinded outcome assessors

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Pain relief that matters to patients: systematic review of empirical studies assessing the minimum clinically important difference in acute pain

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Performance of the Osteoporosis Self-Assessment Tool in ruling out low bone mineral density in postmenopausal women: a systematic review

scientific article published on 15 March 2007

Placebo effect studies are susceptible to response bias and to other types of biases ⬇️

scientific article published on April 23, 2011

Placebo interventions for all clinical conditions

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Placebo interventions for all clinical conditions

scientific article (publication date: 19 April 2004)

Placebo treatment versus no treatment

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Postponement of Cardiovascular Outcomes by Statin Use: A Systematic review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials

scientific article published on 07 September 2020

Postponement of Death by Pharmacological Heart Failure Treatment: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

Postponement of Death by Statin Use: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials

scientific article published on 09 May 2019

Powerful spin in the conclusion of Wampold et al.'s re-analysis of placebo versus no-treatment trials despite similar results as in original review

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Promoting public access to clinical trial protocols: challenges and recommendations

scientific article published on 17 February 2018

ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions

scientific article published on 12 October 2016

Randomized clinical trials with run-in periods: frequency, characteristics and reporting

Re: "A note on unmasking" (Letter commenting on: J Clin Epidemiol. 2014;67:1059-69)

scientific article published on 10 June 2015

Reporting methods of blinding in randomized trials assessing nonpharmacological treatments

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Reporting on blinding in trial protocols and corresponding publications was often inadequate but rarely contradictory

scientific article published on September 2009

Resurfacing hemiarthroplasty compared to stemmed hemiarthroplasty for glenohumeral osteoarthritis: a randomised clinical trial

scientific article published on 27 August 2014

Reverse shoulder arthroplasty in acute fractures of the proximal humerus: A systematic review

scientific article published on April 2013

RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials

scientific article published on 28 August 2019

SPIRIT 2013 explanation and elaboration: guidance for protocols of clinical trials

scientific article (publication date: 8 January 2013)

SPIRIT 2013 statement: defining standard protocol items for clinical trials

scientific article published on February 2013

Selective reporting of positive outcomes in randomised trials--secondary publication.. A comparison of protocols with published reports

scientific article published in August 2005

Somatostatin analogues for acute bleeding oesophageal varices

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Somatostatin analogues for acute bleeding oesophageal varices

scientific article (published 2005-01-24)

Spontaneous improvement in randomised clinical trials: meta-analysis of three-armed trials comparing no treatment, placebo and active intervention

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Subjective and objective outcomes in randomized clinical trials: definitions differed in methods publications and were often absent from trial reports

scientific article published on 26 September 2014

Surgeons agree more on treatment recommendations than on classification of proximal humeral fractures

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Systematic review adherence to methodological or reporting quality

scientific article published on 19 July 2017

Systematic review finds that appraisal tools for medical research studies address conflicts of interest superficially

scientific article published on 03 December 2019

Ten questions to consider when interpreting results of a meta-epidemiological study-the MetaBLIND study as a case

scientific article published on 20 January 2020

The COVID-NMA Project: Building an Evidence Ecosystem for the COVID-19 Pandemic

scientific article published on 15 September 2020

The Osteoporosis Self-Assessment Tool versus alternative tests for selecting postmenopausal women for bone mineral density assessment: a comparative systematic review of accuracy

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The controlled clinical trial turns 100 years: Fibiger's trial of serum treatment of diphtheria

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The evolution of assessing bias in Cochrane systematic reviews of interventions: celebrating methodological contributions of the Cochrane Collaboration

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The matching quality of experimental and control interventions in blinded pharmacological randomised clinical trials: a methodological systematic review

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The risk of unblinding was infrequently and incompletely reported in 300 randomized clinical trial publications

scientific article published on 25 June 2014

The uncontrollable placebo effect

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The use of placebo interventions in medical practice--a national questionnaire survey of Danish clinicians

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Training improves agreement among doctors using the Neer system for proximal humeral fractures in a systematic review

scientific article published on 23 August 2007

Unreliable analysis of placebo analgesia in trials of placebo pain mechanisms

scientific article published on 01 August 2003

Unreported formal assessment of unblinding occurred in 4 of 10 randomized clinical trials, unreported loss of blinding in 1 of 10 trials

scientific article published on 20 August 2016

Unsubstantiated claims of large effects of placebo on pain: serious errors in meta-analysis of placebo analgesia mechanism studies

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What are the main methodological problems in the estimation of placebo effects?

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What is the effect of placebo interventions? A systematic review of randomized clinical trials with placebo treated and untreated patients

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Who is blinded in randomized clinical trials? A study of 200 trials and a survey of authors

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Why did it take 19 months to retrieve clinical trial data from a non-profit organisation?

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[Constraints on publication rights in industry-initiated clinical trials--secondary publication]

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

[Placebo and the evidence burden]

scientific article published on 01 March 2002

[The thesis about the powerless placebo]

scientific article published on 01 August 2004

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