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Jackson GB (1978)
Methods for reviewing and integrating research in the social sciences. Report prepared for the National Science Foundation, Washington DC, Division of Science Information, PB-283747.
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RELEVANT TOPICS

  • Biases in systematic reviews
  • Using meta-analysis
  • Preparing and maintaining systematic reviews

Other articles

  • Guyatt GH, Oxman AD (2009).
    Medicine’s methodological debt to the social sciences.

All topics

  • Fair tests of treatments
    • The need to address treatment uncertainties
    • Treatment comparisons are essential
    • Treatment comparisons must be fair
  • Biases
    • Design bias
    • Allocation bias
    • Co-intervention bias
    • Observer bias
    • Analysis bias
    • Biases in judging unanticipated possible effects
    • Reporting bias
    • Biases in systematic reviews
    • Researcher/sponsor bias and fraud
  • The play of chance
    • Recording and interpreting numbers
    • Quantifying uncertainty
    • Using meta-analysis
  • Bringing it all together for the benefit of patients and the public
    • Improving reports of research
    • Preparing and maintaining systematic reviews
    • Using the results of research

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