Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 64, Issue 2 , Pages 136-144, February 2011

Reviews assessing the quality or the reporting of randomized controlled trials are increasing over time but raised questions about how quality is assessed

  • Agnes Dechartres

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    • INSERM U738, Paris, France
    • Université Paris 5 René Descartes, UFR de Médecine, Paris, France
    • AP-HP, Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu, Centre d'Epidemiologie Clinique, Paris, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Agnes Dechartres, Centre d'Epidemiologie Clinique, Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu, 1, place du parvis Notre-Dame, 75004 Paris, France. Tel.: +33-1-44-07-39-75; fax: +33-1-42-34-87-90.
    • ,
  • Pierre Charles

      Affiliations

    • INSERM U738, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Sally Hopewell

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    • UK Cochrane Centre, Summertown Pavilion, Oxford, UK
    • ,
  • Philippe Ravaud

      Affiliations

    • INSERM U738, Paris, France
    • Université Paris 5 René Descartes, UFR de Médecine, Paris, France
    • AP-HP, Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu, Centre d'Epidemiologie Clinique, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Douglas G. Altman

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Accepted 23 April 2010. published online 13 August 2010.

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 Conflict of interest: none.

PII: S0895-4356(10)00180-0

doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2010.04.015

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 64, Issue 2 , Pages 136-144, February 2011

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