Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 64, Issue 4 , Pages 349-357, April 2011

Uptake of methods to deal with publication bias in systematic reviews has increased over time, but there is still much scope for improvement

  • Sheetal Parekh-Bhurke

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Health, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
    • Faculty of Health, School of Allied Health Professions, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Faculty of Health, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ. Tel.: 02380 595701; fax: 023 8059 5639.
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  • Chun S. Kwok

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Health, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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  • Chun Pang

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Health, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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  • Lee Hooper

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Health, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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  • Yoon K. Loke

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Health, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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  • Jon J. Ryder

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Health, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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  • Alex J. Sutton

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
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  • Caroline B. Hing

      Affiliations

    • Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, St George's Hospital, Tooting, London, United Kingdom
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  • Ian Harvey

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Health, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
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  • Fujian Song

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Health, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
    • Faculty of Health, School of Allied Health Professions, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

Accepted 23 April 2010. published online 01 September 2010.

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 Competing interest: none declared.

 Authors' contributions: F.S., Y.K.L., L.H., J.J.R., A.J.S., and I.H. developed the review protocol. S.P.B., J.J.R., and F.S. conducted literature search. S.P.B., F.S., L.H., Y.K.L., J.J.R., C.B.H., C.S.K., and C.P. extracted and/or checked data from included studies. F.S., A.J.S., and I.H. provided methodological support. S.P.B., F.S., C.S.K., and C.P. analyzed data and drafted the article. All authors commented on the final manuscript.

PII: S0895-4356(10)00197-6

doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2010.04.022

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 64, Issue 4 , Pages 349-357, April 2011

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