Cochrane Reviews - by topic 'Methodology Review'

Cochrane Methodology Reviews are an integral part of The Cochrane Collaboration's methodological research output, and help develop methods used in intervention reviews. You can read the completed review abstracts here, as well as citations for titles (planned reviews) and protocols (begun reviews), by clicking on the titles below. For full text, click the 'Full text' button in the top right of the screen. Learn more in the Methods Groups Newsletter.

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Active versus passive parental consent for improving participant recruitment and outcomes in studies targeting children (title)

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Adjusted indirect comparison for estimating relative effects of competing healthcare interventions (protocol)

Blinded versus unblinded assessments of risk-of-bias in studies included in a systematic review (protocol)

Blinded versus unblinded assessments of risk-of-bias in studies included in a systematic review (title)

Checking reference lists to find additional studies for systematic reviews (protocol)

Comparison of protocols and registry entries to published reports for randomised controlled trials (protocol)

Consolidated standards of reporting trials (CONSORT) and the quality of reporting of randomized controlled trials (protocol)

Editorial peer review for improving the quality of reports of biomedical studies

Full publication of results initially presented in abstracts

Grey literature in meta-analyses of randomized trials of health care interventions

Handsearching versus electronic searching to identify reports of randomized trials

How effects on health equity are assessed in systematic reviews of interventions (protocol)

Impact of shared scientific or ethical review of multicentre clinical research on the quality of clinical research and the clinical research process (protocol)

Incentives and disincentives to participation by clinicians in randomised controlled trials

Individual patient data meta-analyses compared with meta-analyses based on aggregate data (protocol)

Masking reviewers at the study inclusion stage in a systematic review of health care interventions (protocol)

Methods for assessing the potential clinical significance of medication errors (title)

Methods for obtaining unpublished data (protocol)

Methods for reducing data transcription errors (title)

Methods to increase response rates for data collected by telephone (protocol)

Methods to increase response to postal and electronic questionnaires

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Methods to influence the completeness of response to self-administered questionnaires (protocol)

New treatments compared to established treatments in randomized trials (protocol)

Outcomes of patients who participate in randomized controlled trials compared to similar patients receiving similar interventions who do not participate

Peer review for improving the quality of grant applications

Pharmaceutical industry sponsorship and research outcome (title)

Priority Setting for Comparative Effectiveness Research (title)

Publication bias in clinical trials due to statistical significance or direction of trial results

Randomisation to protect against selection bias in healthcare trials

Response to mailed questionnaires versus telephone interviews (title)

Search strategies to identify diagnostic accuracy studies in MEDLINE and EMBASE (protocol)

Search strategies to identify observational studies in MEDLINE and EMBASE (title)

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Search strategies to identify reports of randomized trials in MEDLINE (protocol)

Strategies to improve recruitment to randomised controlled trials

Strategies to increase the validity of self-reported behavior (title)

Strategies to reduce attrition in randomised trials (title)

Technical editing of research reports in biomedical journals

Tests for Funnel Plot Asymmetry (title)

The quality of sick leave measurement as an outcome measure in intervention trials (title)

Time to publication for results of clinical trials

When and how to update systematic reviews