Journal article
Newcastle-Ottawa Scale: comparing reviewers’ to authors’ assessments
Abstract
BackgroundLack of appropriate reporting of methodological details has previously been shown to distort risk of bias assessments in randomized controlled trials. The same might be true for observational studies. The goal of this study was to compare the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) assessment for risk of bias between reviewers and authors of cohort studies included in a published systematic review on risk factors for severe outcomes in patients …
Authors
Lo CK-L; Mertz D; Loeb M
Journal
BMC Medical Research Methodology, Vol. 14, No. 1,
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
December 2014
DOI
10.1186/1471-2288-14-45
ISSN
1471-2288