Journal article
Testing the Risk of Bias tool showed low reliability between individual reviewers and across consensus assessments of reviewer pairs
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To assess the reliability of the Cochrane Risk of Bias (ROB) tool between individual raters and across consensus agreements of pairs of reviewers and examine the impact of study-level factors on reliability.
STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: Two reviewers assessed risk of bias for 154 randomized controlled trials (RCTs). For 30 RCTs, two reviewers from each of four centers assessed risk of bias and reached consensus. We assessed interrater …
Authors
Hartling L; Hamm MP; Milne A; Vandermeer B; Santaguida PL; Ansari M; Tsertsvadze A; Hempel S; Shekelle P; Dryden DM
Journal
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Vol. 66, No. 9, pp. 973–981
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
September 2013
DOI
10.1016/j.jclinepi.2012.07.005
ISSN
0895-4356