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Areas of methodological quality recommended to be assessed in reviews by Cochrane Review Groups. Values are numbers (percentages) |
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| Area of quality recommended |
All (n = 50) |
Components (n = 41) |
Scales (n = 9) |
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| Sequence generation |
35 (70) |
26 (63) |
9 (100) |
| Concealment of allocation |
43 (86) |
41 (100) |
2 (22) |
| Blinding of patients |
42 (84) |
33 (80) |
9 (100) |
| Blinding of caregivers |
33 (66) |
32 (78) |
1 (11) |
| Blinding of outcome assessors |
48 (96) |
39 (95) |
9 (100) |
| Follow-up |
47 (94) |
38 (93) |
9 (100) |
| Intention-to-treat analysis |
21 (42) |
20 (49) |
1 (11) |
Lundh and Gøtzsche BMC Medical Research Methodology 2008 8:22 doi:10.1186/1471-2288-8-22 |
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