@article{a3689a2e03874213825e73d2285c33b8,
title = "Assessment of risk of bias in randomized clinical trials in surgery",
abstract = "Meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) with low risk of bias is considered the highest level of evidence available for evaluating an intervention. Bias in RCTs may overestimate or underestimate the true effectiveness of an intervention.",
keywords = "Bias (Epidemiology), Data Interpretation, Statistical, General Surgery, Random Allocation, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Research Design, Research Support as Topic, Risk Assessment",
author = "Gurusamy, {K S} and C Gluud and D Nikolova and Davidson, {B R}",
note = "(c) 2009 British Journal of Surgery Society Ltd. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.",
year = "2009",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1002/bjs.6558",
language = "English",
volume = "96",
pages = "342--9",
journal = "British Journal of Surgery",
issn = "0007-1323",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "4",
}