Risk of bias reporting in the recent animal focal cerebral ischaemia literature
Author(s) -
Zsanett Bahor,
Jing Liao,
Malcolm Macleod,
Alexandra BannachBrown,
Sarah K. McCann,
Kimberley E. Wever,
James Thomas,
Thomas Ottavi,
David W. Howells,
Andrew P. Rice,
Sophia Ananiadou,
Emily S. Sena
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
clinical science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.91
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1470-8736
pISSN - 0143-5221
DOI - 10.1042/cs20160722
Subject(s) - blinding , sample size determination , stroke (engine) , medicine , randomization , selection bias , publication bias , meta analysis , clinical study design , sample (material) , clinical trial , statistics , pathology , chromatography , engineering , mechanical engineering , chemistry , mathematics
Findings from in vivo research may be less reliable where studies do not report measures to reduce risks of bias. The experimental stroke community has been at the forefront of implementing changes to improve reporting, but it is not known whether these efforts are associated with continuous improvements. Our aims here were firstly to validate an automated tool to assess risks of bias in published works, and secondly to assess the reporting of measures taken to reduce the risk of bias within recent literature for two experimental models of stroke.
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