Systematic Reviews of Interventions Teaching Evidence Assimilation for Collaborative Healthcare
Assessing the Risk of Bias
May 14, 2015
11:00 - 11:45
45 minutes
Problems with the design and execution of individual studies of healthcare interventions raise questions about the validity of their findings; empirical evidence provides support for this concern. In clinical trials, biases can be broadly categorized as selection bias, performance bias, detection bias, attrition bias, reporting bias and other biases that do not fit into these categories.