Enhanced Access to Recommendations from the Cochrane Handbook for Improving Authors' Judgments about Risk of Bias: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Autor/inn/en	Barcot, Ognjen; Ivanda, Matej; Buljan, Ivan; Pieper, Dawid; Puljak, Livia
Titel	Enhanced Access to Recommendations from the Cochrane Handbook for Improving Authors' Judgments about Risk of Bias: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Quelle	In: Research Synthesis Methods, 12 (2021) 5, S.618-629 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Barcot, Ognjen) ORCID (Ivanda, Matej) ORCID (Buljan, Ivan) ORCID (Pieper, Dawid) ORCID (Puljak, Livia)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1759-2879
DOI	10.1002/jrsm.1499
Schlagwörter	Risk; Bias; Authors; Access to Information; Evaluative Thinking; Guides + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Risiko; Author; Autor; Autorin; Handbuch; Leitfaden
Abstract	This randomized controlled trial (RCT) aimed to test the efficacy of enhanced access to Cochrane Handbook (Handbook) recommendations for judging the 2011 Cochrane risk of bias (RoB) domains for improving the adequacy of RoB judgments. Parallel-group RCT with a 1:1 allocation ratio (N = 2271 per group) was conducted. Eligible participants were corresponding authors of all published Cochrane reviews and protocols. After allocation by a random number generator, participants received 20 scenarios for assessing RoB. The intervention group was shown tables from the Handbook with instructions for assessing 2011 RoB tool together with scenarios they were supposed to assess--enhanced access to the Handbook. The control group was shown only a general link to the Handbook. The primary outcome was the proportion of participants that made an adequate judgment of RoB scenarios for analyzed domains. There were 240 responses out of 2020 delivered e-mail invitations in the intervention and 197/2254 in the control group. Only five participants from the intervention group judged RoB adequately in all the 20 scenarios and no one in the control group. The proportion of participants who adequately assessed all the scenarios within a domain was significantly higher in the intervention than in the control group. The frequency of adequate RoB judgments was 7.1% (95% CI: 5.0-9.3%, p < 0.001) higher in the intervention group (76.2%) than in the control group (69.0%). The enhanced access yields more adequate RoB assessments and could be incorporated in software supporting the RoB tool. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01