Risk of Bias tool evaluation: summary results from focus groups and online surveys Jelena Savovic, Laura Weeks, Julian Higgins, Doug Altman, Lucy Turner, David Moher and Jonathan Sterne Correspondence to: j. savovic@ bristol. ac. uk... more
Risk of Bias tool evaluation: summary results from focus groups and online surveys Jelena Savovic, Laura Weeks, Julian Higgins, Doug Altman, Lucy Turner, David Moher and Jonathan Sterne Correspondence to: j. savovic@ bristol. ac. uk School of Social and Community ...
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Research Interests: General Practice, Prostate Cancer, Risk assessment, Humans, Male, and 18 moreMeta Analysis, Aged, Great Britain, Middle Aged, Randomized Controlled Trial, Random-Effects Models, Disease Progression, Risk Assessment, Indexation, Body Height, Case Control Study, Bibliographic Database, Prostate Specific Antigen, Environmental Exposure, Prospective Study, Confidence Interval, Insulin Like Growth Factor, and Case Control Studies
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Outcome reporting in bariatric surgery needs a core outcome set (COS), an agreed minimum set of outcomes reported in all studies of a particular condition. The aim of this study was to summarize outcome reporting in bariatric surgery to... more
Outcome reporting in bariatric surgery needs a core outcome set (COS), an agreed minimum set of outcomes reported in all studies of a particular condition. The aim of this study was to summarize outcome reporting in bariatric surgery to inform the development of a COS. Outcomes reported in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and large non-randomized studies identified by a systematic review were listed verbatim and categorized into domains, scrutinizing the frequency of outcome reporting and uniformity of definitions. Ninety studies (39 RCTs) identified 1,088 separate outcomes, grouped into nine domains with most (n = 920, 85%) reported only once. The largest outcome domain was 'surgical complications', and overall, 42% of outcomes corresponded to a theme of 'adverse events'. Only a quarter of outcomes were defined, and where provided definitions, which were often contradictory. Percentage of excess weight loss was the main study outcome in 49 studies, but nearly 40%...