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Protecting against researcher bias in secondary data analysis: challenges and potential solutions
Analysis of secondary data sources (such as cohort studies, survey data, and administrative records) has the potential to provide answers to science...
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Effect of alcohol consumption on breast cancer: probabilistic bias analysis for adjustment of exposure misclassification bias and confounders
PurposeThis study was conducted to evaluate the effect of alcohol consumption on breast cancer, adjusting for alcohol consumption misclassification...
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Study designs, levels of evidence, and scientific bias
Bias should be taken into account when assessing clinical trials. It can occur in various forms in clinical studies and might influence the results...
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The Effects of Cognitive Bias Modification on Hostile Interpretation Bias and Aggressive Behavior: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
BackgroundThis systematic review and meta-analysis examined the efficacy of Cognitive Bias Modification of Interpretation (CBM-I) to reduce hostile...
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Methodological review of NMA bias concepts provides groundwork for the development of a list of concepts for potential inclusion in a new risk of bias tool for network meta-analysis (RoB NMA Tool)
IntroductionNetwork meta-analyses (NMAs) have gained popularity and grown in number due to their ability to provide estimates of the comparative...
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Weight Bias in Obstetrics
Purpose of ReviewOur goal is to describe the prevalence and harms of weight stigma and bias in obstetric care in order to challenge the current...
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The Longitudinal Interplay Between Attention Bias and Interpretation Bias in Social Anxiety in Adolescents
BackgroundCognitive biases are found to play a role in the onset and maintenance of social anxiety. However, particularly in adolescence, the link...
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Selection Bias in Health Research: Quantifying, Eliminating, or Exacerbating Health Disparities?
Purpose of ReviewTo summarize recent literature on selection bias in disparities research addressing either descriptive or causal questions, with...
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Randomised study of the effects of sense of entitlement and conflict of interest contrarianism on researcher decision-making to work with the alcohol industry
BackgroundIt is well established that the tobacco industry used research funding as a deliberate tactic to subvert science. There has been little...
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Examining gender bias in regional anesthesia academic publishing: a 50-year bibliometric analysis
BackgroundThe connection between academic career advancement and publishing research articles is important, as it can impact promotion and...
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A photograph of the researcher on the invitation letter did not affect the participation rate of a postal survey: a randomized study within a trial (SWAT)
ObjectiveParticipant recruitment is one of the main challenges in research. It is suggested that including researcher photographs might increase...
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Bias? Clarifying the language barrier between epidemiologists and economists
In health intervention research, epidemiologists and economists are more and more interested in estimating causal effects based on observational...
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A multi-component intervention to reduce bias during family planning visits: qualitative insights on implementation from Burkina Faso, Pakistan and Tanzania
Beyond Bias was an intervention introduced in Burkina Faso, Pakistan and Tanzania, with the aim of reducing health worker bias toward young,...
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The value of partnership in patient-driven as well as in researcher-driven projects
Patient involvement in health research is rarely driven solely by patients, who could be considered to have the highest degree of investment in such...
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Co-designing a cancer care intervention: reflections of participants and a doctoral researcher on roles and contributions
BackgroundPatient and Public Involvement is most usually framed in the context of designing, conducting and/or disseminating research. Participatory...
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Relational aspects of building capacity in economic evaluation in an Australian Primary Health Network using an embedded researcher approach
BackgroundHealth organisations are increasingly implementing ‘embedded researcher’ models to translate research into practice. This paper examines...
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Serial Multiple Mediation of Anxiety and Hostile Attribution Bias in the Relationship Between Need for Uniqueness and Adolescents’ Cyberbullying Perpetration: A Two-Wave Study
Cyberbullying perpetration has become a common concern for academics and the public. However, whether need for uniqueness is associated with...
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Disagreements in risk of bias assessment for randomized controlled trials in hypertension-related Cochrane reviews
BackgroundThe inter-reviewer reliability of the risk of bias (RoB) assessment lacked agreement in previous studies. It is important to analyse these...
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Neural mechanisms underlying attentional bias modification in fibromyalgia patients: a double-blind ERP study
There is a growing interest in the potential benefits of attentional bias modification (ABM) training in chronic pain patients. However, studies...
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Conflicts of interest and the risk of bias are inevitable in urolithiasis research
This review examines data from stone conferences and research journals to assess whether justifiable concerns exist about possible bias in...