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Using more than one reviewer is rather like getting a second opinion on a medical diagnosis. Because of the importance of appropriately select- 29 Using the quality appraisal ing studies, at least two reviewers should be used. Each reviewer should independently read and score each of the studies that can potentially be included in the review. They should then meet to resolve any discrepancies between the scoring of the paper by open discussion about their justiWcation for each of the scores. This discussion is a useful educational procedure in itself, which probably increases the consistency and accuracy of the appraisals of the paper.
G. because of the statistical signiWcance or the direction of results. 2). Since the registered trials were registered at inception rather than completion, their selection for inclusion in the review is not inXuenced by the outcome of the study, therefore they constitute an incomplete but unbiased set of studies. Several studies (Clarke and Hopewell, 2000) have demonstrated that the publication bias can also be viewed as a publication delay. That is, positive trials tend to be written up, submitted and published earlier than ‘negative’ trials.
G. diVerent depression scales or diVerent quality-of-life instruments) Binary outcomes Risk diVerence (RD) Relative risk or risk ratio (RR) Odds ratio (OR) DiVerence (absolute) between treatment and control group in the proportions with the outcome. If the outcome represents an adverse event (such as death) and the risk diVerence is negative (below zero), this suggests that the treatment reduces the risk. In this situation the risk diVerence, without the negative sign, is called the absolute risk reduction Ratio of the proportions in the treatment and control groups with the outcome.