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ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions

BMJ · 12 October 2016

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Summary

Sets out ROBINS-I, a tool for assessing risk of bias in estimates of intervention effects from non-randomised studies. Each study is compared against a hypothetical target randomised trial across seven bias domains, making it a widely used companion to RoB 2 in evidence synthesis.

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Sterne JA, Hernán MA, Reeves BC, Savović J, Berkman ND, Viswanathan M, et al. ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions. BMJ. 2016;i4919. doi:10.1136/bmj.i4919

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