Assessing the potential for outcome reporting bias in a review: a tutorial.

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Published in Trials on May 12, 2010

Authors

Kerry Dwan1, Carrol Gamble, Ruwanthi Kolamunnage-Dona, Shabana Mohammed, Colin Powell, Paula R Williamson

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for Medical Statistics and Health Evaluation, University of Liverpool, UK. kerry.dwan@liverpool.ac.uk

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