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. 2023 Mar 1;21(3):494-506.
doi: 10.11124/JBIES-22-00430.

The revised JBI critical appraisal tool for the assessment of risk of bias for randomized controlled trials

Timothy Hugh Barker  1 , Jennifer C Stone  1 , Kim Sears  2 , Miloslav Klugar  3 , Catalin Tufanaru  4 , Jo Leonardi-Bee  5 , Edoardo Aromataris  1 , Zachary Munn  1
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The revised JBI critical appraisal tool for the assessment of risk of bias for randomized controlled trials

Timothy Hugh Barker et al. JBI Evid Synth. .

Abstract

JBI recently began the process of updating and revising its suite of critical appraisal tools to ensure that these tools remain compatible with recent developments within risk of bias science. Following a rigorous development process led by the JBI Effectiveness Methodology Group, this paper presents the revised critical appraisal tool for the assessment of risk of bias for randomized controlled trials. This paper also presents practical guidance on how the questions of this tool are to be interpreted and applied by systematic reviewers, while providing topical examples. We also discuss the major changes made to this tool compared to the previous version and justification for why these changes facilitate best-practice methodologies in this field.

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