In reply to "Bias assessment: mQ or RoB?"

Timothy H Barker^{1

2}, Edoardo Aromataris¹, Merel Ritskes-Hoitinga^{3

4}, Kim Sears⁵, Miloslav Klugar⁶, Jo Leonardi-Bee⁷, Zachary Munn^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ JBI, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
² Health Evidence Synthesis, Recommendations and Impact (HESRI), School of Public Health, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
³ Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
⁵ Queen's Collaboration for Health Care Quality: A JBI Centre of Excellence, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
⁶ Czech National Centre for Evidence-Based Healthcare and Knowledge Translation (Cochrane Czech Republic, Czech EBHC: JBI Centre of Excellence, Masaryk University GRADE Centre), Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
⁷ Centre for Evidence Based Healthcare, Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

Comment

Timothy H Barker et al. JBI Evid Synth. 2023.

. 2023 Jun 1;21(6):1346-1347.

doi: 10.11124/JBIES-23-00213.

Timothy H Barker^{1

2}, Edoardo Aromataris¹, Merel Ritskes-Hoitinga^{3

4}, Kim Sears⁵, Miloslav Klugar⁶, Jo Leonardi-Bee⁷, Zachary Munn^{1

2}

¹ JBI, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
² Health Evidence Synthesis, Recommendations and Impact (HESRI), School of Public Health, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
³ Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
⁵ Queen's Collaboration for Health Care Quality: A JBI Centre of Excellence, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
⁶ Czech National Centre for Evidence-Based Healthcare and Knowledge Translation (Cochrane Czech Republic, Czech EBHC: JBI Centre of Excellence, Masaryk University GRADE Centre), Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
⁷ Centre for Evidence Based Healthcare, Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

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Comment on

From critical appraisal to risk of bias assessment: clarifying the terminology for study evaluation in JBI systematic reviews.
Stone JC, Barker TH, Aromataris E, Ritskes-Hoitinga M, Sears K, Klugar M, Leonardi-Bee J, Munn Z. Stone JC, et al. JBI Evid Synth. 2023 Mar 1;21(3):472-477. doi: 10.11124/JBIES-22-00434. JBI Evid Synth. 2023. PMID: 36882947
Bias assessment: mQ or RoB?
Doi SAR. Doi SAR. JBI Evid Synth. 2023 Jun 1;21(6):1344-1345. doi: 10.11124/JBIES-23-00216. JBI Evid Synth. 2023. PMID: 37282721 No abstract available.

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