Assessing risk of bias in prevalence studies: modification of an existing tool and evidence of interrater agreement.

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In the course of performing systematic reviews on the prevalence of low back and neck pain, we required a tool to assess the risk of study bias. Our objectives were to (1) modify an existing checklist and (2) test the final tool for interrater agreement.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J Clin Epidemiol

Title: Journal of clinical epidemiology

Publisher: Elsevier BV

ISSN (Electronic): 1878-5921

ISSN (Print): 0895-4356

Publication date (Electronic): Sep 2012

Volume: 65

Issue: 9

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[1 ] University of Queensland, Herston Road, Herston, Brisbane, QLD 4006, Australia. damehoy@yahoo.com.au

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Publisher Item ID: S0895-4356(12)00079-0

DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2011.11.014

PubMed ID: 22742910

SO-VID: 8c294544-1e49-4b4d-b8c2-0078f743cc61

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