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Quality assessment of observational studies in a drug-safety systematic review, comparison of two tools: the Newcastle–Ottawa Scale and the RTI item bank

BACKGROUND: The study objective was to compare the Newcastle–Ottawa Scale (NOS) and the RTI item bank (RTI-IB) and estimate interrater agreement using the RTI-IB within a systematic review on the cardiovascular safety of glucose-lowering drugs. METHODS: We tailored both tools and added four question...

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Autores principales: Margulis, Andrea V, Pladevall, Manel, Riera-Guardia, Nuria, Varas-Lorenzo, Cristina, Hazell, Lorna, Berkman, Nancy D, Viswanathan, Meera, Perez-Gutthann, Susana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4199858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25336990
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S66677