The strong focus on positive results in abstracts may cause bias in systematic reviews: a case study on abstract reporting bias

BACKGROUND: Research articles tend to focus on positive findings in their abstract, especially if multiple outcomes have been studied. At the same time, search queries in databases are generally limited to the abstract, title and keywords fields of an article. Negative findings are therefore less li...

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Autores principales: Duyx, Bram, Swaen, Gerard M. H., Urlings, Miriam J. E., Bouter, Lex M., Zeegers, Maurice P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6637611/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31315665
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13643-019-1082-9

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6637611/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31315665
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13643-019-1082-9

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