Michael,
Here is quite a strong counter example for your thesis - We have called
the relevant section 'scraping the randomised barrel'.
All best wishes,
Klim
On 05/04/2011 18:00, "Michael Stuart" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>I am looking for teaching casesspecific examples of when high quality
>randomized controlled trials report dramatically different (or
>contradictory) results from results of lower quality RCTs. I do have
>the reviews from Schulz 95, Moher 98, Juni 99, Lachin 00, Juni 01,
>Kjaergard 01, Tierney 04, Poolman 07, Wood 08, but these
>meta-analyses, although demonstrating the distortion of results from
>various biases, donšt include references to specific trials.
>
>Michael E Stuart MD
>President and Medical Director, Delfini Group
>Clinical Asst Professor, UW School of Medicine
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