Risk of Bias Assessments and Evidence Syntheses for Observational Epidemiologic Studies of Environmental and Occupational Exposures: Strengths and Limitations
Environmental Health Perspectives2020Vol. 128(9), pp. 95002–95002
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Kyle Steenland, Mary K. Schubauer‐Berigan, Roel Vermeulen, Ruth M. Lunn, Kurt Straif, Shelia Hoar Zahm, Patricia A. Stewart, Whitney D. Arroyave, Suril Mehta, Neil Pearce
Abstract
Bias assessments are important in evidence synthesis, but we argue they can and should be improved to address the concerns we raise here. Simplistic, mechanical approaches to risk of bias assessments, which may particularly occur when these tools are used by nonexperts, can result in erroneous conclusions and sometimes may be used to dismiss important evidence. Evidence synthesis requires a broad approach that goes beyond assessing bias in individual human studies and then including a narrow range of human studies judged to be unbiased in evidence synthesis. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP6980.
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