Assessing baseline imbalance in randomised trials: implications for the Cochrane risk of bias tool: Baseline imbalance assessment and risk of bias

Corbett, Mark S., Higgins, Julian P. T., Woolacott, Nerys F.·2014·Research Synthesis Methods
DOI 10.1002/jrsm.1090

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