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Influence of Reported Study Design Characteristics on Intervention Effect Estimates From Randomized, Controlled Trials
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Published evidence suggests that aspects of trial design lead to biased intervention effect estimates, but findings from different studies are inconsistent. This study combined data from 7 meta-epidemiologic studies and removed overlaps to derive a final data set of 234 unique meta-analyses containing 1973 trials. Outcome measures were classified as "mortality," "other objective," "or subjective," and Bayesian hierarchical models were used to estimate associations of trial characteristics with average bias and between-trial heterogeneity. Intervention effect estimates seemed to be exaggerated in trials with inadequate or unclear (vs. adequate) random-sequence generation (ratio of odds ratios, 0.89 [95% credible interval {CrI}, 0.82 to 0.96]) and with inadequate or unclear (vs. adequate) allocation concealment (ratio of odds ratios, 0.93 [CrI, 0.87 to 0.99]). Lack of or unclear double-blinding (vs. double-blinding) was associated with an average of 13% exaggeration of intervention effects (ratio of odds ratios, 0.87 [CrI, 0.79 to 0.96]), and between-trial heterogeneity was increased for such studies (SD increase in heterogeneity, 0.14 [CrI, 0.02 to 0.30]). For each characteristic, average bias and increases in between-trial heterogeneity were driven primarily by trials with subjective outcomes, with little evidence of bias in trials with objective and mortality outcomes. This study is limited by incomplete trial reporting, and findings may be confounded by other study design characteristics. Bias associated with study design characteristics may lead to exaggeration of intervention effect estimates and increases in between-trial heterogeneity in trials reporting subjectively assessed outcomes.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Savović, J., Jones, H. E., Altman, D. G., Harris, R. J., Jüni, P., Pildal, J., Als-Nielsen, B., Balk, E. M., Gluud, C., Gluud, L. L., Ioannidis, J. P. A., Schulz, K. F., Beynon, R., Welton, N. J., Wood, L., Moher, D., Deeks, J. J., & Sterne, J. A. C.
- Affiliations
- University of Bern (CH)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Annals of Internal Medicine
- Publisher
- American College of Physicians
- Published
- 2012-09-18
- Volume
- 157
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 429-438
- ISSN
- 0003-4819 (ISSN-L)
- 1539-3704
- OpenAlex
- W1964502734
- Semantic Scholar
- 5667b851bbf788508a249be0a5243029fcf25bdd
- Cited by
- 1,049
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2026: 21 · 2025: 44 · 2024: 51 · 2023: 44 · 2022: 50 · 2021: 68 · 2020: 67 · 2019: 84 · 2018: 99 · 2017: 100 · 2016: 93 · 2015: 112 · 2014: 113 · 2013: 87 · 2012: 9
- FWCI
- 115.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Annals of Internal Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- BORIS (University Library Bern) (submittedVersion)
- University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) (submittedVersion)
- Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) (submittedVersion)
- Bristol Research (University of Bristol) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (NF-SI-0611-10168)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- Keywords
- trial design bias, random sequence generation, allocation concealment, double blinding, between-trial heterogeneity, meta-epidemiology, subjective outcomes, mortality, trial reporting quality
- MeSH terms
- Bayes Theorem, Double-Blind Method, Humans, Research Design, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Bias, Odds Ratio, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
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