Sports Metaresearch: An Emerging Discipline of Sport Science and Medicine [PDF]
Sports MedicineAbstract Inadequacies in the conduct and quality of research are well established across many research domains, including sport science and medicine. Metaresearch—the practice of performing research on research—is presented as a practical vehicle for improving research quality through evaluating the research processes. This article introduces
Paolo Menaspà +2 more
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A metaresearch study revealed susceptibility of Covid-19 treatment research to white hat bias: first, do no harm [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2021 To investigate the presence of white hat bias in Covid-19 treatment research by evaluating the effects of citation and reporting bias.Citation bias was investigated by assessing the degree of agreement between evidence provided by a remdesivir randomized controlled trial and its citing articles.
Ioannis Bellos
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Describing the landscape of nutrition- and diet-related randomized controlled trials: metaresearch study of protocols published between 2012 and 2022 [PDF]
American Journal of Clinical NutritionPublishing protocols promotes transparency and reproducibility. The scope and methods of protocols for nutrition- and diet-related randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have not been investigated yet.This study aims to map the landscape of nutrition- and diet-related interventions research.We conducted a metaresearch of nutrition-and diet-related RCT ...
Michael M Schlussel, Flavia Silva
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Metaresearch for Evaluating Reproducibility in Ecology and Evolution [PDF]
BioScience, 2017 Recent replication projects in other disciplines have uncovered disturbingly low levels of reproducibility, suggesting that those research literatures may contain unverifiable claims. The conditions contributing to irreproducibility in other disciplines are also present in ecology.
Ascelin Gordon +2 more
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Study Design Complexity and Participant Completion in Dietary Trials for Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Systematic Review and Metaresearch Study [PDF]
Advances in NutritionDietary intervention trials in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are difficult to implement due to poor adherence, despite their increasing importance for disease management. We conducted a systematic review to evaluate completion rates of dietary intervention trials recruiting patients with IBD and assess completion rate associations with trial design ...
Andersen Vibeke +2 more
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Region of Attainable Redaction, an extension of Ellipse of Insignificance analysis for gauging impacts of data redaction in dichotomous outcome trials [PDF]
eLifeIn biomedical science, it is a reality that many published results do not withstand deeper investigation, and there is growing concern over a replicability crisis in science.
David Robert Grimes
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Nonsignificance misinterpreted as an effect’s absence in psychology: prevalence and temporal analyses [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceNonsignificant findings in psychological research are frequently misinterpreted as reflecting the effect’s absence. However, this issue’s exact prevalence remains unclear, as does whether this issue is getting better or worse.
Stephen Lee Murphy +3 more
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Sponsorship Bias in Randomised Controlled Trials on Postoperative Pain After Third Molar Extraction: A Meta-Research Study. [PDF]
Eur J PainABSTRACT Background To evaluate whether sponsorship influences the reporting of positive results and the occurrence of selective outcome reporting (SOR) in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) investigating pharmacologic interventions for postoperative pain management following third molar extraction.
Rufato CED +4 more
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Clinical Findings for Takayasu Arteritis: A Rapid Review and Meta-Analysis. [PDF]
Int J Vasc MedObjective: Diagnosis of Takayasu arteritis (TA) is based on a combination of demographic, clinical, biological, and imaging data, but the diagnostic value of each clinical sign remains undetermined. The objective of this rapid review and meta‐analyses was to estimate the diagnostic accuracy of these clinical signs.
Azoyan L, Bonjour M, Steichen O.
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Royal Society Open Science, 2021 For a given research question, there are usually a large variety of possible analysis strategies acceptable according to the scientific standards of the field, and there are concerns that this multiplicity of analysis strategies plays an important role ...
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