OHAT Risk of Bias Rating Tool for Human and Animal Studies
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This document is written to outline a tool for evaluating individual study risk of bias or internal validity – the assessment of whether the design and conduct of a study compromised the credibility of the link between exposure and outcome (Higgins and Green 2011, IOM 2011, Viswanathan et al. 2012). The riskof-bias rating tool presents a parallel approach to evaluating risk of bias in human and non-human animal studies to facilitate consideration of risk of bias across elements and across evidence streams with common terms and categories.
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