OBJECTIVE To examine variables related with publication bias assessment in a sample of systematic reviews with meta-analysis on cardiovascular diseases. DESIGN Systematic review of meta-analyses. SETTING Journals indexed in Medline and the Cochrane Library. STUDY POPULATION 225 reviews with meta-analysis published between 1990 and 2002. DATA COLLECTION Data from meta-analyses were gathe...

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Background Connective tissue diseases (CTDs) are systemic autoimmune diseases, some of which rare, characterized by a dysregulated immune response and heterogeneous clinical picture. Similarly to nonpublication, long time from completion publication randomized controlled trials (RCTs) results can indirectly harm patients allowing inefficacious or dangerous intervention being prescribed [1] , de...

Publication bias is the preferential publication of research with positive results, and is a threat to the validity of medical literature. Preliminary evidence suggests that research in blood and marrow transplantation (BMT) lacks publication bias. We evaluated publication bias at an international conference, the 2006 Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR)/Americ...

It is a long known problem that the preferential publication of statistically significant results (publication bias) may lead to incorrect estimates of the true effects being investigated. Even though other research areas (e.g., medicine, biology) are aware of the problem, and have identified strong publication biases, researchers in judgment and decision making (JDM) largely ignore it. We rean...