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TY - JOUR AU - Lo, Carson Ka-Lok AU - Mertz, Dominik AU - Loeb, Mark PY - 2014 DA - 2014/04/01 TI - Newcastle-Ottawa Scale: comparing reviewers’ to authors’ assessments JO - BMC Medical Research Methodology SP - 45 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - Lack of appropriate reporting of methodological details has previously been shown to distort risk of bias assessments in randomized controlled trials. The same might be true for observational studies. The goal of this study was to compare the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) assessment for risk of bias between reviewers and authors of cohort studies included in a published systematic review on risk factors for severe outcomes in patients infected with influenza. SN - 1471-2288 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-14-45 DO - 10.1186/1471-2288-14-45 ID - Lo2014 ER -