About the Authors
- David Moher
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: dmoher@uottawa.ca
Affiliations Chalmers Research Group, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada , Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada , Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
- Jennifer Tetzlaff
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Affiliation Chalmers Research Group, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada
- Andrea C Tricco
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Affiliations Chalmers Research Group, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada , Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
- Margaret Sampson
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Affiliation Chalmers Research Group, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada
- Douglas G Altman
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Affiliation Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Oxford, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
All of the authors are members of the Cochrane Collaboration. Four of the authors (DM, JT, MS, and DA) have been extensively involved with conceptualizing, developing, updating, and promoting the QUOROM Statement.
Author Contributions
DM, JT, MS, and DGA designed the study. JT analyzed the data. DM, JT, ACT, MS, and DGA contributed to writing the paper. JT and ACT helped screen articles for inclusion in the study and abstracted data. MS provided guidance to data abstractors in making ratings. ACT collected data or did experiments related to the study.