About the Authors
- Elaine M. Beller
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* E-mail: ebeller@bond.edu.au
Affiliation Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia
- Paul P. Glasziou
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Affiliation Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia
- Douglas G. Altman
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Affiliation Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Sally Hopewell
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Affiliations Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, INSERM, Paris, France
- Hilda Bastian
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Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, Washington DC, United States of America
- Iain Chalmers
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Affiliation James Lind Initiative, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Peter C. Gøtzsche
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Affiliation Nordic Cochrane Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Toby Lasserson
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Affiliation Cochrane Editorial Unit, London, United Kingdom
- David Tovey
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Affiliation Cochrane Editorial Unit, London, United Kingdom
- for the PRISMA for Abstracts Group
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¶Membership of the PRISMA for Abstracts Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
TL is employed by The Cochrane Collaboration. TL is an editor (unpaid) for the Cochrane Airways Group. The authors have declared that no other competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Analyzed the data: EMB. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: EMB. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: EMB PPG DGA SH HB IC PCG TL DT. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: EMB PPG DGA SH HB IC PCG TL DT. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: EMB PPG DGA SH HB IC PCG TL DT.