Methodological Bias Can Lead the Cochrane Collaboration to Irrelevance in Public Health Decision-Making

Antonio Montresor; David Addiss; Marco Albonico; Said Mohammed Ali; Steven K. Ault; Albis-Francesco Gabrielli; Amadou Garba; Elkhan Gasimov; Theresa Gyorkos; Mohamed Ahmed Jamsheed; Bruno Levecke; Pamela Mbabazi; Denise Mupfasoni; Lorenzo Savioli; Jozef Vercruysse; Aya Yajima

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004165

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Methodological Bias Can Lead the Cochrane Collaboration to Irrelevance in Public Health Decision-Making

Antonio Montresor ,

* E-mail: montresora@who.int

Affiliation Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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David Addiss,

Affiliation Children Without Worms, Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America
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Marco Albonico,

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri, Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania
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Said Mohammed Ali,

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri, Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania
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Steven K. Ault,

Affiliation Neglected Infectious Diseases, Pan American Health Organization, World Health Regional Office for the Americas, Washington, DC, United States of America
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Albis-Francesco Gabrielli,

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt
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Amadou Garba,

Affiliation Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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Elkhan Gasimov,

Affiliation Malaria, Other Vectorborne and Parasitic Diseases, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Theresa Gyorkos,

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Parasite Epidemiology and Control, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Mohamed Ahmed Jamsheed,

Affiliation Vector-Borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases Control, World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India
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Bruno Levecke,

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for the Monitoring of Anthelminthic Drug Efficacy for Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis, Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
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Pamela Mbabazi,

Affiliation Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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Denise Mupfasoni,

Affiliation Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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Lorenzo Savioli,

Affiliation Global Schistosomiasis Alliance and Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri, Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania
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Jozef Vercruysse,

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for the Monitoring of Anthelminthic Drug Efficacy for Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis, Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
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Aya Yajima

Affiliation Malaria, Other Vectorborne and Parasitic Diseases, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Western Pacific, Manila, Philippines
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Methodological Bias Can Lead the Cochrane Collaboration to Irrelevance in Public Health Decision-Making

Antonio Montresor,
David Addiss,
Marco Albonico,
Said Mohammed Ali,
Steven K. Ault,
Albis-Francesco Gabrielli,
Amadou Garba,
Elkhan Gasimov,
Theresa Gyorkos,
Mohamed Ahmed Jamsheed

Published: October 22, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004165

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