Methods used to assess outcome consistency in clinical studies: A literature-based evaluation

• Ewelina Rogozińska ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ewelina.rogozinska@ucl.ac.uk

  Affiliations Meta-Analysis Group, Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, London, England, United Kingdom, Women’s Health Research Unit, Queen Mary University of London, London, England, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3455-0644

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• Elizabeth Gargon,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

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• Rocío Olmedo-Requena,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Granada, Granada, Spain, Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Granada, Spain

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• Amani Asour,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Women’s Health Research Unit, Queen Mary University of London, London, England, United Kingdom

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• Natalie A. M. Cooper,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Women’s Health Research Unit, Queen Mary University of London, London, England, United Kingdom

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• Claire L. Vale,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Meta-Analysis Group, Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, London, England, United Kingdom

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• Janneke van’t Hooft

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

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