Assessing risk of bias in prevalence studies: modification of an existing tool and evidence of interrater agreement

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology - Sep 2012

Damian Hoy, Peter Brooks, Anthony Woolf, Fiona Blyth, Lyn March, Chris Bain, Peter Baker, Emma Smith, Rachelle Buchbinder

In the course of performing systematic reviews on the prevalence of low back and neck pain, we required a tool to assess the risk of study bias. Our objectives were to (1) modify an existing checklist and (2) test the final tool for interrater agreement.