ROB-ME: a tool for assessing risk of bias due to missing evidence in systematic reviews with meta-analysis

Affiliations

• ¹ Methods in Evidence Synthesis Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia.
• ² Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
• ³ National Institute for Health and Care Research Bristol Biomedical Research Centre, Bristol, UK.
• ⁴ Health Data Research UK South-West, Bristol, UK.
• ⁵ Université de Paris Cité and Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Inserm, INRAE, Paris, France.
• ⁶ Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Odense and Cochrane Denmark, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
• ⁷ Open Patient data Exploratory Network, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.
• ⁸ Centre for Biostatistics, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK.
• ⁹ Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA.
• ¹⁰ Department of Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ¹¹ Department of Epidemiology, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
• ¹² Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York, UK.
• ¹³ Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
• ¹⁴ Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA.
• ¹⁵ Biomedical Informatics and Digital Health, School of Medical Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
• ¹⁶ Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
• ¹⁷ Department of General Practice, Intellectual Disability Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
• ¹⁸ Institute for Evidence in Medicine, Medical Centre and Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
• ¹⁹ Cochrane Germany, Cochrane Germany Foundation, Freiburg, Germany.
• ²⁰ Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
• ²¹ Behavioral Health and Neurosciences Division, Veterans Affairs Portland Health Care System, Portland, OR, USA.