Cochrane Bias Methods Group annual meeting 2024

This year’s annual Bias Methods Group meeting will be held during the Global Evidence Summit in Prague on September 10 from 12.45 to 13.45 (local time) in Hall D9.

At the meeting, we will provide updates on important methodological projects. We have a bunch of interesting presentations lined up for you:

Asbjørn Hróbjartsson and Isabelle Boutron
Bias Methods Group convenors
Informing on the updated SPIRIT 2024 and CONSORT 2024 reporting guidelines

Hugh Sharma Waddington
London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine, UK
Are risk assessments good predictors of empirical bias? Findings from systematic reviews

Dena Zeraatkar
McMaster University, Canada
Trust but Verify: Our experiences identifying fabricated or falsified trials in a systematic review

Silvia Minozzi
Department of Epidemiology, Lazio Regional Health Service, Italy
Comparison between CINeMA and GRADE approaches to assess the certainty of evidence from network meta-analysis (NMA): preliminary results

The meeting is open for everyone attending the Global Evidence Summit and interested in the work of the Bias Methods Group. Please join us for updates on important methodological developments and interesting discussions.