Material from the Bias Methods Group annual meeting 2024

In September 2024, we hosted our annual meeting during the Global Evidence Summit in Prague. At the meeting, we provided updates on important methodological projects.

An overview of the Bias Methods Group activities 2023-2024 is available here.

Presenters included:

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 (slides available here)

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

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 (slides available here)