Recordings from the Annual Bias Methods Group Open Meeting(s) 2021
In 2021, we hosted two annual meetings in October and November. Both meetings were held as virtual meetings due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The first meeting was a theme session on risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions. Watch the recording from the meeting here.
Presenters included:
| Asbjørn Hróbjartsson Bias Methods Group convenor |
Bias Methods Group Report: activities 2020-2021 |
| Isabelle Boutron and Julian Higgins Bias methods Group convenors |
Involvement of the Bias Methods Group and ROBINS-I in WHO work on effectiveness of vaccines against COVID-19 variants of concerns |
| Jonathan Sterne Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol |
Biases in observational studies of COVID-19 vaccines |
At the second meeting, convenors and members of the Bias Methods Group presented findings from recent methodological research. Watch the recording from the meeting here.
Presenters included:
| Isabelle Boutron, Julian Higgins, Asbjørn Hróbjartsson and Matthew Page Bias Methods Group convenors |
Bias Methods Group report: activities 2020-2021 and updates on core projects |
| Carole Lunny Knowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto Cochrane Hypertension Review Group, the Therapeutics Initiative, University of British Columbia |
Methodological review of items for assessing bias in network meta-analyses provides groundwork for the development of a new risk of bias tool for network meta-analysis |
| Virginia Chiocchia Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern |
The ROB-MEN tool for assessing risk of bias due to missing evidence in network meta-analysis |