Empirical Evaluation of the Association Between Methodological Shortcomings and Estimates of Adverse Events. AHRQ 07-0003
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Technical Review 13, October 2006, 31 pp. Assesses the association between perceived methodological shortcomings and estimates of serious complications from surgical and medical interventions. Compares estimates of harms from studies meeting eight pre-defined criteria designed to assess the quality of harms reporting to studies not meeting the criteria.