The Importance of Reporting Biases in Patient Care: Can We Trust the Evidence From Either Individual Studies or Systematic Reviews?

Dechartres and colleagues' examination of the association between publication characteristics and treatment effect estimates suggests that reporting biases are threatening our understanding of the truth in clinical evidence. The editorialists discuss the findings and propose strategies to increase the certainty that the body of evidence on which we base health-related decision making is correct.

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