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Applying the ROBINS-I tool to natural experiments: an example from public health.

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A new tool to assess Risk of Bias In Non-randomised Studies of Interventions (ROBINS-I) was published in Autumn 2016. ROBINS-I uses the Cochrane-approved risk of bias (RoB) approach and focusses on internal validity. As such, ROBINS-I represents an important development for those conducting systematic reviews which include non-randomised studies (NRS), including public health researchers. We aimed to establish the applicability of ROBINS-I using a group of NRS which have evaluated non-clinical public health natural experiments.

Year of Publication
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2018
Journal
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Systematic reviews
Volume
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7
Issue
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1
Number of Pages
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15
Date Published
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2018
URL
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https://systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13643-017-0659-4
DOI
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10.1186/s13643-017-0659-4
Short Title
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Syst Rev
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