TY - JOUR
T1 - Specific instructions for estimating unclearly reported blinding status in randomized trials were reliable and valid
AU - Akl, Elie A.
AU - Sun, Xin
AU - Busse, Jason W.
AU - Johnston, Bradley C.
AU - Briel, Matthias
AU - Mulla, Sohail
AU - You, John J.
AU - Bassler, Dirk
AU - Lamontagne, Francois
AU - Vera, Claudio
AU - Alshurafa, Mohamad
AU - Katsios, Christina M.
AU - Heels-Ansdell, Diane
AU - Zhou, Qi
AU - Mills, Ed
AU - Guyatt, Gordon H.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Ann Grifasi, Deborah Maddock, Shelley Anderson, and Monica Owen for their administrative assistance. We thank Aravin Duraik for developing the study electronic forms. Pfizer, Inc. funded this study. The funder had no role in the study design, writing of the manuscript, or decision to submit this or future manuscripts for publication. Matthias Briel is supported by a scholarship for advanced researchers from the Swiss National Science Foundation ( PASMA-112951/1 ) and the Roche Research Foundation . John You is supported by a Career Scientist Award from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care . Xin Sun is supported by a research grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( 70703025 ). Bradley Johnston is supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from SickKids Foundation . Jason Busse is funded by a New Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Canadian Chiropractic Research Foundation .
PY - 2012/3
Y1 - 2012/3
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2011.04.015
DO - 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2011.04.015
M3 - Article
C2 - 22200346
AN - SCOPUS:84855985042
SN - 0895-4356
VL - 65
SP - 262
EP - 267
JO - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
JF - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
IS - 3
ER -