Quantitative Assessment of Systematic Bias: A Guide for Researchers.

ABSTRACT: Observational research provides valuable opportunities to advance oral health science but is limited by vulnerabilities to systematic bias, including unmeasured confounding, errors in variable measurement, or bias in the creation of study populations and/or analytic samples. The potential influence of systematic biases on observed results is often only briefly mentioned among the discussion of limitations of a given study, despite existing methods that support detailed assessments of their potential effects. Quantitative bias analysis is a set of methodological techniques that, when applied to observational data, can provide important context to aid in the interpretation and integration of observational research findings into the broader body of oral health research. Specifically, these me

SUBMITTER: Bond JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10714380 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature