Authorship bias in violence risk assessment? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: Various financial and non-financial conflicts of interests have been shown to influence the reporting of research findings, particularly in clinical medicine. In this study, we examine whether this extends to prognostic instruments designed to assess violence risk. Such instruments have increasingly become a routine part of clinical practice in mental health and criminal justice settings. The present meta-analysis investigated whether an authorship effect exists in the violence risk assessment literature by comparing predictive accuracy outcomes in studies where the individuals who designed these instruments were study authors with independent investigations. A systematic search from 1966 to 2011 was conducted using PsycINFO, EMBASE, MEDLINE, and US National Criminal Justice Reference Serv

SUBMITTER: Singh JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3759386 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature