Paper · 17470488

Tools for assessing quality and susceptibility to bias in observational studies in epidemiology: a systematic review and annotated bibliography.

Sanderson S and 2 others. Int J Epidemiol, 2007. Cited by 1,209 papers, by iCite.

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Title: Tools for assessing quality and susceptibility to bias in observational studies in epidemiology: a systematic review and annotated bibliography.; PubMed
Journal: Int J Epidemiol; PubMed
Year: 2007; PubMed
Publication types: Journal Article, Systematic Review; PubMed
PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17470488/; PubMed
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dym018; PubMed
The journal: https://conductscience.org/library/journal-index/7802871; PubMed
Citations, by iCite: 1,209; iCite
Relative citation ratio, by iCite: 43.3; iCite
Revised in PubMed: 2025-06-23; PubMed

Authors3

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Order	Author	Forename
1	Sanderson S	Simon
2	Tatt ID	Iain D
3	Higgins JP	Julian P T

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Topics6

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MeSH term	Major
Epidemiologic Studies	Major topic
Bias
Evidence-Based Medicine
Humans
Observation
Research Design

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MC_U105285807	Medical Research Council	United Kingdom		PubMed

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Kind	PMID	Title	In Papers
Comment in	17,591,641	Commentary: Assessing the quality of observational studies--or a lesson from Mars.	https://conductscience.org/library/papers/17591641

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Cited by568

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PubMed: 2026-11-06; PubMed
iCite: 2026-11-05; iCite
PMC's ID file: 2026-11-05; PMC's ID file
NIH RePORTER's grant and paper links: 2026-11-01; NIH RePORTER's grant and paper links
Trials: 2026-11-12
Gene search: 2026-11-11
Pipelines: 2026-09-18

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