Risk of bias assessment is commonly done in systematic reviews and should be done in scientific peer review. But it is often difficult, incomplete, haphazard, and inconsistent.
We will make it easier with a Risk of Bias Assessment Tool (RoBAT). The RoBAT will help you document a comprehensive risk of bias assessment of a scientific report.
- The RoBAT will facilitate seleection of standard terms for reporting the risk of bias assessment with precision.
- The RoBAT will support specifiic risk of bias assessment instruments (e.g. ROB1, ROB2, ROBIS).
We are starting a RoBAT Usability Research program and now seeking your participation in the Pilot Study.
The RoBAT Usability Research Pilot Study is an initial study to establish that we can measure the effectiveness and efficiency of RoBAT.
Your participation is critical to us! By participating, you will be providing feedback that will change the tool and the research plan for the better. This will ultimately help thousands of people, including systematic reviewers and peer reviewers for medical research journals, to have tools to make it easier to critically evaluate the quality of research articles.
As a participant:
You will complete risk of bias assessments of research reports, with and without the RoBAT.
This is not a test of you â“ it is your evaluation of the tool.You can keep track of the time needed if you need to break it up into more than one period.
You will complete at least three risk of bias assessments by February 28. (We have accelerated the timeline to complete the pilot study for submitting results March 1 for the Ninth International Peer Review Congress.)
To learn more and enroll in the RoBAT Usability Research Pilot Study, go to https://fevir.net/resources/Project/29571
Any questions? Please ask Brian Alper (balper@computablepublishing.com) or Joanne Dehnbostel (jdehnbostel@computablepublishing.com).
Brian S. Alper, MD, MSPH, FAAFP, FAMIA
CEO, Computable Publishing LLC
Making Science Machine-Interpretable
http://computablepublishing.com
Lead, COVID-19 KNOWLEDGE ACCELERATOR
President, Scientific Knowledge Accelerator Foundation
HIFA profile: Brian S. Alper is President of the Scientific Knowledge Accelerator Foundation, United States. Professional interests: All about making science computable: CEO of Computable Publishing LLC, President of Scientific Knowledge Accelerator Foundation, Project Lead of COVID-19 Knowledge Accelerator, Project Lead of EBMonFHIR, Founder of fevir.net
Email address: balper AT computablepublishing.com
