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We could not identify any associations between trial quality and ORR or CR using univariate mixed-effects metaregression analysis.

Therefore, empirical evidence on the relationship between trial quality and treatment effects may not be readily applicable to other health research areas such as PT and other areas of rehabilitation.

It thus rises to the challenge of critics both of ACT trials, such as Öst [ 83], who point out the scarcity of well-controlled trials of the therapy across many client groups, and critics of CBTp trials who note variable trial quality [ 13, 15] and the negative correlation between trial quality and strength of outcome [ 13, 84].

3 The assumption of the association between trial quality and true effect size is derived from published 'meta-epidemiological' studies, which are investigations that quantify the extent of bias in the effect sizes related to trial quality in a group of meta-analyses.

Exploratory meta-regression analyses were performed on the log-transformed domain-based evaluation sum-scores for each of the three principal treatment outcomes in order to test for an association between trial quality (risk of bias) and treatment effect (Additional file 7).

Although there is no clear relationship between overall trial quality and outcome of all trials, individual quality assessment items influenced study outcome.

We based the evidence synthesis on trial quality and statistical differences in the between-group comparisons in each intervention category.

Two review authors independently assessed trial quality and extracted data.

Two authors independently assessed the trial quality and extracted data.

Trial quality and levels of evidence were assessed.

This review, including a total of 1,291 patients, found no difference in outcome but identified a relation between outcome and trial quality [ 4].