Indeed, Emmelkamp goes so far as to conclude that that the weight of current empirical evidence suggests that "…there is no need yet to investigate the implementation of attentional bias modification through the internet" (p1).
Perhaps the most provocative element of Emmelkamp's recent review [ 3] is the insistence that current evidence suggests "…there is no need yet to investigate the implementation of attentional bias modification through the internet" (p1, emphasis added).
Therefore, the implementation of a bias due to the significant difference in TBSA burned between groups in this study was not of concern as both groups experienced a similar severity of full-thickness burn (control 45±29%9% vs. propranolol 40 ± 22%; P = 0.48).
We were therefore unable to assess eligibility, potential risk of bias, implementation of the intervention, or the generalisability of results.
We hope that widespread adoption and implementation of the risk of bias tool, both within and outside the Cochrane Collaboration, will facilitate improved appraisal of evidence by healthcare decision makers and patients and ultimately lead to better healthcare.
The report, which was released on Monday, calls for the implementation of statewide "anti-bias training" focusing on "impoverished communities, people of color, and boys and men of color".
Conversely, the use of researchers who were independent of the implementation process decreased the likelihood of bias, as did the use of direct observations of trainings and meetings and the triangulation of multiple methods repeated over time.
91 All things being equal (such as risk of bias and implementation), researchers and clinicians have been advised to trust large simple trials rather than meta-analyses of small trials.
For example, the implementation of prestige and similarity bias in the present model only incorporated certain, simplified aspects of these processes, ignoring for example potential runaway prestige effects [22], prestige hierarchies [20] and the consequences of similarity bias on individual variation [32], [33].
Composition of a control group was not feasible, due to involvement of other regional practices in the implementation of innovations which would bias the study of usual care practices.
