Original (2016) version of ROBINS-I

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Sterne JAC, Hernán MA, Reeves BC, Savović J, Berkman ND, Viswanathan M, Henry D, Altman DG, Ansari MT, Boutron I, Carpenter JR, Chan AW, Churchill R, Deeks JJ, Hróbjartsson A, Kirkham J, Jüni P, Loke YK, Pigott TD, Ramsay CR, Regidor D, Rothstein HR, Sandhu L, Santaguida PL, Schünemann HJ, Shea B, Shrier I, Tugwell P, Turner L, Valentine JC, Waddington H, Waters E, Wells GA, Whiting PF, Higgins JPT. ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomized studies of interventions. BMJ 2016; 355; i4919; doi: 10.1136/bmj.i4919.

ROBINS-I (2016) was developed by members of the Cochrane Bias Methods Group and the Cochrane Non-Randomised Studies Methods Group. See a list of the team who were involved. It was supported by a grant from the Cochrane Methods Innovation Fund (2011) and by Medical Research Council (MRC) grant MR/M025209/1.