Cochrane Methodology Reviews are an integral part of The Cochrane Collaboration's methodological research output, and help develop methods used in intervention reviews. You can read the completed review abstracts here, as well as citations for titles (planned reviews) and protocols (begun reviews), by clicking on the titles below. For full text, click the 'Full text' button in the top right of the screen. Learn more in the Methods Groups Newsletter.

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Adjusted indirect comparison for estimating relative effects of competing healthcare interventions (protocol stage)

Blinded versus unblinded assessments of risk-of-bias in studies included in a systematic review (protocol stage)

Checking reference lists to find additional studies for systematic reviews (protocol stage)

How effects on health equity are assessed in systematic reviews of interventions (protocol stage)

Impact of shared scientific or ethical review of multicentre clinical research on the quality of clinical research and the clinical research process (protocol stage)

Individual patient data meta-analyses compared with meta-analyses based on aggregate data (protocol stage)

Masking reviewers at the study inclusion stage in a systematic review of health care interventions (protocol stage)

Methods for obtaining unpublished data (protocol stage)

Methods to increase response rates for data collected by telephone (protocol stage)

Methods to influence the completeness of response to self-administered questionnaires (protocol stage)

New treatments compared to established treatments in randomized trials (protocol stage)

Search strategies to identify diagnostic accuracy studies in MEDLINE and EMBASE (protocol stage)

Search strategies to identify reports of randomized trials in MEDLINE (protocol stage)