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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Editorial peer review for improving the quality of reports of biomedical studies

Full publication of results initially presented in abstracts

Grey literature in meta-analyses of randomized trials of health care interventions

Handsearching versus electronic searching to identify reports of randomized trials

Incentives and disincentives to participation by clinicians in randomised controlled trials

Methods to increase response to postal and electronic questionnaires

Outcomes of patients who participate in randomized controlled trials compared to similar patients receiving similar interventions who do not participate

Peer review for improving the quality of grant applications

Publication bias in clinical trials due to statistical significance or direction of trial results

Randomisation to protect against selection bias in healthcare trials

Strategies to improve recruitment to research studies

Technical editing of research reports in biomedical journals

Time to publication for results of clinical trials

When and how to update systematic reviews