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Table 1 Risk of bias and number of participants for the included trials

From: Tolerating bad health research: the continuing scandal

 

High

Unclear

Low

No RoB

Number of trials

(total = 1659; % based on 1640 trials with risk of bias information)

1013 (62%)

494 (30%)

133 (8%)

19

Number of participants

(total = 398,410)

222,850 (55.93%)

127,290 (31.95%)

47,138 (11.83%)

1132 (0.28%)