Value of clinical research: Usefulness tool development and systematic review of 350 randomised controlled trials in preterm birth
Janneke van ‘t Hooft (postdoctoral fellow, 0000-0001-5303-1503)1,2, Charlotte E. van Dijk (MD, 0000-0001-9417-4180)2, Cathrine Axfors (postdoctoral fellow, 0000-0002-2706-1730)1,3, Noah A. Haber (postdoctoral fellow, 0000-0002-5672-1769)1, Zarko Alfirevic (professor, 0000-0001-9276-518X)4, Martijn A. Oudijk (0000-0001-8672-4365)2, Ben WJ Mol (professor, 0000-0001-8337-550X) 5,6, Patrick M. Bossuyt (professor, 0000-0003-4427-0128)7, John P.A. Ioannidis (professor, 0000-0003-3118-6859)1,8.
  1. Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
  2. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Amsterdam Reproduction and Development Institute, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  3. Department for Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
  4. Center for Women’s Health Research, Liverpool Women’s Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
  5. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
  6. Aberdeen Centre for Women’s Health Research, School of Medicine, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
  7. Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Amsterdam AUMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  8. Departments of Medicine, of Epidemiology and Population Health of Biomedical Data Science, and of Statistics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
Corresponding author: Janneke van ‘t Hooft, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Amsterdam Reproduction and Development Institute, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. J.vanthooft@gmail.com.
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Running title: Usefulness of clinical research in preterm birth