Worksheets and research resources · Page 11

Censoring mechanism review

Document why follow-up ends and what the censoring assumptions require.

Record how a systematic-review protocol change affects completed work.

Plan how potentially eligible reports in different languages will be assessed.

Define a reproducible search of evidence outside conventional journal databases.

Resolve missing or ambiguous study information without inventing values.

Test whether reviewers apply eligibility rules consistently before full screening.

Separate unavailable reports from studies excluded on eligibility grounds.

Prevent shared comparison groups from being counted repeatedly in a synthesis.

Record the information needed to synthesize a cluster-randomized result.

Determine whether a crossover result can contribute a valid paired treatment comparison.

Choose among multiple eligible measurements without selecting favorable results.

Investigate outcomes or analyses mentioned in a protocol but absent from a report.