Methodological Bias Can Lead the Cochrane Collaboration to Irrelevance in Public Health Decision-Making
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1 Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 2 Children Without Worms, Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America, 3 WHO Collaborating Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri, Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania, 4 Neglected Infectious Diseases, Pan American Health Organization, World Health Regional Office for the Americas, Washington, DC, United States of America, 5 Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt, 6 Malaria, Other Vectorborne and Parasitic Diseases, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark, 7 WHOCollaborating Centre for Research and Training in Parasite Epidemiology and Control, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 8 Vector-Borne and Neglected Tropical Diseases Control, World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India, 9 WHOCollaborating Centre for the Monitoring of Anthelminthic Drug Efficacy for Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis, Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium, 10 Global Schistosomiasis Alliance and Public Health Laboratory Ivo de Carneri, Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania, 11 Malaria, Other Vectorborne and Parasitic Diseases, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Western Pacific, Manila, Philippines
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