Risk of Bias Assessments for a Cochrane Review on Infant Skincare Interventions

An Excel file containing detailed risk of bias assessment data for a systematic review. The data includes consensus responses to signalling questions using the Cochrane Risk of Bias 2 tool. It was created by Suzie Cro of Imperial College London for the Cochrane Review titled 'Skincare interventions in infants for preventing eczema and food allergy', published in 2020.

Use Cases

• Assessing methodological quality of clinical trials based on the RoB 2 tool criteria.
• Training reviewers on applying the Cochrane Risk of Bias 2 tool using consensus data.
• Replicating or updating the systematic review's quality assessment.
• Analyzing patterns in risk of bias across different types of skincare intervention studies.

Strengths

• Data is structured using the standardized Cochrane Risk of Bias 2 tool.
• Assessments are based on consensus responses, indicating a rigorous review process.
• The dataset is directly linked to a published Cochrane Systematic Review (Art. No.: CD013534).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Suzie Cro, Imperial College London

Collection Method

Created as part of a Cochrane systematic review process.