The above is relevant to whether the study is "really awesome". re more objective outcomes: presumably depends on many factors. eg, if participants were unable to work due to their symptoms then something like employment would be less prone to problems like response bias.
? Not what I said. I said this study controlled for that by using quite a wide variety of self-reported measures. Given that it's impossible to assess IBS objectively, that's likely the best you can do
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So0rry if I misunderstood, but if you agree 4.5 is 'yes', then isn't it necessarily a high-risk of bias? That was the only section where I thought we might be disagreeing. For overall risk of bias, trial classed as 'high risk' even if only one domain is high risk.
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Apologies, I'm getting confused with the new tool. The answer would be that they used patient-reported outcomes, but whether that indicates a high risk of bias is a judgement call, and I'd say no in this case due to the things I've mentioned
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