title: OPTIMa Review Suffered From High Risk of Selection Bias, and Misinterpreted Prior Findings.
authors.affiliation: Departments of *Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics †Anesthesia ∥The Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care #Faculty of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton §Department of Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children ¶Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics University Health Network,Toronto, ON, Canada ‡Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
authors.forename: Shanil
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ebrahim
authors.forename: Jason W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Busse
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Montoya
authors.forename: Alonso
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Carrasco Labra
authors.forename: Gordon H
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Guyatt
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D012306:Risk; D015983:Selection Bias