Bias: Linking Evidence With Practice.

Abstract

Any information can be biased, and all studies are at some risk of bias. The idea of assessing risk of bias is to provide a basis for giving more or less weight to that piece of information: if a study is at higher risk of bias, then we should be less confident about the findings. The same goes for information from clinical experience. Clinical practice involves collecting relevant information from various sources and boiling it down to make a decision. In doing so, you should pay more attention to information that is less likely to be biased. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther 2018;48(8):667-668. doi:10.2519/jospt.2018.0703.