Greetings!

Me and my team are conducting a systematic review with meta-analysis focused on correlation between two variables. The purpose of that work is not focused on any intervention or outcome. Therefore, we do not need to assess risk of bias of e.g. allocation sequence or randomization simply because it does not influence the relationship between the two variables we are trying to analyse. However, there are certain things that could bias this correlation and we would like to incorporate those things into assessing the risk of bias of individual studies. Is it, therefore, methodologically correct to not use RoB2 tool to assess quality of RCTs, but instead use our own developed risk of bias score?

Thank you in advance,

Zbigniew

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