Šarić Lenko

Lenko Šarić defended his PhD thesis at the TRIBE doctoral program on April 16, 2020.

Photo: Skype thesis defense during COVID-19 pandemic. Lenko, his mentor Livia, and committee members.

Thesis title: Reporting quality and publication bias of randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews in the field of Anesthesiology and Pain
Mentor: Prof. Livia Puljak
Full text of PhD thesis: (TRIBE repository: pdf - in Croatian)


Doctoral thesis is based on the following publications:
1) Saric L, Dosenovic S, Mihanovic J, Puljak L. Biomedical conferences’ author instructions rarely mention guidelines for reporting abstracts of trials and systematic reviews. J Comp Eff Res. 2020 Jan 17. Doi:  10.2217/cer-2019-0158. [Epub ahead of print].  JIF=1.5
2) Saric L, Dosenovic S, Saldanha IJ, Jelicic Kadic A, Puljak L. Conference abstracts describing systematic reviews on pain were selectively published, not reliable, and poorly reported. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2019 Sept 15. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2019.09.011  JIF=4.7 
3) Saric L, Vucic K, Dragicevic K, Vrdoljak M, Jakus D, Vuka I, Jelicic Kadic A, Saldanha IJ, Puljak L. Comparison of conference abstracts and full-text publications of randomized controlled trials presented at four consecutive World Congresses of Pain: Reporting quality and agreement of results. Eur J Pain. 2018 Jul 10. doi: 10.1002/ejp.1289.  JIF=3.2

Enrollment year: 2017

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