Incorporating Risk-of-Bias Assessments into Evidence Syntheses with {robvis}
Channel: R Consortium
Date: 2021-08-31

Luke McGuinness, PhD student at the University of Bristol Medical School, presents on Incorporating Risk-of-Bias Assessments using the {robvis} package. The {robvis} package and web app were designed to make data more visually appealing. These programs can create Traffic light plots and summary bar plots. Luke,  shows an example of both plots and explains the process of working with metafor and {robvis} to create a visually appealing data more effectively. 

Originally presented at R/Medicine 2021 by Luke McGuinness, Randall Boyes, and Alex Fowler
https://r-medicine.org

Main Sections

0:00 Introduction
0:43 The robvis package 
1:13 Traffic lights plots 
1:46 Summary bar-plots 
2:04 Limitations of the current approach 
3:53 Explore the databases 
4:27 Standard approach 
5:24 Option #1
6:06 Option #2
7:57 Take home message
8:58 Further information

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