Journal article
Conducting quantitative synthesis when comparing medical interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: This article is to establish recommendations for conducting quantitative synthesis, or meta-analysis, using study-level data in comparative effectiveness reviews (CERs) for the Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) program of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: We focused on recurrent issues in the EPC program and the recommendations were developed using group discussion and consensus based on …
Authors
Fu R; Gartlehner G; Grant M; Shamliyan T; Sedrakyan A; Wilt TJ; Griffith L; Oremus M; Raina P; Ismaila A
Journal
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Vol. 64, No. 11, pp. 1187–1197
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
November 2011
DOI
10.1016/j.jclinepi.2010.08.010
ISSN
0895-4356