Meta-Analysis as Topic Concept

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• A GRADE Working Group approach for rating the quality of treatment effect estimates from network meta-analysis.  Academic Article
• A comparison of meta-analytic methods for synthesizing evidence from explanatory and pragmatic trials.  Academic Article
• A comparison of statistical methods for combining relative bioactivities from parallel line bioassays.  Academic Article
• A consumer's guide to subgroup analyses.  Academic Article
• A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans.  Academic Article
• A genome-wide association study for venous thromboembolism: the extended cohorts for heart and aging research in genomic epidemiology (CHARGE) consortium.  Academic Article
• A guide to interpreting discordant systematic reviews.  Academic Article
• A knowledge management tool for public health: health-evidence.ca.  Academic Article
• A logistic model for trend in 2 x 2 x kappa tables with applications to meta-analyses.  Academic Article
• A polymorphism within the G6PC2 gene is associated with fasting plasma glucose levels.  Academic Article
• A practical guide to research: design, execution, and publication.  Academic Article
• A proposal for an individual patient data based meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of allogeneic transfusion and postoperative bacterial infection.  Academic Article
• A protocol for a systematic review on the impact of unpublished studies and studies published in the gray literature in meta-analyses.  Academic Article
• A second-order simulation model of the cost-effectiveness of managing dyspepsia in the United States.  Academic Article
• A single fraction for all, or an argument for fractionation tailored to fit the needs of each individual patient with bone metastases?  Academic Article
• A variant near MTNR1B is associated with increased fasting plasma glucose levels and type 2 diabetes risk.  Academic Article
• ACE inhibition in stable coronary artery disease.  Academic Article
• ACE inhibitors in heart failure: what more do we need to know?  Academic Article
• Addition of intravenous aminophylline to beta2-agonists in adults with acute asthma.  Academic Article
• Addressing continuous data for participants excluded from trial analysis: a guide for systematic reviewers.  Academic Article
• Addressing continuous data measured with different instruments for participants excluded from trial analysis: a guide for systematic reviewers.  Academic Article
• Adult bone marrow-derived cells for cardiac repair: a systematic review and meta-analysis.  Academic Article
• After adjusting for bias in meta-analysis seasonal influenza vaccine remains effective in community-dwelling elderly.  Academic Article
• Agreement among reviewers of review articles.  Academic Article
• Although not consistently superior, the absolute approach to framing the minimally important difference has advantages over the relative approach.  Academic Article
• An alternative approach to deal with the absence of clinical trials: a proportional meta-analysis of case series studies.  Academic Article
• An empirical study using permutation-based resampling in meta-regression.  Academic Article
• An introduction to systematic reviews and meta-analysis: a workshop report on promoting evidence based medical practice through capacity building in research synthesis.  Academic Article
• An optimal search filter for retrieving systematic reviews and meta-analyses.  Academic Article
• An overview of interventions to improve compliance with appointment keeping for medical services.  Academic Article
• An overview of randomized trials of rehabilitation with exercise after myocardial infarction.  Academic Article
• Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor meta-analysis provides misleading conclusion.  Academic Article
• Antibiotics for sinusitis-like symptoms in primary care.  Academic Article
• Antiepileptic drugs in the treatment of anxiety disorders: role in therapy.  Academic Article
• Antiretroviral therapy for initial human immunodeficiency virus/AIDS treatment: critical appraisal of the evidence from over 100 randomized trials and 400 systematic reviews and meta-analyses.  Academic Article
• Apparently conclusive meta-analyses may be inconclusive--Trial sequential analysis adjustment of random error risk due to repetitive testing of accumulating data in apparently conclusive neonatal meta-analyses.  Academic Article
• Approaches to interpreting and choosing the best treatments in network meta-analyses.  Academic Article
• Are heparins anti-neoplastic agents?  Academic Article
• Aspirin in the prevention of cancer.  Academic Article
• Assessing the quality of published genetic association studies in meta-analyses: the quality of genetic studies (Q-Genie) tool.  Academic Article
• Association of the macrophage migration inhibitory factor -173G/C polymorphism with Chagas disease.  Academic Article
• Attention should be given to multiplicity issues in systematic reviews.  Academic Article
• Atypical antipsychotics and hyperglycemic emergencies: multicentre, retrospective cohort study of administrative data.  Academic Article
• Bran and irritable bowels. Bran's deleterious effects: much ado about nothing.  Academic Article
• Brazilian medicinal plants to treat upper respiratory tract and bronchial illness: systematic review and meta-analyses-study protocol.  Academic Article
• Breast cancer prevention with selective estrogen receptor modulators: a perspective.  Academic Article
• Breast irradiation in women with early stage invasive breast cancer following breast conservation surgery. Provincial Breast Disease Site Group.  Academic Article
• Calcium antagonists in coronary artery disease and hypertension. Time for reevaluation?  Academic Article
• Calcium channel blockers in acute myocardial infarction and unstable angina: an overview.  Academic Article
• Calculating additive treatment effects from multiple randomized trials provides useful estimates of combination therapies.  Academic Article
• Can trial sequential monitoring boundaries reduce spurious inferences from meta-analyses?  Academic Article
• Can we individualize the 'number needed to treat'? An empirical study of summary effect measures in meta-analyses.  Academic Article
• Can we learn anything from small trials?  Academic Article
• Catheter Ablation as First-Line Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation: Ready for Prime-Time?  Academic Article
• Celebrities' impact on health-related knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and status outcomes: protocol for a systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression analysis.  Academic Article
• Chapter 8: meta-analysis of test performance when there is a "gold standard".  Academic Article
• Choice of data extraction tools for systematic reviews depends on resources and review complexity.  Academic Article
• Chronic coronary artery disease: drugs, angioplasty, or surgery?  Academic Article
• Clinical recommendations using levels of evidence for antithrombotic agents.  Academic Article
• Clinical research evidence and clinical practice.  Academic Article
• Clinical review articles.  Academic Article
• Clinical trials, the renin angiotensin system and atrial fibrillation.  Academic Article
• Clinically useful measures of the effects of treatment.  Academic Article
• Clustering of cardiovascular risk factors and carotid intima-media thickness: The USE-IMT study.  Academic Article
• Cochrane neonatal systematic reviews: a survey of the evidence for neonatal therapies.  Academic Article
• Colloid use for fluid resuscitation: evidence and spin.  Academic Article
• Comment on Putting evidence-based medicine into clinical practice: comparing anti-resorptive agents for the treatment of osteoporosis.  Academic Article
• Comments on 'Sequential meta-analysis: an efficient decision-making tool' by I van der Tweel and C Bollen.  Academic Article
• Common variants at 12q14 and 12q24 are associated with hippocampal volume.  Academic Article
• Common variants near MC4R are associated with fat mass, weight and risk of obesity.  Academic Article
• Comparative effectiveness of monotherapies and combination therapies for patients with hypertension: protocol for a systematic review with network meta-analyses.  Academic Article
• Comparison of Standardization Methods for the Harmonization of Phenotype Data: An Application to Cognitive Measures.  Academic Article
• Con: Meta-analysis: some key limitations and potential solutions.  Academic Article
• Concurrent cisplatin-based chemotherapy plus radiotherapy for cervical cancer: a meta-analysis.  Academic Article
• Conducting quantitative synthesis when comparing medical interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program.  Academic Article
• Confidence intervals for intraclass correlation coefficients in a nonlinear dose-response meta-analysis.  Academic Article
• Consensus statement of the ESICM task force on colloid volume therapy in critically ill patients.  Academic Article
• Conservative management of mechanical neck disorders: a systematic review.  Academic Article
• Consistency and accuracy of indexing systematic review articles and meta-analyses in medline.  Academic Article
• Contemporary challenges in deriving summary estimates of comparative effectiveness using meta-analysis.  Academic Article
• Correction: reported methodologic quality and discrepancies between large and small randomized trials in meta-analyses.  Academic Article
• Cow's milk exposure and type I diabetes mellitus. A critical overview of the clinical literature.  Academic Article
• Credibility and quality of meta-analyses addressing graft choice in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a systematic review.  Academic Article
• Cumulating evidence from randomized trials: utilizing sequential monitoring boundaries for cumulative meta-analysis.  Academic Article
• Cystic fibrosis modifier genes related to Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection.  Academic Article
• Defining publication bias: protocol for a systematic review of highly cited articles and proposal for a new framework.  Academic Article
• Demystifying trial networks and network meta-analysis.  Academic Article
• Design, analysis, and presentation of crossover trials.  Academic Article
• Detecting, quantifying and adjusting for publication bias in meta-analyses: protocol of a systematic review on methods.  Academic Article
• Developing a rapid-response program for health system decision-makers in Canada: findings from an issue brief and stakeholder dialogue.  Academic Article
• Developing common metrics of mechanical exposures across aetiological studies of low back pain in working populations for use in meta-analysis.  Academic Article
• Diabetes clinical trials: helped or hindered by the current shift in regulatory requirements?  Academic Article
• Diagnosing abdominal aortic aneurysm. How good is the physical examination?  Academic Article
• Diagnosis and treatment of intracranial hemorrhage in children with hemophilia.  Academic Article
• Diminishing proportional risk of sudden death with advancing age: implications for prevention of sudden death.  Academic Article
• Discrepancies among megatrials.  Academic Article
• Dissemination bias in systematic reviews of animal research: a systematic review.  Academic Article
• Do anti-TNF-α drugs increase cancer risk in rheumatoid arthritis patients?  Academic Article
• Do trials reduce uncertainty? Assessing impact through cumulative meta-analysis of neonatal RCTs.  Academic Article
• Does a "Level I Evidence" rating imply high quality of reporting in orthopaedic randomised controlled trials?  Academic Article
• Does quality of reports of randomised trials affect estimates of intervention efficacy reported in meta-analyses?  Academic Article
• Doubling the impact: publication of systematic review articles in orthopaedic journals.  Academic Article
• Drugs commonly associated with weight change: umbrella systematic review and meta-analysis (Protocol).  Academic Article
• Drugs for pre-osteoporosis: prevention or disease mongering?  Academic Article
• Economic evaluation of procalcitonin-guided antibiotic therapy in acute respiratory infections: a US health system perspective.  Academic Article
• Economic evaluations in the critical care literature: do they help us improve the efficiency of our unit?  Academic Article
• Editorial: Sequential therapy for eradication of Helicobacter pylori: a new guiding light or a false dawn?  Academic Article
• Effect of industry sponsorship on the results of biomedical research.  Academic Article
• Effect of influenza vaccines against mismatched strains: a systematic review protocol.  Academic Article
• Effect sizes can be calculated for studies reporting ranges for outcome variables in systematic reviews.  Academic Article
• Effects of intravenous magnesium in suspected acute myocardial infarction: overview of randomised trials.  Academic Article
• Effects of tissue-type plasminogen activator and anisoylated plasminogen streptokinase activator complex on mortality in acute myocardial infarction.  Academic Article
• Efficacy of probiotics in irritable bowel syndrome: a meta-analysis of randomized, controlled trials.  Academic Article
• Efficacy of progesterone support for pregnancy in women with recurrent miscarriage. A meta-analysis of controlled trials.  Academic Article
• Efficacy of progesterone support in the luteal phase following in-vitro fertilization and embryo transfer: meta-analysis of clinical trials.  Academic Article
• Efficacy of vitamin D supplementation in depression in adults: a systematic review protocol.  Academic Article
• Eltrombopag for the treatment of chronic idiopathic (immune) thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP).  Academic Article
• Emphasis on the need for guidelines for documentation of search strategy and results was needed, criticism of a Cochrane review was not.  Academic Article
• Empirical evaluation of the Q-Genie tool: a protocol for assessment of effectiveness.  Academic Article
• Endoscopic clipping for acute nonvariceal upper-GI bleeding: a meta-analysis and critical appraisal of randomized controlled trials.  Academic Article
• Endoscopic therapy for acute nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage: a meta-analysis.  Academic Article
• Errors in the conduct of systematic reviews of pharmacological interventions for irritable bowel syndrome.  Academic Article
• Erythropoietin in the management of patients with nonhematologic cancer receiving chemotherapy. Systemic Treatment Program Committee.  Academic Article
• Estimating required information size by quantifying diversity in random-effects model meta-analyses.  Academic Article
• Estimating risk difference from relative association measures in meta-analysis can infrequently pose interpretational challenges.  Academic Article
• Estimating the Risks of Breast Cancer Radiotherapy: Evidence From Modern Radiation Doses to the Lungs and Heart and From Previous Randomized Trials.  Academic Article
• Evaluating meta-analyses in the general surgical literature: a critical appraisal.  Academic Article
• Evaluating the benefit of event adjudication of cardiovascular outcomes in large simple RCTs.  Academic Article
• Evidence-based medicine: what it is and what it is not.  Academic Article
• Evidence-based paradigms and opinions in clinical management and cancer research.  Academic Article
• Evolution of heterogeneity (I2) estimates and their 95% confidence intervals in large meta-analyses.  Academic Article
• Examining health promotion interventions for patients with chronic conditions using a novel patient-centered complexity model: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.  Academic Article
• Facilitating access to pre-processed research evidence in public health.  Academic Article
• Factors of the innovation, organization, environment, and individual that predict the influence five systematic reviews had on public health decisions.  Academic Article
• False-positive findings in Cochrane meta-analyses with and without application of trial sequential analysis: an empirical review.  Academic Article
• Fecal transplantation: any real hope for inflammatory bowel disease?  Academic Article
• Fish oil supplementation in type 2 diabetes: a quantitative systematic review.  Academic Article
• Fondaparinux, the first selective factor Xa inhibitor.  Academic Article
• GRADE equity guidelines 3: considering health equity in GRADE guideline development: rating the certainty of synthesized evidence.  Academic Article
• GRADE guidelines 6. Rating the quality of evidence--imprecision.  Academic Article
• GRADE guidelines: 5. Rating the quality of evidence--publication bias.  Academic Article
• GRADE guidelines: 8. Rating the quality of evidence--indirectness.  Academic Article
• Genetic Loci associated with C-reactive protein levels and risk of coronary heart disease.  Academic Article
• Genetic variation in GIPR influences the glucose and insulin responses to an oral glucose challenge.  Academic Article
• Genome-wide association studies--data generation, storage, interpretation, and bioinformatics.  Academic Article
• Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture.  Academic Article
• GnRH analogues and ovarian ablation: their integration in the adjuvant strategy.  Academic Article
• Guideline methodology of the Society for Vascular Surgery including the experience with the GRADE framework.  Academic Article
• Guidelines for feeding very low birth weight infants.  Academic Article
• Guidelines, consensus conferences and overviews (meta-analysis).  Academic Article
• Hamstring tendon autograft better than bone patellar-tendon bone autograft in ACL reconstruction: a cumulative meta-analysis and clinically relevant sensitivity analysis applied to a previously published analysis.  Academic Article
• Handling trial participants with missing outcome data when conducting a meta-analysis: a systematic survey of proposed approaches.  Academic Article
• Hepatotoxicity caused by methotrexate therapy in children with inflammatory bowel disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.  Academic Article
• High statistical heterogeneity is more frequent in meta-analysis of continuous than binary outcomes.  Academic Article
• High-dose dexamethasone compared with prednisone for previously untreated primary immune thrombocytopenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.  Academic Article
• Homocysteine in the prevention of ischemic heart disease, stroke and venous thromboembolism: therapeutic target or just another distraction?  Academic Article
• Hormone replacement therapy in women with breast cancer. Do the risks outweigh the benefits?  Academic Article
• How can quality of life researchers make their work more useful to health workers and their patients?  Academic Article
• How should results from completed studies influence ongoing clinical trials? The CAFA Study experience.  Academic Article
• How to interpret a meta-analysis and judge its value as a guide for clinical practice.  Academic Article
• How to read a systematic review and meta-analysis and apply the results to patient care: users' guides to the medical literature.  Academic Article
• How to read a systematic review.  Academic Article
• How to use a review article: prophylactic endoscopic sclerotherapy for esophageal varices. Evidence Based Critical Care Medicine Group.  Academic Article
• How to use a subgroup analysis: users' guide to the medical literature.  Academic Article
• How to use a systematic literature review and meta-analysis.  Academic Article
• How to use an article reporting a multiple treatment comparison meta-analysis.  Academic Article
• Hypothermia for the treatment of infants with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.  Conference Paper
• I have the answer, now what's the question?: Why metaanalyses do not provide definitive solutions.  Academic Article
• Impact of including or excluding both-armed zero-event studies on using standard meta-analysis methods for rare event outcome: a simulation study.  Academic Article
• Impact of missing participant data for dichotomous outcomes on pooled effect estimates in systematic reviews: a protocol for a methodological study.  Academic Article
• Implication of abnormal human trophoblast karyotype for the evidence-based approach to the understanding, investigation, and treatment of recurrent spontaneous abortion. The Recurrent Miscarriage Immunotherapy Trialists Group.  Academic Article
• Improving the quality of reports of meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials: the QUOROM statement. QUOROM Group.  Academic Article
• Improving the quality of reports of meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials: the QUOROM statement. Quality of Reporting of Meta-analyses.  Academic Article
• Imputing variance estimates do not alter the conclusions of a meta-analysis with continuous outcomes: a case study of changes in renal function after living kidney donation.  Academic Article
• Inclusion of zero total event trials in meta-analyses maintains analytic consistency and incorporates all available data.  Academic Article
• Incorporating multiple interventions in meta-analysis: an evaluation of the mixed treatment comparison with the adjusted indirect comparison.  Academic Article
• Indications for coronary artery bypass surgery and percutaneous coronary intervention in chronic stable angina: review of the evidence and methodological considerations.  Academic Article
• Influenza vaccines licensed in the United States in healthy children: a systematic review and network meta-analysis (Protocol).  Academic Article
• International law's effects on health and its social determinants: protocol for a systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression analysis.  Academic Article
• Interpreting meta-analyses of pharmacologic interventions: the pitfalls and how to identify them.  Academic Article
• Interpreting trial sequential analysis.  Academic Article
• Intervention for executive functions after traumatic brain injury: a systematic review, meta-analysis and clinical recommendations.  Academic Article
• Intrathecal hyperbaric versus isobaric bupivacaine for adult non-caesarean-section surgery: systematic review protocol.  Academic Article
• Intravenous magnesium in acute myocardial infarction. An effective, safe, simple, and inexpensive intervention.  Academic Article
• Introduction to neonatal systematic reviews.  Academic Article
• Investigating clinical heterogeneity in systematic reviews: a methodologic review of guidance in the literature.  Academic Article
• Is double-row rotator cuff repair clinically superior to single-row rotator cuff repair: a systematic review of overlapping meta-analyses.  Academic Article
• Is it safe to use long-acting beta-agonists in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? Implications of recent trials and meta-analyses.  Academic Article
• Is there an optimal degree of acid suppression for healing of duodenal ulcers? A model of the relationship between ulcer healing and acid suppression.  Academic Article
• Isoniazid prophylaxis for tuberculosis in HIV infection: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.  Academic Article
• Latin american consensus on gastroesophageal reflux disease: an update on therapy.  Academic Article
• Lipid lowering for primary prevention.  Academic Article
• Living cumulative network meta-analysis to reduce waste in research: A paradigmatic shift for systematic reviews?  Academic Article
• Low-back pain definitions in occupational studies were categorized for a meta-analysis using Delphi consensus methods.  Academic Article
• Low-molecular-weight heparin or oral anticoagulation for secondary prevention of deep vein thrombosis in cancer patients.  Academic Article
• Magnesium in acute myocardial infarction.  Academic Article
• Making sense of complex data: a mapping process for analyzing findings of a realist review on guideline implementability.  Academic Article
• Management of ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast. Provincial Breast Cancer Disease Site Group.  Academic Article
• Management of patients with refractory angina: Canadian Cardiovascular Society/Canadian Pain Society joint guidelines.  Academic Article
• Management of unresected stage III non-small cell lung cancer: a systematic review.  Academic Article
• McMaster Premium LiteratUre Service (PLUS) performed well for identifying new studies for updated Cochrane reviews.  Academic Article
• Meta-analyses in orthopaedic surgery. A systematic review of their methodologies.  Academic Article
• Meta-analyses of therapies for postmenopausal osteoporosis. IX: Summary of meta-analyses of therapies for postmenopausal osteoporosis.  Academic Article
• Meta-analyses with industry involvement are massively published and report no caveats for antidepressants.  Academic Article
• Meta-analyses: what they can and cannot do.  Academic Article
• Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution.  Academic Article
• Meta-analysis in medicine. Where we are and where we want to go.  Academic Article
• Meta-analysis methodology in the microbleeds field: The relevance of the clinical question and study quality in choosing the most appropriate model.  Academic Article
• Meta-analysis of randomized trials: looking back and looking ahead.  Academic Article
• Meta-analysis of screening data: a survey of the literature.  Academic Article
• Meta-analysis of sulfasalazine in ankylosing spondylitis.  Academic Article
• Meta-analysis on continuous outcomes in minimal important difference units: an application with appropriate variance calculations.  Academic Article
• Meta-analysis.  Academic Article
• Meta-analysis: Can we mix apples and oranges?  Academic Article
• Meta-analysis: a practical decision making tool for surgeons.  Academic Article
• Method guidelines for Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group systematic reviews.  Academic Article
• Methodologic guidelines for systematic reviews of randomized control trials in health care from the Potsdam Consultation on Meta-Analysis.  Academic Article
• Methodologic issues in systematic reviews and meta-analyses.  Academic Article
• Methodological concerns and quality appraisal of contemporary systematic reviews and meta-analyses in pediatric urology.  Academic Article
• Methodological issues in systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational studies in orthopaedic research.  Academic Article
• Methodology and reports of systematic reviews and meta-analyses: a comparison of Cochrane reviews with articles published in paper-based journals.  Academic Article
• Methods for detecting, quantifying, and adjusting for dissemination bias in meta-analysis are described.  Academic Article
• Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene variant (MTHFR C677T) and migraine: a case control study and meta-analysis.  Academic Article
• Milk thistle and indinavir: a randomized controlled pharmacokinetics study and meta-analysis.  Academic Article
• Modelling heterogeneity variances in multiple treatment comparison meta-analysis--are informative priors the better solution?  Academic Article
• Multiple loci associated with indices of renal function and chronic kidney disease.  Academic Article
• Méta-analyse en médecine: the first book on systematic reviews in medicine.  Academic Article
• NeOProM: Neonatal Oxygenation Prospective Meta-analysis Collaboration study protocol.  Academic Article
• Network Meta-analysis: Users' Guide for Surgeons: Part I - Credibility.  Academic Article
• Network Meta-analysis: Users' Guide for Surgeons: Part II - Certainty.  Academic Article
• Network meta-analysis using R: a review of currently available automated packages.  Academic Article
• Network vs. pairwise meta-analyses: a case study of the impact of an evidence-synthesis paradigm on value of information outcomes.  Academic Article
• New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk.  Academic Article
• New methods can extend the use of minimal important difference units in meta-analyses of continuous outcome measures.  Academic Article
• Non-synonymous polymorphisms in melanocortin-4 receptor protect against obesity: the two facets of a Janus obesity gene.  Academic Article
• Nosocomial pneumonia and the role of gastric pH. A meta-analysis.  Academic Article
• Number needed to treat in cardiac rehabilitation.  Academic Article
• Opioids for chronic non-cancer pain: a protocol for a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.  Academic Article
• Optimizing the use of patient data to improve outcomes for patients: narcotics for chronic noncancer pain.  Academic Article
• Overcoming the limitations of current meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.  Academic Article
• Overview of evidence-based medicine: challenges for evidence-based laboratory medicine.  Academic Article
• PRISMA-Children (C) and PRISMA-Protocol for Children (P-C) Extensions: a study protocol for the development of guidelines for the conduct and reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of newborn and child health research.  Academic Article
• Patient-level compared with study-level meta-analyses demonstrate consistency of D-dimer as predictor of venous thromboembolic recurrences.  Academic Article
• Patient-reported outcomes in meta-analyses--Part 1: assessing risk of bias and combining outcomes.  Academic Article
• Patient-reported outcomes in meta-analyses-part 2: methods for improving interpretability for decision-makers.  Academic Article
• Pneumococcal immunization in older adults: implications for the long-term-care setting.  Academic Article
• Postoperative radiotherapy in stage II or IIIA completely resected non-small cell lung cancer: a systematic review and practice guideline.  Academic Article
• Potential dangers in the customary methods of conducting meta-analyses. Lack of bias in the meta-analysis of recombinant versus urinary follicle stimulating hormone.  Academic Article
• Practical management of bleeding in patients receiving non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants.  Academic Article
• Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement.  Academic Article
• Preoperative bowel preparation for patients undergoing elective colorectal surgery: a clinical practice guideline endorsed by the Canadian Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons.  Academic Article
• Primary angioplasty compared with thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction.  Academic Article
• Procedures that assess inconsistency in meta-analyses can assess the likelihood of response bias in multiwave surveys.  Academic Article
• Prophylaxis of upper gastrointestinal bleeding in intensive care units: a meta-analysis.  Academic Article
• Protein "requirements" beyond the RDA: implications for optimizing health.  Academic Article
• Publication bias in animal research: a systematic review protocol.  Academic Article
• Qualitative meta-synthesis: reflections on the utility and challenges in occupational therapy.  Academic Article
• RAS blockade with ARB and ACE inhibitors: current perspective on rationale and patient selection.  Academic Article
• RE: Which estimates comprise optimal reporting in systematic reviews?  Academic Article
• Randomized clinical trials in breast cancer.  Academic Article
• Randomized trials versus observational studies in adolescent pregnancy prevention.  Academic Article
• Ratio of geometric means to analyze continuous outcomes in meta-analysis: comparison to mean differences and ratio of arithmetic means using empiric data and simulation.  Academic Article
• Ratio of means for analyzing continuous outcomes in meta-analysis performed as well as mean difference methods.  Academic Article
• Re: Should the tibia be reamed when nailing? [Injury 36 (2005) 439-444].  Academic Article
• Recombinant versus urinary follicle stimulating hormone for ovarian stimulation in assisted reproduction cycles.  Academic Article
• Redundant data in the meta-analysis on Helicobacter pylori eradication.  Academic Article
• Reflections on meta-analyses involving trials stopped early for benefit: is there a problem and if so, what is it?  Academic Article
• Report from the Ethics Committee for Immunotherapy.  Academic Article
• Reporting, handling and assessing the risk of bias associated with missing participant data in systematic reviews: a methodological survey.  Academic Article
• Respiratory muscle training in chronic airflow limitation: a meta-analysis.  Academic Article
• Risk factors for unplanned and crash dialysis starts: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.  Academic Article
• Rules of evidence and clinical recommendations on the use of antithrombotic agents.  Academic Article
• SAMURAI: Sensitivity analysis of a meta-analysis with unpublished but registered analytical investigations (software).  Academic Article
• Safe use of long-acting β-agonists: what have we learnt?  Academic Article
• Sample size and power considerations in network meta-analysis.  Academic Article
• Seeing the forests and the trees--innovative approaches to exploring heterogeneity in systematic reviews of complex interventions to enhance health system decision-making: a protocol.  Academic Article
• Sensitivity subgroup analysis based on single-center vs. multi-center trial status when interpreting meta-analyses pooled estimates: the logical way forward.  Academic Article
• Should meta-analysts search Embase in addition to Medline?  Academic Article
• Should unpublished data be included in meta-analyses? Current convictions and controversies.  Academic Article
• Simpson's paradox and calculation of number needed to treat from meta-analysis.  Academic Article
• Some reminiscences on distribution of practice effects.  Academic Article
• Statin therapy for prevention and treatment of acute and chronic cardiovascular disease: update on recent trials and metaanalyses.  Academic Article
• Statistical approaches to harmonize data on cognitive measures in systematic reviews are rarely reported.  Academic Article
• Statistical methodologies to pool across multiple intervention studies.  Academic Article
• Statistics Commentary Series: Commentary No. 18: Meta-Analysis, Part 1 - What It Is.  Academic Article
• Statistics Commentary Series: Commentary No. 19: Meta-Analysis, Part 2 - Some of the Issues.  Academic Article
• Steroid use in critically ill septic patients: acknowledging the uncertainty.  Academic Article
• Strategies to improve the credibility of meta-analyses in spine surgery: a systematic survey.  Academic Article
• Strengths and limitations of meta-analysis: larger studies may be more reliable.  Academic Article
• Stress ulcer prophylaxis in critical care: a 2016 perspective Dr. Waleed Alhazzani in an interview with Dr. Roman Jaeschke: part 2.  Academic Article
• Stress ulcer prophylaxis in the critically ill: a meta-analysis.  Academic Article
• Stroke prevention in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation.  Academic Article
• Studies reporting ROC curves of diagnostic and prediction data can be incorporated into meta-analyses using corresponding odds ratios.  Academic Article
• Stuttered and fluent speech production: an ALE meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies.  Academic Article
• Subgroup analyses: when should we believe them?  Academic Article
• Summaries of findings, descriptions of interventions, and information about adverse effects would make reviews more informative.  Academic Article
• Summarizing studies of diagnostic test performance.  Academic Article
• Summary of randomized trials of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors.  Academic Article
• Systematic literature review and meta-analysis.  Academic Article
• Systematic review and meta-analysis methodology.  Academic Article
• Systematic review and meta-analysis: when one study is just not enough.  Academic Article
• Systematic review finds that study data not published in full text articles have unclear impact on meta-analyses results in medical research.  Academic Article
• Systematic review of lipid lowering for primary prevention of coronary heart disease in diabetes.  Academic Article
• Systematic review of radioguided surgery for non-palpable breast cancer.  Academic Article
• Systematic reviewers neglect bias that results from trials stopped early for benefit.  Academic Article
• Systematic reviews and meta-analyses on treatment of asthma: critical evaluation.  Academic Article
• Systematic reviews and meta-analysis: scientific rationale and interpretation.  Academic Article
• Systematic reviews to ascertain the safety of diabetes medications.  Academic Article
• Systematic reviews: the case for rigorous methods and rigorous reporting.  Academic Article
• Systematic reviews: the good, the bad, and the ugly.  Academic Article
• The American College of Gastroenterology irritable bowel syndrome monograph: translating systematic review data to clinical practice.  Academic Article
• The CREATE Method for Expressing Continuous Outcome Data in Absolute Terms for Use in Patient Treatment Decision Aids: A Validation Study.  Academic Article
• The Clopidogrel in Unstable angina to prevent Recurrent Events (CURE) trial programme; rationale, design and baseline characteristics including a meta-analysis of the effects of thienopyridines in vascular disease.  Academic Article
• The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data.  Academic Article
• The PRISMA extension statement for reporting of systematic reviews incorporating network meta-analyses of health care interventions: checklist and explanations.  Academic Article
• The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies that evaluate health care interventions: explanation and elaboration.  Academic Article
• The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies that evaluate health care interventions: explanation and elaboration.  Academic Article
• The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies that evaluate health care interventions: explanation and elaboration.  Academic Article
• The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies that evaluate healthcare interventions: explanation and elaboration.  Academic Article
• The adequacy of reporting randomized, controlled trials in the evaluation of antidepressants.  Conference Paper
• The aspirin controversy in primary prevention.  Academic Article
• The effect of continuous subcutaneous glucose monitoring (CGMS) versus intermittent whole blood finger-stick glucose monitoring (SBGM) on hemoglobin A1c (HBA1c) levels in Type I diabetic patients: a systematic review.  Academic Article
• The effectiveness of health care provider physical activity recommendations in cancer survivors: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol.  Academic Article
• The effects of excluding treatments from network meta-analyses: survey.  Academic Article
• The end of educational science?  Academic Article
• The end of evidence-based medicine?  Academic Article
• The evolving role of direct thrombin inhibitors in acute coronary syndromes.  Academic Article
• The gastrointestinal safety of the COX-2 selective inhibitor etoricoxib assessed by both endoscopy and analysis of upper gastrointestinal events.  Academic Article
• The hard art of soft science: Evidence-Based Medicine, Reasoned Medicine or both?  Academic Article
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