Importance of Meta-analyses for Evaluating Carcinogens

Importance of Meta-analyses for Evaluating Carcinogens

Guidelines for meta-analyses evaluating diagnostic tests.

OBJECTIVES To introduce guidelines for the conduct, reporting, and critical appraisal of meta-analyses evaluating diagnostic tests and to apply these guidelines to recently published meta-analyses of diagnostic tests. DATA SOURCES Based on current concepts of how to assess diagnostic tests and conduct meta-analyses. They are applied to all meta-analyses evaluating diagnostic tests published i...

Evaluating systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

Systematic review and meta-analysis procedures make use of explicit methods to methodically search and critically appraise and synthesize the medical care research literature. The methods involve refining a clinical question, designing a search procedure to find eligible studies, and determining the validity of the eligible studies. Independent data extraction by two or more reviewers is prefer...

Evaluating heterogeneity in cumulative meta-analyses

BACKGROUND Recently developed measures such as I2 and H allow the evaluation of the impact of heterogeneity in conventional meta-analyses. There has been no examination of the development of heterogeneity in the context of a cumulative meta-analysis. METHODS Cumulative meta-analyses of five smoking cessation interventions (clonidine, nicotine replacement therapy using gum and patch, physician...

Descriptive glossary (Meta-Analyses)

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