Meta-analyses and megatrials: neither is the infallible, universal standard

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Viewpoint: megatrials and the development of antithrombotics.

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Information Science Is Neither

(DRAFT—please do not cite or distribute) Introduction Information science isn't a science. Nor, even, is it primarily about information. To assert the former is no longer an especially controversial move. The skeptic might point to the supposed origins of the field in the postwar activities of communications engineers and applied computer scientists—many of whom, following Claude Shannon, under...

Meta-analysis: Neither quick nor easy

BACKGROUND Meta-analysis is often considered to be a simple way to summarize the existing literature. In this paper we describe how a meta-analysis resembles a conventional study, requiring a written protocol with design elements that parallel those of a record review. METHODS The paper provides a structure for creating a meta-analysis protocol. Some guidelines for measurement of the quality ...