Nancy K. Lowe, Editor Reviews of the literature play an important role in the advancement of nursing and biomedical science by combining the results of systematically chosen studies to come to conclusions about a body of research. The research literature on most topics pertinent to the care of women, infants, and their families is broad and interdisciplinary in origin and focus. The evolution o...

A growing number of published articles report estimates from meta-analysis or meta-regression on health state utility values (HSUVs), with a view to providing input into decision-analytic models. Pooling HSUVs is problematic because of the fact that different valuation methods and different preference-based measures (PBMs) can generate different values on exactly the same clinical health state....

Olkin and Shaw (1995) discussed statistical methods for meta-analysis and its applications in horticultural science. They presented methods for combining tests of significance as well as methods for comparing differences between treatments. For the latter, the standardized difference of two normal means is the effect size of interest and Olkin and Shaw (1995) presented the statistical meta-anal...

Copyright © 2016 The Korean Society of Radiology As a research synthesis methodology, systematic review and meta-analysis generates an evidence-based systematic summary of a specific topic by objectively evaluating all relevant primary studies available in the literature. Metaanalysis is a part of the methodology and uses statistical methods to integrate the results of primary research studies....

Methods A meta-synthesis of qualitative findings from implementation evaluations and experiences of adult PCMH transformation in pilots/demonstrations, including national, multi-state and single state demonstrations. The majority of practices represented family or internal medicine with an average of 14.1 practices per demonstration (range: 1-36). Most were mixed-methods evaluations and include...