Systematic reviews in health care : meta-analysis in context /
edited by Matthias Egger, George Davey Smith and Douglas G. Altman.
Bok Engelsk 2001 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | London : : BMJ, , c2001.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (493 p.)
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| Utgave | 2nd ed.
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| Opplysninger | Includes index.. - ""Contents""; ""Dedication""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contributors""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Rationale, potentials, and promise of systematic reviews""; ""Summary points""; ""Systematic review, overview or meta-analysis?""; ""The scope of meta-analysis""; ""Historical notes""; ""Why do we need systematic reviews? A patient with myocardial infarction in 1981""; ""Narrative reviews""; ""Limitations of a single study""; ""A more transparent appraisal""; ""The epidemiology of results""; ""What was the evidence in 1981? Cumulative metaanalysis""; ""Conclusions"". - ""Acknowledgements""""4 Identifying randomised trials""; ""Summary points""; ""Project to identify and re-tag reports of controlled trials in MEDLINE""; ""Project to identify reports of controlled trials in EMBASE""; ""Other databases already searched for reports of controlled trials""; ""Identifying reports of controlled trials by handsearching""; ""Recommended supplementary searches of databases already searched or in progress""; ""Searches of additional databases not currently being searched for The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register"". - ""Acknowledgements""""Part I: Systematic reviews of controlled trials""; ""2 Principles of and procedures for systematic reviews""; ""Summary points""; ""Developing a review protocol""; ""Objectives and eligibility criteria""; ""Literature search""; ""Selection of studies, assessment of methodological quality and data extraction""; ""Presenting, combining and interpreting results""; ""Standardised outcome measure""; ""Graphical display""; ""Heterogeneity between study results""; ""Methods for estimating a combined effect estimate""; ""Bayesian meta-analysis""; ""Sensitivity analysis"". - ""Assessing trial quality: the component approach"". - ""Relative or absolute measures of effect?""""Conclusions""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""3 Problems and limitations in conducting systematic reviews""; ""Summary points""; ""Garbage in - garbage out?""; ""The dissemination of research findings""; ""Publication bias""; ""Who is responsible for publication bias: authors, reviewers or editors?""; ""The influence of external funding and commercial interests""; ""Other reporting biases""; ""Duplicate (multiple) publication bias""; ""Citation bias""; ""Language bias""; ""Outcome reporting bias""; ""The future of unbiased, systematic reviewing"". - ""Supplementary searches of journals and conference proceedings""""Identifying ongoing and/or unpublished studies""; ""Conclusions""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Disclaimer""; ""5 Assessing the quality of randomised controlled trials""; ""Summary points""; ""A framework for methodological quality""; ""Dimensions of internal validity""; ""Empirical evidence of bias""; ""Dimensions of external validity""; ""Quality of reporting""; ""Assessing trial quality: composite scales""; ""A critique of two widely used quality scales""; ""Potential of quality scales""
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| ISBN | 0-470-69314-2. - 0-585-39915-8. - 1-118-70004-X. - 1-280-28504-4. - 9786610285044
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