Meta Analysis for Medicine: Applications and Methods. Executive Summary and FinalReport

摘要

The project deals with methods intended to improve research synthesis, especiallymeta-analysis and in some instances carries out meta-analyses. The project contributes to analysis of studies with multiple outcomes, offers new graphic displays, assesses data quality, gives guidelines for handling heterogeneity of outcomes, offers new methods of combining response data for meta-analysis, including robust analysis, compares results from registries with those from randomized controlled trials, applies cumulative meta-analysis to appraising research reviews, makes special efforts in synthesis for dentistry, and has a variety of applications to specific procedures.