Incorporating variations in the quality of individual randomized trials into meta-analysis

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 255-265

  Detsky, Allan S ^a,b   Naylor, C David ^a,b   O'Rourke, Keith ^a,b   McGeer, Allison J ^a   L'Abbé, Kristan A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Meta analysis; Overviews; Quality assessment; Randomized trials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZATION;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMAN; META-ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 0026524708     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0895-4356(92)90085-2     Document Type: Article

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