A systematic review of analytical methods used to study subgroups in (individual patient data) meta-analyses

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1002.e1-1002.e13

  Koopman, Laura ^a   van der Heijden, Geert J M G ^a   Glasziou, Paul P ^b   Grobbee, Diederick E ^a   Rovers, Maroeska M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Individual patient data; Meta analysis; Methodology; Published data; Review; Subgroup analysis

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 34548604673     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2007.01.018     Document Type: Review

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