Disagreements in meta-analyses using outcomes measured on continuous or rating scales: Observer agreement study

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 339, Issue 7720, 2009, Pages 551-553

  Tendal, Britta ^a   Higgins, Julian P T ^d   Jüni, Peter ^b,c   Hróbjartsson, Asbjørn ^a   Trelle, Sven ^b,c   Nüesch, Eveline ^b,c   Wandel, Simon ^b,c   Jørgensen, Anders W ^a   Gesser, Katarina ^e   Ilsøe Kristensen, Søren ^e   Gøtzsche, Peter C ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; CONTINUOUS PROCESS; DATA EXTRACTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARDIZATION;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA COLLECTION; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; OBSERVER VARIATION; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 69949100651     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.b3128     Document Type: Article

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