The prevalence and effect of publication bias in orthopaedic meta-analyses

Journal of Orthopaedic Science

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 238-244

  Vavken, Patrick ^a,b   Dorotka, Ronald ^c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

^c Orthopaedic City Center Vienna   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EFFECT SIZE; EGGER REGRESSION; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PUBLISHING; RANDOM SAMPLE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; ORTHOPEDICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; ORTHOPEDICS; PUBLICATION BIAS; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 80051655000     PISSN: 09492658     EISSN: 14362023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00776-011-0040-8     Document Type: Article

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