Impact of single centre status on estimates of intervention effects in trials with continuous outcomes: Meta-epidemiological study

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 344, Issue 7846, 2012, Pages

  Bafeta, Aïda ^a   Dechartres, Agnes ^a,b,c   Trinquart, Ludovic ^d   Yavchitz, Amélie ^a   Boutron, Isabelle ^a,b,c   Ravaud, Philippe ^a,b,c,d  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d French Cochrane Centre   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; COCHRANE LIBRARY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EFFECT SIZE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); META EPIDEMIOLOGY STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINGLE CENTER CLINICAL TRIAL; STUDY DESIGN; VARIANCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; META ANALYSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC);

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EFFECT MODIFIER, EPIDEMIOLOGIC; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84857862627     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e813     Document Type: Article

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