Meta-analyses: With confidence or prediction intervals?

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 823-825

  Chiolero, Arnaud ^a,b   Santschi, Valérie ^a,b   Burnand, Bernard ^a,c   Platt, Robert W ^b   Paradis, Gilles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Swiss Cochrane   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PATIENT EDUCATION; PHARMACIST; PREDICTION; PREDICTION INTERVAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PHARMACISTS; PROFESSIONAL ROLE;

EID: 84871278755     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: 15737284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10654-012-9738-y     Document Type: Letter

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