A methodological review of recent meta-analyses has found significant heterogeneity in age between randomized groups

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1016-1024

  Clark, Laura ^a   Fairhurst, Caroline ^a   Hewitt, Catherine E ^a   Birks, Yvonne ^a   Brabyn, Sally ^a   Cockayne, Sarah ^a   Rodgers, Sara ^a   Hicks, Katherine ^a   Hodgson, Robert ^a   Littlewood, Elizabeth ^a   Torgerson, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Meta analysis; Methods; Randomized controlled trials; Selection bias; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SELECTION BIAS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

HETEROGENEITY; META-ANALYSIS; METHODS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SELECTION BIAS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84905003831     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2014.04.007     Document Type: Article

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