Statistical approaches to harmonize data on cognitive measures in systematic reviews are rarely reported

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 154-162

  Griffith, Lauren E ^a   Van Den Heuvel, Edwin ^b   Fortier, Isabel ^c   Sohel, Nazmul ^a   Hofer, Scott M ^d   Payette, Hélène ^e   Wolfson, Christina ^c   Belleville, Sylvie ^f   Kenny, Meghan ^a   Doiron, Dany ^c   Raina, Parminder ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^f CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognition; Combination; Data pooling; Harmonization; Individual participant data; Meta Analysis; Transformation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COGNITION ASSESSMENT; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; EFFECT SIZE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KATZ INDEX; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASCH ANALYSIS; SKILL; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); COGNITION DISORDERS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; STANDARDS;

COGNITION DISORDERS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84920598483     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2014.09.003     Document Type: Article

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