Impact of missing participant data for dichotomous outcomes on pooled effect estimates in systematic reviews: A protocol for a methodological study

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Akl, Elie A ^a,b   Kahale, Lara A ^a   Agarwal, Arnav ^b   Al Matari, Nada ^a   Ebrahim, Shanil ^b,g   Alexander, Paul E ^b   Briel, Matthias ^b,c   Brignardello Petersen, Romina ^b,d   Busse, Jason W ^b,e   Diab, Batoul ^a   Iorio, Alfonso ^b   Kwong, Joey ^h   Li, Ling ^h   Lopes, Luciane C ^f   Mustafa, Reem ^b,i   Neumann, Ignacio ^b,j   Tikkinen, Kari A O ^k   Vandvik, Per O ^l,m   Zhang, Yuqing ^b   Alonso Coello, Pablo ⁿ   Guyatt, Gordon ^b   more..

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOROCABA   (Brazil)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^j PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^k HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^l NORWEGIAN KNOWLEDGE CENTRE FOR THE HEALTH SERVICES   (Norway)

^m INNLANDET HOSPITAL TRUST   (Norway)

ⁿ BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE SANT PAU IIB SANT PAU   (Spain)

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Author keywords

Imputation; Meta analysis; Missing participant data; Risk of bias; Systematic reviews; Trials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL BIAS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); LITERATURE;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84927950888     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2046-4053-3-137     Document Type: Article

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