Handling trial participants with missing outcome data when conducting a meta-analysis: A systematic survey of proposed approaches

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Akl, Elie A ^a,b   Kahale, Lara A ^a   Agoritsas, Thomas ^b   Brignardello Petersen, Romina ^c,d   Busse, Jason W ^b   Carrasco Labra, Alonso ^b   Ebrahim, Shanil ^b,d,e,f   Johnston, Bradley C ^b,d,e,g   Neumann, Ignacio ^b   Sola, Ivan ^h   Sun, Xin ^b   Vandvik, Per ⁱ   Zhang, Yuqing ^b   Alonso Coello, Pablo ^h   Guyatt, Gordon ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^h CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

ⁱ NORWEGIAN KNOWLEDGE CENTRE FOR THE HEALTH SERVICES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Meta analysis; Missing participant data; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

AKL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA SYNTHESIS; GAMBLE AND HOLLIS MODEL; HIGGINS MODEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAVRIDIS MODEL; MISSING PARTICIPANT DATA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY; PATIENT DROPOUT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA ACCURACY; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PATIENT DROPOUTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84937714323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13643-015-0083-6     Document Type: Article

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