Pre-post effect sizes should be avoided in meta-analyses

Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 364-368

  Cuijpers, P ^a,b   Weitz, E ^a,b   Cristea, I A ^c   Twisk, J ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Individual patient data; meta analyses; pre post effect sizes; standardised mean difference

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION; COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; EFFECT SIZE; ERROR; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PATIENT CODING; PRETEST POSTTEST DESIGN; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARD;

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 84992734331     PISSN: 20457960     EISSN: 20457979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S2045796016000809     Document Type: Article

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