Rating the certainty in evidence in the absence of a single estimate of effect

Evidence-Based Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 85-87

  Murad, M Hassan ^a   Mustafa, Reem A ^b,c   Schünemann, Holger J ^c   Sultan, Shahnaz ^d   Santesso, Nancy ^c  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Statistics and Research methods

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; NARRATIVE; STATISTICS;

EID: 85020660158     PISSN: 13565524     EISSN: 14736810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ebmed-2017-110668     Document Type: Article

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