Systematic Reviews in Health Care : Meta-analysis in Context.

Systematic Reviews in Health Care : Meta-analysis in Context.

The second edition of this work has been thoroughly revised and expanded to reflect the significant changes and advances made in systematic reviewing. New features include discussion on the rationale, meta-analyses of prognostic and diagnostic studies and software.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Egger, Matthias
Other Authors: Smith, George, Altman, Douglas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Evidence-based medicine.
Systematic reviews (Medical research)
Evidence-based medicine
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; 1: Rationale, potentials, and promise of systematic reviews; 2: Principles of and procedures for systematic reviews; 3: Problems and limitations in conducting systematic reviews; 4: Identifying randomised trials; 5: Assessing the quality of randomised controlled trials; 6: Obtaining individual patient data from randomised controlled trials; 7: Assessing the quality of reports of systematic reviews: the QUOROM statement compared to other tools; 8: Going beyond the grand mean: subgroup analysis in meta-analysis of randomised trials.
  • 9: Why and how sources of heterogeneity should be investigated10: Analysing the relationship between treatment benefit and underlying risk: precautions and recommendations; 11: Investigating and dealing with publication and other biases; 12: Systematic reviews of observational studies; 13: Systematic reviews of evaluations of prognostic variables; 14: Systematic reviews of evaluations of diagnostic and screening tes.

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