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UNISA996226145403316 |
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Titolo |
Systematic reviews in health care [[electronic resource]] : meta-analysis in context / / edited by Matthias Egger, George Davey Smith and Douglas G. Altman |
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ISBN |
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9786610285044 |
1-280-28504-4 |
0-585-39915-8 |
0-470-69314-2 |
1-118-70004-X |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (493 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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AltmanDouglas G |
EggerMatthias |
Davey SmithGeorge |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Evidence-based medicine |
Systematic reviews (Medical research) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Contents""; ""Dedication""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contributors""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Rationale, potentials, and promise of systematic reviews""; ""Summary points""; ""Systematic review, overview or meta-analysis?""; ""The scope of meta-analysis""; ""Historical notes""; ""Why do we need systematic reviews? A patient with myocardial infarction in 1981""; ""Narrative reviews""; ""Limitations of a single study""; ""A more transparent appraisal""; ""The epidemiology of results""; ""What was the evidence in 1981? Cumulative metaanalysis""; ""Conclusions"" |
""Acknowledgements""""Part I: Systematic reviews of controlled trials""; ""2 Principles of and procedures for systematic reviews""; ""Summary points""; ""Developing a review protocol""; ""Objectives and eligibility criteria""; ""Literature search""; ""Selection of studies, assessment of methodological quality and data extraction""; ""Presenting, combining and interpreting results""; ""Standardised outcome measure""; |
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""Graphical display""; ""Heterogeneity between study results""; ""Methods for estimating a combined effect estimate""; ""Bayesian meta-analysis""; ""Sensitivity analysis"" |
""Relative or absolute measures of effect?""""Conclusions""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""3 Problems and limitations in conducting systematic reviews""; ""Summary points""; ""Garbage in - garbage out?""; ""The dissemination of research findings""; ""Publication bias""; ""Who is responsible for publication bias: authors, reviewers or editors?""; ""The influence of external funding and commercial interests""; ""Other reporting biases""; ""Duplicate (multiple) publication bias""; ""Citation bias""; ""Language bias""; ""Outcome reporting bias""; ""The future of unbiased, systematic reviewing"" |
""Acknowledgements""""4 Identifying randomised trials""; ""Summary points""; ""Project to identify and re-tag reports of controlled trials in MEDLINE""; ""Project to identify reports of controlled trials in EMBASE""; ""Other databases already searched for reports of controlled trials""; ""Identifying reports of controlled trials by handsearching""; ""Recommended supplementary searches of databases already searched or in progress""; ""Searches of additional databases not currently being searched for The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register"" |
""Supplementary searches of journals and conference proceedings""""Identifying ongoing and/or unpublished studies""; ""Conclusions""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Disclaimer""; ""5 Assessing the quality of randomised controlled trials""; ""Summary points""; ""A framework for methodological quality""; ""Dimensions of internal validity""; ""Empirical evidence of bias""; ""Dimensions of external validity""; ""Quality of reporting""; ""Assessing trial quality: composite scales""; ""A critique of two widely used quality scales""; ""Potential of quality scales"" |
""Assessing trial quality: the component approach"" |
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