04760nam 2200649Ia 450 991020884710332120230713185917.097866102850441-280-28504-40-585-39915-80-470-69314-21-118-70004-X(CKB)3710000000503421(EBL)4037830(MiAaPQ)EBC242481(MiAaPQ)EBC4037830(Au-PeEL)EBL242481(CaPaEBR)ebr10233241(CaONFJC)MIL28504(OCoLC)437157979(PPN)181035480(EXLCZ)99371000000050342120020415d2001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierSystematic reviews in health care [electronic resource]meta-analysis in context /edited by Matthias Egger, George Davey Smith and Douglas G. Altman2nd ed.London BMJc20011 online resource (493 p.)Includes index.0-7279-1488-X 0-470-69392-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.""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""; ""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""Evidence-based medicineSystematic reviews (Medical research)Evidence-based medicine.Systematic reviews (Medical research)610.72Altman Douglas G103005Egger Matthias959086Davey Smith George959087MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910208847103321Systematic reviews in health care2172895UNINA