LEADER 04760nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910208847103321 005 20230713185917.0 010 $a9786610285044 010 $a1-280-28504-4 010 $a0-585-39915-8 010 $a0-470-69314-2 010 $a1-118-70004-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000000503421 035 $a(EBL)4037830 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC242481 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4037830 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL242481 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10233241 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL28504 035 $a(OCoLC)437157979 035 $a(PPN)181035480 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000503421 100 $a20020415d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aSystematic reviews in health care $b[electronic resource]$emeta-analysis in context /$fedited by Matthias Egger, George Davey Smith and Douglas G. Altman 205 $a2nd ed. 210 $aLondon $cBMJ$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (493 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-7279-1488-X 311 $a0-470-69392-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""Assessing trial quality: the component approach"" 606 $aEvidence-based medicine 606 $aSystematic reviews (Medical research) 615 0$aEvidence-based medicine. 615 0$aSystematic reviews (Medical research) 676 $a610.72 701 $aAltman$b Douglas G$0103005 701 $aEgger$b Matthias$0959086 701 $aDavey Smith$b George$0959087 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910208847103321 996 $aSystematic reviews in health care$92172895 997 $aUNINA