Title
Meta-analysis: Its strengths and limitations
Date Issued
01 January 2008
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
review
Author(s)
Cleveland Clinic
Publisher(s)
Cleveland Clinic Educational Foundation
Abstract
Nowadays, doctors face an overwhelming amount of information, even in narrow areas of interest. In response, reviews designed to summarize the large volumes of information are frequently published. When a review is done systematically, following certain criteria, and the results are pooled and analyzed quantitatively, it is called a meta-analysis. A well-designed meta-analysis can provide valuable information for researchers, policy-makers, and clinicians. However, there are many critical caveats in performing and interpreting them, and thus many ways in which meta-analyses can yield misleading information.
Start page
431
End page
439
Volume
75
Issue
6
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Políticas de salud, Servicios de salud
Ciencias de la información
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-45849098367
PubMed ID
Source
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
ISSN of the container
08911150
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus