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DerSimonian R·Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.)
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Härkänen Tommi, Tapanainen Heli, Sares-Jäske Laura, +3 more·Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)
BACKGROUND: Projections for major health outcomes are crucial for decision-making to enable early interventions. Pooling results from meta-analyses with estimates based on individual participant data can reduce uncertainty and improve generalizability. However, current methods for meta-meta-analyses of nonlinear functi…
Hall J A, Dornan M C·Social science & medicine (1982)
A meta-analysis was performed to examine the relation of patients' sociodemographic characteristics to their satisfaction with medical care. The sociodemographic characteristics were age, ethnicity, sex, socioeconomic status (three indices), marital status, and family size. Greater satisfaction was significantly associ…
Gray A, Berlin J A, McKinlay J B, +1 more·Journal of clinical epidemiology
The study of testosterone is likely to be prominent in future epidemiological work on endocrine function and the clinical treatment of age-related diseases. Thus, understanding the hormonal changes involved in the normal male aging process will be critical. Using techniques of meta-analysis, the authors examined 88 pub…
Hoffman R M, Kent D L, Deyo R A·Spine
The role of thermography for diagnosing lumbar radiculopathy was evaluated by literature review and meta-analysis. From 81 relevant citations, 28 studies could be analyzed for diagnostic-accuracy data (sensitivity and specificity) and method. Diagnostic-accuracy data varied significantly between studies; therefore mean…
Holden G·Social work in health care
During the 1980's social cognitive theory has evolved as an explanation of human behavior. One of this theory's component constructs, self-efficacy, has received increasing attention as an antecedent to health related outcomes. The results of a meta-analysis examining studies which employed the construct of self-effica…
Sood A K·American journal of preventive medicine
The objective of this study is to investigate the strength of the epidemiological evidence for a relationship between smoking and cervical cancer by analysis of recent literature. I conducted a meta-analysis of all eligible case-control studies published in English from 1977 to July 1990, with the primary intent of exa…
Wanous J P, Poland T D, Premack S L, +1 more·The Journal of applied psychology
A review of research on the effects of met expectations for newcomers to organizations located 31 studies of 17,241 people. A meta-analysis found mean (corrected) correlations of .39 for job satisfaction and organizational commitment, .29 for intent to leave, .19 for job survival, and .11 for job performance. However,…
Shadish W R, Sweeney R B·Journal of consulting and clinical psychology
In primary studies, psychotherapy researchers frequently search for mediator and moderator variables that can help them understand the relationship between treatment and outcome. Yet a review of past psychotherapy meta-analyses revealed that none examined the possible role of mediator variables; and although all of the…
Nielen M, Deluyker H, Schukken Y H, +1 more·Journal of dairy science
The physics, physiology, and pathology of electrical conductivity of milk are described. Based on a meta analysis, the use of electrical conductivity as a mastitis detection tool is discussed. Most reports were based on subclinical mastitis data. The gold standards of the different reports are discussed. With an overal…
Naing Cho, Ni Han, Htet Norah Htet, +4 more·British journal of clinical pharmacology
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to synthesize evidence on the relative effectiveness of antimalarial drugs used as chemoprevention of malaria in pregnancy (MIP) using network meta-analysis (NMA). METHODS: Searches for eligible studies were made in multiple electronic databases, including PubMed. Randomized controlled tri…
Weiss B, Weisz J R·Journal of abnormal child psychology
Two recent meta-analyses have generated evidence for child and adolescent psychotherapy effects. However, critics note that such meta-analyses often include studies with methodological shortcomings which might invalidate their results. In the present study, we explored whether the results of the most extensive child/ad…
Mellick Larry, Weston Gabriella, Walsh Paul, +2 more·Pediatric emergency care
OBJECTIVE: Clinical experience and patient-level physiological studies indicate that albuterol transiently reduces oxygen saturation, irrespective of the underlying respiratory condition causing the wheezing. Three revisions of the Cochrane review, Bronchodilators for Bronchiolitis (Review), have found that albuterol t…
Meister Ramona, von Wolff Alessa, Kriston Levente·Journal of clinical epidemiology
OBJECTIVES: To empirically evaluate the performance of methods for estimating odds ratios and their corresponding standard errors from continuous end point data for meta-analysis. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: A database of randomized controlled trials of chronic depression treatments was used. Trials that reported both c…
Kerin E P, Davey M G, Mkabaah L Bouz, +1 more·American journal of surgery
BACKGROUND: For minimally-invasive surgery (MIS), there are numerous acceptable port-site closure techniques with no consensus on the method used. AIM: To identify optimal port site postoperative wound closure method following MIS with respect to complication rates and cosmetic outcome. METHODS: Network meta-analysis…
Delgado Rodríguez M, Gómez Olmedo M, Fernández Sierra M A·Medicina clinica
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Rosen M G, Dickinson J C, Westhoff C L·Obstetrics and gynecology
The cesarean birth rate has continued to climb despite efforts to counteract it. A major reason for this rise is the practice of elective repeat cesarean. We conducted a meta-analysis that included 31 studies with a total of 11,417 trials of labor to evaluate the association between birth route after a cesarean and mor…
Maclure M·Epidemiologic reviews
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Cuijpers Pim, Harrer Mathias, Miguel Clara, +4 more·Cognitive behaviour therapy
Although CBT has been found to be effective in the treatment of eating disorders, it is not clear if there are differences between treatment formats. We conducted a network meta-analysis (NMA) of randomized trials of broadly defined CBT comparing individual, group, guided self-help (GSH) and unguided self-help (USH) wi…
Reid W J, Crisafulli A·Journal of abnormal child psychology
The relation of marital discord to the behavior problems of children was examined through a meta-analysis of the results of prior research. The sample comprised all published studies through 1988 that met criteria for the meta-analysis and that could be located through a combined computer and hand search of the literat…