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A basic introduction to fixed-effect and random-effects models for meta-analysis

scientific article published in April 2010

A case study of multiple-treatments meta-analysis demonstrates that covariates should be considered

scientific article published on 20 January 2009

A checklist designed to aid consistency and reproducibility of GRADE assessments: development and pilot validation

scientific article

A design-by-treatment interaction model for network meta-analysis with random inconsistency effects

scientific article published on 29 April 2014

A general framework for the use of logistic regression models in meta-analysis

scientific article published on 12 May 2014

A network of investigator networks in human genome epidemiology

scientific article

A re-evaluation of random-effects meta-analysis.

scientific article published on January 2009

A road map for efficient and reliable human genome epidemiology

scientific article published on January 2006

A systematic review of the use of opioids in the management of dyspnoea.

scientific article

A tool to assess the quality of a meta-analysis.

scientific article published on 18 October 2013

Accounting for heterogeneity in meta-analysis using a multiplicative model-an empirical study

scientific article published on 3 June 2016

Additional considerations are required when preparing a protocol for a systematic review with multiple interventions

scientific article published on 11 January 2017

Adjusting trial results for biases in meta-analysis: combining data-based evidence on bias with detailed trial assessment

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Adjuvant chemotherapy for resected early-stage non-small cell lung cancer

scientific article

Allowing for informative missingness in aggregate data meta-analysis with continuous or binary outcomes: Extensions to metamiss.

scientific article published in July 2018

Allowing for uncertainty due to missing continuous outcome data in pairwise and network meta-analysis.

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Allowing for uncertainty due to missing data in meta-analysis--part 1: two-stage methods.

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Allowing for uncertainty due to missing data in meta-analysis--part 2: hierarchical models.

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Altering the availability or proximity of food, alcohol and tobacco products to change their selection and consumption

article published in 2017

Altering the availability or proximity of food, alcohol, and tobacco products to change their selection and consumption

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

An empirical comparison of heterogeneity variance estimators in 12 894 meta-analyses.

scientific article published on 06 June 2015

An introduction to methodological issues when including non-randomised studies in systematic reviews on the effects of interventions

scientific article published on 24 January 2013

Antidepressants might work for people with major depression: where do we go from here?

scientific article published on 5 April 2018

Applicability and feasibility of systematic review for performing evidence-based risk assessment in food and feed safety

scientific article published on January 2015

Array CGH in patients with learning disability (mental retardation) and congenital anomalies: updated systematic review and meta-analysis of 19 studies and 13,926 subjects

scientific article published on March 2009

Array-based comparative genomic hybridization for investigating chromosomal abnormalities in patients with learning disability: systematic review meta-analysis of diagnostic and false-positive yields

scientific article published on February 2007

Assessing baseline imbalance in randomised trials: implications for the Cochrane risk of bias tool.

scientific article published on August 2013

Assessing the impact of drinking water and sanitation on diarrhoeal disease in low- and middle-income settings: systematic review and meta-regression

scientific article

Assessment of cumulative evidence on genetic associations: interim guidelines

scientific article published on 26 September 2007

Assessment of systematic effects of methodological characteristics on candidate genetic associations

Association Between Risk-of-Bias Assessments and Results of Randomized Trials in Cochrane Reviews: the ROBES Meta-Epidemiologic Study

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Association between opioid agonist therapy use and HIV testing uptake among people who have recently injected drugs: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 03 November 2020

Association of BCG, DTP, and measles containing vaccines with childhood mortality: systematic review

scientific article

Basics of meta-analysis: I2 is not an absolute measure of heterogeneity

scientific article published on 6 January 2017

Bayesian meta-analysis and meta-regression for gene-disease associations and deviations from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium

scientific article published in February 2007

Bayesian multivariate meta-analysis with multiple outcomes

scientific article published on 6 February 2013

Bayesian synthesis of epidemiological evidence with different combinations of exposure groups: application to a gene-gene-environment interaction

scientific article published in December 2006

Being sceptical about meta-analyses: a Bayesian perspective on magnesium trials in myocardial infarction

scientific article published in February 2002

Between-trial heterogeneity in meta-analyses may be partially explained by reported design characteristics

scientific article published on 4 December 2017

Biases in Randomized Trials: A Conversation Between Trialists and Epidemiologists.

scientific article published on 28 September 2016

CINeMA: An approach for assessing confidence in the results of a network meta-analysis

scientific article published on 03 April 2020

CYP2C9 gene variants, drug dose, and bleeding risk in warfarin-treated patients: a HuGEnet systematic review and meta-analysis

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Challenges in the use of literature-based meta-analysis to examine gene-environment interactions

scientific article published on 20 April 2010

Characteristics of a loop of evidence that affect detection and estimation of inconsistency: a simulation study.

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Characteristics of meta-analyses and their component studies in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: a cross-sectional, descriptive analysis ⬇️

scientific article published on November 24, 2011

Checklists of methodological issues for review authors to consider when including non-randomized studies in systematic reviews

scientific article published on March 2013

Choice of implant combinations in total hip replacement: systematic review and network meta-analysis.

scientific article published on 2 November 2017

Cognitive-behavioural interventions for children who have been sexually abused

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Cognitive-behavioural interventions for children who have been sexually abused

scientific article (published 2006-10-18)

Commentary: Heterogeneity in meta-analysis should be expected and appropriately quantified

scientific article published in October 2008

Comments on 'Empirical vs natural weighting in random effects meta-analysis'

scientific article published on 01 May 2010

Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 12 new-generation antidepressants: a multiple-treatments meta-analysis

scientific article (publication date: 28 February 2009)

Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 21 antidepressant drugs for the acute treatment of adults with major depressive disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

scientific article published on 20 February 2018

Comparative efficacy and safety of treatments for localised prostate cancer: an application of network meta-analysis

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Comparative performance of heterogeneity variance estimators in meta-analysis: a review of simulation studies

scientific article published on 6 April 2016

Consistency and inconsistency in network meta-analysis: model estimation using multivariate meta-regression

scientific article published on June 2012

Control of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae outbreaks in acute settings: an evidence review

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Controlling the risk of spurious findings from meta-regression.

scientific article published on June 2004

Convincing Evidence from Controlled and Uncontrolled Studies on the Lipid-Lowering Effect of a Statin ⬇️

scientific article published on December 12, 2012

Coronary heart disease

Correction: Interpretation of Random Effects Meta-analysis in Decision Models

scientific article published on 01 March 2007

Corticosteroids in septic shock: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.

scientific article published on 28 March 2017

Data extraction methods for systematic review (semi)automation: A living systematic review

publication published on 19 May 2021

Dealing with effect size multiplicity in systematic reviews and meta-analyses

scientific article published on 03 July 2018

Design characteristics, risk of bias, and reporting of randomised controlled trials supporting approvals of cancer drugs by European Medicines Agency, 2014-16: cross sectional analysis

scientific article published on 18 September 2019

Developing the WCRF International/University of Bristol Methodology for Identifying and Carrying Out Systematic Reviews of Mechanisms of Exposure-Cancer Associations

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Development of a method for adjusting trial results for biases in meta-analysis

scientific article published on 29 November 2013

Dietary advice given by a dietitian versus other health professional or self-help resources to reduce blood cholesterol

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Dietary fat intake and prevention of cardiovascular disease: systematic review

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Directly Acting Oral Anticoagulants for the Prevention of Stroke in Atrial Fibrillation in England and Wales: Cost-Effectiveness Model and Value of Information Analysis

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Disagreements in meta-analyses using outcomes measured on continuous or rating scales: observer agreement study

scientific article published on 13 August 2009

Does milk intake promote prostate cancer initiation or progression via effects on insulin-like growth factors (IGFs)? A systematic review and meta-analysis

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Does testosterone mediate the relationship between vitamin D and prostate cancer? A systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

scholarly article by Luke A Robles et al published 12 February 2019 in Systematic Reviews

Empirical Evidence of Study Design Biases in Randomized Trials: Systematic Review of Meta-Epidemiological Studies

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Empirical evidence about inconsistency among studies in a pair-wise meta-analysis

scientific article published on 17 December 2015

Estimating within-study covariances in multivariate meta-analysis with multiple outcomes.

scientific article published on 3 December 2012

Evaluating the impact of imputations for missing participant outcome data in a network meta-analysis

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Evaluating the quality of evidence from a network meta-analysis.

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Evaluation of inconsistency in networks of interventions

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Evaluation of networks of randomized trials

scientific article published on 09 October 2007

Evaluation of the Cochrane Collaboration's tool for assessing the risk of bias in randomized trials: focus groups, online survey, proposed recommendations and their implementation

scientific article published on 15 April 2014

Evaluation of the Cochrane tool for assessing risk of bias in randomized clinical trials: overview of published comments and analysis of user practice in Cochrane and non-Cochrane reviews

scientific article published on 10 May 2016

Evidence for the selective reporting of analyses and discrepancies in clinical trials: a systematic review of cohort studies of clinical trials

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Evidence-based prescribing: combining network meta-analysis with multicriteria decision analysis to choose among multiple drugs

scientific article published on 05 August 2014

Expressing findings from meta-analyses of continuous outcomes in terms of risks

scientific article published on 08 August 2011

Extending DerSimonian and Laird's methodology to perform network meta-analyses with random inconsistency effects.

scientific article

Five glutathione s-transferase gene variants in 23,452 cases of lung cancer and 30,397 controls: meta-analysis of 130 studies

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GISSI-Prevenzione trial

scientific article published in The Lancet

GRADE Guidelines: 18. How ROBINS-I and other tools to assess risk of bias in non-randomized studies should be used to rate the certainty of a body of evidence.

scientific article published on 9 February 2018

GRADE guidelines: 7. Rating the quality of evidence--inconsistency

scientific article published on 31 July 2011

Genome-wide association studies, field synopses, and the development of the knowledge base on genetic variation and human diseases

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Genome-wide association studies, field synopses, and the development of the knowledge base on genetic variation and human diseases

Graphical augmentations to the funnel plot assess the impact of additional evidence on a meta-analysis

scientific article published on 18 February 2012

Graphical displays for meta-analysis: An overview with suggestions for practice

scientific article published on January 2010

Graphical tools for network meta-analysis in STATA.

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Guidance to detect, evaluate and prevent the problem of selective reporting in trial publications

scientific article

Health-related lifestyle in adults and children with primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP).

scientific article published in October 2010

Heterogeneity in application, design, and analysis characteristics was found for controlled before-after and interrupted time series studies included in Cochrane reviews

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Home visiting for socially disadvantaged mothers

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How can the evaluation of genetic tests be enhanced? Lessons learned from the ACCE framework and evaluating genetic tests in the United Kingdom

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

How should meta-regression analyses be undertaken and interpreted?

scientific article (publication date: 15 June 2002)

Hygiene and health: systematic review of handwashing practices worldwide and update of health effects

scientific article

Impact of blinding on estimated treatment effects in randomised clinical trials: meta-epidemiological study

scientific article published on 21 January 2020

Impact of drinking water, sanitation and handwashing with soap on childhood diarrhoeal disease: updated meta-analysis and meta-regression

article by Jennyfer Wolf et al published May 2018 in Tropical Medicine and International Health

Implementing informative priors for heterogeneity in meta-analysis using meta-regression and pseudo data.

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Imputation methods for missing outcome data in meta-analysis of clinical trials

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Indirect evidence of reporting biases was found in a survey of medical research studies.

scientific article published on 11 January 2017

Individual patient data meta-analysis of time-to-event outcomes: one-stage versus two-stage approaches for estimating the hazard ratio under a random effects model.

scientific article

Interpretation of random effects meta-analyses.

scientific article published on 10 February 2011

Interventions for treating hallux valgus (abductovalgus) and bunions

scientific article (publication date: 15 April 2009)

Interventions for treating hallux valgus (abductovalgus) and bunions

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Issues relating to study design and risk of bias when including non-randomized studies in systematic reviews on the effects of interventions

scientific article published on 25 September 2012

Joint effects of the N-acetyltransferase 1 and 2 (NAT1 and NAT2) genes and smoking on bladder carcinogenesis: a literature-based systematic HuGE review and evidence synthesis

scientific article (publication date: October 2007)

Label-invariant models for the analysis of meta-epidemiological data

scientific article published on 19 September 2017

Lack of evidence for the efficacy of memantine in mild Alzheimer disease.

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Linear inference for mixed treatment comparison meta-analysis: A two-stage approach

scientific article published in March 2011

Linear inference for mixed treatment comparison meta-analysis: a two-stage approach

scientific article published on 01 September 2012

Living systematic reviews: an emerging opportunity to narrow the evidence-practice gap

scientific article

Long-term interleukin-6 levels and subsequent risk of coronary heart disease: two new prospective studies and a systematic review

scientific article (publication date: 8 April 2008)

MELODI: Mining Enriched Literature Objects to Derive Intermediates

scientific article published on 12 January 2018

Machine learning to assist risk-of-bias assessments in systematic reviews.

scientific article

Making the best use of available evidence: the case of new generation antidepressants: A response to: Are all antidepressants equal?

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Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses

scientific article (publication date: 6 September 2003)

Meta-analysis

scientific article published on 01 September 1999

Meta-analysis and subgroups

scientific article published in April 2013

Meta-analysis in occupational epidemiology: a review of practice.

scientific article published in August 2004

Meta-analysis of continuous outcome data from individual patients.

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Meta-analysis of genetic association studies under different inheritance models using data reported as merged genotypes

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Meta-analysis of individual patient data from randomized trials: a review of methods used in practice.

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Meta-analysis of ordinal outcomes using individual patient data.

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Meta-analysis of skewed data: combining results reported on log-transformed or raw scales

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Methodological quality of meta-analyses: matched-pairs comparison over time and between industry-sponsored and academic-sponsored reports.

scientific article published on 18 October 2013

Methods to estimate the between-study variance and its uncertainty in meta-analysis

scientific article published on 02 September 2015

Multiplicity of data in trial reports and the reliability of meta-analyses: empirical study

scientific article

Network meta-analysis of rare events using the Mantel-Haenszel method

scientific article published on 17 April 2019

Network meta-analysis: a norm for comparative effectiveness?

scientific article published in August 2015

Non-invasive prenatal diagnostic test accuracy for fetal sex using cell-free DNA a review and meta-analysis ⬇️

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Obstacles and opportunities in meta-analysis of genetic association studies.

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Online genetic databases informing human genome epidemiology

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Opioids for the palliation of breathlessness in advanced disease and terminal illness

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Oral anticoagulants for prevention of stroke in atrial fibrillation: systematic review, network meta-analysis, and cost effectiveness analysis

scientific article published on 28 November 2017

Personal financial incentives for changing habitual health-related behaviors: A systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 2 April 2015

Planning future studies based on the conditional power of a meta-analysis

scientific article published on 11 July 2012

Poor systematic reviews and meta-analyses may be misleading

scientific article published on 01 August 1998

Portion, package or tableware size for changing selection and consumption of food, alcohol and tobacco

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Portion, package or tableware size for changing selection and consumption of food, alcohol and tobacco.

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Predicting the extent of heterogeneity in meta-analysis, using empirical data from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

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Predictive distributions for between-study heterogeneity and simple methods for their application in Bayesian meta-analysis

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Predictive distributions were developed for the extent of heterogeneity in meta-analyses of continuous outcome data.

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Prevalence of BRAFV600 in glioma and use of BRAF Inhibitors in patients with BRAFV600 mutation-positive glioma: systematic review

publication published on 01 April 2022

Prognostic value of test(s) for O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) promoter methylation for predicting overall survival in people with glioblastoma treated with temozolomide

scientific article published on 12 March 2021

Protocol for a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis of B-type natriuretic peptide-guided therapy for heart failure.

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Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta-analysis

scientific article (publication date: 15 June 2002)

ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions

scientific article published on 12 October 2016

ROBIS: A new tool to assess risk of bias in systematic reviews was developed

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Random-effects meta-analysis of time-to-event data using the expectation-maximisation algorithm and shrinkage estimators.

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Randomised controlled trial of novel, simple, and well supervised weight reducing diets in outpatients.

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Rate-Constrained Ranking and the Rate-Weighted AUC

article by Louise A. C. Millard et al published 2014 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Recent developments in meta-analysis.

scientific article published on February 2008

Relative and absolute risk of colorectal cancer for individuals with a family history: a meta-analysis

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Relative efficacy of differential methods of dietary advice: a systematic review

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Reporting of industry funded study outcome data: comparison of confidential and published data on the safety and effectiveness of rhBMP-2 for spinal fusion

scientific article (publication date: 20 June 2013)

Reporting of systematic reviews: the challenge of genetic association studies

scientific article published on June 2007

Response to paper by Lang A, Edwards N, and Fleiszer A.

scientific article published on 8 April 2007

Rethinking the assessment of risk of bias due to selective reporting: a cross-sectional study.

scientific article published on 08 July 2016

Risk of neuropsychiatric adverse events associated with varenicline: systematic review and meta-analysis

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Risk of nosocomial respiratory syncytial virus infection and effectiveness of control measures to prevent transmission events: a systematic review

scientific article published in July 2016

Risks and benefits of omega 3 fats for mortality, cardiovascular disease, and cancer: systematic review

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RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials

scientific article published on 28 August 2019

STrengthening the REporting of Genetic Association Studies (STREGA)-an extension of the STROBE statement

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STrengthening the REporting of Genetic Association Studies (STREGA): An Extension of the STROBE Statement

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STrengthening the REporting of Genetic Association Studies (STREGA): an extension of the STROBE statement

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STrengthening the REporting of Genetic Association studies (STREGA)--an extension of the STROBE statement

scientific article published on April 2009

STrengthening the REporting of Genetic Association studies (STREGA)—an extension of the STROBE statement

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Safety and effectiveness of recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 for spinal fusion: a meta-analysis of individual-participant data

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Sample size calculation for meta-epidemiological studies.

scientific article published on 19 August 2015

Screening strategies for atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and cost-effectiveness analysis.

scientific article published in May 2017

Selection bias introduced by informative censoring in studies examining effects of vaccination in infancy

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Sequential methods for random-effects meta-analysis

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Seven haemostatic gene polymorphisms in coronary disease: meta-analysis of 66,155 cases and 91,307 controls.

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Seven lipoprotein lipase gene polymorphisms, lipid fractions, and coronary disease: a HuGE association review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 15 October 2008

Simultaneous comparison of multiple treatments: combining direct and indirect evidence.

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Statistical heterogeneity in systematic reviews of clinical trials: a critical appraisal of guidelines and practice.

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Strengthening the reporting of genetic association studies (STREGA): an extension of the STROBE Statement

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Strengthening the reporting of genetic association studies (STREGA): an extension of the STROBE statement

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Strengthening the reporting of genetic association studies (STREGA): an extension of the strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology (STROBE) statement

scientific article published on 12 February 2009

Summarising and validating test accuracy results across multiple studies for use in clinical practice

scientific article published on 20 March 2015

Synthesizing evidence on complex interventions: how meta-analytical, qualitative, and mixed-method approaches can contribute

scientific article published on 14 August 2013

Systematic review of controlled trials on the effectiveness of fluoride gels for the prevention of dental caries in children

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Systematic review of prevalence studies of autism spectrum disorders

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Systematic review with meta-analysis: the gastrointestinal benefits of COX-2 selective inhibitors with concomitant use of low-dose aspirin.

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Systematic reviews of genetic association studies. Human Genome Epidemiology Network

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Ten questions to consider when interpreting results of a meta-epidemiological study-the MetaBLIND study as a case

scientific article published on 20 January 2020

The Cochrane Collaboration's tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials

scientific article (publication date: 18 October 2011)

The Emergence of Networks in Human Genome Epidemiology

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The INVEST project: investigating the use of evidence synthesis in the design and analysis of clinical trials ⬇️

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The Prevalence of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

scientific article published in 2015

The Use of Bayesian Networks to Assess the Quality of Evidence from Research Synthesis: 2. Inter-Rater Reliability and Comparison with Standard GRADE Assessment

scientific article published on 30 December 2015

The albatross plot: A novel graphical tool for presenting results of diversely reported studies in a systematic review

scientific article published on 28 April 2017

The association between proximity to animal-feeding operations and community health: a protocol for updating a systematic review

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The association between the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma2 (PPARG2) Pro12Ala gene variant and type 2 diabetes mellitus: a HuGE review and meta-analysis.

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The choice between hip prosthetic bearing surfaces in total hip replacement: a protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis

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The emergence of networks in human genome epidemiology: challenges and opportunities

scholarly article published 18 December 2009

The impact of study size on meta-analyses: examination of underpowered studies in Cochrane reviews

scientific article published on 27 March 2013

The impact of trial characteristics on premature discontinuation of antipsychotics in schizophrenia

scientific article published on 30 April 2013

The interpretation of random-effects meta-analysis in decision models.

scientific article published on November 2005

The liver in heart failure: a biopsy and explant series of the histopathologic and laboratory findings with a particular focus on pre-cardiac transplant evaluation

scientific article published on 20 March 2015

The median and the mode as robust meta-analysis estimators in the presence of small-study effects and outliers

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

The range of peripapillary retinal nerve fibre layer and optic disc parameters in children aged up to but not including 18 years of age, as measured by optical coherence tomography: protocol for a systematic review

scientific article published on 30 April 2016

The range of peripapillary retinal nerve fibre layer and optic disc parameters, in children aged up to but not including 18 years of age who were born prematurely: protocol for a systematic review.

scientific article published on 31 August 2016

The use of Bayesian networks to assess the quality of evidence from research synthesis: 1.

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Therapeutic interventions for alcohol dependence in non-inpatient settings: a systematic review and network meta-analysis (protocol).

scientific article published on 11 April 2017

Tools for assessing quality and susceptibility to bias in observational studies in epidemiology: a systematic review and annotated bibliography

scientific article (publication date: June 2007)

Tools for assessing risk of reporting biases in studies and syntheses of studies: a systematic review

scientific article published on 14 March 2018

Treating individuals 4: can meta-analysis help target interventions at individuals most likely to benefit?

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Turning the Pump Handle: Evolving Methods for Integrating the Evidence on Gene-Disease Association

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Two-stage meta-analysis of survival data from individual participants using percentile ratios.

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Updated systematic review: associations between proximity to animal feeding operations and health of individuals in nearby communities

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