Characteristics of meta-analyses and their component studies in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: a cross-sectional, descriptive analysis
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- 24 November 2011
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Medical Research Methodology
- Vol. 11 (1) , 160
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-11-160
Abstract
Cochrane systematic reviews collate and summarise studies of the effects of healthcare interventions. The characteristics of these reviews and the meta-analyses and individual studies they contain provide insights into the nature of healthcare research and important context for the development of relevant statistical and other methods.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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