Reasons or excuses for avoiding meta-analysis in forest plots
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- 19 June 2008
- Vol. 336 (7658) , 1413-1415
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.a117
Abstract
Heterogeneous data are a common problem in meta-analysis. John Ioannidis, Nikolaos Patsopoulos, and Hannah Rothstein show that final synthesis is possible and desirable in most casesThis publication has 31 references indexed in Scilit:
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