The art and science of meta‐analysis, the combination of results from multiple independent
studies, is now more than a century old. In the last 30 years, however, as the need for …

Meta-analysis is the application of statistics to combine results from multiple studies and
draw appropriate inferences. Its use and importance have exploded over the last 25 years …

A clear and thorough introduction to meta-analysis, the process of synthesizing data from a
series of separate studies The first edition of this text was widely acclaimed for the clarity of …

The problem of combining information from independent studies permeates almost all fields
of science. Because of the information explosion during the past 50 years, combining …

Meta‐analysis has major strengths, but sometimes it can often lead to wrong and misleading
answers. In this SRSM presidential address, I discuss some case studies that exemplify …

Meta-analysis has been defined as a study and “statistical analysis which combines or
integrates the results of several independent studies.” Included in this definition are other …

This book is a joint package of a practical manual on how to undertake meta-analysis in
medicine together with an accompanying CD-ROM. This provides individuals with access to …

A fairly new type of research, termed meta-analysis, attempts to analyze and combine the
results of previous reports. In 1992 we updated our 1987 survey of 86 meta-analyses of …

Meta-analysis, the statistical combination of results from several studies to produce a single
estimate of the effect of a treatment, continues to attract controversy. We illustrate the …

Background Meta-analysis is often considered to be a simple way to summarize the existing
literature. In this paper we describe how a meta-analysis resembles a conventional study …