Interpretation of random effects meta-analyses

2011/02/10 by Richard D Riley, Julian P. T. Higgins, Jonathan J Deeks · 5 citations
Decision Sciences · Medicine · #Meta-analysis and systematic reviews #Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy #Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation #Interpretation (philosophy) #Computer science #Information retrieval #Data science #Text mining #Natural language processing #Programming language

paper · doi:10.1136/bmj.d549

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Abstract

Summary estimates of treatment effect from random effects meta-analysis give only the average effect across all studies. Inclusion of prediction intervals, which estimate the likely effect in an individual setting, could make it easier to apply the results to clinical practice

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