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- Title
Meta-analiz ve Kanıta Dayalı Tıp'taki Yeri.
- Authors
Açıkel, Cengizhan
- Abstract
Meta-analysis is a very important knowledge source for evidence based medicine. Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) accepts it as the strongest level of evidence. Briefly, it could be described, as "The statistical analysis of a large collection of study results for the purpose of integrating the findings". Meta-analyses have gotten more important due to enormous growth of medical publications and medical literature. However, meta-analysis has many limitations like other research methods. This article covers the role of meta-analysis in evidence based medicine, its historical development, stages of a good meta- analysis, critical points at those stages, and limitations of meta-analysis. Undoubtedly, as in all of the other study types, there are good and bad examples of meta-analytic studies. For that reason, we also discussed the important points in critical reading of meta-analytic studies, besides properties of a good meta-analytic study.
- Subjects
META-analysis; EVIDENCE-based medicine; QUANTITATIVE research; MEDICAL research; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL literature
- Publication
Klinik Psikofarmakoloji Bulteni, 2009, Vol 19, Issue 2, p164
- ISSN
1017-7833
- Publication type
Article