The objective of this course is to provide students with a first introduction to meta-analysis. Students learn (i) the goal of the analysis and the results it can provide, (ii) the underlying ...

Meta-analysis is the quantitative, scientific synthesis of research results. Since the term and modern approaches to research synthesis were first introduced in the 1970s, meta-analysis has had a ...

Science headlines can be notoriously flip-floppy: One week something causes cancer, another week it protects against it. A cholesterol drug works. Oops, no it doesn ...

Background Guidelines strongly recommend reperfusion therapy, including thrombolysis and percutaneous coronary intervention, ...

Meta-analysis is an objective examination of published data from many studies of the same research topic identified through a literature search. Through the use of rigorous statistical methods, it can ...