Meta-Analysis in Medicine and Health Policy

Dalene K. Stangl, Donald A. Berry

Meta-Analysis: Past and Present Challenges, Meta-Analysis of Heterogeneously Reported Study Results: A Bayesian Approach, Meta-Analysis versus Large Trials: Resolving the Controversy, Meta-Analysis of Randomized Mega-Trials for the Choice of Thrombolytic Agents in Acute Myocardial Infarction, Combining Studies with Continuous and Dichotomous Responses: A Latent-Variables Approach, Computer-Modeling and Graphical Strategies for Meta-analysis, Meta-Analysis for 2 x 2 Tables with Multiple Treatment Groups, A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of the Relationship between Duration of Estrogen Exposure and Occurrence of Endometrial Cancer, Modeling and Implementation Issues in Bayesian Meta-Analysis, Meta-Analysis of Population Pharmacokinetic Data, Meta-Analysis of Individual-patient Survival Data Using Random-Effect Models, Adjustment for Publication Bias and Quality Bias in Bayesian Meta-Analysis, Meta-Analysis of Clinical Trials: Opportunities and Limitations, Research Synthesis for Public Health Policy: Experience of the Institute of Medicine, Meta-Analysis in Practice: A Critical Review of Available Software