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ArticleInternational journal of epidemiology2008

Commentary: Heterogeneity in meta-analysis should be expected and appropriately quantified.

Julian P T Higgins

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Article in International journal of epidemiology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 406 papers, 134 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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406citing papers in PubMed, 134 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

406 citing papers in PubMed, 134 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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346 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Julian P T HigginsMRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK. julian.higgins@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_U105285807
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Meta-Analysis as TopicModels, StatisticalData Interpretation, StatisticalHumans

Identifiers

PMID18832388

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