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Last updated: 31 August 2010 - Next update due: 7 September 2010
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Methodology |
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How important are comprehensive literature searches and the assessment of trial quality in systematic reviews? Empirical study (Egger) 76 pages, Volume 7, number 1 |
DOI
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10.3310/hta7010 |
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Outputs in journals arising from this project
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Project ref: |
97/18/05 |
Original project title: |
The importance of comprehensive literature searches and quality assessment in systematic reviews: empirical study |
Chief Investigator: |
Professor Matthias Egger, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health,
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Berne
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Start Date: |
June 1999 |
Date of publication in HTA journal series |
January 2003
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Cost: |
£45,179 |
MeSH* index primary terms: |
REVIEW-LITERATURE Q-standards (* = Medical Subject Headings) |
MeSH* index secondary terms: |
HUMAN; QUALITY-CONTROL; INFORMATION-STORAGE-AND-RETRIEVAL (* = Medical Subject Headings) |
NRR* number, if applicable: |
N0484035678 (*National Research Register) The National Research Register was a public database of ongoing and recently completed research projects funded by, or of interest to, the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS). It is now an archive of projects from early 2000 to September 2007. Search the NRR archive. |
Project Protocol: |
Project protocol not available
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Printed copies of this title despatched:
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399 (Figures relate to the previous calendar month) |
Downloads/Views of electronic version from website:
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56970 (Figures
are cumulative.) Last updated 27th July 2010. |
URL of this page: |
http://www.hta.ac.uk/1099 |
Outputs from this project
- Juni, P; Altman, DG; Egger, M.
Assessing the quality of controlled clinical trials. BMJ 2001; 323; 42-46.
- Sterne, JAC; Juni, P; Schulz, KF; Altman, DG; Bartlett, C; Egger, M. Statistical methods for assessing the influence of study characteristics on treatment effects in 'meta-epidemiological research.. Statistics in Medicine 2002; 21:1513-1524..
- Juni, P; Holenstein, F; Sterne, J; Bartlett, C; Egger, M. Direction and impact of language bias in meta-analyses of controlled trials: empirical study. International Journal of Epidemiology, 2002;31: 115-123..
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