Thresholds for statistical and clinical significance in systematic reviews with meta-analytic methods

The Hartung-Knapp-Sidik-Jonkman method for random effects meta-analysis is straightforward and considerably outperforms the standard DerSimonian-Laird method

(2014) Joanna IntHout et al.   BMC Medical Research Methodology

Evidence-Based Medicine 20 Years On: A View from the Inside

(2014) Thomas Agoritsas et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES

How to Read a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis and Apply the Results to Patient Care

(2014) Mohammad Hassan Murad et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Accumulating Research: A Systematic Account of How Cumulative Meta-Analyses Would Have Provided Knowledge, Improved Health, Reduced Harm and Saved Resources

(2014) Mike Clarke et al.   PLoS One

Trap of trends to statistical significance: likelihood of near significant P value becoming more significant with extra data

(2014) J. Wood et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

The effect of vitamin D supplementation on skeletal, vascular, or cancer outcomes: a trial sequential meta-analysis

(2014) Mark J Bolland et al.   Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology

Correction: Reported Methodologic Quality and Discrepancies between Large and Small Randomized Trials in Meta-Analyses

(2013) Lise L. Gluud et al.   ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

CONSORT 2010 Statement: Updated Guidelines for Reporting Parallel Group Randomized Trials

(2013) Kenneth F. Schulz   ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Influence of Reported Study Design Characteristics on Intervention Effect Estimates From Randomized, Controlled Trials

(2013) Jelena Savović et al.   ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

The Impact of Study Size on Meta-analyses: Examination of Underpowered Studies in Cochrane Reviews

(2013) Rebecca M. Turner et al.   PLoS One

Bayesian multivariate meta-analysis with multiple outcomes

(2013) Yinghui Wei et al.   STATISTICS IN MEDICINE

Meta-analysis of clinical trial safety data in a drug development program: Answers to frequently asked questions

(2012) Jesse A Berlin et al.   Clinical Trials

Empirical Evaluation of Very Large Treatment Effects of Medical Interventions

(2012) Tiago V. Pereira et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

GRADE guidelines: 13. Preparing Summary of Findings tables and evidence profiles—continuous outcomes

(2012) Gordon H. Guyatt et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

GRADE guidelines: 11. Making an overall rating of confidence in effect estimates for a single outcome and for all outcomes

(2012) Gordon Guyatt et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

The Prevention and Treatment of Missing Data in Clinical Trials

(2012) Roderick J. Little et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Planning future studies based on the conditional power of a meta-analysis

(2012) Verena Roloff et al.   STATISTICS IN MEDICINE

Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling for Detecting Safety Signals in Clinical Trials

(2011) H. Amy Xia et al.   Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics

GRADE guidelines: 1. Introduction—GRADE evidence profiles and summary of findings tables

(2011) Gordon Guyatt et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

GRADE guidelines 6. Rating the quality of evidence—imprecision

(2011) Gordon H. Guyatt et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

The Number of Patients and Events Required to Limit the Risk of Overestimation of Intervention Effects in Meta-Analysis—A Simulation Study

(2011) Kristian Thorlund et al.   PLoS One

Statistical Multiplicity in Systematic Reviews of Anaesthesia Interventions: A Quantification and Comparison between Cochrane and Non-Cochrane Reviews

(2011) Georgina Imberger et al.   PLoS One

The COMET (Core Outcome Measures in Effectiveness Trials) Initiative

(2011) Paula R Williamson et al.   Trials

How to obtain the P value from a confidence interval

(2011) D. G. Altman et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Evidence at a glance: error matrix approach for overviewing available evidence

(2010) Frederik Keus et al.   BMC Medical Research Methodology

Sequential methods for random-effects meta-analysis

(2010) Julian P. T. Higgins et al.   STATISTICS IN MEDICINE

Estimating required information size by quantifying diversity in random-effects model meta-analyses

(2009) Jørn Wetterslev et al.   BMC Medical Research Methodology

The Need for Large-Scale Randomized Evidence Without Undue Emphasis on Small Trials, Meta-analyses, or Subgroup Analyses

(2009) Charles H. Hennekens   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

The evidence provided by a single trial is less reliable than its statistical analysis suggests

(2009) George F. Borm et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Undue reliance on I 2 in assessing heterogeneity may mislead

(2008) Gerta Rücker et al.   BMC Medical Research Methodology

Can trial sequential monitoring boundaries reduce spurious inferences from meta-analyses?

(2008) Kristian Thorlund et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Contour-enhanced meta-analysis funnel plots help distinguish publication bias from other causes of asymmetry

(2008) Jaime L. Peters et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Attention should be given to multiplicity issues in systematic reviews

(2008) Ralf Bender et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Trial sequential analysis reveals insufficient information size and potentially false positive results in many meta-analyses

(2008) Jesper Brok et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

A re-evaluation of random-effects meta-analysis

(2008) Julian P. T. Higgins et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES A-STATISTICS IN SOCIETY

Empirical evidence of bias in treatment effect estimates in controlled trials with different interventions and outcomes: meta-epidemiological study

(2008) Lesley Wood et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Trial sequential analysis may establish when firm evidence is reached in cumulative meta-analysis

(2007) Jørn Wetterslev et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY