TY - JOUR
T1 - Meta-analysis
T2 - Its strengths and limitations
AU - Walker, Esteban
AU - Hernandez, Adrian V.
AU - Kattan, Michael W.
PY - 2008/6
Y1 - 2008/6
N2 - Nowadays, doctors face an overwhelming amount of information, even in narrow areas of interest. In response, reviews designed to summarize the large volumes of information are frequently published. When a review is done systematically, following certain criteria, and the results are pooled and analyzed quantitatively, it is called a meta-analysis. A well-designed meta-analysis can provide valuable information for researchers, policy-makers, and clinicians. However, there are many critical caveats in performing and interpreting them, and thus many ways in which meta-analyses can yield misleading information.
AB - Nowadays, doctors face an overwhelming amount of information, even in narrow areas of interest. In response, reviews designed to summarize the large volumes of information are frequently published. When a review is done systematically, following certain criteria, and the results are pooled and analyzed quantitatively, it is called a meta-analysis. A well-designed meta-analysis can provide valuable information for researchers, policy-makers, and clinicians. However, there are many critical caveats in performing and interpreting them, and thus many ways in which meta-analyses can yield misleading information.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/45849098367
U2 - 10.3949/ccjm.75.6.431
DO - 10.3949/ccjm.75.6.431
M3 - Artículo de revisión
C2 - 18595551
AN - SCOPUS:45849098367
SN - 0891-1150
VL - 75
SP - 431
EP - 439
JO - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JF - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
IS - 6
ER -