Distribution and epidemiological characteristics of published individual patient data meta-analyses.

Yafang Huang,Chen Mao,Jin-Qiu Yuan,Zu-Yao Yang,Meng-Yang Di,Wilson W.S. Tam,Jin-Ling Tang

Distribution and epidemiological characteristics of published individual patient data meta-analyses.

2014

Yafang Huang
Chen Mao
Jin-Qiu Yuan
Zu-Yao Yang
Meng-Yang Di
Wilson W.S. Tam
Jin-Ling Tang

Background Individual patient data meta-analyses (IPDMAs) prevail as the gold standard in clinical evaluations. We investigated the distribution and epidemiological characteristics of published IPDMA articles.

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Meta-Analysis as Topic
Alternative medicine
Gold standard
Epidemiology
Bioinformatics
Medicine
Interquartile range
Data availability
Cochrane Library
patient data
Grey literature
Family medicine

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