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Wang, Rui; Dwan, Kerry; Showell, Marian G.; van Wely, Madelon; Mol, Ben W.; Askie, Lisa; Seidler, Anna Lene – Research Synthesis Methods, 2022
Publishing systematic review protocols is a fundamental part of systematic reviews to ensure transparency and reproducibility. In this scoping review, we aimed to evaluate reporting of Cochrane systematic review protocols with network meta-analyses (NMA). We searched all Cochrane NMA protocols published in 2018 and 2019, and assessed the…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Meta Analysis, Literature Reviews, Network Analysis
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Shadish, William R.; Lecy, Jesse D. – Research Synthesis Methods, 2015
This article looks at the impact of meta-analysis and then explores why meta-analysis was developed at the time and by the scholars it did in the social sciences in the 1970s. For the first problem, impact, it examines the impact of meta-analysis using citation network analysis. The impact is seen in the sciences, arts and humanities, and on such…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Research Methodology, Social Science Research, Citations (References)
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Hansen, Richard A.; Zeng, Peng; Ryan, Patrick; Gao, Juan; Sonawane, Kalyani; Teeter, Benjamin; Westrich, Kimberly; Dubois, Robert W. – Research Synthesis Methods, 2014
Distributed data networks representing large diverse populations are an expanding focus of drug safety research. However, interpreting results is difficult when treatment effect estimates vary across datasets (i.e., heterogeneity). In a previous study, risk estimates were generated for selected drugs and potential adverse outcomes. Analyses were…
Descriptors: Drug Therapy, Meta Analysis, Regression (Statistics), Safety