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Paschalis Karakasis; Konstantinos I. Bougioukas; Konstantinos Pamporis; Nikolaos Fragakis; Anna-Bettina Haidich – Research Synthesis Methods, 2024
This study aimed to assess the methods and outcomes of The Measurement Tool to Assess systematic Reviews (AMSTAR) 2 appraisals in overviews of reviews (overviews) of interventions in the cardiovascular field and identify factors that are associated with these outcomes. MEDLINE, Scopus, and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews were searched…
Descriptors: Human Body, Intervention, Literature Reviews, Measurement Techniques
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Conor O. Chandler; Irina Proskorovsky – Research Synthesis Methods, 2024
In health technology assessment, matching-adjusted indirect comparison (MAIC) is the most common method for pairwise comparisons that control for imbalances in baseline characteristics across trials. One of the primary challenges in MAIC is the need to properly account for the additional uncertainty introduced by the matching process. Limited…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Influence of Technology, Evaluation Methods, Methods Research
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Boon, Michele Hilton; Thomson, Hilary – Research Synthesis Methods, 2021
Effect direction (evidence to indicate improvement, deterioration, or no change in an outcome) can be used as a standardized metric which enables the synthesis of diverse effect measures in systematic reviews. The effect direction (ED) plot was developed to support the synthesis and visualization of effect direction data. Methods for the ED plot…
Descriptors: Visualization, Data Analysis, Measurement Techniques, Guidance