Systematic reviews in health care: Investigating and dealing with publication and other biases in meta-analysis.

By J. Sterne, Matthias Egger, George Davey Smith. British medical journal, 2001

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Subfields: Epidemiology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Physiology

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Prevention of Preeclampsia and Intrauterine Growth Restriction With Aspirin Started in Early Pregnancy: A Meta-Analysis (2010, neutral): “Method of randomization Computer-generated 3 (25) 11 (50) Sealed envelopes — 2 (9) Others 3 (25) 4 (18) Not reported 6 (50) 5 (23) Intention-to-treat Yes 4 (33) 10 (46) Not reported 8 (67) 12 (55) Blinding Double 4 (33) 16 (73) Single 1 (8) 2 (9) None 3 (25) 2 (9) Not reported 4 (33) 2 (9)”
The risk of lymphoma development in autoimmune diseases: a meta-analysis. (2005, result): “However, this result might not be reliable, because the number of studies is relatively small.(34) Some studies had a selection bias because patients were hospitalized (data were obtained from hospital discharge registries), and therefore the more severe cases were considered.”
Tourism and GDP (2013, methodology): “The detection power of both tests has been questioned (Macaskill, Walter, and Irving 2001; Sterne, Egger, and Smith 2001), and following Palma-Pérez and DelgadoRodríguez (2006) we also consider, in the last column of Table 3, the quantitative interpretation of the funnel plot diagrams (available…”
PICTURE THIS: A SIMPLE GRAPH THAT REVEALS MUCH ADO ABOUT RESEARCH (2010, neutral): “…a result, produce highly skewed funnel graphs (Stanley and Rosenberger, 2009).6 Second, funnel asymmetry might arise from the systematic heterogeneity of the data and/or the methodologies employed by different studies (see, for example, Sterne et al., 2001; Terrin et al., 2005; Lau et al., 2006).”
Assisted reproductive technologies and the risk of birth defects--a systematic review. (2005, background): “Aside from publication bias, another possible explanation for an asymmetrical funnel plot is the exaggeration of observed treatment effects in small studies of low quality (Sterne et al., 2001).”
Making literature reviews more reliable through application of lessons from systematic reviews (2015, background): “Accordingly, including only peer-reviewed publications in a review can lead to overestimation of an effect (Table 1, point 5), in some instances with important implications for review findings (Møller & Jennions 2001; Sterne et al. 2001).”