Meta-analysis of individual participant data: rationale, conduct, and reporting

By R. Riley, Paul C. Lambert, Ghada Abo-Zaid. British medical journal, 2010

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Subfields: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Statistics and Probability, Surgery

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Prognosis Research Strategy (PROGRESS) 3: Prognostic Model Research (2013, background): “The collation and synthesis of individual participant data from multiple studies offers a natural opportunity to increase sample size [68].”
Efficacy of Self-guided Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in the Treatment of Depressive Symptoms: A Meta-analysis of Individual Participant Data (2017, result): “Two-stage IPDmeta-analysis facilitates analysis standardization across the included studies and estimationofoutcomes thatarenotavailable in thepublishedreports, such as treatment response.(29) Similarly,we calculated theOR of treatment response and numbers needed to treat (NNTs), which allowed us to”
Meta‐analysis using individual participant data: one‐stage and two‐stage approaches, and why they may differ (2016, background): “For such reasons, there has been an increase in the number of IPD meta-analyses in the last decade [5,6].”
What Is the Evidence for Physical Therapy Poststroke? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2014, neutral): “Although this systematic review was performed with the greatest of care, there are some methodological limitations like the language restriction, not hand-searching conference proceedings, missing outcome data [577], not performing meta-analyses of individual patient data [578], and the lack of both”
Prognosis Research Strategy (PROGRESS) 2: Prognostic Factor Research (2013, methodology): “Such an analysis uses original source data at the participant level and has many advantages over a meta-analysis of summary results from the literature [64].”
Acupuncture for chronic pain: individual patient data meta-analysis (2012, result): “Our findings have greater precision: all prior reviews have analyzed summary data, an approach of reduced statistical precision when compared with individual patient data meta-analysis.(6,109) In particular, we have demonstrated a robust difference between acupuncture and sham control that can be di”
Meta-analysis and the science of research synthesis (2018, positive): “These align with the more generalized open data movement which has considerable scope for remedying publication biases with pre-registration, minimising selective reporting with open data and facilitating direct generation of effects or multi-level analysis based on raw data 68,80,81 .”
External validation of clinical prediction models using big datasets from e-health records or IPD meta-analysis: opportunities and challenges (2016, background): “…increasingly researchers have access to “big” data, as evident by meta-analyses using individual participant data (IPD) from multiple studies, 27-30 and by analyses of registry databases containing electronic health (e-health) records for thousands or even millions of patients from multiple…”
Get real in individual participant data (IPD) meta‐analysis: a review of the methodology (2015, background): “For this reason, investigators increasingly embark into an individual participant data meta-analysis (IPD-MA) (Riley et al., 2010; Thompson, 2009; Stewart and Tierney, 2002).”