Meta-Analysis of Odds Ratios: Current Good Practices.

Background: Many systematic reviews of randomized clinical trials lead to meta-analyses of odds ratios (ORs). The customary methods of estimating an overall OR involve weighted averages of the individual trials' estimates of the logarithm of the OR. That approach, however, has several shortcomings,...

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Published in:Medical Care Vol. 55; no. 4; pp. 328 - 336
Main Authors: Chang, Bei-Hung, Hoaglin, David C
Format: meta analysis research Journal Article
Published: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Apr2017
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