Goals and tools in Meta-analysis

Format: 2-2 Comparison groups should be similar

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Language/s: 3-6 Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

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Short Description:

Meta-analysis in Michigan State University’s Evidence-Based Medicine Course.

Key Concepts addressed:

• 1-8 More is not necessarily better
• 2-5 People should not know which treatment they get
• 2-11 All fair comparisons and outcomes should be reported
• 2-13 Relative measures of effects can be misleading

Details

At the end of this module, you will be able to:

1. Know the steps in performing a meta-analysis: identification, selection, abstraction, and analysis.
2. Distinguish between random and fixed effects models when reading a meta-analysis
3. Evaluate the validity of a meta-analysis

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