A practical guide to understanding systematic reviews and meta-analyses

J. Gail Neely; Anthony E. Magit; Jason T. Rich; Courtney C.J. Voelker; Eric W. Wang; Randal C. Paniello; Brian Nussenbaum; Joseph P. Bradley

doi:10.1016/j.otohns.2009.09.005

A practical guide to understanding systematic reviews and meta-analyses

J. Gail Neely^*, Anthony E. Magit, Jason T. Rich, Courtney C.J. Voelker, Eric W. Wang, Randal C. Paniello, Brian Nussenbaum, Joseph P. Bradley

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A systematic review is a transparent and unbiased review of available information. The published systematic review must report the details of the conduct of the review as one might report the details of a primary research project. A meta-analysis is a powerful and rigorous statistical approach to synthesize data from multiple studies, preferably obtained from a systematic review, in order to enlarge the sample size from smaller studies to test the original hypothesis and/or to generate new ones. The objective of this article is to serve as an easy to read practical guide to understand systematic reviews and meta-analyses for those reading them and for those who might plan to prepare them.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	6-14
Number of pages	9
Journal	Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Volume	142
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.otohns.2009.09.005
State	Published - Jan 2010

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