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. 2001 Jul 7;323(7303):42-6.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.323.7303.42.

Systematic reviews in health care: Assessing the quality of controlled clinical trials

P Jüni  1 , D G Altman, M Egger
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Systematic reviews in health care: Assessing the quality of controlled clinical trials

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Meta-analysis of four empirical studies relating key aspects of methodological quality of controlled trials to their effect estimates. Meta-analysis was by random effects model. Size of squares is proportional to inverse of variance of estimate
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