#1447: Meta-Analysis

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Many meta-analysis studies include the phrase “we searched Medline, Embase, and Cochrane for studies…”

This has led to meta-meta-analysses comparing meta-analysis methods.

eg. M Sampson (2003), PL Royle (2005)

E Lee (2011), AR Lemeshow (2005)

We performed a meta-meta-meta-analysis of these meta-meta-analyses.

Methods: We searched Medline, embase, and Cochrane for the phrase ‘we searched Medline, Embase, and Cochrane for the phrase “we searched Medline, Embase, and]]

Life Goal #28: Get a paper rejected with the comment “too meta”