BMJ No 7109 Volume 315
Cover note Saturday 13 September 1997
 | In the hierarchy of assess- ments of clinical interventions, meta-analyses have edged their way to the top. Their sudden ascendancy has exposed them to particular scrutiny, and many articles in this week's journal relate to the question: just how closely do meta-analyses describe the real state of events? - RenÍe Magritte seemed the obvious choice for the cover artist\Mone of his preoccupations was the gap that exists between reality and its depiction. Les Promenades d'Euclide (reproduced by courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts) is a typical example. An added bonus was its inclusion of a funnel like shape, echoing the mathematically sanctioned device for identifying misleading meta-analyses (p 629). |
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