Analysis
Uncertainty in heterogeneity estimates in meta-analyses
BMJ 2007; 335 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39343.408449.80 (Published 01 November 2007) Cite this as: BMJ 2007;335:914
Related articles
- Education And Debate Published: 04 September 2003; BMJ 327 doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7414.557
- Education And Debate Published: 15 October 1994; BMJ 309 doi:10.1136/bmj.309.6960.1007
- Editorial Published: 13 December 2007; BMJ 335 doi:10.1136/bmj.39399.552245.80
- EDITORIALS Published: 23 November 2007; BMJ doi:10.1136/bmj.39399.552245.80
- Analysis Published: 19 June 2008; BMJ 336 doi:10.1136/bmj.a117
- Paper Published: 06 October 2005; BMJ 331 doi:10.1136/bmj.38569.471007.AE
- PAPERS Published: 12 September 2005; BMJ doi:10.1136/bmj.38569.471007.AE
- Research Methods & Reporting Published: 21 July 2009; BMJ 339 doi:10.1136/bmj.b2700
- PAPERS Published: 04 July 2005; BMJ doi:10.1136/bmj.38503.623646.8F
- Paper Published: 04 August 2005; BMJ 331 doi:10.1136/bmj.38503.623646.8F
- PAPERS Published: 11 November 2005; BMJ doi:10.1136/bmj.38623.768588.47
- Paper Published: 17 November 2005; BMJ 331 doi:10.1136/bmj.38623.768588.47
- Research Published: 14 June 2011; BMJ 342 doi:10.1136/bmj.d3215
- Research Published: 04 August 2011; BMJ 343 doi:10.1136/bmj.d4588
- Research Published: 07 November 2011; BMJ 343 doi:10.1136/bmj.d6829
- Research Published: 12 February 2013; BMJ 346 doi:10.1136/bmj.f707
- Research Published: 01 April 2014; BMJ 348 doi:10.1136/bmj.g2035
- Research Published: 02 January 2015; BMJ 350 doi:10.1136/bmj.g7607
- Research Published: 20 September 2016; BMJ 354 doi:10.1136/bmj.i4707
- Paper Published: 30 June 2005; BMJ 331 doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7507.15
- PAPERS Published: 01 July 2005; BMJ doi:10.1136/bmj.38506.594977.E0
- Paper Published: 14 July 2005; BMJ 331 doi:10.1136/bmj.38506.594977.E0
- PAPERS Published: 10 August 2005; BMJ doi:10.1136/bmj.38512.664167.8F
- Paper Published: 01 September 2005; BMJ 331 doi:10.1136/bmj.38512.664167.8F
- Paper Published: 13 October 2005; BMJ 331 doi:10.1136/bmj.38595.518542.3A
- PAPERS Published: 29 September 2005; BMJ doi:10.1136/bmj.38595.518542.3A
- PAPERS Published: 23 September 2005; BMJ doi:10.1136/bmj.38595.518542.3A
- Research Published: 05 June 2008; BMJ 336 doi:10.1136/bmj.39560.759572.BE
- Research Methods & Reporting Published: 26 October 2021; BMJ 375 doi:10.1136/bmj.n2233
See more
- Sixty seconds on . . . 10 000 stepsBMJ March 08, 2024, 384 q598; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q598
- Scarlett McNally: Enabling active travel can improve the UK’s healthBMJ March 06, 2024, 384 q522; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q522
- Scarlett McNally: Boosting swimming for health and joyBMJ February 20, 2024, 384 q393; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q393
- Variability in blood pressure could help predict heart attack and stroke risk, researchers sayBMJ February 09, 2024, 384 q363; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q363
- Scarlett McNally: Preventing obesity is different from curing it—and even more urgentBMJ January 23, 2024, 384 q134; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q134
Cited by...
- What works for whom and why? Treatment effects and their moderators among forcibly displaced people receiving psychological and psychosocial interventions: study protocol for an individual patient data meta-analysis
- Is there a bilingual advantage in auditory attention among children? A systematic review and meta-analysis of standardized auditory attention tests
- Systematic reviews and meta-analyses in regional anesthesia and pain medicine (Part II): guidelines for performing the systematic review
- Treatments for partial remission of major depressive disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Dementia Risk Following Ischemic Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Factors Collected at Time of Stroke Diagnosis
- Psychological interventions for adult PTSD: A network and pairwise meta-analysis of short and long-term efficacy, acceptability and trial quality
- Differential COVID-19 infection rates in children, adults, and elderly: evidence from 38 pre-vaccination national seroprevalence studies
- Efficacy and acceptability of next step treatment strategies in adults with treatment-resistant major depressive disorder: protocol for systematic review and network meta-analysis
- Framework for the synthesis of non-randomised studies and randomised controlled trials: a guidance on conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis for healthcare decision making
- Pharmacological treatment for connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung involvement: Protocol for an overview of systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- Dementia Risk Following Ischemic Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Factors Collected at Time of Stroke Diagnosis
- Strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology using mendelian randomisation (STROBE-MR): explanation and elaboration
- Comparison of commonly used methods in random effects meta-analysis: application to preclinical data in drug discovery research
- Higher Body Mass Index is an Important Risk factor in COVID-19 patients: A Systematic Review
- Effects of statins on lipid profile of kidney transplant recipients: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
- Is there an association between long-term antibiotics for acne and subsequent infection sequelae and antimicrobial resistance? A systematic review protocol
- Risk of hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke in patients with Alzheimer disease: A synthesis of the literature
- Effects of physical exercise during pregnancy on mothers and neonates health: a protocol for an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
- Dairy Intake and Body Composition and Cardiometabolic Traits among Adults: Mendelian Randomization Analysis of 182041 Individuals from 18 Studies
- Importance of vitamin D in acute and critically ill children with subgroup analyses of sepsis and respiratory tract infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Neutrophil counts and cancer prognosis: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational studies
- Telehealth for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
- Physical activity and cancer: an umbrella review of the literature including 22 major anatomical sites and 770 000 cancer cases
- Dairy Consumption and Body Mass Index Among Adults: Mendelian Randomization Analysis of 184802 Individuals from 25 Studies
- Sociodemographic, Psychologic Health, and Lifestyle Outcomes in Young Adults on Renal Replacement Therapy
- Does leisure time physical activity protect against low back pain? Systematic review and meta-analysis of 36 prospective cohort studies
- Prognostic impact of vascular invasion in differentiated thyroid carcinoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- A meta-analysis of prognostic roles of molecular markers in papillary thyroid carcinoma
- Sponsorship bias in the comparative efficacy of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy for adult depression: meta-analysis
- Effect of psychotherapy for depression on quality of life: meta-analysis
- FTO genotype and weight loss: systematic review and meta-analysis of 9563 individual participant data from eight randomised controlled trials
- Obesity As a Risk Factor for Anthracyclines and Trastuzumab Cardiotoxicity in Breast Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
- Plea for routinely presenting prediction intervals in meta-analysis
- Influence of baseline severity on antidepressant efficacy for anxiety disorders: meta-analysis and meta-regression
- Cardiovascular effects and safety of long-term colchicine treatment: Cochrane review and meta-analysis
- Radiofrequency Ablation Versus Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation: Meta-Analysis of Quality of Life, Morbidity, and Mortality
- Large-scale assessment of polyglutamine repeat expansions in Parkinson disease
- Efficacy of cognitive bias modification interventions in anxiety and depression: meta-analysis
- Psychotherapy for subclinical depression: meta-analysis
- Beneficial and harmful consequences of prepartum and postpartum antidepressant exposure
- Vitamin D and multiple health outcomes: umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational studies and randomised trials
- Type 2 diabetes and cancer: umbrella review of meta-analyses of observational studies
- Does cognitive behaviour therapy have an enduring effect that is superior to keeping patients on continuation pharmacotherapy? A meta-analysis
- Comparative effect sizes in randomised trials from less developed and more developed countries: meta-epidemiological assessment
- Differential mortality rates in major and subthreshold depression: meta-analysis of studies that measured both
- A Nutrient-Wide Association Study on Blood Pressure
- A multi-centre clinico-genetic analysis of the VPS35 gene in Parkinson disease indicates reduced penetrance for disease-associated variants
- ENDOCRINOLOGY IN PREGNANCY: Thyroid antibodies and risk of preterm delivery: a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies
- Large-scale replication and heterogeneity in Parkinson disease genetic loci
- Severe mental illness in 33 588 prisoners worldwide: systematic review and meta-regression analysis
- Prognostic effect size of cardiovascular biomarkers in datasets from observational studies versus randomised trials: meta-epidemiology study
- Impact of CYP2C19 variant genotypes on clinical efficacy of antiplatelet treatment with clopidogrel: systematic review and meta-analysis
- Application of Advanced Statistics in Ophthalmology
- Mortality associated with tiotropium mist inhaler in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
- Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies confirms a susceptibility locus for knee osteoarthritis on chromosome 7q22
- The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies that evaluate healthcare interventions: explanation and elaboration
- Development of the Veritas plot and its application in cardiac surgery: an evidence-synthesis graphic tool for the clinician to assess multiple meta-analyses reporting on a common outcome
- Double Versus Single Stenting for Coronary Bifurcation Lesions: A Meta-Analysis
- What Is the Strength of Evidence for Heart Failure Disease-Management Programs?
- Prediction of Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes and Established Cardiovascular Risk Factors by Genome-Wide Association Markers
- Long-term use of thiazolidinediones and fractures in type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis
- Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Mortality and Events With Statin Treatments: A Network Meta-Analysis Involving More Than 65,000 Patients
- Reasons or excuses for avoiding meta-analysis in forest plots
- Doctors versus patients global assessments of treatment effectiveness: empirical survey of diverse treatments in clinical trials
- What Have We Learned about Optimal Induction Therapy for Lupus Nephritis (III through V) from Randomized, Controlled Trials?
- Antithrombin III in critically ill patients