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Combining scores from different patient reported outcome measures in meta-analyses: when is it justified?

BACKGROUND: Combining outcomes and the use of standardized effect measures such as effect size and standardized response mean across instruments allows more comprehensive meta-analyses and should avoid selection bias. However, such analysis ideally requires that the instruments correlate strongly an...

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Autores principales: Puhan, Milo A, Soesilo, Irene, Guyatt, Gordon H, Schünemann, Holger J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1712224/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17156420
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7525-4-94