title: Systematic reviews in health care: Investigating and dealing with publication and other biases in meta-analysis.
authors.affiliation: Medical Research Council Health Services Research Collaboration, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2PR. jonathan.sterne@bristol.ac.uk
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Sterne
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Egger
authors.forename: G D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D015982:Bias; D006705:Homeopathy; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D015990:Placebo Effect; D013223:Statistics as Topic