Reasons or excuses for avoiding meta-analysis in forest plots.
Clinical Trials and Evidence Based Medicine Unit, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine and Biomedical Research Institute, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Ioannina 45110, Greece. jioannid@cc.uoi.gr
John P A
JP
Ioannidis
Nikolaos A
NA
Patsopoulos
Hannah R
HR
Rothstein
D003626:Data Display; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D018401:Sample Size; D013223:Statistics as Topic