title: Meta-analyses in surgical publications: how qualitative is this evidence-based information?
authors.affiliation: Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany First Department of Surgery, Agia Olga General Hospital, Athens, Greece georgios.sotiropoulos@uni-due.de.
authors.forename: Georgios C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Sotiropoulos
authors.forename: Christos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dervenis
mesh_terms: D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D013502:General Surgery / Q000592:standards*; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D011643:Publishing / Q000592:standards; D011786:Quality Control; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Q000592:standards; D012693:Serial Publications / Q000592:standards*