Goals and tools in Meta-analysis

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• Format Lessons, Texts
• Language/s English
• Target Audience Further education
• EBM Stage 3 - Appraising evidence
• Duration <5 mins
• Difficulty Introductory

Key Concepts addressed

• 3-2a Do the outcomes measured matter to you?
• 2-2a Reviews of fair comparisons should be systematic
• 2-2b All fair comparisons and outcomes should be reported
• 2-2c Treatment comparisons may be sensitive to assumptions
• 2-3b Relative measures of effects can be misleading

Details

At the end of this module, you will be able to:

1. Know the steps in performing a meta-analysis: identification, selection, abstraction, and analysis.
2. Distinguish between random and fixed effects models when reading a meta-analysis
3. Evaluate the validity of a meta-analysis

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