Accumulating research: a systematic account of how cumulative meta-analyses would have provided knowledge, improved health, reduced harm and saved resources

Background “Cumulative meta-analysis” describes a statistical procedure to calculate, retrospectively, summary estimates from the results of similar trials every time the results of a further trial in the series had become available. In the early 1990s, comparisons of cumulative meta-analyses of tre...

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Main Authors: Clarke, M, Brice, A, Chalmers, I
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2014