The case of the misleading funnel plot

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 14 Sep 2006 Greece English Publisher:BMJJournal:BMJ, volume 333, pages 597-600 (issn: 0959-8138, eissn: 1468-5833,

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Authors: Lau, J.; Ioannidis, J. P.; Terrin, N.; Schmid, C. H.; Olkin, I.;

doi: 10.1136/bmj.333.7568.597

pmid: 16974018

pmc: PMC1570006

The case of the misleading funnel plot

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Abstract

Evidence based medicine insists on rigorous standards to appraise clinical interventions. Failure to apply the same rules to its own tools could be equally damaging

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Evidence-Based Medicine, Statistics as Topic/*methods, Bias, Meta-Analysis as Topic, Bias (Epidemiology), *Meta-Analysis as Topic, Statistics as Topic, *Evidence-Based Medicine, Sensitivity and Specificity

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