The Missing Medians: Exclusion of Ordinal Data from Meta-Analyses.

BACKGROUND:Meta-analyses are considered the gold standard of evidence-based health care, and are used to guide clinical decisions and health policy. A major limitation of current meta-analysis techniques is their inability to pool ordinal data. Our objectives were to determine the extent of this pro...

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Main Authors: Toby B Cumming, Leonid Churilov, Emily S Sena
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4689383?pdf=render