Intro
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Doing A Meta-Analysis
Learning outcomes
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Understand different types of meta-analysis
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Familiarize yourself with the Stata interface
- Be able to conduct meta-analysis of:
- Binary data - such hypertensive, major cardiovascular events, etc
- Generic data - hazard ratio, smd, etc
- Continuous data - systolic blood pressure, pain score, etc
- Prevalence data - % hypertension, dementia, smoking status, etc
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Be able to conduct meta-analysis using the following steps:
- STEP 1 - LOAD DATA
- STEP 2 - DECLARE, UPDATE & DESCRIBE meta data
- STEP 3 - SUMMARIZE meta data by using a TABLE or a FOREST PLOT
- STEP 4- EXPLORE HETEROGENEITY - SUB-GROUP and META-REGRESSION analysis
- STEP 5- EXPLORE and ADDRESS SMALL-STUDY EFFECTS