THE EFFECT OF ENGLISH-LANGUAGE RESTRICTION ON SYSTEMATIC REVIEW-BASED META-ANALYSES: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF EMPIRICAL STUDIES
THE EFFECT OF ENGLISH-LANGUAGE RESTRICTION ON SYSTEMATIC REVIEW-BASED META-ANALYSES: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF EMPIRICAL STUDIES
A. Morrison,Julie Polisena,7 Autores,D. Rabb
2012 · DOI: 10.1017/S0266462312000086
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care · 927 Citações
TLDR
Overall, this work found no evidence of a systematic bias from the use of language restrictions in systematic review-based meta-analyses in conventional medicine, and the precision of pooled estimates improved with the inclusion of LOE trials.