Systematic Reviews in Health Research: Meta-Analysis in Context - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405160500 ISBN 13: 9781405160506

Publisher: BMJ Books, 2022

Synopsis

Systematic Reviews in Health Research

Explore the cutting-edge of systematic reviews in healthcare

In this Third Edition of the classic Systematic Reviews textbook, now titled Systematic Reviews in Health Research, a team of distinguished researchers deliver a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the rapidly evolving area of systematic reviews and meta-analysis. The book demonstrates why systematic reviews―when conducted properly―provide the highest quality evidence on clinical and public health interventions and shows how they contribute to inference in many other contexts. The new edition reflects the broad role of systematic reviews, including:

• Twelve new chapters, covering additional study designs, methods and software, for example, on genetic association studies, prediction models, prevalence studies, network and dose-response meta-analysis
• Thorough update of 15 chapters focusing on systematic reviews of interventions
• Access to a companion website offering supplementary materials and practical exercises (www.systematic-reviews3.org)

A key text for health researchers, Systematic Reviews in Health Research is also an indispensable resource for practitioners, students, and instructors in the health sciences needing to understand research synthesis.

About this title

About the Author

Matthias Egger is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland and the Centre for Infectious Diseases Epidemiology and Research, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Julian P.T. Higgins is Professor of Evidence Synthesis at Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.

George Davey Smith is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Director of the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.

From the Back Cover

Explore the cutting-edge of systematic reviews in healthcare

In this Third Edition of the classic Systematic Reviews textbook, now titled Systematic Reviews in Health Research, a team of distinguished researchers deliver a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the rapidly evolving area of systematic reviews and meta-analysis. The book demonstrates why systematic reviews―when conducted properly―provide the highest quality evidence on clinical and public health interventions and shows how they contribute to inference in many other contexts. The new edition reflects the broad role of systematic reviews, including:

• Twelve new chapters, covering additional study designs, methods and software, for example, on genetic association studies, prediction models, prevalence studies, network and dose-response meta-analysis
• Thorough update of 15 chapters focusing on systematic reviews of interventions
• Access to a companion website offering supplementary materials and practical exercises (www.systematic-reviews3.org)

A key text for health researchers, Systematic Reviews in Health Research is also an indispensable resource for practitioners, students, and instructors in the health sciences needing to understand research synthesis.

Edition details

• Publisher: BMJ Books
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405160500
• ISBN 13: 9781405160506
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 608
• Editor: Egger Matthias, Higgins Julian P. T., Davey Smith George