Recommendations for examining and interpreting funnel plot asymmetry in meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials

Jonathan A C Sterne; Alex J Sutton; John P A Ioannidis; Norma Terrin; David R Jones; Joseph Lau; James Carpenter; Gerta Rücker; Roger M Harbord; Christopher H Schmid; Jennifer Tetzlaff; Jonathan J Deeks; Jaime Peters; Petra Macaskill; Guido Schwarzer; Sue Duval; Douglas G Altman; David Moher; Julian P T Higgins

doi:10.1136/bmj.d4002

Recommendations for examining and interpreting funnel plot asymmetry in meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials

Jonathan A C Sterne, Alex J Sutton, John P A Ioannidis, Norma Terrin, David R Jones, Joseph Lau, James Carpenter, Gerta Rücker, Roger M Harbord, Christopher H Schmid, Jennifer Tetzlaff, Jonathan J Deeks, Jaime Peters, Petra Macaskill, Guido Schwarzer, Sue Duval, Douglas G Altman, David Moher, Julian P T Higgins

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	d4002
Journal	BMJ
Volume	343
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d4002
Publication status	Published - 2011

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Sterne, J. A. C., Sutton, A. J., Ioannidis, J. P. A., Terrin, N., Jones, D. R., Lau, J., Carpenter, J., Rücker, G., Harbord, R. M., Schmid, C. H., Tetzlaff, J., Deeks, J. J., Peters, J., Macaskill, P., Schwarzer, G., Duval, S., Altman, D. G., Moher, D., & Higgins, J. P. T. (2011). Recommendations for examining and interpreting funnel plot asymmetry in meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials. BMJ, 343, d4002. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d4002

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