Feasibility of individual patient data meta-analyses in orthopaedic surgery
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- 作者：Benoit Villain ; Agnès Dechartres ; Patrick Boyer ; Philippe Ravaud
- 关键词：Individual patient data ; Meta ; analysis ; Data sharing ; Randomized controlled trials ; Surgery
- 刊名：BMC Medicine
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：December 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：13
- 期：1
- 全文大小：1,019 KB
- 刊物主题：Medicine/Public Health, general; Biomedicine general;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1741-7015
文摘
Background The number of individual patient data meta-analyses published is very low especially in surgical domains. Our aim was to assess the feasibility of individual patient data (IPD) meta-analyses in orthopaedic surgery by determining whether trialists agree to send IPD for eligible trials.