The results demonstrate that a theory-based approach to evidence synthesis is feasible, and can prove beneficial in understanding intervention design, even where there is insufficient empirical evidence to reliably synthesise effects of specific intervention components.
MS Excel with add-in MetaXL [freely available at http://www.epigear.com/index_files/metaxl.html] was utilised to synthesise the effect sizes from individual studies, with the most fully-adjusted included in the meta-analyses.
Multivariate meta-analysis is used to synthesise multiple outcome effects from separate studies (e.g. overall and disease free survival), whilst allowing for their correlation.
We report the findings of a pilot study that examines how distributional effects have been reported in systematic reviews and primary studies, what methods are available to synthesise distributional effects, and what conclusions can be drawn from these data.
Is he obviating the need for drugs by synthesising their effect with his music, or suggesting just how much more blissful you could feel by taking them?
In this review, we synthesise the effects of (1) temporal patterns of land management of individual fields, and (2) spatio-temporal interaction of several fields within catchments by applying semivariance analysis, which allows the extent and range of the different patterns to be compared.
Finally, we synthesise these effects, discuss the implications for conservation of arthropod diversity and identify remaining questions.
The forest plots summarised in figures 3 and 4 synthesise the effects of particular individual and environmental risk factors on HIV.
This is the first review, to the best of our knowledge, that synthesises the effect of patient features, primary care access, features of primary care practice, continuity of care and quality markers on both ED use and EHA.
