• J Nucl Cardiol · Apr 2017

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    Conducting and interpreting high-quality systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

    • Rajat Kalra, Pankaj Arora, Charity Morgan, Fadi G Hage, Ami E Iskandrian, and Navkaranbir S Bajaj.
    • Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
    • J Nucl Cardiol. 2017 Apr 1; 24 (2): 471-481.

    AbstractSystematic reviews and meta-analyses are powerful tools for summarizing existing literature and combining evidence from multiple studies. These methods employ complex searches, statistical techniques, and presentation techniques with which the clinical audience may not be very familiar. This review article aims to familiarize the clinical audience with the various techniques employed to conduct a high-quality systematic review and meta-analysis.

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