Series Introduction; Preface; Contents; Contributors; Meta-analysis: Past and Present Challenges; Meta-analysis of Heterogeneously Reported Study Results: A Bayesian Approach; Meta-analysis versus Large Trials: Resolving the Controversy; A Bayesian Meta-analysis of Randomized Mega-trials for the Choice of Thrombolytic Agents in Acute Myocardial Infarction; Combining Studies with Continuous and Dichotomous Responses: A Latent-Variables Approach; Computer-modeling and Graphical Strategies for Meta-analysis; Meta-analysis for 2 x 2 Tables with Multiple Treatment Groups
Summary
A discussion of meta-analysis strategies in medicine and health policy. It builds on sound principles, develops methodologies to solve statistical problems and presents concrete applications used by experienced medical practitioners and health policy-makers. There are numerous open questions
