American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 154, No. 10 : 972-973
Copyright © 2001 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
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Meta-Analysis, Decision Analysis, and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Methods for Quantitative Synthesis in Medicine, Second Edition
Division of Public Health Biology and Epidemiology School of Public Health University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720
Only an epidemiologist living and working in a cave (without an Internet connection) could miss the massive explosion in both the number of meta-analyses being published (91 titles using the term "meta-analysis" reported in MEDLINE in 1990 and 395 in 2000) and textbooks devoted to the technique of meta-analysis (54 texts available for purchase at Amazon.com in July 2001). Dr. Diana Petitti's update
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