Missing participant outcome data in meta-analysis. Part I

Spineli, Loukia M.; Pandis, Nikolaos (2021). Missing participant outcome data in meta-analysis. Part I. American journal of orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics, 160(3), pp. 481-483. Elsevier 10.1016/j.ajodo.2021.06.001

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Missing participant outcome data (MOD) are ubiquitous in clinical trials and may threaten the validity of the results. The risk of bias associated with MOD is carried over to the meta-analysis by including clinical trials with participant losses.1 In this
section, we discuss MOD, and we present common statistical methods to address MOD in a pairwise metaanalysis. Despite their conceptual and statistical shortcomings, these methods have prevailed in the published systematic reviews for their simplicity.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Further Contribution)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > School of Dental Medicine > Department of Orthodontics

UniBE Contributor:

Pandis, Nikolaos

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

1097-6752

Publisher:

Elsevier

Language:

English

Submitter:

Renate Imhof-Etter

Date Deposited:

11 Oct 2021 13:52

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:53

Publisher DOI:

10.1016/j.ajodo.2021.06.001

PubMed ID:

34456008

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/159592

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/159592

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