Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is a scientific decision-making structured process aiming to support political decisions in healthcare. HTA bases on the best available scientific evidence, which according to evidence-based medicine is given by systematic literature review with metaanalysis. After introducing the key steps of a meta-analysis, this paper describes a MATLAB® tool developed to support biomedical engineers (BME) in performing meta-analyses. The tool was validated comparing its results with a freely available tool for meta-analysis, proving that its results were correct at the third decimal. Being developed in MATLAB®, this tool should result more user-friendly for engineers than other tools currently available and it will be easily integrated with the various tools supporting other phases of an HTA study.
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Meccariello, P., Castaldo, R., Montesinos, L., Guglielmelli, E., & Pecchia, L. (2016). A matlab tool to support systematic literature review with meta-analysis. In IFMBE Proceedings (Vol. 57, pp. 994–996). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32703-7_195
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