Because of the pressure for timely, informed decisions in public health and clinical practice and the explosion of information in the scientific literature, research results must be synthesized. Meta-analyses are increasingly used to address this prob- lem, and they often evaluate observational studies. A workshop was held in Atlanta, Ga, in April 1997, to examine the reporting of meta-analyses of observational studies and to make recommendations to aid authors, reviewers, editors, and readers. Participants
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Cleophas, T. J., & Zwinderman, A. H. (2017). Meta-analysis of Observational Studies. In Modern Meta-Analysis (pp. 101–114). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55895-0_8
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