Meta-analyses: How to critically appraise them?

Nirav Patel¹, Navkaranbir S Bajaj^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
² Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA. bajaj.navkaran@gmail.com.
³ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. bajaj.navkaran@gmail.com.

Editorial

Nirav Patel et al. J Nucl Cardiol. 2018 Oct.

. 2018 Oct;25(5):1598-1600.

doi: 10.1007/s12350-017-0898-8. Epub 2017 Apr 26.

Nirav Patel¹, Navkaranbir S Bajaj^{2

3}

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
² Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA. bajaj.navkaran@gmail.com.
³ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. bajaj.navkaran@gmail.com.

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Negative predictive value of stress myocardial perfusion imaging and coronary computed tomography angiography: A meta-analysis.
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