A guide to systematic review and meta-analysis of prognostic factor studies

Richard D Riley^{1

2}, Karel G M Moons^{3

4

2}, Kym I E Snell⁵, Joie Ensor⁵, Lotty Hooft^{3

4}, Douglas G Altman⁶, Jill Hayden⁷, Gary S Collins⁶, Thomas P A Debray^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Prognosis Research, Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK r.riley@keele.ac.uk.
² Contributed equally.
³ Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
⁴ Cochrane Netherlands, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
⁵ Centre for Prognosis Research, Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK.
⁶ Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁷ Centre for Clinical Research, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Richard D Riley et al. BMJ. 2019.

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. 2019 Jan 30:364:k4597.

doi: 10.1136/bmj.k4597.

Richard D Riley^{1

2}, Karel G M Moons^{3

4

2}, Kym I E Snell⁵, Joie Ensor⁵, Lotty Hooft^{3

4}, Douglas G Altman⁶, Jill Hayden⁷, Gary S Collins⁶, Thomas P A Debray^{3

4}

¹ Centre for Prognosis Research, Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK r.riley@keele.ac.uk.
² Contributed equally.
³ Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
⁴ Cochrane Netherlands, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
⁵ Centre for Prognosis Research, Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK.
⁶ Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁷ Centre for Clinical Research, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Competing interests: None.