Seeing the forest for the trees: How to interpret a meta-analysis forest plot

Affiliations

¹ Department of Mental Health Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
² Discipline of Psychiatry, Concord Clinical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
³ College of Health and Medicine, University of Tasmania, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁴ Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Hull, Hull, UK.

Editorial

Mousa Alavi et al. J Adv Nurs. 2021 Mar.

. 2021 Mar;77(3):1097-1101.

doi: 10.1111/jan.14721. Epub 2020 Dec 14.

¹ Department of Mental Health Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
² Discipline of Psychiatry, Concord Clinical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
³ College of Health and Medicine, University of Tasmania, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁴ Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Hull, Hull, UK.

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