Abstract
This is one of the lectures (April 2020) given for the Intermediate Epidemiology course.
My take home messages from this lecture were;
- Always appropriate to perform a systematic review but a meta-analysis may not always be appropriate
- Random effects model is always to be preferred (will reduce to fixed effect if no between study variation)
- Biases may also exist in MA and so critical analytical and reading skills remain essential
Date
Apr 1, 2020 12:00 PM — 1:00 PM
Location
McGill University
MUHC, Montreal, QC H4A 3J1
Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology
I am a tenured (full) professor with a joint appointment in the Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics where I work as a clinical cardiologist and do research in cardiovascular epidemiology.