Article Systematic Reviews With Meta-Analysis: Why, When, and How?
Systematic review is the entire process from selection of papers to report writing from the findings and it's systematic always and meta-analysis is just a part of systematic review that refers to the statistical approach to combining the data derived from a systematic review.
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Muhammed Ashraful Alam cuts to the chase briefly. You may look as well at meta-synthesis analysis of the literature. It is a qualitative method in which you organise the literature into clusters or themes, providing more insights into a problem, phenomena, or topic.
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Sorry dear Rami Alkhudary , meta-analysis is never a qualitative method and it can be done both in quantitative and qualitative research and it's mostly used in quantitative research. And basically, meta-analysis is a statistical analysis that combines the results of multiple scientific studies.
Meta-analysis is usually done for single conclusion from many studies either quantitative or qualitative or both.
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Dear Muhammed Ashraful Alam , please look at (Article Towards a Methodology for Developing Evidence-Informed Manag...
). In their seminal work, Transfield et al. (2003) distinguish between meta-analysis and meta-synthesis analysis of the literature.
You can look too dear Rami Alkhudary
Meta-analysis is a quantitative, formal, epidemiological study design used to systematically assess previous research studies to derive conclusions about that body of research. Outcomes from a meta-analysis may include a more precise estimate of the effect of treatment or risk factor for disease, or other outcomes, than any individual study contributing to the pooled analysis.
Meta-analysis in medical research
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Goyal, A., Elminawy, M., Kerezoudis, P., Lu, V., Yolcu, Y., Alvi, M., & Bydon, M. (2019). Impact of obesity on outcomes following lumbar spine surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery, 177, 27-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clineuro.2018.12.012
Nakamura, A., van Der Waerden, J., Melchior, M., Bolze, C., El-Khoury, F., & Pryor, L. (2019). Physical activity during pregnancy and postpartum depression: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 246, 29-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2018.12.009
Yes, sure dear Muhammed Ashraful Alam I agree with you about the meta-analysis approach. What I proposed is the meta-synthesis analysis approach.
Look at the question dear Rami Alkhudary and try to share on that aspect please.
Meta-analysis not the meta-synthesis analysis there.
I think it's enough here.
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According to the Cochrane definition, systematic reviews aim to “identify, appraise and synthesize all the empirical evidence that meets pre-specified eligibility criteria to answer a specific research question”.
A meta-analysis is a combination of the results of individual studies aimed at producing an overall statistic.
Therefore, a systematic review may (or may not) be coupled with a meta-analysis, which is usually considered feasible when study findings are sufficiently homogeneous (in terms of PICOS criteria) and when the pooled estimate is meaningful.
In brief, it is a matter of difference between qualitative and quantitative methods to synthesize the scientific literature.
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Systematic review is the qualitative part of the research where we narrate the papers collected and their findings.Meta anslyis is the statistical analysis of the filtered papers for finding out the effect size of the same.
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A systematic review is a review that is conducted according to clearly stated data gathering protocol, scientific research methods and is designed to minimize biases and errors inherent to traditional, narrative reviews.
Meta-analysis has the same initial parts as systematic reviews. Also, Meta-analysis adds a statistical technique for combining the results of independent, but similar, studies to obtain an overall estimate of effect size.
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please take a look at these RG links:
Article Systematic review and meta-analysis
Article Introduction to systematic review and meta-analysis
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