I'm doing a meta-analysis in R with surgical patients. How do you do a meta-anlayis with longitudinal type studies??
We are looking at radiographic values preop, postop, and follow up (3 continuous variables).
I'm having a difficulty comparing studies, because the blogs i find want case and control inputs.
Would it be wrong to find the effect size for each study and then pool the results?
For example:
Study A.
Preop values, Post op values, Follow up values
Study B.
Preop Values, post op values, folllow up values
Hi Jennifer,
I think it would be fairly reasonable to pool the appropriate results for an overall estimate of the pre-op, post-op and follow-up values.
Perhaps you could share more information on the specific variables you are looking at?
Regards,
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