Recommendations for examining and interpreting funnel plot asymmetry in meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials

Jonathan A C Sterne; Alex J. Sutton; John P A Ioannidis; Norma Terrin; David R. Jones; Joseph Lau; James Carpenter; Gerta Rücker; Roger M. Harbord; Christopher H. Schmid; Jennifer Tetzlaff; Jonathan J. Deeks; Jaime Peters; Petra Macaskill; Guido Schwarzer; Sue Duval; Douglas G. Altman; David Moher; Julian P T Higgins

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Recommendations for examining and interpreting funnel plot asymmetry in meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials

Jonathan A C Sterne, Alex J. Sutton, John P A Ioannidis, Norma Terrin, David R. Jones, Joseph Lau, James Carpenter, Gerta Rücker, Roger M. Harbord, Christopher H. Schmid, Jennifer Tetzlaff, Jonathan J. Deeks, Jaime Peters, Petra Macaskill, Guido Schwarzer, Sue Duval, Douglas G. Altman, David Moher, Julian P T Higgins

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Original language	English (US)
Article number	d4002
Journal	BMJ (Online)
Volume	343
Issue number	7818
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d4002
State	Published - Aug 6 2011

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Sterne, J. A. C., Sutton, A. J., Ioannidis, J. P. A., Terrin, N., Jones, D. R., Lau, J., Carpenter, J., Rücker, G., Harbord, R. M., Schmid, C. H., Tetzlaff, J., Deeks, J. J., Peters, J., Macaskill, P., Schwarzer, G., Duval, S., Altman, D. G., Moher, D., & Higgins, J. P. T. (2011). Recommendations for examining and interpreting funnel plot asymmetry in meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials. BMJ (Online), 343(7818), [d4002]. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d4002

Sterne, JAC, Sutton, AJ, Ioannidis, JPA, Terrin, N, Jones, DR, Lau, J, Carpenter, J, Rücker, G, Harbord, RM, Schmid, CH, Tetzlaff, J, Deeks, JJ, Peters, J, Macaskill, P, Schwarzer, G, Duval, S, Altman, DG, Moher, D & Higgins, JPT 2011, 'Recommendations for examining and interpreting funnel plot asymmetry in meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials', BMJ (Online), vol. 343, no. 7818, d4002. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d4002

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