Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions 4.2.6. The Cochrane Library, Issue 4. Edited by: Higgins JPT, Green S. 2006, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Glasziou PP, Sanders SL: Investigating causes of heterogeneity in systematic reviews. Stat Med. 2002, 21: 1503-1511. 10.1002/sim.1183.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Thompson SG: Why sources of heterogeneity in meta-analysis should be investigated. BMJ. 1994, 309: 1351-1355. 10.1136/bmj.309.6965.1351.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Guyatt GH, Oxman AD, Kunz R, Vist GE, Falck-Ytter Y, Schunemann HJ: What is ‘quality of evidence’ and why is it important to clinicians?. BMJ. 2008, 336: 995-998. 10.1136/bmj.39490.551019.BE.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Schmid CH, Lau J, McIntosh MW, Cappelleri JC: An empirical study of the effect of the control rate as a predictor of treatment efficacy in meta-analysis of clinical trials. Stat Med. 1998, 17: 1923-1942. 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19980915)17:17<1923::AID-SIM874>3.0.CO;2-6.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Sutton AJ, Abrams KR, Jones DR, Sheldon TA, Song F: Methods for Meta-Analysis in Medical Research. 2000, Chichester, England: Wiley
Google Scholar
Stacey D, Bennett CL, Barry MJ, Col NF, Eden KB, Holmes-Rovner M, Llewellyn-Thomas H, Lyddiatt A, Legare F, Thomson R: Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011, CD001431
Google Scholar
O’Connor AM, Tugwell P, Wells GA, Elmslie T, Jolly E, Hollingworth G, McPherson R, Drake E, Hopman W, Mackenzie T: Randomized trial of a portable, self-administered decision aid for postmenopausal women considering long-term preventive hormone therapy. Med Decis Making. 1998, 18: 295-303. 10.1177/0272989X9801800307.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Trevena LJ, Zikmund-Fisher B, Edwards A, Gaissmaier W, Galesic M, Han P, King J, Lawson M, Linder S, Lipkus I, Ozanne E, Peters E, Timmermans D, Woloshin S: Presenting probabilities. Update of the International Patient Decision Aids Standards (IPDAS) Collaboration’s Background Document. Edited by: Volk R, Llewellyn-Thomas H. 2012, Ottawa, Canada: IPDAS Collaboration
Google Scholar
O’Connor AM, Bennett CL, Stacey D, Barry M, Col NF, Eden KB, Entwistle VA, Fiset V, Holmes-Rovner M, Khangura S, Llewellyn-Thomas H, Rovner D: Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2009, CD001431
Google Scholar
Sun X, Briel M, Walter SD, Guyatt GH: Is a subgroup effect believable? Updating criteria to evaluate the credibility of subgroup analyses. BMJ. 2010, 340: c117-10.1136/bmj.c117.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Guyatt GH, Oxman AD, Kunz R, Woodcock J, Brozek J, Helfand M, Alonso-Coello P, Glasziou P, Jaeschke R, Akl EA, Norris S, Vist G, Dahm P, Shukla VK, Higgins J, Falck-Ytter Y, Schünemann HJ, GRADE Working Group: GRADE guidelines: 7. Rating the quality of evidence – inconsistency. J Clin Epidemiol. 2011, 64: 1294-1302. 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2011.03.017.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Sharp SJ, Thompson SG, Altman DG: The relation between treatment benefit and underlying risk in meta-analysis. BMJ. 1996, 313: 735-738. 10.1136/bmj.313.7059.735.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Elwyn G, O’Connor AM, Bennett C, Newcombe RG, Politi M, Durand MA, Drake E, Joseph-Williams N, Khangura S, Saarimaki A, Sivell S, Stiel M, Bernstein SJ, Col N, Coulter A, Eden K, Härter M, Rovner MH, Moumjid N, Stacey D, Thomson R, Whelan T, van der Weijden T, Edwards A: Assessing the quality of decision support technologies using the International Patient Decision Aid Standards instrument (IPDASi). PLoS ONE. 2009, 4: e4705-10.1371/journal.pone.0004705.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Trevena LJ, Davey HM, Barratt A, Butow P, Caldwell P: A systematic review on communicating with patients about evidence. J Eval Clin Pract. 2006, 12: 13-23. 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2005.00596.x.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Senn S: Importance of trends in the interpretation of an overall odds ratio in the meta-analysis of clinical trials. Stat Med. 1994, 13: 293-296. 10.1002/sim.4780130310.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
van Houwelingen H, Senn S: Investigating underlying risk as a source of heterogeneity in meta-analysis. Stat Med. 1999, 18: 110-115. 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990115)18:1<110::AID-SIM14>3.0.CO;2-C.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Walter SD: Variation in baseline risk as an explanation of heterogeneity in meta-analysis. Stat Med. 1997, 16: 2883-2900. 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19971230)16:24<2883::AID-SIM825>3.0.CO;2-B.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Guyatt GH, Oxman AD, Vist GE, Kunz R, Falck-Ytter Y, Alonso-Coello P, Schunemann HJ: GRADE: an emerging consensus on rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations. BMJ. 2008, 336: 924-926. 10.1136/bmj.39489.470347.AD.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Balshem H, Helfand M, Schunemann HJ, Oxman AD, Kunz R, Brozek J, Vist GE, Falck-Ytter Y, Meerpohl J, Norris S, Guyatt GH: GRADE guidelines: 3. Rating the quality of evidence. J Clin Epidemiol. 2011, 64: 401-406. 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2010.07.015.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Whelan T, Sawka C, Levine M, Gafni A, Reyno L, Willan A, Julian J, Dent S, Abu-Zahra H, Chouinard E, Tozer R, Pritchard K, Bodendorfer I: Helping patients make informed choices: a randomized trial of a decision aid for adjuvant chemotherapy in lymph node-negative breast cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2003, 95: 581-587. 10.1093/jnci/95.8.581.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Gattellari M, Ward JE: Does evidence-based information about screening for prostate cancer enhance consumer decision-making? A randomised controlled trial. J Med Screen. 2003, 10: 27-39. 10.1258/096914103321610789.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Schapira MM, VanRuiswyk J: The effect of an illustrated pamphlet decision-aid on the use of prostate cancer screening tests. J Fam Pract. 2000, 49: 418-424.
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Wolf AM, Schorling JB: Does informed consent alter elderly patients’ preferences for colorectal cancer screening? Results of a randomized trial. J Gen Intern Med. 2000, 15: 24-30. 10.1046/j.1525-1497.2000.01079.x.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Whelan T, Levine M, Willan A, Gafni A, Sanders K, Mirsky D, Chambers S, O’Brien MA, Reid S, Dubois S: Effect of a decision aid on knowledge and treatment decision making for breast cancer surgery: a randomized trial. JAMA. 2004, 292: 435-441. 10.1001/jama.292.4.435.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Bastian LA, McBride CM, Fish L, Lyna P, Farrell D, Lipkus IM, Rimer BK, Siegler IC: Evaluating participants’ use of a hormone replacement therapy decision-making intervention. Patient Educ Couns. 2002, 48: 283-291. 10.1016/S0738-3991(02)00048-4.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
McBride CM, Bastian LA, Halabi S, Fish L, Lipkus IM, Bosworth HB, Rimer BK, Siegler IC: A tailored intervention to aid decision-making about hormone replacement therapy. Am J Public Health. 2002, 92: 1112-1114. 10.2105/AJPH.92.7.1112.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Lerman C, Biesecker B, Benkendorf JL, Kerner J, Gomez-Caminero A, Hughes C, Reed MM: Controlled trial of pretest education approaches to enhance informed decision-making for BRCA1 gene testing. J Natl Cancer Inst. 1997, 89: 148-157. 10.1093/jnci/89.2.148.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
McAlister FA, Man-Son-Hing M, Straus SE, Ghali WA, Anderson D, Majumdar SR, Gibson P, Cox JL, Fradette M: Impact of a patient decision aid on care among patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation: a cluster randomized trial. CMAJ. 2005, 173: 496-501. 10.1503/cmaj.050091.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Man-Son-Hing M, Laupacis A, O’Connor AM, Biggs J, Drake E, Yetisir E, Hart RG: A patient decision aid regarding antithrombotic therapy for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA. 1999, 282: 737-743. 10.1001/jama.282.8.737.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Dodin S, Legare F, Daudelin G, Tetroe J, O’Connor A: Making a decision about hormone replacement therapy. A randomized controlled trial. Can Fam Physician. 2001, 47: 1586-1593.
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Johnson BR, Schwartz A, Goldberg J, Koerber A: A chairside aid for shared decision making in dentistry: a randomized controlled trial. J Dent Educ. 2006, 70: 133-141.
PubMed
Google Scholar
Laupacis A, O’Connor AM, Drake ER, Rubens FD, Robblee JA, Grant FC, Wells PS: A decision aid for autologous pre-donation in cardiac surgery – a randomized trial. Patient Educ Couns. 2006, 61: 458-466. 10.1016/j.pec.2005.05.014.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Mathieu E, Barratt A, Davey HM, McGeechan K, Howard K, Houssami N: Informed choice in mammography screening: a randomized trial of a decision aid for 70-year-old women. Arch Intern Med. 2007, 167: 2039-2046. 10.1001/archinte.167.19.2039.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Weymiller AJ, Montori VM, Jones LA, Gafni A, Guyatt GH, Bryant SC, Christianson TJ, Mullan RJ, Smith SA: Helping patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus make treatment decisions: statin choice randomized trial. Arch Intern Med. 2007, 167: 1076-1082. 10.1001/archinte.167.10.1076.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Kuppermann M, Norton ME, Gates E, Gregorich SE, Learman LA, Nakagawa S, Feldstein VA, Lewis J, Washington AE, Nease RF: Computerized prenatal genetic testing decision-assisting tool: a randomized controlled trial. Obstet Gynecol. 2009, 113: 53-63.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Vandemheen KL, O’Connor A, Bell SC, Freitag A, Bye P, Jeanneret A, Berthiaume Y, Brown N, Wilcox P, Ryan G, Brager N, Rabin H, Morrison N, Gibson P, Jackson M, Paterson N, Middleton P, Aaron SD: Randomized trial of a decision aid for patients with cystic fibrosis considering lung transplantation. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2009, 180: 761-768. 10.1164/rccm.200903-0421OC.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Kim CK, Berlin JA: The use of meta-analysis in pharmacoepidemiology. Textbook of Pharmacoepidemiology. Edited by: Strom BL, Kimmel SE. 2006, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 356-357.
Google Scholar
Berlin JA: Invited commentary: benefits of heterogeneity in meta-analysis of data from epidemiologic studies. Am J Epidemiol. 1995, 142: 383-387.
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Marteau TM, Saidi G, Goodburn S, Lawton J, Michie S, Bobrow M: Numbers or words? A randomized controlled trial of presenting screen negative results to pregnant women. Prenat Diagn. 2000, 20: 714-718. 10.1002/1097-0223(200009)20:9<714::AID-PD906>3.0.CO;2-4.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Man-Son-Hing M, O’Connor AM, Drake E, Biggs J, Hum V, Laupacis A: The effect of qualitative vs. quantitative presentation of probability estimates on patient decision-making: a randomized trial. Health Expect. 2002, 5: 246-255. 10.1046/j.1369-6513.2002.00188.x.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar