Our research will investigate: (1) ways of recovering the necessary statistical information (mean and/or standard deviation) when it is missing from clinical trial reports, thus enabling a standard meta-analysis to be performed; (2) ways of analysing “skewed” outcomes when standard methods of meta-analysis are inappropriate. These approaches will allow us to summarise the evidence from clinical trials more precisely and with less risk of bias.
Chief Investigator: Dr Christopher Weir
Number and location of participating sites (by region/ country): UK 3 collaborating sites
Funder: Stroke Association
Start and End date of grant award: 01/07/2013 - 30/06/2016
Current Status: Published
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-018-0483-0
https://doi.org/10.1177%2F2516608519873476
Sponsor: NHS Lothian and University of Edinburgh - ACCORD
Chief Investigator: Dr Christopher Weir, Reader in Medical Statistics, Centre for Population Health Sciences, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences & Informatics, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG.
ECTU involvement: Statistics